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a LOUISIANA. "The President’s Expected Response To-Day. SHERIDAN’S HASTE CONDONED. The Party Programme of Escape from the Present Dilemma. ONSERVATIVE APPEAL TO CONGRESS. The Protest of Seven Addi: tional States. GOVERNOR ‘TILDEN'S MESSAGE. Preamble and Resolutioris Offered in the New York Senate. Wasuinoton, Jan. 12, 1875. ‘The President will not ‘justify’ to-morrow in his Message; he will “confess and avoid,” as tne ‘Yewyers say. TONE OF THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. A number of Senators were called into consulta- ion at the White House this morning before the | Cabinet |, and it is no longer a secret that the | Message has a far more moderate tone than it ‘would have bad had it been sent in last Friday. Phere is to be a jong recital of Louisiana troubles, but upon the vital point of the dispersion of the Legislature the Message will say, it 19 sald, that ‘the act was that of Kellogg, and not of the vresi- @ent or Sheridan; that if an error, it was com- ‘Miitted in the cause of law and order; that soldiers ere Dot lawyers, and do not reason but obey, and that they are subject to errors, As to General | Sheridan, bis despatch was written in haste and excitement, and was misinterpreted. It rashly Proposed measures which were impossible and | Without the countenance of law, but, % arose out of @ desperate state | @f affairs, and thereupon the matter will be Danced over vo Congress, with a long catalogue @! outrages. THE PROGRAMME IN THE SENATE. The remarks of Senator Howe, this afternoon, | Gave the cue vo the republican side in the Senate. | Be was one of those called in consultation, and Be jet it be plaialy understood that moderate lan- Wage mu st be used. THK CABINET INTACT. | ‘There will be no break in the Cabinet for tho | present. FUTURE OF THE LOUISIANA DISCUSSION. Im the Senate the debate will go on, and the | Message will furnish wew fuel for it, Another @ebate wili give time to frame a policy, and in this work the Senate means to take the lead, Meantime the party lash will be cracked by G @rai Logan and others in a way #0 vigorous as to | wake loyalty necessary to thin-skinned peo; @omiort, INTIMIDATION BY THE PRESIDENT. The resident has begua to punish his enemies. The New York “organ” and Avening Post are summarily deprived of Government ad- tisemepts and two other New York papers take their place as the benedictaries of tne admin- fetration. It is even reported that the order for ‘this change was seni on by telegraph. ea ag | AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS. | ae NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12, 1875. The following was submitted to the Kellogg Legislature yesterday :— TO THE HONORABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE oP LouIsiaNn GENTLEMEN—Y our committee, selected to pre- pare a statement oO! revolutionary proceedings ‘that transpired in the hail of the House of Repre- | @entatives on Monday, January 4, 1875, beg leave to submit the foliowing statement, and recom- mend that it be immediately forwarded to the Congress of the United States. Respectful JAMES 8S. MATHEWS, CHARLES W. LOWELL, GEURGE DRURY, W. P. SOUTHARD, R. RB RAY, Retuins of the election held November 2, 1874, Qs promulgated by the proper rewurning officers | thereo: according to jaw, SLOW oat ine re @ivcted to the Louse Gity-\nree re, Golicans aod | Aity-three democrats, and there we Dve seats | Jor Which the returniog offeers had made no re- | turns, which were reierred jor decision of the | ‘nt to hoid them to the General Assembiy, ‘he whole bumber oi the House OF Kepresenta- Cives is LiL; 4 quorum is 4 majority Of tue mem ders ¢lecieu, and Was, wt that Lime, O44. A quorum, ‘Wien the Whole nutber is seated, is o6, A lew days prior to the day fixed for the meet ing O/ the Genera! Assemoly &@ Posse Of URauthor. ized persons secretly kidnapped A. G. Cousm, & Fepublican member, aud vy lorce and violence conveyed bim out of the city, under col teuded charge oj embezziement of Luke Pontcuarirain to & distant parish, woere they heid him in confinement until aiter the day Sor the meeting oi the General Ai aiterwi released him, tue very men Woo made the charge going Ou bis bond, and acknowledging that their object in arresting aud detaming him Was to break w republican majariy. j Certain parties in ine meauwhile sought, by the Payment oO: several thousand dovars Ww certain | republican members, to bribe three of them Vote jor the democratic nominee for Speaker, Attempts were made to kidnap other repuviicaa | Members. I'ublic and ated Lareain Were made, for weeks previous (0 the 4tn Of January, of vio- | Jence and assassination towara certain repusiican | Members of tue General Assembiy, i hese threats and meuaces were repeated, confirmed aud en- poiy 8g tue press of tue opposiuon throughous je Stare. In consequence of information in his possession that organized vicience was intended to be used to influence the crganizaiion of the House, the Governor piaced the Siate House wader the min tary command of General H. 4, Camprel, of te Sule miitia, WhO Was ordered to sewn and wus Sain the police, Under this order, Genera: Camp. Deli excluded fom the butiding, on Monday, ail but officials of the State governin at, members of the General Assembly, sud persons claimung ty be Members, judges, members of Cor and Gea ders Of the United States civil, military aud navel force-. j The constitutional provisions to govern the or. Ganization of the House are as foulows:— ARFICLE 23.—The House of resentatives shell — re ART. 4.—kach House ot the General Assembly — aball judge of tne qualifications, elections and re- turns of ts members, but & coptested election Bball be determined in suck & manber a4 may be house of the Generat and pubish weekly a > loaraal of ite nd the and bays of members oo ww) er. pre November 2), | the de. of Feseutatives wud Secretary last General Assewoily a lst ns a8 according to t Of puch | {a NEW YORK in this act shall be construea to conflict with arti- cle 34 of the constitution of the State. At twelve o’clock M. on Monday, January 4, the State House being surrounded by an exci crowd of several thonsand persons, specenled bi Aang aay i td bp traee “"- the Cnet Clerk catiet Toil o! 101 Myatedia tel: afterward or & littve before the Clerk id pom the annoancemeré of the number of m answered their Zames, which was 102, Mr. Billien, representative (rom Lafourche, moved tnat L. Wiltz, representative irom Orleans, be elected temporary Syeaker. Tne Chief Clerk replied that the legal mocton was to elect a Speake! Mr. Bille, paytug no attention to the protest of Moved om it five of its members. The pretexts | for hat act are—tret, that