New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-31
Warmoth to the administration discussed,

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an interruptions and feeble sort Of person
would be able to give IT.. The general in
terest felt in the subsequent proceedings o.
the convention arises from suspicion thai
the brotherin-law may have had an under
standing OF what was to be done in case
|, Warmoth, charged with hostility to the
President, should have a majority of the
: delegates.
However that may be, the Customhouse
ehqne acted with such confidence and as
surance as to give color to the belief that
when they claimed to have "the highest au
thonty" for what they did, they were not
acting without warrant. What they did,
briefly was to publish an obscure notice
That the convention would be held in the
United States Circuit Court room, in the
Customhouse; to announce, also, that the
credentials of all delegates must be sub
united to the Central Committee, to be
passed upon by subcommittee; to issue
tickets OF admission to qualified delegates,
which were handed out of window of the
private Office by the postmaster in person;
10 swear In two hundred United States
| deputy marshals; to lock, bar, and guard all
the doors OF the Customhouse, suspending
all pubhc business; and, finally, to march
armed United States infantry, supported by
TWO Gatlin guns, into the Customhouse,
there TO remain during the sitting of the
convention. ---''-'-'''-
vi course, when Governor Warmoth and
his friends, who had great difficulty in
| getting their credentials passed upon and
their tickets of admission granted them, en-
tered this place outside the jurisdiction of
the State, to hold State convention, and
took IN at glance the extraordinary pre-
paratlons that had been made to influence
its proceedings, they retracea their steps
and repaired to Turner Hall, where they
finished the business for which they had
been convened.
The Customhouse CLIQUE proceeded to fill
the vacancies occasioned by this unex-
pected turn OF atfairs-and they had good
many to FILL, since originally they had f.
turned from the State at large less than,
twenty-five out of the one hundred and six
teen delegates-and to nominate ticket,
OF the loyalty of which to the administra-
ton they profess to have no doubt nor is
any one named upon it likely to smite the
hand that dispenses patronage, SO long as
there is patronage to dispense.
Since the facts have come to light, Mr..
casey, Mr.. Packard and others, who were
the concoctors of this precious scheme to |
averawe the convention, have been profuse |
bair l.
llshed numerous cards in the New York pa
pers with the intent to impress the Northern |
mind that there was necessity for the pre-
caution taken. Among other things, they |
deny that public business was interrupted |
at the Customhouse, or that intimidation
was intended or used. They assure us that
the selection Of the United States court
room, for holding the convention, was Hob
sons choice, all political halls in the city
having, been secured beforehand by the
Warpoth party. The novelty of swearing
In more deputy marshals than there were
delegates in the convention, and garrison
ing the building with United States troops
and Gatlin guns, they profess to palliate by
assertions of an unfounded apprehension of
a mob of New Orleans roughs, instigated by
Warmoth.
We Have the word of the Hon. John
Lynch, who took no part in the proceed
lngs, that on the morning of the convention
he proceeded to the Customhouse to trans
act public business. and found the doors
locked and barred, and the approaches to
them guarded; and he called upon several
gentlemen standing by to witness the extra
ordinary fact. He also assures US that there
were numerous halls in the city, and he
named to us several of them, which could
have been had without difficulty He also
scouts the pretension that there was danger
Of mob or of any violence whatever, and
for the very good and logical reason, if no
other, that an overwhelming majority of
he delegates were Warmoth men, and had
40 need of outside reinforcement to shape
he action of the convention, since, if fairly
managed it was substantially in their
hands. He characterizes the whole pro-
,eeding as an outrage, for which there was
10 excuse or justification whatever, and
Ironounces the statements made to miti-
,"IO seAC "ASNltJ ann Optdlu COuuleudHCo |
md sympathy for it at the North, "a pack of
les"
The name of John Lynch, in Ohio as {
veil as in Louisiana, is synonymous with
integrity. His word, to those who know
i'm, needs 10 confederation. But even
his is not wanting. General McMillen has
nade substantially the same statement,
nd Mr.. Pinchback confirmed it in the in
ervlew which was published in the Com
aercidt some days ago. 1t will have more l.
weight with those to whom Mr.: Lynch is
tranger, from the fact that he took no part ]
nd had no interest in the proceedings ether
han Republican citizen of the State who
fishes the State to remain under Repub-
can government.
He, in common with the best men of the s
arty in the State. is indignant that its e
God name should be used to cover proceed 4
lgs of an Infamous character, and which -
erve to point every Democratic assertion =
{ the political uses to which the bayonet :,
to be put in shaping the Presidential
anvass. They believe the Customhouse =,
Ulcers of New Orleans, who managed
lis scheme TO overawe the convention,
ave done Republicanism serious
Jury, not only in the State, but through
ut the country, and without the shadow
a pretext for it, except to promote their al
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