Wilmington Daily Gazette

The New Orleans Usurpation.

While President Grant is denying at Washington any intention or desire to tyrannize over the people of Louisiana or to interfere with the free government of the State, the federal authorities in New Orleans are committing outrages to which no people with a spark of manhood in their breasts can patiently submit. The State government overthrown. State Courts abolished or the rightful judges driven by force from the bench, and now the suppression of the independent press, are the outrages that mark the progressive steps of this infamous violation of the constitution and the laws. The New Orleans Times, having been bold and free spoken in its denunciation of Judge Durell's action, has been seized and suppressed by a United States Marshal on a trumped-up charge of fraud involving fifteen hundred dollars, for which four times the amount was offered as security, while a hundred times the amount would have been forthcoming if necessary. We trust that President Grant will now see the wisdom and prudence of adopting some method to undo the evil done by the superserviceable zeal of the Attorney General, and to compel the United States authorities to respect the constitution and the liberties of the people. The President, by his eagerness to disclaim any interference with the Louisiana State government, has shown a proper appreciation of the limit of his powers and duties. It is to be hoped that Justice Bradley will at once proceed to New Orleans to supersede Judge Durell. This may accomplish much good, although we believe the most effective remedy for the present troubles in Louisiana would be the suspension of both State governments and the temporary substitution of a military provisional government until the question at issue between the contending factions could be settled by the Court of last resort.—N. Y. Herald.