it was done ender a | j Fections from the Governor of the Sate, reoog- | mbers WHo | the Clerk, proceeded hurriediy to publish his own | motion, against the protest of ail the republican representatives. ‘The motion was put tn a quick and excited man- | ner not in @ loud voice, and was voted for only by a portion of even the democratic mem- bers. The negative was not put at all Mr, Wiitz, Daving previously taken ition near the Clerk’s desk, and, as qu! ought, upon putting the motion, without waiting for any abnouncement Of the vote, he sprang to the Speaker’a desk where the Clerk was standing, seized the gavel from his hand and pushed the Clerk violently off the stand, and declared himself temporary Speaker. Foliowing him was W. T. Houston, first Justice of the Peace in the parish of Orleans, who took from hls pocket a book look- ing like a Bible, and proceeded to go through whe form of administering an oath, Mr. Wiltz, as temporary Speaker, assumea to administer the oath to members en masse, against the protest of the republican members. some democratic members then made a motion to elect Trezevant as Clerk, Mr. Wiltz put the motion Spraug forward and took the Clerk’s chair. Imme- diately after, in a burried @nd excited manuer, a Mr. Flood was elected Sergeant-at-Arms upon motion by @ democratic member; also, a motion was made from the same side house that @ number of istant geants-at-Arms be appoloted by the Chair, which the Chair declared carried, when a large humber of persons at once appeared wearing badges, on which was printed ‘‘Agsistant Ser- geant-at-Arms.”’ While ali the above motions were being put, the repubiicau members ov- jected, and calied ior the yeas and nays, all of ‘whico was disregarded ny the acting Speaker. Colonel Lowell, a republican member, made the point of order that the constitution of the State allowed any two members to call for the yeas and nays on any motion. Mr, Wiltz dectded the point of order not well taken. (See constitutional pro- Vision above). The pretended House then pro- ceeded, in deflance of the law, to swear in five ad- ditional democratic members, to wit:—James Bright, of Bienvilie; Charies Suuler and John L. Seales, of De Soto; ©. O. Dunn, of Grant, and George 8. Kelley, of Winn, by which the demo- crats gave themselves a majority. The repub- licans protested against this violence and l@wiess- ness, but their protests were disregarded. The democrats then assumed to elect a permanent chairman. Mr. Wiltz declared himself elected after going through the usual form, having re- ceived, a8 he claims, filty-five votes, whtch included = the_— five men seated in vio- lation of law, the republican mem- bers withdrawing and not voting, ag they deemed the proceeding illegal. About Instructions to be given to the persons assuming to be sergeants-at-arns not to allow any one to pass out of or to enter the House. Great commo- | lion at once ensued, and quite a number of knives and revolvers were drawn and displayed in a threatening manner, Most of the republican members bad already left the room amia great confusion, when Mr. Dupre, of Orleans, @ demo- cratic member, moved that the Speaker be re- juested to call on the United States troops to the peace of the House. The motion prevailed, and a committee, of which Mr. Dupre was appoluted chairman, was appointed to walt on General de ‘Troprian: and request the interfer. ence of United States trovps to preserve the peace. In a short time the commit- tee returned, accompanied by General Trobriand and stat, Upon the appearance of General de Trobriand on the floor loud Sopianne came irom the democratie side of the House. General de Trobriaud moved to the Speaker's desk, ana Mr, Wiltz stated in substance the reason ior bis being summoned, and iniormed him of the Impossivility Of bis being able to enforce order and preserve peace, General de Trobriand, in suvstance, the committee betug unable to get the exact words, asked Mr. Wiltz whether tt was not possivle for hum to preserve order and keep the peace without calling on him aa a United States oMcer, Mr. Wiltz replied that it was impossible; that he had aiready instructed the Sergeant-at- Arms to do so. Then General de Trobitand took action tn the matter and quiet was res'ored with litte trouble. Mr. Wiltz then assured General de ‘Trooriand that bis coming had prevented biood- saed, and, as your committee is reliabiy iniormed, on motion. thanked him in the name of the Gen- eral Assembly of Louisiana for his prompt re- sponse to the summons of the House, and the General retired, The republican members then signed and presented the following application to the Governor, requesting that the legal members be put im possession of the bail:— NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 4, 1875, To Mis Excellency, WiutIaM P, KELLOGG, Gover- bor:— Dean Sta—The undersigned, members elect of the House of Represeutatives of tae General As- sembly Of the State, assemvied at tne hall of the House, in the State House. at twelve M. this day, and answered to the vail uffue by the Clerk. Im- mediately thereafter the chair was forcibly taken possession o! in Violation of law, and an attempt Was made to organize the House contrary to law. preserve We cannot obtain our legal rights unless the mem- | bers elect are placed in possession of tne hall, Whenever the bali ts cleared of all persons save the gentlemen elected we will proceed to or- wanize. We Lheretore invoke your ald in placing the ball in possession Of the members elect, that we may attend to the performance of our auties, Kespecttuliy. Here joliow the signatures of flity-two, including the Jovowing:— i have consented to sign this document on the roond t the conservative members of the louse set @ preceaeut by appointing a | special committee to wait on General de Trobri- abd, Who immediately appeared at the bar of tue House, escorted by said special committee. ROBERT F, GUICHARD, Representative of St. Bernard. ‘This was signed by Mity-two legally elected and returned members. In response to this applica- tion the Governor applied to the military torce of the United states to ussist bis oficers in expelling iutruders and distor of the peace and pre- serving order, Whicn assistance was rendered, and by It order Was restored. Whea the repuolican members returned to the hall, following General de Trobriand at his re- | quest and under bis protection, and attempted to jouow him through the door, the Sergeant-at- Aras at the door, by order of Mr. Wiltz, closed | the door in their jaces and Jorcibly prevented were not allowed to | General de Trobriand | them from entering, and the; eprer until (he attention of was called to the fact, and i nis order the repud- | hean members were