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Show Popular Indlcnation., New Y'ork, 11. The indignation meeting at Cooper Institute to-night to denounce the outrages against the political rights of tho pcopleof Louisiana Louisi-ana was one of the most remarkable events of the kind ever witnessed in this city, in point of uumbers and enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The doors opened half an hour before the usual time. The rush was terrific, and at a quarter past Beven standing room could not be found in the hall, and before the meeting began the reporters were crowded out of Ltheir .places by the crushing throng, and men clambered into the organ gallery, gal-lery, r while on the platform was barelv room for the speaker's chair. Wm.' Culled Bryant and Peter Cooper Coop-er were among the last to arrive, and were heartily cheered. August Belmont called the meeting to order and nominated Mayor Wickham for chairman, who came forward and read the following dispatch from Mc-Enery Mc-Enery and other conservatives ofNew Orleans: ''Louisiana sends greeting to-night. Her people will not be goaded into a conflict with the United States troops. A committee is preparing evidence to refute the slanders of Sheridan. We rely upon the moral support of our siBter states to restors to its American freemen our rights of self-govern-' mcnt." Mr.Bryant first addressed the meeting meet-ing saying the president had no right to interfere with the affairs of a Btate save as provided by the constitution. The wrong done in Louisiana had no possible extenuation. He regarded the question Bolely as a solemn question ques-tion of constitutional law. No matter mat-ter who desired the interference of the military it should not have been given but in the way of the constitution; constitu-tion; and otherwise it is an act from which no citizen has the right to withhold his condemnation. The evil must be rebuked and crushed now before it becomes formidable as ;a precedent. A list of prominent names was then I read. Among them were Wm. E. Dodge, J. Stone, P. Cooper, W. Cul-len Cul-len Bryant, C. O Conor, and about seventy others. A series of resolutions " was then read, denouncing interference of the military in state affairs, and condemning the dispatches of Sheridan. Sheri-dan. Each was greeted with loud and long applause, and carried amid wild cheers and a storm of ayes. Wm. M. Evarts was the next speaker. He said the sole right of intervention of federal authority within with-in the province of state authority ia to suppress violence, and then only when rpqnfwtP' V k legJoloturo, and only in case the legislature Is not in session and cannot be convened. The governor then could represent tlofni in such demand. None of these conditions existed in Louisiana. After Af-ter reviewing the constitution and law in such cases, he said this eflort to control the legislature struck at the very soul of tho republican form of government. The people should know and teach their rulers that they were only in tho positions to act in accordance with law. Speeches were also made by Hon. James L. Thayer, Wm. E. Dodge, Geo. Ticknor Curtis and ex-Governor Solomon. |