New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-26
SOMETHING ABOUT THE oosvEHr1oH.

vile grows out of the fact that Lieutenan
Governor Dunn autographed copy of hi
Greeley letter to the Commercial, and it
volume was SO great, OF the assumption Q
facts so strong and energetic, that tn
editor was at once swept away from hi
usual pedestal, and thus cast loose, wan
dered of after strange lights and inscrut
able suggestions. The righteousness o
our conclusion in this respect may be in
ferred from the fact that the Commercial
adopts the improbable story that Gov
ernor Warmoth hired all the public hall.
in New Orleans in order to fetter the &C
ton Of the convention; that he was delib
erately bent on violence or mastery in thu
convention; that he organized separate
convention before the regular body met
that he intimidated and overawed loca
clubs BY organized gangs Of city emr loyes
that the Democratic papers sustain him,
and that he is mortified at his want Of
success in q contest where both parties
were maneuvering for political success.
The very great respect which We have
heretofore expressed for the Commercial!
induces us to lend it light in order that
it may overcome the fog into which it has
been misled.
First-Ast to 'the hiring of all the public
rooms in the city," that is an error which
common sense dispels at once as improba-
BILE, and which our own knowledge en-
ables us to deny as untrue, because there
are SO many public places in this city in
which the convention could have been
held that to engage them all would be
next to impossible. And in truth, it was
not necessary to be done, as the fact was
publicly known many days before the
convention met that it was to be held in
the Customhouse, the authors Of the
movement excusing themselves for their
decision in this respect, privately, if not
publicly, by alleging that that was the
only place where federal troops could
be used to guard the delibera-
tons Of the convention from the violence
which they pretended to apprehend. The
correspondence with General Reynolds
this theory as the correct one
Tor the selection of q United States build
ing as the place of meeting.
Secondly-The Governor was not de
iberately bent on violence, as that would
AVE been confessedly the weakest de-
which he could have made;
md since he is admitted to be man Of
great shrewdness and ability even by
he Commercial the assumption that such
leader would have committed such
ault is inconsistent and improbable.
sesides, Governor Warmoth has upheld
he public peace in this State to very
title advantage, even in the face of the
most violent provocations, if this
Improbable suggestion is to be taken
or truth by the very parties who have
expressed their admiration at the progress
t peaceful reconstruction in Louisiana.
nd, as if still further to stamp this
1ggestion with improbability, the logic
the political situation denies its consist
ncy with good strategy. If the Gov
nor was as weak as he was represented,
nd as shrewd as he is admitted to be,
0 bravado or violence in the body of
would have suffced to give
i'm that popularity which he is said to be
nbitious of. To have controlled the
by force would have been to
'stroy himself with the public. 1t is
ain, therefore, that the statement about
e Governors violent intention is all a
verish and Incorporate invention.
Thirdly-The intimidation Of local !
ubs' is equally preposterous, as di- ,
ct charge against Governor Warmoth, 6
nee he was at that time feeble invalid, {
stchfully attended by his friends who =,
d not dare to say that his life was as '
red from week to week. That clubs .
ere annoyed and intimidated, as they =
g in all parties, by partisans, we have 5
doubt; and that they will be equally :
noyed and intimidated hereafter we Q
We every reason to suspect. Candidates =
d their friends will pursue their petty
hemes of advancement in the Repub- !,
an camp as in every other organization;
2 more feeling in the opposition the
IRE violent the activity. And that Gov !
,or Warmoth had strong friends who g
I'd all the strategy and ability they were :,
ssessed of to win their own success. we
ly credit. for they thought they saw, as >,
think quite rightly, that the opposition
him was bent on running the party or =
'ceeding in its factious designs. If this :,
o be made reason, then, for his over o
ow, that sincere Republicans upheld T
'ir banner with all the paraphernalia of n
'ty warfare, all great men must 60 s
wn. l.
!ourthly-f any Of the local Demo- "
tic papers have supported the Cover fl
in his movements We have never read
argument, nor seen copy of the
rnals in which it was printed. On the
'trary, the Democratic press has teemed a,
b abuse of the Republican convention al
Turner Hall, not because it was q bolt m
body, but because it was recognized ar
the organization that was alone capable tr
defeating them in this State. And ;c Ia
lgnifcant fact in this connection That ~.