New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-25
ANOTHER POSITION CAPTURED.

nized leader Of the Republican party OF
Texas, and the ablest paper in that State,
if we except the Austin State Journal,
effectually carries a position, which Mr.
Carter evidently deemed a. strong one
against Governor Warmoth. We owe our
staunch contemporary one for thus fur
nishing to our hand the evidence as well
as his clear and lucid deductions from the
groundless charge and the efectual refu-
tation. For while everybody in New Or
leans is perfectly familiar with the whole
transaction it is quite as well that it be
explained to the satisfaction of persons
abroad, who may have heard the charge
for the first time:
AN EXPLODED CHARGE AGAINST GOVERNOR
! wARAIoTH.
We regret to see that our Republican
brethren III Louisiana are not exempt 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 self
ishness enter largely into the promoting
power. And SO far as the charges made BIZ
the one party or the other are founded upon
transactions in Louisiana, we can have lit
tie or nothing to say, as we are not familiar
with Them. But when one of the belligerents
calls his witnesses from Texas, and relies
upon testimony from this State to sustain
his case against his most prominent OBJ
ponent, 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 opponents of
Governor Warmoth in Louisiana is Colonel
George w. Carter, the present Speaker of
the House of Representatives, and until re-
Gently one of the Governors intimate politi- |
cal friends. Mr.. Carter was formerly a |
resident of Texas, and is well known to |
many of our citizens of both parties. This |
gentleman published a card in the New Or |
leans Times of the fifth, in which he |
charges Governor Warmoth with acts COM |
mitted 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 Gov
ernor Warmoth, which was disproved and,
as we supposed, set for ever at rest in
Texas in 1867.
We copy from Mr.. Carriers card:
Nor have ever been indicted for cotton
steahng since the war. Ny
first acquaintance with this Young man was
in 1867, when he brought letter of intro
duetion to ,metand requested me to act as
his attorney IN an Indictment then pending
In the federal court against him for the en-
bezzlement OF public moneys while acting
as cotton agent in Texas.
Now the fact that Judge Warmoth. as
be was then known to the people of Texas.
was charged with the embezzlement of
public money, was well known here at the
time, for the rebel papers of that day let no
escape to heap abuse upon any
Union man, and more especially one who
lad served in the United States almy.
Besides, the whole proceedings were I'M the
-SSNA~S OOoio VI ouO y ltCu States al tJal- c
7eston, and remain to this day a matter OF
ecord. There the case stands-the accuse
ion, the reply and the proceedings which
peedlly led to the dismissal of the case on
4ccount OF being entirely groundless. We
AVE been at some pains to hunt ap the
certificates which were made public at the '
ime, and which entirely exonerated Judoe
Varmoth from the shadow of blame even a
n the minds of his political enemies, who
you'd have been highly delighted to make b
point against a Union man, if possible. f
ven at the expense OF truth. The follow !,
1g appeared in the Galveston Bulletin
bout the first of june, 1867, and was ex-
ensively copied in the Southern papers: l
THE EMBEzzLEMENT CAsE.-The follow
lg papers sufficiently explain that the q
ase OF embezzlement charged against Mr. a
oseph X. Morris and Mr. II. G. Warmoth ;,
as been dismissed by the Judge, and that Z
oth the judge of the court and the dis n
ric1 attorney are fully convinced of the in 81
ocence of both these gentlemen. o
oFFIcE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
,.-. Eastern District of Texas is
UaiVeston, Wednesday. May SO. 1867.
on d. T. Warmoth, New Orleans: tn
DEAR SIR-ln the course of official duty N
ere ,e It has been my lot to prosecute your n
y, y anu Joseph T. Morris, of Houston, for -
npezzlement OF moneys of the United is
lates, alleged to have been received while
~ ~ were treasury agent here, in August,
Upon trial of the case this day it abun- th
.nIy appeared that no offense against the il
" mad been committed, and his honor. 10
,ug S :. y. Wafrous, instructed me to enter wi
cause the papers of the Treasury Denarf- on
emit tins day put into my hands from tba do
ecial agency Office here prove CONCLUSIVE. trs