Wilmington Daily Commercial

The Louisiana Business.

[From the Cincinnati Gazette.]
When Wiltz called for the boys in blue, he calculated upon having everything his own way. but when the soldiers expelled the mob, and none but members of the House remained. Wiltz found himself in a minority and that is where the military interference began to hurt the revolutionists. The soldiers were called in by Wiltz to preserve order, which they did, and out of that order came the defeat of the revolutionists. If the Conservatives had a majority of the House, as they claimed, why the attempt to organize in violation of all law and parliamentary rules? And if they did not want the military to interfere, why did the revolution-ist Wiltz send for the soldiers?

[From the Cleveland Leader.]
When the writer of this paragraph was in New Orleans, twenty months ago, a prominent rebel—now a White Leaguer —stated to him that had it not been for United States troops stationed there, there would have been formed an organi-zation of 3,000 white men, who would have gone up to the Mechanics' Institute, where the Kellogg Legislature was in session, and killed every one of those d—d Republicans and negroes! Since then the doings of the White League have proved his assertion most thoroughly.

[From Harper's Weekly.]
One of the organs of the White League cov-ers Sheridan with ribald insults in the worst spirit of the war, and that, we suppose, is the voice of "the people" of Louisiana. These things following upon the elections are signifi-cant. Already they arrest public attention. The real tendencies of the situation are not to be studied in the rhetoric of the Manhattan Club supper table in New York, but in events in the late slave and rebel States, and in the spirit manifested wherever the rebel party has ob-tained ascendency.

Thurman's Instance.
Senator Thurman, in his hot speech against military interference with the lawlessness in the Louisiana House, referred to a time when he said for two weeks or more there were two bodies claiming to be Legislatures in Ohio, and he made the fanciful assertion that had the United States troops interfered they would not have got out of it alive. Senator Thurman re-fers to a time when the Democratic members, having raised disputes of elections enough to make the balance of power, took possession of the Hall of the House, in advance of the time of meeting, decided the contested elections their own way, and remained in continued ses-sion day and night for weeks, because they knew that if they should let the Whigs get into the hall, they had legal members enough to or-ganize the House.

Judge Thurman aptly likens this to the illegal taking possession of the Louisiana House by an armed mob. It was a gross outrage. It was a specimen of the lawlessness to which the Demo-cratic party was always ready to resort for no higher purpose than party control.-Cincinnati Gazette.