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Show CARL SCnURZ. NPEKCH OX THE I.OLIIAXA OUTRAGES, Tho Lawlessness of I'owcr More IfuugurotiM than llni Lunlcxsutsiii ui'lho Mob. In the senate, on the llth iust., pending a disciMsion on Louisiana nllitirs: Mr. Sclmrz eaid he appronched the subject in no party spirit. About to retire to private life, the success of1 of no party would benefit, uor the defeat of uny party injure him. He proceeded to review the scenes oi last Monday in tho Louisiana legislature and asked where was the constitutional constitu-tional warrant, where ihelaw for such proceedings. Ho recited the various oxcuBcsixiado for military interference in this case, but declared that none of theao touched the que&tion. Tho question was: Whare was the law lor theBo acts? It was his deliberate judgment, conscientiously formed, that the deed done on the 4th of January in Louisiana constitutes a gross and manifest violation of the constitution and laws an act indicating indi-cating a spirit in our government which either ignores the constitution and laws, or o interprets them that they cease to be the safeguajd of independent in-dependent legislation and the rights and liberties of the people, and this spiiit shows itself more alarming still in the instruments the executive has chosen to carry out his will. No American citizen could have read without regret and apprehension tho recent dispatch of General Sheridan to the secretary of wnr, suggesting that a numerous class of citizens should by wholesale he outlawed as banditti by a more proclamation of the president to be delivered over to a military commander for summary judgment by a military commission. He spoke in the highest terms of admiration of Sheridan's military record, but said he was another illustration of how great a man may be as a soldier and how conspicuously unable he may be to understand what civil law and a constitution mean. The question was asked on every hand if such things could be done in Louisiana, how long before they would be done in other states or in the house of national representatives. rep-resentatives. Ho commented upon affairs in the south and criticised the legislation of congress as having had a bad eflect ou southern partisans, who had come to look upon the president and congress as ; their natural allies and sworn protectors, bound to sustain them in power by whatover means. Referring to the Warmonth-Xollogg quarrel, he said: "Your Caseys and Packarda carried off state senators on a U. . S. revenue cutter, Mid shut up a republican governor gov-ernor in the custom house, guarded by U. S. soldiera( to keep out another republican re-publican faction; nay, more, thesame Packard, a U. 9. marshal, during tho last election, managed the Kello&g campaign and also the movements of the U. W. troops to keep his political opponents from intimidating his political polit-ical Mends, while the department of justice of tho United States appeared more like a central bureau lor the regulation of state elections." Speaking Speak-ing of the colored people, he said he would hail the day as a most auspicious auspici-ous one for them when they threw off the scandalous leadership of those adventurers ad-venturers who, taking advantage of their ignorance, made them tools for their rapacity. He declared the people peo-ple of the Bouth not murderers and banditti. ban-ditti. There were bad elements among them,' but tho national government itself was giving these bad elements strength thev would nevf-r ntliPrwiuo have possessed by constitutional proceedings. pro-ceedings. Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, where self-government is unobstructed, were advancing in prosperity, while in Louisiana and other states in a similar political condition con-dition there was no prosperity. Lawlessness Law-lessness of power was becoming I&t more dangerous than the lawlessness of the mob. Referring to the lawlessness law-lessness and 'alleged intimidation of voters in the south( he condemned everything of the kind, but asserted it was not all on one side, and in this connection referred to the dischargo of government employes solely for political reasons, and argued that when the national . government championed intimidation we need not be surprised if partisans on all sides profited by the example. He advised ad-vised the people of Louisiana to exercise exer-cise judgment and moderation, and trust in the justice of their cause and eventually a spirit of peaceful victory will bury tho usurpers under tho crushing load of patriotic indignation. He declared that the people had lost confidence in the truthfulness of those who parade the bloody stories of outrages, because it was often too apparent that they were nierely partisan par-tisan stage thunder to' catch votes. He declared the belief that the conservatives con-servatives fairly carried the election, and were defrauded out of the result by tho returning board, and t lis act has been sustained by United States soldiers. He hoped his motion to instruct in-struct the judiciary committee would net result in a bill for a new election in Louisiana with Sheridan as chief ruler and Packard to conduct tho campaign. No measure would avail which did not boldly vindicate the constitutional privileges of the land and preserve to tho state the right of self-government. |