admitted and the five in- trude:s were expelied. The democratic members, with Mr, Wiltz ai their head, then withdrew, au jd House proceeded to organize according to aw. STATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, New Onueans, Jan. 6, 1875, Thereby certify that the toregoing fity-two sig- natures are tue genuine names of the members Geciared to be elected to the Mouse of Represen- tatives of the State of Louisiana as certified to by the Keturning Board Of suid State andas by me | certified to the Clerk Of said House of Represen- tauves as required by law, P, G. DEBLONDE, Secretary of State. l certify that the joregoiog protest contained the nue —— of Mity-two members of the joure ol presentatives whose names are upon the het furnished me by the Secretary of State, in cunformity with the law; and [ iurther ceritiy that ‘sil sald Inembers RUSWered to UI names at the ‘ciock noon on 4 nuary, 1875, being a ma- Jority Of ali the members present. WILLIAM VIGERS, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, ELECTION OF PINCHBECK. New ORLEANS, Jan 12, 1875. ‘The Keltogg Legisiature to-day adopted a con- current resolution to go immediately to the re election of Lieutenant Governor Pinchbeck United States Senator, in order to silence all couvts and questioning as to bis title to a seat in that body, So suddenly was this movement made that Pinchbeck’s opponents were eppareatiy sireck dumb. No efforts being mado to epeck programme, Pincbbeck was placed bommaven, and received the following in the Senate, 15 to 5, and in the House, “tel, A joel seston Will be held to-morrow yor he o@elal canvess, The re-clecuon of Pinch- bere crashes tne hopes of severay rants oi the Custom oust Wing, Who are said to be especially aaa ted at tue turn affairs have taken, and the bese: Bow is that they will iavor recoustruc- 408 OF & Rew G.ectKoD. GOV. TILDEN’S DECLARATION. —_——_--——__ Exnoorive Champen, ALeawy, Jan. 12, 1876, To THe Leow aTume:— On your reassembling I deem it to be my duty to inYite pour attention to the grave events which bave happened im OOF s#ter State of Louisiana, ‘The interval of your adjournment has affordes yoa a2 opportusity to receive the statements of the partes concerned im those oveurrences, partiou- jarty that of Lieutenant General sherndan, in nis oMcial report to the Seeretary of War, aated Jan- wary 6, 18), You are Bow enabled to know with certainty ai the mow to form @ jast And Gww@erate judgmens as bo Pe vaturg of the principal sere which have #0 much pablio exertement Accordimg to the oMcial report of Lteutenant Geoeral Steridaa, Uailed States soldiers entered the Bouse of Reprepentatves of tne State of Louisiana While that bow) Was io session and re- and declared it carried. Mr. Trezevant at once | the time of the withdrawal of the republican | | members of the House Mr. Wiltz gave, or caused, de | | law in time of peace—tnat, says Lora Coke, is | of the founders of our freedom in their naming of | found in the locality, shall be sent to them for he MeMhety | nized by the President; secona, that the persoos removed had been iiegally seate| and had no) legal right to be there; toird, thet a fear exinced in the mind of Lieutenant General Sheridan that in some undefined contingency viviesce might bappen. / With respect to the first and second of these pretexis it isa decisive answer that the Louitl- ana House of Representatives bad. by the com stitution of that State, the exclusive jadgment a — to the right of these memoers to seats; that ite judgment is subject to ne review by any jetictal authority, still less a rew by the Governor or by any officer of the United States Army; that its judgment in favor of these members thus partly reviewed, is Oinding in law and ceneia- Bive upon the Governor and Lieutenant General | Sheridan and upon everybody eine, In respect to the third pretext, the fear in the mind of Lieutenant General Sheridan of possibie future violence, when no Violence really existed, is not only no lawful occasion, but even mo ex- cuse for an invasion of the rignt of the Mouse of Representatives of Louisiana to judge for itself ot the title to seats of its own membera, Interference by United States soldiers was not only unlawful, but was without the color of legality—it was AN ACT OF NAKED PHYSICAL FORCE in violation of the laws and constitution of Louisiana and of the laws and constitution of the United States. There is a case of a disputed seat 1u the Senate of this State now pending. Another ‘Was determined at the last session, The tranaac- tion in Louisiana is as if, at the instance of the Governor of this State, General Hancock, or any officer spectally deputed by the President com- manding in this department, sliould send a file of federal soldiers and remove the incumbent to Whom the seat had been adjudged by the Senate, That disorders have formerly existed in | Louisiana makes no difference, for the laws to which the President and Congress are parties recognize the complete restoration of her autonomy. The right of her legislative bodies to determine the title of their members is 98 perfect and absolute as the right of the Assembly orthe Senate of New York. The animus of the transaction as indicated by the correspondence between Lientenant General Sher- idap and the Secretary of War is infinitely worse than the transaction itself, On the day after this event Lieutenant General Sheridan senta de- spatcn proposing that a class of citizens, indefinite in numbers and description, should be declared either by act of Congress orby proclamation of the President to be bandittl. and then intimated his purpose to try them and execute them by military commission. On the next day General belknap, the Secretary of War, telegraphed to General Sheridan that “The President and all of us have full confidence inand thoroughly approve your course.” The nature of tne acts thus proposed by the officer second in command of the army of the United States and thus adopted and Sanctioned by the President and his constitu. tional advisers 1s plainly declared by the. common law in the recent case of “The Queen against Nelson.” The present Lord Chief Justice of England, in delivering the charge to the Grand Jury, declared that, supposing there is no jurisdic: tion at all, the whole proceeding 1s coram non Jjudice; that if the judicial functions are exercised by persons who have NO JUDICIAL AUTHORITY OR POWER, and a man’s life is taken, that is murder, for murder is putting a man to death without a justi- fication, or without any of those mitigating cir- cumstances which reduce the crime of murder to one ofalower degree, Thus in the case put oy Lord Coke, of a lieutenant, having a commission of martial law, who puts a man to death