New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-27
"Judge'' warmovth


From the Baltimore Gazette Sent 22s i
Among the itinerant political raonntaI,ar1, ,.
are playing throughout the North the rar4 wig
'persecuted patriots" and Southern logaIis+sjs
there is one who calls himself Judge Wsrr,nttt
OF louisiana He is one of the principal ner,
formers Of the troupe, and is always weIeoTped
when he steps upon the STAGE with great s,,,
plause. He is supposed to have suffered iTo.
mensey on account of his devoted adherence "a
the cause OF the Union, and to have exhibited In
its defense the utmost disnterestedness and the
most heroic courage. The Northern papers noFg
than intimate all this to their readers, and the lat
| ter implicitly believe it.
We have. not as yet procured for ourselves an
authentic sketch Of the life and services Of this
unselfsh patriot, though we have all along known
enough about people and things in New Orleans
| to be perfectly confident that the man was
shameless renegade Or lying imposter like most Of
the other black and white Louisiana loyalists with
whom he is now associated. The New York Ez-
press has furnished the public with some few facts
about the judge that will enable its readers to
estimate the worthlessness of his character and
the emptiness Of his claim to represent any clasg
Of people in the South. We learn that this War-
mouth went from Illinois to New Orleans during
the war, and that he held the position Of provost
judge there for a few weeks, by appointment Of
the military authorities. He afterwards remained
in New Orleans.
On account Of such residence and such services
he is not only accepting h0nors and rewards at
the hands Of the Northern people as E Southern
loyalist,' but aa s'persecuted y Unionfst he is
instigating them to wreak vengeance on Southern
"rebels.3 He expressed himself on Saturday
night in a speech at Troy, as follows:
g We want no leniency shown to traitors-no
admission to Congress under the test oath. We
take the position as Southern loyalfsts, in COM
mon with the great radical party, that the rebels
and traitors WHO endeaVored to destroy this gov
ernment have no rights-they were all forfeited
by the act of secession. We believe that the loyal
North has the right to hang them, shoot them,
conhscate their property, or pardon them il it SO
chooses, through its Representatives in Congress-
I'VE demand the suffrage equally for all-for
the negro as well as the so-caled superior race.
/ No matter what our prejudices may be- policy
| should direct the course. We are, no doubt, the
| noblest of the nohle-the aristocrats of the hu-
man race The blood flowing in our veins is
| doubtless purer than that which throbs the pulse
| of any other order of humanity-our skin the whit
est and fairest. We are made of the best possible
| description Of clay-the very best that was on
| hand at that time. But let me whisper ever so
softly in your ear that necessity makes strange
bed-fellows.' Necessity-that lever Of all human
actions-has made the negro, if not our bed-fel-
low in a literal sense, at least metaphorically He
is necessary to our existence. His vote will se-
cure us loyal representatives in Congress, and
loyal judges lawyers clergymen editors and cfti-
zens in States, and that we shall never obtain
, without negro suffrage.n'
And all this brutal and unprincipled nonsense ia
applauded to the echo by thousands Of the radical
patriots, who are swearing daily that their only
n desire is to re-establish the Constitution and Ii
reunite forever in fraternal bonds the people of
. the two sections. And the speaker himself, afte
Ii the falsity of his pretensions has been exposed
and while he stands forth naked and brszen i'm
t poster, will be feasted and applauded at the Mort
, by nlultitudes of those who claim to be regarded
= as honorable and honest men. They will deliber
Z ately pass this counterfeit patriot off wheneVe
's and wherever they can, and will complacenu
invest all the capital they can make by the fraud
r Truly, we have fallen upon evil days, and tn
veriest cptimist would be justified il concedinG
that there is much reason to fear for worse thing
b in the time to come.