New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-15
OPINIONS OF THE NORTHERN PRESS.

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Yesterdays mail brought us Northern and
Western papers containing reports and com
ments upon the late political excitement in
this State. The majority of our Northern
contemporaries betray hopeless ignorance
Of the names of our leading men, which i'm.
ply that they have entered upon discussion
in the dark.
The New York Times, whose correspon-
dent here was, until recently, r. H. Shan
non, harmless old simpleton, tells us that
the Republican State Convention that met
at Turner Hall was composed of Wanus-
thites, who bOlted the regular convention
and in another place we are informed by the
same reliable reporter that S. r. Facker and
B. T. Joubert have been appointed members
of the State Central Committee; another
paper makes S. B. Pokord and Post
master Sorrell figure conspiciously with
Chief Deputy Collector Ewing Judge Lib
bic (Dibble) is made one of the principal
| speakers and the author of several resolu-
| tions. These blunders are not creditable to
the character of the American press for in
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influence of the papers in which they ap-
pear.
We copy below some of the more decided
| opinions which have come to hand:
CFrom the Chicago Tribunel
The extraordinary proceedings in New
| Orleans on Wednesday show pretty clearly
how the Republican majority in that State
| can be destroyed. 1t seems that Governor
Warmoth, backed by a large portion of the
| party, is opposed to, and by, the other por-
ton of the party headed by the. federal
| officials. A Republican convention had
been called to meet in the Cdstomhouse.
| The federal officers having charge of that
| building, procured the presence of some
| national troops and some artillery, and or
| dered that no one be admitted to the build
| ing without ticket issued by them. When
| the Governor and his friends applied for
| admission, the deputy marshal of the United
| States refused to admit them. Whereupon
the Governor and his party proceeded to
| another hall and held convention of their
own.
From the New York SUM-
Is GRANT A DICTATOR?
Why does General Grant declare war
| against Governor Warmoth of Louisiana? i?
|. Warmoth has kept the State well in hand
| for the Republican party. Under his rule
| there has not been Ku-Klux outrage in
| Louisiana. and the usually turbulent city of
New Orleans has been as quiet as Boston.
What, then, is the matter with Warmoth.
that Grant should require his Copperhead
| brother-in-law Casey, collector of New Or
leans, and all the other federal oficeholders
IN Louisiana, to combine to crush the man
who has been more successful in keeping
his State Republican than any of the other
carpet-bag rulers The answer is at hand.
Governor Warmoth seriously doubts
whether General Grant can carry the re-
reconstructed States in 1872, and therefore
he has ventured to hint at the inexpediency
of his denomination. This is an offense not
not to be forgiven, and so Casey, by order
of Grant, promises to make Dunn Governor
next year, and calls in his troops to put
Warmoth down.
What strange and alarming spectacle
was exhibited on the day of the assembling
of the Louisiana convention. The federal
oficeholders first designated the Custom
house as the place of meeting. The United
States marshal then summoned four COM
panies of regular troops, with battery of
artillery, from Texas, to resist the entrance
to the Customhouse of all delegates who
doubted the expediency of Grants renomi-
nation; and bravely did the Swiss guards of
the President execute his will. But for their
bayonets he would have been beaten out of
SlSuI III Tue cOHVenllOu, 1Or ninety out OF
the one hundred and eighteen delegates
were friendly to the policy of Warmoth,
and only day or two before Warmoth had
badly beaten Collector Casey for seat in
the convention from one of the wards of
New Orleans. No escape from disastrous
defeat in the convention was therefore left
open to Grant except by excluding from
the Customhouse by military power the
regular delegates, and packing the conven-
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who presided over the Warmoth or regular
Convention, is the ablest member of the
State Senate and one of the most influential
colored citizens of Louisiana.
1t may be attempted to show that Grant
does not approve of these high h-handed
proceedings 1t will be in vain, for does
not everybody who note the occurrences
at the royal lodge at Long Branch know
that two or three weeks ago brother-in-law
Casey spent a few days there in close
consultation with Grant, And is there so
big a fool in the country as not to be sure
that the New Orleans programme was then
arranged-the holding of the convention in
the Customhouse, the summoning of the
troops from Texas, and the exclusion of
the anti Grant delegates by the bayonet!
Ii an insane ambition had not blinded
General Grant to all sense of propriety and
all appreciation of the rising Indignation of
the Independent voters of the country, at
his use of regular troops to secure his re-
nomination, we might ask him if he thinks
he can confront the indignation at the
ballot-boxes in 1922 In contesting the
Presidential campaign. does he imagine
that he is at the head of an army ON battle
field!
This savage and selfish war of Grant
against Warmoth will bear it's legitimate
fruit. 1t will doubtless break in pieces the
Republican party of Louisiana, and throw
the State inta the hands of the Democrats
next year. = will certainly do this if Grant
is then in the field as the Republican nomi-
nee for the Presidency.
From the St. Louis Dispatsh.l
The facts boiled down are these: Lieu
tenant Governor Dunn (colored gentlemen)
and Collector Casey, brother-in-law of the
President, had determined to set up on
their own account, more particularly as
the latter had discovered that Warmoth
was not profoundly friendly to brother-in-
laws reelection. The happy thought
occurred to Casey to go to Long Branch
and see about it. Casey went; Casey re-
turned to New Orleans, and, under instruc-
tions from brother.in-law, went to work |
with Dunn and cut out the Warmoth dele |
gates from the convention.
TFrom the St Louis Republicsnk
The federal officials appear to have used |
their powers and privileges with unscrupu- |
lous vigor, to carry their point in the State |
Convention. The President was kind and |
enough to lend them portion of |
the army of the United States, to aid them |
in the work, and they made good use of the |
truops. Marshal Packard, chairman of the |
State committee, and the leader |
Of the administration faction, had charge |
of the troops, and he stationed them at the |