by martial murder. Such are the established doctrines of the jurists and courts of this country and of England. Such is the voice of the common law. Glorious juris- prudence of freeaom—bvirthright of every Amert- can citizen! Its stern logic declares that such an | execution of any human being, as was proposed aud sanctioned in this correspondence, would be | murder by our laws, and that every unctionary, civilgr military, who should instigate it, ald or | abet it, or become in any manner a party to it be- | fore the fact, would be guilty as 4 principal in that crime. The patriot statesmen who achieved onr national independence and formed our institutions of free government foreboded, if we should ever fall into intestine strife, that the ideas it would inspire in the military mind of insubordination to the laws and of un- civil ambition, and the habit it would generate in the people, of acquiescence in acts of unlawful military violence, would imperil, if not destroy, civil hberty. Events compelied us to a manly choice of confronting these aangers in a struggle to save our country from dismemberment and to vindicate the just rights of tne federal Union, Laving triumphed in that struggle, now forever closed, we are made sensible of the wise foresight the opposite dangers which would attend our:suc- cess. Those dangers come to us in THE ACTS OF ILLEGAL MILITARY VIOLENCB committed in times of peace; tn the usurpation by the soidiery of a power to decide the membership of our legislative assemblies, whose right to judge exclusively in such cases has ever been guarded with peculiar jealousy by our race; in the pro- posal made and accepted by our highest civil ana military functionaries, to subject our abuses toa tribunal in which a military officer will decide, without appeal, what person, happening to be trial, willappoint the members of the Court, will review and confirm or change the judgment and the sentence, and may order instant execution, and in which the accused will be tried in secret and without counsel for his defence. This propo. sition is thus made and sanctioned, notwithstand- ing that for similar acts our Eng!ish ancestors sent the first Charles. to the scaffold and expelled the second James from the throne. Our own foreiathers, excited by. kindred tyr- anny, and planting freedom in the wilderness, were caretul to insert in all our constitutions posl- tive pronioitions against the application to any but military persons of such tribunals, Unless such @ proposition shall be condemned by & public reprobation, which will Make it memorable and a warning to all tuture officers of the State and the army, the decay of the jealous spirit of freedom, the loss of our ancestral traditions of liberty} ac- quired through ages of conflict and sacrifice, the education of the present generation to servile ac- quiescence in the maxims and practices of tyranny, wil! have realized the fears of Washington and Jay and Clinton and their compatriots. New York, first of the commonweaiths of the American Union in population and resources and | in military power, should declare her sentiments On this occasion with a distinctness, a dignity and @ solemn emphasis which ‘will command the thoughtful attention of Congress, of her sister States and of the people of our whole country with the same equanimity with which she upheld the arms of the Union in the past conflict. She snould now address herself to the great and most sacred duty of re-establisning civil liberty and the per- sonal rights of individuals, of restoring the ideas and habits of freedom and of reasserting the su- premacy of the civil autnorities over military power throughout the Repubitc. SAMUEL J. TILDEN, IN THE NEW YORK SENATE.’ ipeveiactnanis ALBANY, Jan. 12, 1875, Mr. Lorp offered the following preamble and resolation :— Whereas the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guaraniee to every State in the Union a republican form of overnmeat and shali protect eaco of them trom jomesuc i tT OM application of the Legisla- ture, or of thé Executive when the Legisiature Cannot be convened; and Whereas it is the inberent and constitutional right of every legislative body in the Umited States ry State, including Louisiana, to judge of the election and qaalification of its own meim- bers; and P Whereas without application from the Legisla- ture of Lo aoa, whicn had convened, the sol- diery Of the United States surrounded the Capitol of that State on the 4in day of January’ inst., ine vaded one of the houses of the Legislature, ex- | Legislature to-day, gives his views on the Louisi- | unconstitutional proceedings recently had in | | by a vote of the House to which they had veen | or temporary circumstances shall ever be permit- | and you wiil have in effect but ove consolidate who had been formally admitted to their seats and aispersed (pe Legisiature; therefore Resolved (the Assemoly concurring), That such invasion of the Leguwsiature and overthrow of the legwianve power of tne State is @ gross and aeurpation, in violation of the con- rovoke domea- the lorm and d the destruction suostance Oo representative goverumgnt and con- stitutiona: n that l ts the. mnqualiped ofthis lature and thag ali in it deserve fer the Ww that ma: applica- the execration oi every ON THE RESOLUTION. aid i% would be wise to await committee sent to Louisiana to aifair, He therefore moved to lay the resolution on the tabie, Mr. JOMNSON desired to have the resolutions made & #pecia: order for some particular day. ihe yeas aud naya were taken on Mr, Woodin’s motion and ti was carried by 16 to 11. Governor Tilden's message on Louisiana affairs Was then presented by tus Secretary and read. Aver the reading of the inessage had been con- eladed Mr. Jacons moved thatit be reterrea to a special coumictee of three. Mr. Woontn said the same reasons which advised his opposing the resolutions directed bis opposing | the motion Of Senator Jacobs. He hoped the resolu- tion Would be Kept before tue Senate and not be reerred Co any cominittes. Messrs. LOWERY and Woop would vote on the Loaisiana® question independent of any party con- siderations, Mr, Wooptn counsetied the Senate to co slow on ‘Vhis quesvion. It will not be wise to be hasty in recording our views until we are fully advised on the question. The motion of Mr. Jacobs was tabled. . Mr. LasINo offered @ resolution making the Gov- ernor’s Louisiana Message @ special order for Thursday next, which, aiter an extended debate, Was lost—yeas, 12; pays, 15, Mr, JouNnson moved that the Governor’s Mes- sage be made the special order for Wednesuay afer the reading of the journal. Lost—yeas, 12; nays 1s y responsibie (or | | | KINGS COUNTY SPEAKS. Tne Kings County Democratic General