New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-12
THE RESULT.

vention has come and gone again, ani
with it has been carried away the mask.
that hid the faces Of certain politica
agitators. Men who have heretofore en-
| joyed the confidence of the party, ani
been intrusted with its highest interests
and latest offices, have proved them
selves utterly unworthy Of the trust re.
posed in them. They have used the
patronage placed in their hands to cor.
rupt the subordinate officials, and to
bride them to betray the Republican
| party into the hands of its enemies.
Promises and subsidies have been en-
ployed to prevail with two or three low
class Democratic journals to aid them in
their unholy work; and as though all
this were not enough, they have, by mis-
representation, obtained the consent of
the President to put down by force the
very men who have been the chief build
ers of the Republican party of Louisiana.
To afford them plausible pretext for the
employment of armed soldiers and deputy
marshals, the recreant State Central Com
mittee called the convention to assemble
in the Customhouse, a place admitted to
be outside the jurisdiction of the State,
and exclusively under the control of
federal officials Two or three companies
of the Nineteenth Infantry were ordered
up, with their Gatlin guns, for the
avowed purpose'of intimidating, and, if
need be, shooting the delegates of the
convention, and staining the rotunda of
the Customhouse with the blood of our
Governor, himself an ex-soldier of the
Union, and as true in his allegiance
to his country as were the one hundred
and fifty regiments of his own glorious
native State. And all this outrageous.
programme was concocted, not because
the peace was threatened; not because any
mans life or property was in danger; not
because the local police were not able and
willing to bring to account any turbulent
man who might possibly be carried away
by momentary excitement, but simply
and solely because some seven or eight
men are each anxious to be Governor, and
81. G. Warmoth is preferred above them
all by the people. Being without any i'm
portance, except such as is reflected from
their official positions, they were driven
10 an abuse of those positions to attempt |
% gain an advantage over real merit |
The Collector of the Port, whose sole |
qualification to his office rests upon his
to the President, gave up the |
Use of the Customhouse to the rabble of |
Extra inspectors and letter carriers and
heir armed protectors. The United
States Marshal, who owes his position to
he efforts of the Republican party, con-
ributed his abilities to engineer the ma
hinery that was to run the convention
postmaster Lowell with his voice of as
umed huskiness, volunteered as a whip
'er in; Lieutenant Governor Dunn was
ngaged to represent 'his race" and
speaker Carter, the real brains of the
7hole affair, and the hero of divided
ouncils in other scenes, cast himself for
be humble, though really important part,
general utility. No one else of any
ote was found among the leaders of the'
srcical convention
And when the delegates of the people,
18th Governor Warmoth at their head,
ere refused admission to the Barmecide's
asst to which they had been invited, and
'tired from the Customhouse, they left
D vestige Of the Republican party of
behind them. There was not
man left authorized to speak in its
lme. But sadly, and with evident signs
misgivings, Mr.. Packard put the ma
linery in motion, as nearly according to
e previous arrangements as circum-
ances would permit. With delegates
'eviously selected by the Central Com
ittee, or improvised on the spot, they ,
emit through the farce of holding State s
invention. The gentlemen present
presented themselves merely; and with :
e exception of Governor Dunn, and,
'ssibly, one or two delegates from the (
untry who found themselves in the
'ong box, none of them could boast Of &
ing able to control the vote of a single !
nstituent, and few of them are in the 4
bit of controlling their own. Strip the +
ieral officers there of the positions they 4
Id under the government, and we doubt 80
all of them put together could muster q
,opcrars guard of followers. .
In the State Convention, at Turner y
III, however, could be found the men ~
10 have built up and sustained the Re- Il
blican party through all danger, and f,
lmminent risk of person, property and t.
erifice of comfort. In that assembly N
re gathered the men whose Unionism W
d Republicanism date back to the ear NJ
st times in the history of the party. q
d they were sent there by men Just like q
IN. These are the men who are to !,
spe the destinies of this State. They "
We met their political enemies and van ~
ished them in the open field in a fair =,
BIT, and are not the men to be put down y
the treachery of quondam friends and =
lowers. They hold the destinies of the =
tie in their hands to-day, and while -
y might have tolerated Messrs Pack :,
, Lowell and Casey in Office for an =,
mr. tor e. "