The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-10


for governor in the field If they vote ct al,
they win be compelled to choose between the
two competing Republican candidates. . The
question, then, is, shall they voter We
believe the general feeling to be that they
should. The general question of nomina-
tons was involved in perplexities and embar-
easements. The State convention undertook
to solve the problem, but left it just where
they found it At that time the arguments
against placing candidates in the field, to
compete for Office with the vagrant and men,
dicant carpetbaggers, seemed to be conclu-
sive. But very soon a growing opinion in
favor of nominations was manifested. The
party was, and is. united in opposition to the
Dryades street Constitution. Its first object
is to defeat that Constitution. But, at the
same time, the contingency of failure must
be contemplated. The rejection of the
Constitution may be achieved but,
reasonably, the chances are in favor of
the majority; and, through the manipulations
of Sheridan's registrars the minority in the
State is represented by large majority on the
registry lists. 1t is, therefore, the part of
reasoning men to provide for this emergency;
and, if success cannot be achieved on the
main issue, at least to thwart the radical
programme in that particular which, to
the carpet-baggers, is more important than
all the rest. Those ingenious creatures are
ravenous for Office. Without Office they will
starve. Thus far most of them have lived ON
the plumber which they succeeded in wringing
from the people during the congenial regime
of Butler, Banks and Hahn. and on the hopes
of another saturnalia of the same kind. The
Dryades street Constitution gives them
the chance for which these patriotic Micaw-
bers have been waiting. If that in
strument be ratified the renegades and
plunderers and carpet-baggers the vagrant
and mendicant Office hunters, and the ''trooly
loil" patriots, fancy that they will Immediately
come into the fortunes which Congress has
assigned 20 them. The entertainment to
which they suppose themselves to be invited
consists of multitudinous offices, and unlimi-
ted emolument If they are disappointed in
these fond anticipstions, they will Immediately
depart from community in which their room
is SO much preferred to their company, and
perform the only virtuous act Of their lives,
by leaving their country for their countrys
good" If no other advantage were gained by
defeating the carpet-bag candidates, this one
would be sufficient. To get rid of the ''trooly
loil" Migrants, and the mendicant plunderers
who have for SO long infested the State, would
be pre-eminently desirable result 1t is
with this view, and not by any means
to engage In scramble for Office
and power that the Democratic party have re-
solved to nominate candidates in the parish
of Orleans. But the same reasons that apply
to the case of the parish of Orleans, apply to
the whole State. The election of Warmoth
would, indeed, be degradation more pro-
found than any to which this unhappy State
has yet been subjected; an humiliation sur
passing even that involved in the supremacy
Of the negro population. Warmoth is the
essential radical candidate He is the chosen
instrument of the congressional reconstruc-
tionists. He is the peculiar representative of
vagrant mendicancy and mendicant vagrancy.
He is carpet-baggery incarnate. In his hands
Inc btdtc uuluiLlntIdllOu WOulu become an
asylum for refugee vagabonds from all parts
of the country; a retreat for all the s'trooly
loil loafers in the State, and a refuge for
all the renegades who have allied themselves
with the enemies of their race, their Sec
ton and their State. The more intelligent |
colored people distrust his pretensions, de-
ride his claims, and refuse to recog- |
nize him as candidate. They know him to
be the genuine type and representative of a
small faction of degenerate white men, who |
court the alliance of the negroes only that
they may be able to plumber their adversaries
and their allies with equal facility and equal
profit
Between this man and Judge Taliaferro the |
white people have to choose and there can be
no doubt that their choice will fall on the can
didate who, if radical in politics, is at least
a sincere and honest man. 1t is to be hoped |
that all the opponents of the Constitution
will vote for Judge Taliaferro, and thus as
sure the defeat of carpet-baggery in Louisiana