Commit- tee held a special meeting last night in their head- quarters, at Court and Remsen streets, Brooklyn, to take action in regard to the outrageous inter- ference of the federal government with the afairs of the State of Louisiana. There was ® very large attendance of members. The meeting was called to order by Edward Rowe, the President, who introducea ex-Assemblyman T, M. Melvin as the speaker of the evening. Mr, Melvin delivered a forcible ad- dress, in which he denounced Grant and bis sub- ordinates in 4 Very emphatic manner. He was warmly applauded, Upon the conciusion of Mr. Melvin’s address the Secretary sead the following resolutions, which were adopted amid great cheering :— Resolved, That the uuconstitutional and illegal use by the President of the United States oi the military forces oi the government in coercing and intimidating the people of Louisiana shoul re- cetve the execration and condemnation of every citizen of this Republic. Resolved, That tne action of Genersl Sheridan and tbe sentiments expressed by him in his despatches are revolutionary, unrepublican and subversive of law and tue rights of the people, Resolved, That the people of Louisiana, in their attempt to ntain their State government under its duly elected officers, against the usur- pation of vagabonds and strangers to their hearths and soil, sustained oy the power of tue President, are entitled to tne sympathy and as- sistance of all citizens desirous of the Welfare and continuance of our Union. Resolved, That we extend to the citizens of that State, who are thus intimidated and outraged, the right hand of fellowship, and assure them that with the democratic party, sgon to be in power, their day of deliverance draweth niga, The meeting then adjodrned, GOV. PARKER’S PROTEST. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 12, 1875, The following extract irom the valedictory mes- sage of Governor Parker, delivered before the | aua trouble :— ‘The recent violation of the federal constitution in a sister State strikes at the very existence of | State sovereignty. An unlawiul blow cannot be inflicted on one State by the federal power without all feeling its effect. When the reserved rigats of one are encroached upon the citizens of every State are interested. Without giving in detail the Louisiana, to which allusion bas been made, and | with waich you are Jawiliar, it is sufficient to state that armed soldiers o! the United States in- yaded the State Capitol, entered the very hall in which one branch of the Legislature was in session and forcibly ejected memvers of the body from the seats to which they nad been admitted | elected and their right to membership reierred; and that the same soidiera, surrounding the Speaker's vauir in close proximity, by the intimt- dation of their presence in military dress gnd equipment, aid drive the boay irom the legislative hall provided by law for its deliberations. At the time Of this transaction, unprecedented in this country, there was no invasion, insurrection or domestic violence existing there, and the Legis- lature, having the right to determine upon tne election and qualifications of its members, had ex. ercised that right, and was in peaceable session, engaged in its legitimate business. VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, That such action Was aciear violation of the constitution pecds no Yrgument. A mere state- ment of afew iundamental principles which he atthe foundation o: our system oi government, and which are so plain asto wave become axioms, 1s all that is necessary. The first great truth bear. ing upon the question ts, that the United States | government is tue creation of the States; that it | has no power except that which was bestowed upon it by the States, and that ali powers not dele- gated are reserved to the States and the people thereof, The delegated powers given to the gen- eral government are expressed in the constitu tion, Abother important fact Is that the sover- eignty of a State is complete and real in its pro- | 7 sphere, and irom this It follows that it is the juty.of the several States, as well as of the United States, to assert and maintain, in a constt- tutional manner, their several rights. ‘Ihe stu- dent of the constitution will also ouserve that its | framers, fearing the encroachments of the central | government on the rights of the States, were jeal- ous of its military power, and hence threw around its exercise such guards and restrictions as made it subordinate to the civil power. Belore the army of the Unitec States can lawfully be used in any of the States when there is no invasion, there must be insurrection or domestic violence; and also application for troops from the proper civil authority of the State. The right of such applica- tion is ip the Legislature. If the Legislature 1s not 1n session, the Governor cannot apply, unless he first call upon the Legislature to convene. If, upon being summoned, the Legislature cannot convene, then, and not until then, has a Governor the right to call federal soldiers into his State. DRIVED OUT BY THE BAYONET. The Legislature could have been convened, In | | power. HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1875.——TRIPLE SHEET. = wn oy counter resclutions spproving of PENNSYLVANIA INDIGNANT. Fe «. HARRISBURG, Jan. 12, 1875. In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Gor- man, from the Select Committee on Louisiana Affairs, made the lollowing report, which was adopted by a strict party vote—102 democrats to 85 republicans :— THE RESOLUTIONS. Whereas under the constitution of the United | Stutes the use of the federal army in the suppres- | sion of domestic violence can be invoked only on | | application of a Legisiature or Executive whem the Legislature cannot be convened; and Whereas on the first Monday of January, the day prescribed by the constitution of Louisiana | jor the meeting of tne General Assembiy of that Commonwealcu, at a time woen the Legisiature | was convened and in process of organization, @ | portion of the federal army, under the authority of the United States, placed at the disposal of the so-called Governor of Louisiana, forcibly | | | ejected trom their seats persons claimtng to be | lawiully elected members 01 the Legislature; aad Whereas this act of usurpation and lawless power | has received the sanction and approval of Presi- | dent Grant; and | Whereas it is the constitutional right and pre- Togative of the Legisiature of a {ree State to judge | ot the qualifications of its OWN members; there- | fore be it | Resolved, That this House of Representatives of | Pennsyivanta, speaking lor her people, do solemnly | protest avainst so Neinous an abuse Of the power commitied to the