New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-06

10 lie turning point, SO 10 SPEAK, III tue
| fortunes of the Republican party of this
State. The conflict which exists must end
there or it will become consuming VIC
lence. Peace must be made this week by
the representative authority of the con-
| vention, or the conflict which is setting
Republicans against Republicans will go
on to an extremity of bitterness, which it
will be impossible to reconcile. And to
make our proposition plain, there can
only be one settlement that will be ac-
cepted, and that is the recognition of the
State administration as the representative
of Republicanism in Louisiana. Even in
Ohio and in the North the party has ac-
| cepted this fact, as will be seen by the
telegram published yesterday, that ''Gov-
ernor Warmoth is recognized by the lead
ing men of Ohio as the only man who can
save the Republican party in Louisiana. !"
There never was truer statement, and
one which more fully established the
searching capacity of the great leaders of
the party. Ability recognizes ability
| though continents intervene, and the men
who have led the Republican forces to
victory in the North, see in Warmoth the
man who has initiated their tactics in the
South.
The reason of this is plain. Governor
Warnoth is leader. He not only repre-
| sents himself, but he marshals host of
followers. He embodies policy which
has thousands of friends. His opponents
present no such front. They are neither
united under one controlling will, nor do
they represent any distinct political idea,
unless we dignity opposition to one man
by such name. If they should succeed
tomorrow in overthrowing the Governor
they would split into dozen factions
The controlling spirit of the party would
be lost, and Republicans might strug-
gle, but Republicanism would gain no
more victories. Under these circum-
stances, Governor Warmoth can not sur
render. His friends win not allow him to
do so, because they feel that his overthrow
would be a calamity. They can not fol-
low with assurance where they have no
confidence in the capacity Of their. leaders.
They have won victories under Warmoth,
and until he is defeated they intend to
follow his direction. The Republicans in
the North understand this thing. They
know that Warmoth is more than one man.
They know that the leading men in the
party are with him to-day, and that any
disaster to him is disaster to the very
men who have mainly built up the party
in Louisiana. And what is more signif-
cant still, the Republicans of the North
see that the entire ability of the Demo
cratic party is now arrayed in one massive
effort to accomplish the downfall of War
moth, above all things. IF there is sin
gle fact that should admonish the Repub-
licans of this State more than another it is
upon the Governor is supported in all its
efforts by their political enemies This
fact alone suggests two important points,
that the charge of recreancy which has
been, and is still, made against Governor
Warmoth is false, and that his overthrow
is sought by the very party in whose in
terest he is said to be working.
Republicans will observe, then, that the
surrender of Governor Warmoth is impos-
sible, because it involves the common ruin
of the party. His friends are too promi-
nent to be suspected of unfaithfulness to
the party, and their adherence to him is
too fast to be broken, and it is the surest
evidence of his truth and honesty. They
refuse to enter upon course that is plainly
destructive, not only to himself, but to-
themselves, and they will not allow him to
be oyerthrown in the interest of faction, or
at the dictation of the Democracy. They
know that he is not responsible for the
present contention, for they know that he
has been faithful to the principles of Re-
publicanism, and that he has been indul-
gent of fayors to his associates in the
administration. Where he has been
offered an opportunity to consult with the
leaders the party he has been patient, and
sometimes even little too yielding. If he
has made mistakes he has only manifested
his humanity; if he has been persistent, it
has been, perhaps, because he was in pos
session of fuller information than his adj
visers. Taken as whole. therefore, the
State administration not only deserves the
high estimation in which it is held in the.
North, but it deserves the Endorsement of
the Republican party in this State. And
it intends to insist upon its rights in this
respect by virtue of what it has done, and
in view of what it proposes to do. The last
Republican campaign is an evidence that
Warmoth is stronger than any other Re-
publican in the State, and this strength he
intends to uphold and maintain in its full
repectability.
HUNTING TRADE.
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