The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-09-16
A Voice from Texas.


molish one of the many slanderous
charges which have been made against
Governor WarmOth by the unscrupu-
lous political tricksters who seek his
overthrow in order to gain their own
selfish ends. This sterling voice from
Texas will send CONSERVATION among
the Governors opponents, for " truth
is mighty and will prevail, in spite of
their attempts to stifle or gainsay it.
We give the article complete:
AN EXPLODED CHARGE AGAINST GOV
ERNOR WARMOTH.
We regret to see that our Republi-
can brethren i'll Louisiana are not ex-
empt from the evils that beset the
party in most of the other Southern
States. And while we know but little
of the immediate causes of the present
difficulties in our sister State, we may
venture the remark that there, as in
Texas, personal ambition and human
selfishness enter largely into the pro-
noting power And so far as the
charges made by one party or the
other are founded upon transactions in
Louisiana, we can have little or moth
ing to say, as we are not familiar with
them. But when one of the belliger-
ents calls his witnesses from Texas,
and relies upon testimony from this
State to sustain his case against his
most prominent opponent, it becomes
our duty as journalist and leader of
the Republican party here to give such
assistance as will enable the truth to
appear.
Among the most prominent oppo-
nents of Governor Warmoth in Louis
lana is Col. Geo. w. Carter, the pres
ent speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, and until recently one of the
Governors intimate political friends.
Mr.. Carter was formerly resident of
Texas, and is well known to many of
our citizens of both parties. This gen
tlemen published card in the New
Orleans Times of the 18th, in which he
charges Governor Warmoth with acts
committed in Louisiana, with which
we have nothing to do, and it is not
our purpose to allude to them. The
Governor and his friends either can or
ought to be able to refute them on the
spot. But he revives an old charge Of
embezzlement against Governor War
moth, which was disproved and, as we
supposed, set forever ut rest in Texas
in 1867.
We copy from Mr.. Carriers card:
Nor have I ever been indicted for
cotton stealing since the war.
My first acquaintance with this young
man was in 1867, when he brought a
letter of introduction to me and re-
quested me to act as his attorney in an
indictment then pending in the federal
court against him for the embezzle-
ment OF public moneys, while acting as
cotton agent in Texas"
Now the fact that Judge Warmoth,
as he was then known to the people of
Texas, was charged with the embez-
element of public money, was well
known here at the time, for the rebel
papers of that day let no opportunity
escape to heap abuse upon any Union
man, and more especially one who had
served in the United States army.
Besides, the whole proceedings were
in the District Court of the United
States at Galveston, and remain to
this day amatter of record. There the
case stands-the accusation, the reply,
and the proceedings which speedily led
to the dismissal of the case ON account
of being entirely groundless. We have
been at some pains to hunt up the GER
tificates which were made public at the
time, and which entirely exonerated
Judge Warnoth from the shadow of
blame, even in the minds of his polit-
zeal enemies, who would have been
highly delighted to make point
against Union man, if possible, even
at the expense of truth. The follow
ing appeared in the Galveston Bulletin
about the first of June, 1867, and was
extensively copied in the Southern pa
pers:
THE ENLIGHTENMENT CAsE-The
following papers sufficiently explain
that the case of embezzlement charged
against Mr.. Joseph r. Morris and Mr.
II. c. WarmOth has been dismissed by
the judge, and that both the judge of
the court and the district attorney are
fully convinced of the innocence of
both these gentlemen:
OFFICE OF THE U. S. ATTORNEY, }
Eastern District of Texas
Galveston, May 29th, 1867
Hon. H c. Warmoth, New Orleans
DEAR SIR-In the course of official
duty here it has been my lot to pros
ecute yourself and Joseph R. Morris,
of Houston, for embezzlement of mon
eys of the United States, alleged to
have been received while you were
treasury agent here, in August, 1867.
Upon trial of the case this day it
abundantly appeared that no otfense
against the law had been committed,
and his honor, Judge j. C. Watrous,
instructed me to enter a aolIe prosequi.
| did this the more cheerfully because