President; that we protest | against it asa precedent which substitutes the will | of the Executive and the federai bayonet for the | | functions of the Legisiature in determining the | qualification ot its members, endangering personal | liberty and imperiliing a free government. Resolved, That we commend the forbearance exercised by those whose rights were so un- constitutionally violated. We ussure them of the sympathy ielt for them by all who are jeslous of the preservation of the principles of civil liberty upon which our government ts founded, Resolved, That copies of the foregoing be for- warded by the Speaker of this House to tne Presi- dent of the United States, the Senators and Rep- resentativesin Congress {rom this State, and to the Governors of the several States. KENTUCKY PROTESTS. LOUISVILLE, Jan. 12, 1875, Alarge meeting of the citizens of Frankfort, | Ky., was held to-night’ to consider recent affairs in Louisiana, A number of republicans took part im the proceedings, one prominent | republican acting as secretary and another as a Member of the Committee on Resolutions. Speeches were made by several members of the State government and others, A series of resolutions, reflecting severely upon the interierence of the United States soldiers in the legislative affairs of Louisiana and the action of the federal government in sus- taining the course of General Sheridan; expressing sympathy with the oppressed people | of Louisiana, and counselling moderation untti the Peopie of the country at large shall insist upon measures looking to their relicf The second {| resolation declares this assault upon the | civil power of & coequal State of | the Union & wanton, unwarranted and | oppressive violation of the sacred rights of the | free people of Louisiana and an unconstitutional | and most dangerous usurpation of power by the | President and his military subordinates, and, if unabated, @ standing menace to the civil and political liberties of the people of every State of this Union. VIRGINIA DISAPPROVES. RICHMOND, Jan. 12, 1875, The discussion in the Senate on the resolutions introduced on Saturday calling upon the Governors Ol the various States to convene their respective Legislatures to take action in relation to federal interference with the Louisiana Legislature was postponed antil Thursday, the resolutions in the meantime being referred to the Committee on Federal Kelations, The following concurrensg reso- f lutions were introduced to-day and referred to the | me committve:— THE RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, Bee General Assembly of Virginia, that Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States, by the employment of the army to deter- mine election returns and the qualification of members of the Legislature of Louisiana, has plainly transcended his powers, committed an act of gross usurpation and should receive the con- demnation of the American people. Resolved, That we tender the people of Louisi- ana our profound sympathy as well as our assur- ance that their patient iorbearance will be re- warded with speedy deliverance trom: military SYMPATHY FROM TEXAS, AUusTiN, Jan. 12, 1875, The Fourteenth Legislature convened in second session at noon to-day. It ia charged with calling | & constitutional convention and settling the $6,000,000 bond subsidy to the International Railroad, SYMPATHY FOR LOUISIANA, Lieutenant Governor Hubbard, on organizing | overflowing healtu. 3 BALM FOR THE LOUISIANA WOUND. [From the Evening Post, Jan. 12.) After waiting a week for “oMicial information® from Louisiana, the President and his Cabinet yesterday promulgated thetr first official measure in response to the storm of indignation which has been beating in upon them from the people, It consisted of—not the recall of Lieutenant General Sheridan, nor even the disavowal of Kellogg. It was something more characteristic. As a remedy for the public grievances concerning Louisiana it seems that the Presidens and Cabinet have been engaged for a week in examining the list of journals im which “government aavertise- ments” have heretofore been pubiisted, and ex- purgating it of all which have denounced tue fed- eral miltary usurpation in New Orieans, In the city of New York the Evening Jost een pub into the “disloyal” category, and it solemaly adjudged that all the ‘‘sovernment advertising’ whicn is done hereaiter tm tais community during the administration of President Grant shall be done in the Graphic and the Commercial adver~ tiser, The Republtéc would doubtless be added; but, alas! it is dead. Mr, 'y Bristow, we sincerely regret to 8a) i all the members in the Cabinet—is put for- ward the first to execute sentence, and he be- gan to do so yesterday. President Grant is cer- tainly & greater potentate than we thought he was, navever may be the degree of power which we have heretofore attriouted to him, it never entered into our concep- tion that be could transform the character Oi the present Secretary of the Treasury from that of a self-respecting gentieman of honorable pur- poses, aspiring to be & Statesman, into that of a political wire-puller, imagining that he can con- trol the independent press by pervertung the ap- Ppitcation of a portion of tue oxongd money whch ‘he people, through Congress, have voted into bis. e of this same prac- control for a specific purpo: We had previous expert | tice auring the last sesston of Congress, when the Department of the Interior, of which Mr. Colum- bus Delano 18 the secretary, gave us notice that all “government advertising” in our columas Jrom that department would be stopped on ac- count of our denunciation of Jayne and Sanvorn, and Richardson and sawyer, and the abuses of the “moiety system.” Presiient Grant and his Cabinet, collectively: and individually, will please to take notice that, in a phrase employed in a similar instance many years ago, “we have our goods to sell, but not our Opinions.” Our advertising columns are open to the pubiic without distinction o: creed or party— Secretaries belano and Bristow included. If, in the judgment of either o: the Secretaries, or of their master, it ts expedient for partisan purposes. to spend the public moneys appropria for ad- vertising upon favorite political De ia with- out reference to the nat the ad Vertisements, Or the clas oO; business. men to whom they are addr or the relative circulation of different newspapers among those classes—that i8 a matter for which they are responsibie under their honor as gentie~ men to their Own consciences, aud under their Oaths of office to their constituents. We seek no patronage at the price which the President and 18 Cabinet put upon theirs. The Aventng Post— founded seventy-four years ago, and steadily