New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-12
THE CUsToMHOUsE CLIQUE
ADDRESS or GOVERNOR WARMoTH
Cabinet Portraits Of George w. Cnrter'
Charles w. Lowell, s. b. Packard,
James r. Casey and Felix Herwig-
Scathing Exposure of their hotiyes
and Designs.

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Toward the close of the business of the
| Republican convention ON Thursday, Gov
ernor Warmoth was called upon for an adj
| dress. Mounting the platform, he said:
Mr.. President and fellow -citiZens--I am
| Iaboring under some difficulty this morn
| ing-physical indisposition-and shall try
| TO he as brief as | can in saying the very
MANY things that the occasion demands
| that / should say. The events of the last
forty-eight hours have taught us that there
are a number of men in this State, claiming
| to be Republicans, who, if they can not
control the organization of the party to
which we belong, will seek to destroy its
unity and usefulness, and give the control
| Of the government into the hands of our
political adversaries. When / say what
say to you to-day, speak by the card. l
| know that gentlemen who are the leaders
of the opposition have made overtures
| to the Democratic party [cheersl,
asking them for their support and CO.
operation in the party fight, and telling
| them at the same tIme-at least the leader
of them did-that he was not Repub-
| lican, that he never had been Repub-
lcan, was secessionist per Sc, was now a
| Democrat, and that he was only pretend
| ing to be a Republican that he might
| divide the party, and give the State back to
| the white people, to whom it belonged. l
| say that George w. Garter made that
proposition to a leading newpaper. [Sen-
| sation I. say that he went, with two
| Democrats, to the Office of the New Or
| leans Times, and made that proposition to
| one of the leading editor. He has under
| taken, in public meeting, within the last
| forty eight hours, to arraign me personally.
| Perhaps the arraignment of that individual
| personally would be of interest TO the peo-
| pie of the State. ["Yes, yes" and ap-
| piause-I
GEORGE W. CARTER.
| He was a secessionist las he tells every
body) per Se-that is to say, he was in favor
| Of the division of this Union anyhow, right
or wrong He tells the people that he
fought for four years to destroy the gov
! ernment, and to keep the negroes in
| slavery. He went into the fight Chris
tian; he came ont of it sinner and black
guard. [Jasper Blackburn: That's so,
by ri Laughter and cheers.] A man
| Methodist Episcopal Church South; a man
who preached Christ and him cruciied,
| from the State of Virginia way down to the
| Rio Grande-a man who was the peculiar
! pride Of the Methodist Church, especially OF
| the female members. Laughter and
| cheers.l The war came with its baneful in
| fuences, and it engulfed this saint and
| apostle of Jesus Christ, and made him what
! slavery had made the Southern people
| disposed to take any advantage of their
| fellow-men that force or power might give.
| He tells us that he fought to keep the
negroes slaves, but is now glad they are
| free. He might have been wrong then. l
| have no doubt he was wrong then, but how
| are we to Know that man who turns round
| so soon after he has been whipped, and tells
! us he is glad he has been whipped, that all
II.
| to preaching secession and slavery have all
passed for naught, and that he is sorry he
ever did any such thing, is to be trusted
new There is but one of two things-either
he is man of weak intellect, with all the
advantages of college education, aristo-
cratic connections, and the whole country
open to him-I say he must either be man
OF bad Judgment when he tells us to-day
he is sorry for all his past life, or he is u
| man who can not be believed. [Cheers. ]
This gentleman arraigns me. He says |
have done some big things in this State
that have made big fortune; that have
created for the State of Louisiana big
debt, and forget what other big thing he
he charged me with. How did George w.
Carter become familiar with my bank ac-
count Who OF this audience can tell me
how much money i had when 1 went into
office, and how much money have now :
formation fLaughter.l Does he suppose
because in one short session of the Legis-
lature he was capable of making enough
money to buy valuable residence in New
Orleans, and to spend in one night seven
teen hundred dollars in a gamb mbling house,
that, therefore, upon his own experience in
making money out of an official position, it
follows that l must have made a consider
able fortune in the three years have been
ha +hat I ho-n Ia
money; it may be that l have taken bribes;
it may be that / have prostituted the high
office you have given me for my personal
aggrandizement. 1t maybe | am guilty Of
all these sins of commission as well as
omission that he has charged against me,
but if this is true, why don't this man
arraign me before the Legislature and have
me turned out of office. [Applause.] am
ready 10 stand any, investigation that
these gentlemen may see proper to insti-
tute, and say to-day that if it shall be as
certaiDed that | have used the office the peO-
pie have given me for my own aggrandiZe-
ement, that have deffaudedthe State, even
10 the extent of one farthing, that have used
the powers given me for purposes that are
wrong, it is the duty of the Legislature to
bring me before the bar of the Senate and
hurl me from the high position that the
people have given me. Applause.
A PARALLEL.
had little round once before with an
ex-rebel. While George w. Carter was at the
head of the Texas Legion-while this light of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South was
waging a war in which, he himself says, he
killed nobody-this other gentleman was
on the banks of the Mississippi river cut
ting the thrOats of Onion men who were
non -combatants, and burning all the cotton
he could lay his hands upon. This was the
patriotic service that George M. Wicklitfe
laughter and cheersJ was rendering the
Confederacy He came here with his smiles.
and Establishments, throwing his arm around
everybody's neck, telling them how much
he loved them, just like George w. Carter.
Laughter When he got into office, what
did he do His first act was to steal five
hundred thousand dollars out Of the treas
ury. [Cheers, and "That's SOL Iewent to
work ON George M. Wickliffe. attacked
him in his stronghold: / got him before
the Legislature; he was impeached, tried
and turned out of Office. [Applause.J As
is usual in such cases, the criminal in order
to create a diversion, and with a view of
getting up a counter feeling against his ac-
cuser, submitted, under affidavit. thirty-fve
charges against me, charging me with
thirty i've different crimes against the laws
and the people of this State; and it is re-
markable fact that the very day that George
Nj. Wicklife was unanimously impeached
and turned out of office, a committee
composed of Republicans and Demo
Gratis of the House of Representatives
reported unanimously that every charge he
had brought against me was false, and the
House of Representatives unanimously
adopted. that report. [Cheers.] Let Mr..
Carter bring forward his charges. 1 am
ready to hear them and go before the House
OF Representatives and the Senate to an