New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-21
Winans and Fenten.

In the United States Senate, Tuesday, Mr.
Fenton, of New York, said:
should not now notice this attack had
it not appeared in a paper supposed to bs
in some measure an organ of the admins
tration. 1t hardly seems necessary for me
to deny the charges or repeat insinuations Of
this character, but l deem it best to depart
from the rule had adopted for myself il
such cases to say that 90 far as my having
any knowledge, or intimatiOn, or confidence
talk, or thought in regard to the course
of Mr.. Winans, previous to the an
nbuncement in the press of what be
had done is wholly without foundation
and false. have not seen Mr.. Winans in
municatiOn with him or with others regard
ing him. was called away from here on
the seventh Of this month, to my home in
western New York, where was detained a
few days: and ON my return l stopped a
day in New York, and did not 60 from here
last Friday as reported. bave known Mr.
Winans for several years, not as an intimate
friend but as political friend. for whom
socially and politically, entertained q fail
degree Of regard. He was nominated and
inducted into the Office he held while l was
in Europe, one year ago last summer.
The New York Sunday Dispatch says o.
Winaus:
The above is the name Of the most despi
cable wretch that has ever been connected
with the Republican party Of this State
BY his treason he has given this State com
pletely into the hands of the Ting. An
employe OF the Erie Railroad Company,
he has throughout the session shown him
principle mean, sortlid. trucking knave
and sycOphant. America produced one
traitor, who tried to betray liberty and in
dependence. The name of that man has
become infamous thelworld over. Benedict
Arnold stands next to Judas Iscsriot as the
vilest, the most selfish, the moss infamous
of men. Now there is trio, and Orange s.
Winans takes his proper place in the ranks
of those who, tor money, have betrayed
principles. In all the world there is nc
place where this miserable wretch can hide
untrue partisan-the weaker, the meanOr,
the more despicable Benedict Arnold.
From this time forth he is aocursed. No
honest man will shake his hand, NO virtuOus
woman know him. and no child smile on
him. He is henceforth an Outcast from his
kind. Let him 60 forth, like Cain, with
the brand upon his brow-let him seek the
haunts Of crime and villainy-let him be
accursed, despised, and die like q dog in the
ditch which he shall dishonor by lying in it.
The name of Orange s. Winans il linked
with eternal infamy. He has betrayed right
for gold-he has given the honest men over
to tie thieves-he has made repeating legal,
and theft honorable. He can make no repara-
ton but by dying.
This Orange s. Winans, the lesser Bene-
dict Arnold, is from Dunkirk, Chautauqua
county. He is an employe of the.E rail-
road, and serviceable tool of the company
How he came to be elected q member to the
assembly we know not, certainly not for
any ability he possesses. He is one of the
gentlemen who has denounced Governor
FeAton. and spoken of all that gentleman's
friends as unreliable Republicans" Little
is now known of Orange s. Winan's antece-
dents. In few days, his name will be 81
we'll known in every house in this State as
that OF Benedict Arnold or Judas lscariot.
He will be known as Winans, the Infamous.