Semi-weekly Louisianian., 1871-09-10
THE END OF MR.. WALSH.

Joan A. has run tie length ofhis
rope The gentleman wss npt here
tofore of sufficient importance, in
this State, m our opinion, TO justify
Governor Warmoth in publicly no
ticing any accusations be might
promulgate; but as Lieutenant Gov
Dunn and Speaker Carter have
taken him up, and by reiterating
and endorsing his Ahelpods
given him a nominal Importance,
that might deceive the initiated,
we fully justify the Governor in de-
parting from his usual and digni6ed
reticense when attacked and inn
paling this particular gad-Ay on the
spear of Truth. lsf.
Here is the way he goes about it:
New ORLEANS, September Z, 1871.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
In your article headed "Mr Walsh's
Testimony" you do the Lieutenant
Governor-whO did violence to the
truth in almost every other statement
in his long letter--one slight injustice
in saying that Mr. Dunn has not re-
ported him (Walsh) fairly" Mr.. Walsh,
in his card to the New Orleans Times
of the fourteenth Of August, after ad-
mitting that he offered me fifty thous-
and dollars to sign the Nicolson pave
ment bill, says:
The Governor was of the opinion
that his signature to the bill, consider.
ing the large profits, was worth seven
ty-five thousand dollars to me, and d
promise to pay him the further sum OF
two and one-half per cent of the net
profits.
Upon which Lieutenant Governor
Dunn bases his charge contained in
"item No. 1" Of his letter as follows
| Item No. 1-Governor Warmoth de
manded as the price of his official sig
nature to a Legislative act, known a:
} the Nicholson pavement bill, seventy
five thousand dollars, and two and one
half per cent. Of the profits accruins
from the contract contemplated OF
said bill This demand for money wa.
made by his excellency on Mr.. Johl
A. Walsh, representing the bill, ant
was declined. Mr.. Walsh is'a respecta
BILE and wealthy citizen of this city
and has published, without denial from
his Excellency, the facts herein allege,
! in the city press.
Now, I think Mr.. Dunn is in a mea
sure justified in his language, assum
: ing that he believed the statement o
} Mr.. Walsh to be true. IwOuld not in
. trude myself on your courtesy but 70
, the fact that Mr.. Walsh's statemen
has been repeated by both Mr. Speake
Carter in his card and Lieutenan
Governor Dunn in his letter to Nh
Greely. i.f A.p.t
And I now affirm that John A. Walsl
called on me to urge my signature t
! the bill in question. In refusing com
t. pliance with his request / gave hin
+ the reasons embodied in my messag
0 Ito the Legislature disapprOving il
I After this he saiG he was authorized {
offer me $50, ZOO and one-sixth of tn
met proceeds of the contract, to whic
/ responded that was surprised h
should presume, knowing me rs h
did, to make me such an offer. He re
piled that he did not believe 1 coul
l be induced to take it, but thought tha
Y no harm was done by presenting thes
terms in accordance with his authorit
: from the parties interested, and h
finally left, apparently mortified a
having done SO mean a thing, and wit
ears burning at my rebuke. He Ina
since stated, not once only, but man
times, that he had made me this offt
and that had refused it, and "ths
): no pecuniary consideration whateve
4 could induce me to sign the bill"
: To substantiate this / refer to Ca,
: tain John c. Sinnott, of Sinnett
0 Adams; Mr.. Jonathan Taylor, q prir
cipal proprietor in the Nicolson pawn
patent; DIR. A. w. Smyth, of th
Charity Hospital; W. L. Catlin, the
in commercial copartnership with Nj
Walsh, and to my then secretary, Nj
F. c. Remick, who was in the adjoir
t ing room and heard the oonversatio
: above referred to between Mr.. Walls
and myself.
1t I assert Mr.. Walsh's statement to
. al a1wilfll and malicious falsehood, d,
liberately concocted for the purpos
of injuring me, and he cannot trutl
u fully say that his card does not justif
the language employed by Lieutenar