Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-07
DUNN TO GREELEY.

NdnStci uttS MAAtUch I'll" W. a. ..
Dunn has signed alive AMI a half
column letter to Horace Greeley.
To use one of Mr., Carriers phrases.
slightly modified, the letter shows
the Lieutenant Governor s'ss . re-
to be a frst-class success"
Mr.. Dunn starts out with gravity,
gets facetious in the middle, makes
fun of Horace as an agriculturist,
and finally gets mad. hurls defiance.
and tells the wholejournalistic world
to mind its own business, in this
fashion: 'And with, all due respect
to you. H. G. and your journals
tic confieres permit me to say that
we know our evils and their rene
dies, and are competent to attend
to our own political interests, and
we intend to do so without regard
to outside censure or dictation. 3"
Ii matters continue to run as badly
throughout the State as they have
begun in 7srystodne and ST. Charles
parishes, Messrs. Dunn and Co.
viii shortly have no political inter-
ests" left to attend to. Roast beef
and brass bands wont muster them
q corporal's guard. And Mr.. Dunn
unkindly overlooks the fact. in slur-
ring Mr.. Greeley and his confreres,
that but for such men as he and
them, the possibility Of a colored man
occupying the Lieutenant-G over-
norship would yet be an impossi-
bility.
The writer goes for ''carpet-bag-
gers" especially Gen. McMillen,
Lynch, Gov. Warmoth, Heron,
Southworth, Conway, Dibble and
West, but modestly intimates that
if they will abstain from politics
and "invest their CAPITAL" they may
yet be cordially welcomed by the
native population Why Beaure-
gard, Forrest, or the editor of the
New Orleans Times himself, could
not offer more fiattering induce
ments for soldiers of the Union to
"locate" among us!
Mr.. Dunn then proceeds to in
struct the President that eff he de-
sires to strengthen our confidence
in him and increase the successes
of the Republican party in Louis
lana, he will not only continue these
faithful servants (the Gatlin gun
ners) in their positions. but give
them his war.aest COMMUNICATION
for their conduct" That is, unless
the President keeps these men in
Office, and stands by them, notwith-
standing the unqualified and uni
versal condemnation of their action
hot only by the press and people
in this State, but by the press and
people of the entire country with
out regard to party predictions
he cannot expect the support of
Mr.. Dunn for the Presidency.
With reference to two Conven-
tons he says: "and. about the same
time the LouIsIANIAN of which Sena-
tor Pinchback is proprietor an
nounced that there would be two
Conventions. These announcements
of Senator Pinchback" etc.
Does Mr.. Dunn not know that
the proprietor is not necessarily the
editor? and does he not know that
Senator Pinchback is not the editor
of the LoUIsIANIAy? Bnt we will
tell him now, that Senator Pinch
back knew no more of the article in
question than any of the other
readers of the LOUISIANA did, and
it is an utterly greundless assertion
to connect the articlein question
with any purpose on the part OF
Governor Warmoth.
Now we come to very queer
circumstance connected with the
publishing of this voluminous epis-
tie. 1t originally appeared in the
Sunday issue Of the defunct Citizens
Guard, and wound up with four
specific and numbered charges
against his Excellency Governor
Warmoth, to wit: 1st-bribery; I'd
himself a mammoth prin-
ting contract; diminishing his
position as fiduciary agent of the
the State to subserye his personal
interests; and 4th-'illegally remov-
ing Secretary of State Bovee.
The Guard had no circulation