New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-08
A CARD FROM GOVERNOR WAR
MOTH.


NEW ORLEANS, September Z, 1871.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
In your article headed "Mr, Walsh's Tes
timony," you do the Lieutenant Governor
who did violence to the truth in almost
every other statement in his long letter
one slight injustice in saying ''that Mr..
Dunn has not reported him (Walsh) fairly"
Mr. Walsh, in his card to the New Orleans
Times of the fourteenth of August, after
admitting that he offered me fifty thousand
dollars to sign the Nicolson pavement bill,
says:
The Governor was of the opinion that his
signature to the bill, considering the large
profits, was worth seventy-tive thousand
dollars to me, and promise to pay him the
further sum of two and one-haf per cent
Of the net profits.
Upon which Lieutenant Governor Dunn
bases his charge contained in item No. l"
of his letter, as follows:
Item No. 1-Governor Warmoth de-
manded as the price of his official signature
to legislative act, known as the Nicolson
pavement bill, seventy-five thousand dol
lars, and two and half per cent of the
profits accruing from the contract c0ntem-
was made by his excellency on Dir. John
A. Walsh, representing the bill, and was
declined. Mr.. Walsh is a respectable and
wealthy citizen of this city, and has pub
lished, without denial from his excellency,
the facts herein alleged in the city press.
Now, think Mr.. Dunn is in a measure
justified in his language, assuming that he
believed the statement of Mr.. Walsh to be
true. would not intrude myself on your
courtesy but for the fact that Mr.. Walsh's
statement has been repeated by both MIR.
Speaker Carter in his card and Lieutenant
Governor Dunn in his letter to Mr.. Greeley.
And I now affirm that John A. Walsh
called on me to urge my signature to the
| bill in question. In refusing compliance
with his request gave him the reasons en-
| bodied in my message to the Legislature
| disappearing it. After this he said he was
| authorized to offer me S50,000 and one-sixth
of the net proceeds of the contract, to which
l responded that l was surprised he should
presume, knowing me as he did, to make
me such an offer. He replied that he did
not believe I could be induced to take it,
| but thought that no harm was done by pre-
senting these terms in accordance with his
authority from the parties interested; and
he finally left, apparently mortified at hav
ing done so mean a thing, and with his ears
burning at my rebuke He has since stated
not once only, but many times, that he hat
made me this offer and that l refused it, ant
"that no pecunia9y consideration whaterel
| could influence me to sign the BILL.
To substantiate this refer to Captain
John C. Sinnott, of SinnOtt 81 Adams; Mr.
Jonathan Taylor, principal proprietor il
the Nicolson paving PATENT DR.. A. w
Smyth, of the Charity Hospital; w. L. Cat
lin, then in commercial copartnership witt
Mr.. Walsh, and to my then secretary, Mr. F
C. Remick, who was in the adjoining room
and heard the conversation above referred
to between Mr. Walsh and myself.
l assert Mr.. Walsh's statement to be {
willful and malicious falsehood, deiber
ately concocted for the purpose of injurin!
me, and he can not truthfully say that hi
card does not justify the language employe,
by Lieutenant Governor Dunn.
Very respectfully,
H. c. WARMOTH.