New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-11
STATE CONVENTION.
Extracts from the City Papers.


We copy below several extracts from the
| city papers, which show the state of feeling
among impartial observers. Common hon.
esty requires a censure of the scandal
created by Collector Casey and Marshal
Packard in surrendering the whole Custom
house building for private use, the useless
employment of troops, and appointment of
hundreds of deputy Marshals:
From the Times.
The house of radicalism in the State is
divided, and federal bayonets were invoked
to support one section or faction of wrong
doers against the other. No rebel outrages
We're dreaded. Negroes were numerous and
clamorous on both sides, and the contest
for supremacy would have been decided
more in accordance with the traditions of
the Fathers had the matter been left to the
contestants themselves and the unthinking
bayonet been kept at discreet distance
In the rear But such is not the manner
that radical military President elects in
making his advances toward imperial
domination. The bayonet is his chosen and
authorized emblem. of authority, and that
hated badge of seryitude, the pass, is
accepted by his vassals as check on
freedom of assemblage and freedom of
discussion.
~
However Warmoth may have erred. he is
still Governor de tactO and de jaue of the
State, and the office he holds should entitle
him to some measure of respect As a
citizen, calming to-. be a legally elected
delegate TO a political convention, he
certainly had right to free access and
seat in that body until his claim as a
delegate was regularly passed upon. This
was virtually denied. A soldier-the
RON cQr,fa Of
thorlty-interrupted and prevented an ad-
dress which the Governor was about to
make, and the gubernatorial delegate was
obliged to retire.
From the Picayune.l
In the United States courtroom were as
sembled those members of the State Gen.
tral Committee who are in the interest of
the Dunn, Carter, Packard and Casey fac
tion; but their proceedings were conducted
SO secretly that it was impossible to ascer-
tain what was the nature of their delibera-
tons. The door of the United States Cir
cult courtroom, where the convention was
to have assembled, was closed and no one
permitted to enter.
About nine o'clock A. NJ there arrived at
the CustOmhouse, three companies of the
Nineteenth Regiment United States Infan-
try, and two Gatlin guns, under the COM |
mand OF Captain Smith. The infantry were |
stationed and stacked their arms at the !
head of the Canal street entrance, and the |
Gatlin guns were rolled into the basement |
TO await orders.
Soon afterwards every entrance to the |
Customhouse was closely guarded, and no
one permitted to enter except those who |
We're provided with tickets issued by
Marshal Packard. And thus was United |
States CustomhOuse temporarily converted |
from public building for the transaction
OF public business into private hall, under
the control of a faction of peli.ical party.
All business was temporarily suspended, Z
ana no sane business man would have
trusted himself within the walls of a build
ing IN which the chances were almost ten l
TO one there would be riot between the Il
two wings of the Republican party now
for supremacy in this State.
The very presence of the military, called |
Jut under the pretense of preserving the
peace, but really as it would seem and as
was believed by the Warmothites, to sub
serve the purposes of the opposing faction,
vas calculated to create unnecessary ex-
element, and to produce those very acts of
Violence which the Central Committee
cared.
From the Bee.J
Judging by the events of yesterday, the
pitt in the Republican party of Louisiana
promises to be permanent one. 1t is not |
mere quarrel about offices, and it would
mount to very little unless the Dunn fac
ION were supported by the federal officers |
ere and at Washington.
who, a year ago, ever imagined that |
republican Governor of Louisiana would be |
revented from entering the place of as
embfy of convention of his own party,
allied to appoint State Central Commit
ee; for this was the sole business before
le convention9 Who, a year ago, could {
ave imagined that Governor Warmoth
-ould be prevented by an officer of !
le United States army, at the head of a 1
etachment of soldiers, from making in I
ublic a speech to his friends and followers ?
eft this fhinn onc,1rr.oH =,