New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-27
THE TRrBUNE,s LAMENT.
Letter from Hon. II. w. Conway.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN

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paper Of yesterday falsehood was coupled
with madness, and willful Misrepresentation
with self-condemnation and chagrin. Thi!
| gentleman Il use the term with mental reser
walton and evasion) says certain gentle
man" (alluding to MYSELF went to Washing
ton and misrepresented and illuminated
him. Let the reader put his pin in this, and
mark it as falsehood No. one.
He says that the gentleman" had writ
ten him a letter proposing to become false
to his friends, and betray them into his
hands. Let the reader put pin into thi!
also, and remember it as 'whopper" No
two. Facts as to this: Last spring on my
return to Louisiana proposed to the pro
prietor of the New Orleans Tribune to pur
chase one-half of that paper, and have
charge of its English page. My proposition
was in writing, and was not accepted, but
in lieu thereof, another was made by him
after, as he said, consulting his brother and
the editor. His proposition will allude to
in moment, 1 desire first TO notice the
point as to "betraying nv friends
MY proposition was made to the proprie-
tor of the Tribune because I then enter
tanned a considerable degree of confidence
in his devotion to radical principles. For
this reason ! regarded him and those asso-
ciated with him in the conduct of his paper
as my friends, and not because thought
well of them personally.
The friends OF mine to whom he makes
;uvidio,,S ol1usion ryara Tho form, or Yoronrin
tors of the REPUBLICAN. Though these
gentlemen were on terms of personal
friendship With me / regarded them, with
one or two exceptions as untrustworthy
radicals, and consequently not my political
friends.
! desired the success of the Tribune,
and proposed to make business arrange.
ment which in my judgment
would conduce to that end. l con-
fess l was wrong, as subsequent events
have demonstrated, and that, instead of
being in business and in political alliance
with man entitled to my respect as q
radical or as a man of honor, I was asso-
ciated with despotic, false, arrogant, and
dishonorable man, whose word is not worth
the breath with which it is uttered, and
whose radicalism is measured by the rule
of dollars and cents.
But to return: The proprietor of the
Tribune having declined my proposition,
made one of his own, which accepted.
This made me one of the partners of the
concern, with the understanding that was
to write English editorials. He proposed to
reduce the contract to writing. l said :
Your word of honor as a gentleman
will satisfy me for the present if mine
will satisfy you" He agreed to this, but in
thirty days found he had no honor, and
consequently that his word was worthless.
Because asserted my independence in the
matter Of the appointment of the Central
committee-voting for NAPLES, as did, and
afterward protesting against the conduct of
the old committee, he, the said proprietor,
said " Our contract will now cease.n 1t
had already ceased, for had the day before
said to myself that could not associate in
business or in politics with such man.
found that instead of being associated with
a friend of my principles, was associated
with man who entertained friendship for
nothing and nobody but himself and France.
He alludes to my request for the return of
my written proposition. asked for its re-
turn, and he excused himself by saying,
'It's LOST Put pin here as 'whopper" No.
three, for he now tells us il is "still in his
possession.p In order that my friends and
the world may know exactly how false and
disAonorable this man is / will say that the
paper alluded to was marked 'cenfden.
tial," and that if he were gentleman its
contents would never have been revealed,
either in distorted form, or as written.
But now, to show the few remaining friends
of that gentleman now utterly unworthy
the is either Unpopular respect, and support
or of individual confidence, and to further
show how well desired the success of his
paper in preferencet to the other Republican
daily paper of the city as that paper aoasthe1l
managed, and to show the Radical Repub-
licans of Louisiana that my motive was the
success of the Radical against the Conserv-
alive Republican cause, demand the pub
LEGATION OF my letter in the exact language
which used. ar n
again, . says this proprietor, "His prop.
osition was treated with contempt
and scorn,n Wtopper No. Jo,n; On
the contrary, at a late date, he
pointed me, by way OF temptation,
from the top of a-great high mountain,
to the promotion, the honors, and the great
advantages would derive 5y 5otoing doton
to him. He tried this same with three hund-
red more, but they and 1 considering him
as false, turned from him. He says went
to Washington, not in the noble mission OF
an american senator" He proposed this
mission to me once when, in his egotism, he
thought he carried the Republican party Of
Louisiana in his brooches pockets, but l
said mo, have more love for the more
honorable Office Of schoolmaster." He fur.
ther intimates that l went to Washington
ain the character OF traducer,
to take the federal printing! from
him. This is another whopper,
though am glad to say that after reaching
the federal capital, and learning that his
paper had Joined hands with the New Or
leans Times in. the unholy work Of breaking
The Radical party to pieces and thus defeat
ing reconstruction; aud when / saw it raise
the names Of rebels and conservatives as
candidates for offices which the great
Radical party has determined shall be filed
by better men, favored the transfer Of the
printing to hands more clean, more radical,
more true.
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