growing ever since in ‘circulation, wealth, infu. ence, public confidence and respect—will fourish years alter Secretary Delano is forgotten alio- Bether, and a generous posterity seeks to merge the selfish errors of President Grant’s civil admin. istration in the brilliant lustre of Genera! Grant's: military fame. GLIBLY GLIDING. —_——-—__—_. AN AFTERNOON ON THE SKATING RINK IN THE CENTRAL PARK. By far the largest and gayest party tnat has visited the lake this winter was there on skates yesterday afternoon, The boys and girls were to be numbered by hundreds, while now and then an old man and an uncertain-aged lady appeared, more noticeable for the circumspection of their movements than thelr mature appearance, Above the dull hum of the ice, the clear, clarion laugh of the flyers could be heard, while now and then the shrill scream of some timid female at tne lightning S@pproach ofa graceful expert, added to the gen- eral chorus so suggestive of bounding vitality and The possessors of bright eyes, ruddy cheeks and peerless teetn were seen fying to and fro with that graceful, easy motion so com- mon to American women, even on the sandea promenade, All the visitors had not that glowing countenance which one is accustomed to couple with the devotce of the glorious winter sport. Many pale, interesting looking giris were on the pond, but their attention was given more to the hilarious mirth around than to the execu- tion of graceful measures or spread eagle evolu tious ON ONE FOOT. The inevitable urchin, whose first addresses to the art of skating were paid in appalling proximity to ugly curb stones, was on hand in great num- bers. In many instances he was, as is nis wont in town, provided with but a single skate. The altitude of the unshod foot was greater than that ‘attained in town, where by reason of having to watch the policeman and the boys behind, he ts unable to permit the full development of his equt- poise. Everybody who has learned to skate in bis youthful days ts aware of that very simple method the Senate, said of Louistana:—“We should not forget, my countrymen, that Louisiana, our own | | sister, lies at our door, bruised and crushed and | manacled, down-trodaen and stained. Save her | honor, which 1 still as bright as Heaven’s own | sunlight. With no despot in our midst and no | soidiery to tramp in qur civic halia, wo will ex- tend to her and all others in iixe condition the | hand of help and the love of the great heart of | Texas. ‘lime, we nope, will yet bring on its tire- less wings the balm of peace and the wreath of triamph to our sister, e bear already the voice o! the American people from the Lakes to the Gulf, the Atiantic to the Pacific, telling her to pe of good cheer, be patient and lear not; ere long the day will dawn on the dark nignt of your history. PROTEST FROM MISSOURI’S GOVERNOR. Sr. Lours, Jan. 12, 1875, James H, Hardin, Governor-elect, wag inaugur- ated at Jefferson City to-day, and read his inau- gural address to the General Assembly in joint session, It deals wholly with State matters, ex: | cept at the close. He briefly refers to events | which occurred at New Orleans on January 4, and says:— i fact, on that day it was in session, and the extra- ordinary spectacle was presented of the United States Army dispersing by force the very bod: without whose application not a single soldier ha the right to be tuere, There was no insurrectio or domestic violence; there was no riot; it was not a mob that was dispersed and driven out by the bayonet, but it was the Legisiative Assembly of a sovereign State, That was no ordinary inva- sion Of constitutional rights, but a stab at local self-government in a vital part. I[t was a direct | violation of the constitution in its most important feature, imperiiling the rights of the States and the liberties of the citizen. STATE SOVEREIGNTY. Nearly forty years ago, in addressing the people of tufs country upon his voluntary retirement from the Presidency and trom public lite, the great soldier and statesman, whose name stands bext to that of Washington on the roll of Ameri- can heroes, used tne Jollowing language, every i sentence of which should be engravea on the | minds of all who desire the preservation of our | orm of government :—“The legitimate authorit of the general government is abundantly suffi- cient for ali the purposes for which it was cre- ated, and its powers being expressly enumerated there can be no justification for claiming any- thing beyond them, Every attempt to exercise Royer beyond these limits should be promptly and rmly Opposed. One evil example will lead to others still more miscievous, and if the principle of constructive powers, or supposed advantages, , ted to justliy the assumption of power not give by the constitution, the general government will | before long absorb all the powers of legisiation government. bvery friend of our iree institutions should be always prepared to maintain, untm- paired and tn full vigor, the rights and sovereignty Oi the States, and to confine the action o! the pach government strictly to the sphere of its propriate duties.’ PROTEST FIRMLY, Lrecommend thai, in the name of New Jersey, @ State which has ever been loyal to the constt- tution and the laws, and which has on all oc- casions sustained the national government in the exerci of legit wale cent you do promptly and In firm and decided language protest against the recent unlawiul action of the federal author- ittes in using the military power of tne United States to invade the constitutional rignts of the sister State of Louisiana. ‘ ACTION OF LEGISLATORS, TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 12, 1875, A joint democratic caucus of both houses of the Legislature, held to-night, appointed a committee of five members to draft resotutions condemning the Louisiana outrage and to be presented before another caucus to-morroy morning for considera. on, and afterward to of tn troduced im the regu- Jar session Of the lower House for action thereon, Considerable feeling ts maniiested over the mat: | culmly approved are to be consicered, as understood by him, a8 | Icould trust that the events were the result of @ mistaken judgment; but as they have been by the Chief. Magistrate, they | embraced by his constitutional powers, and thereiore, at his will, may be repeated there or elsewhere, This no one acquainted with the con- stituuonal history of the country can admit. Standing, asldo, on the threshold of tnis high | office, ana believing that the declaration will meet with @ hearty response from my people, 1 do now, im the name of | the State, protest against the employment of miil- tary jorce, except Im exact accordance with the constitution of the United States as