New Orleans Republican., 1871-12-31
Communicated
INCONSISTENCY OF THE BOLTERS.
: What shadows they are
Nhnf clio .l.,.e, H.,

HOW strlklngly applicable to our late
CustomhOuse Convention, as ;well as to the
papers that advocate its principles or ac-
qulesce III its doings The point Of adjust
ment is seen in the painfully studied but
badly devised reasons which the journals
IN the interest Of that unfortunate CLIQUE
assign for seeking death in the error of
their ways 1t is quite evident that the
erring conductors of the opposition papers
are deceived by their own hearts as to the
real motives of their conduct, or that they
are heartily bent on deceiving others as to
the same. Deceiving and deceived Mis-
cradle condition
Unable to justify, either by law or wise
precedent, that heinous violation of our
rights. that monstrous attempt to throttle
free speech by the interposition Of federal
officers and armed soldiers, they are now
engaged in confederate, but equally vain
effort, to hide the criminal indifference they
manifested on that memorable occasion to
the liberties of our people, under the tlimsy
cloak OF rabid opposition to and whole
sale denunciation Of the fearless, faithful
sentinel. who stepped into the breach their
tatricidal hate had made. and stood ND
mantully in defense of the rights their un-
righteous coalition SO ruthlessly assailed.
great warfare on Governor Warmoth. they
slnnk into the tombs, ransacked tie
house of the dead, and dug up rotten and
forgotten charges. Driven by the buria!
records and rigid post mortem examina-
ton from this their favorite stronghold,
they now turn with unabated spirit and
rancor against the State. denounce it as an
empire. and while frankly admitting. as
some have done whether sincerely or not.
We can not say, that Governor Warmoth
is not the monster they tried so hard to
make him out-base their unrelenting oppo-
sltlon on the almost single assumption that
he rules with imperialistic sway. and none
can say to him, what dOest thou" Car
ried away by their unwarranted ardor. thev
seem to have forgotten the important fact |
that the people themselves, in the persons |
OF their chosen representatives, made the |
State government what it is. If then, it is. |
as .hey affirm. autocratic, the people, or |
their agents, are the ones to blame, not |
Governor WarmOth, who is intrusted. not |
with the making Of our laws. but only with
the execution of them, and who can refer
his every public act to existing law Such |
pitlable dodge as this only makes manifest
,he ignorance and recklessness of their on
and by thus ''foaming out their
'wn shame, they publicly proclaim their
lnworthlness to be trusted, either as the
ormers or reformers of public opinion. Did
governor Warmoth, in fact, rule according
% his own unrestrained will, his sole pleas
Ire, without regard to the wishes, interests
md consent of the people, there would be
,ood sense and true patriotic virtue in their
instituted denunciation of the State as
IN empire and of Governor Warmoth
IS Caesar but this is far from
'eing the condition of things: so far.
indeed, that these disconnected journals
we're not only the foremost in advocating
he laws by which he rules, and which
hey now SO bitterly condemn, but were not
whit behind the foremost for clothing him
nth those gubernatoral powers, of which
hey now so whiningly complain, and
'hich they scntimentally affirm, make the
tate an autocracy, and constitute Cover
or Warmoth an unfeeling, selfish monarch.
ny did 1t not occur to them, when advo-
atlng the enactment of such measures
lat they were creating an empire, and con-
ertlnS Governor into an emperor! No
nlection, no complaint emanated from any
these pretended retormers, until the shoe |
nchcd their own toes-on the contrary.
ntil then they sat silent and gratifed spec
tors OF the sutierings endured by others:
ut, as soon as they felt the pinch. they be-
IN to vince, to make wry faces, utter dole
] complaints, and finally got up the ceIe- {
'ated Customhouse convention, with
yerend apOstate as its head, the iillyecile
lsey as its tail, and at last issued from It's
rh precincts full grown. duly commits
med reformers. Carter breathed upon
EN-, and they received the plethora.
ON that day their sentiments seem ! c
ansed. - The spirit that presided over
at meeting seems to have breatheI into
em an implacable hatred toward Gov
lor Warmoth, both as a man and as n
er: and now. having failed in their first 6
Il favorite efforts to ruin him, personally -
L politically, by exhuming long buried
rges, they are trying to compass his
Tnfall by falsely representing the State
be an empire, and shamelessly insinu. IL
ng that Governor Warmoth has made i
Are they so entirely ha,e4. ~