coratrued | and understood in our national history, and I jur- ther declare that the obtraston of such forces tn | the legislative hails of Louisiana was a fearful | imtraction of that constitution, and in some re- Spects the gravest apd most alarming shock our republican institutions have ever received, tn- volving in thts one act of military authority the destruction of the rights of States aud of citizens. BOSTON AROUSED. Boston, Jan. 12, 1875. A petition for the use of Faneuii Hall, on Friday next, for @ public meeting to protest against th recent military interierence with the Legislature of Louisiana, bas been left at the Merchants’ Bx- change for signatures, The first name aMxed to | it 18 that of Charles Francis Adams. Among | others are those of Mayor Cobb, Henry Lee, Wil- | liam Gray, Francis Parkman, Wm. Perkins, J. Freeman Clarke, Alex. H. Bullock, Theodore Ly- man and Martin Brammer, NEW HAMPSHIRE SYMPATHY. ' | | | | ConconD, Jan. 12, 1875, The Republican State Convention heid here to- day thus expreseed the feeltage of the New Hamp- suire republicans In reverence to the affairs of the South and especiaily Louisiana :— We earnestly desire the same peace, protection and prosperity for the peopie o: the south that we oursely njoy, 4nd We coadema ail ; Maladministration on the part of an oficial, whether white or black, and ali |; and intimidation on the parto! White Leagues or white employers, “Let us have peace.” And we call on Congress to give peace and a re- rubitcan form ol government to Lousiaua without aclay. Waile we condemn the use of the military power of the nation tor any parpose not clearly dedued | in the constitution, we denounce the armed or- | ganizations in some of the Soutnern states as 4 in Lodis! er, and 1t is predicved (has the resolutions will be couched in strong and scathing langnace. belied at the pont of the bayonet a number of its It ts ramored that the Senate. which is repubil- | chief source of ail their troubies, and par jana, Where they have seized the arms of Of Uightening skate straps, which is performed by the insertion of a piece 01 kindling wood betweem the strap and the instep, A aundred instances of the application of the device were noticeable yes- terday, but one im particular. The NOTICEABLE INSTANCB was “Biff,” a City Hall bootblack, whose supply of kindling wood Was very pronounced. [t didn’t feel as Comiortable a8 he could wisn for, so he sailed in ow one foot to & bench at the edge of the lake, where a kind-looking oid lady was seated, watching the mild efforts of her daughter just im front. As “Bitl? approached with his load of wood the old lads’s attention was attracted and her curiosity excited. Tne boy sat down beside her, and began to readjust the skate. The strap did not comply with the demand o! bis muscle, so he said sometting emphatic. Tue old lacy looked the otner way, nor turned her head untila grunt of satisiaction from her neignbor induced her atten-. tion his way again. It was Oxed, and he stood up, asmile on bis face, and stamped his foot on the ice. His reformed mvod induced the old lady to speak to him. Her words took this inquiring form :— “Bubby, why do you wear that big piece of wood on your loot?" ie looxed at the reporter. who was beside the old lady, @ quizzical look, and then said :— “To make me skate good, to make me light, to make me float,” ana off he went, satisfied of hav- ing enlightened tne old dame. “Dear me,’ said she to the reporter, with patri- otic pride, “the imgenulty of American boys ie wonderful.” Coid feet induced the writer to take a walk to the upper end of the pond. Near the bridge he encountered a smooth spot on which an cld gen- tieman with ‘turn np’? skates was stroggiing.. He requested to be drawn of, and the obliging re-- porter lent a hand. STUDYING ASTRONOMY. The cut ice was almost gained when the impetu- osity Of the Old man precipitated a catastrophe. By some strange freak he entangled the crook of his skate in the bottom of bis benelactor’s trousers, and lo! it was night The reporter saw @® whole firmament, with compietely regulated constellations. This stellar dispiay was succeeded by a humming in the viewer’s head and a blindness in his eyes much like that described by those who nave assisted at boiler explosions, Gallant young men put the HERALD man on hia feet and many sweet voices said things which @ cynical mind could construe into deprecations ofa Providence that could thus: cruelly treat a kind young man. The kind young man bowed his respects, @ “donbdle-leaded”* smile sufusing his benevolent countenance. As the crowd ulspersed he left the spot, strong in the de- termination to nave nothing more to do with men with “turn up” skates. A MYSTERIOUS FOREIGNER. Beyond the bridge @ fancy skater, Canadian, was “spreading the eayle,” “cutting a big 8” and doing other and equaily interesting gyratory things. He was a modest young man— e Would not tell hia name; he was not a@ proles- sional—be would feel obliged if the reporter would not Mention him, it would necessitate his future sbsence irom the rink; he detested newspaper notoriety; young ladies would refuse his company on the ice no, if Would not suit him even 1! {t was compilmentary; he wouid be {nclined to ard it in the light of an obituary; if the reporter continued he would nave to go to the other end of ‘he pond, The reporter did. He went to the other end of the pond. Oh, jack of means! If the writer only had skates, that he might follow where the journalistic instinct led and chase the mya- terious foreigner, Time and patience were al) that were necessary to make him divuige the awiui secret of nis name. If he refused to “give way’’ on the ice, seciusion could be sought in e house that Frank Dufy built,” on Bighth and an item is lost to bistory. avenue, No skates, D0 success, While Meee objects were crowding one upon the: other @ iady in @ sort of ice “go-cart” Ld pps The machine has no name—it ts not a patent; her brother made it; he would pot like to have it spoken of, and here he comes ite his. to reiterat sister’s assertion an’ push ber along. GOOD NIGHT. Schoo! ts out, and the bo' \d girls are coming in Socks. Handsome brot clerks are getting humerous, and the scenes are becoming more briluant. Tbe Pulkahaes, propelied by handsome men, are appearing, and in them hiy roved ladies, with cloaks of mink and ermine and se: The crowd becomes denser; its puise q u hum of the ice 1s more audible and the me! ter jouder. The familiar costumes and the arternoon are disappear! fle. iene of the State, overturned the exisiing government, and foully murdered thousands of mnocens cit | zens, of the night carousai are op hand, The shi of aunt draw round, the lamps are iit and iaugnter Gila the air.