New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-27
THE LOUISIANA CONTROVERSY,

conspiracy, sIbYersion of liberty, usurpa.
ton Of the State government, and every
thing of that sort, ad naetseun', com.
mingled with threats of violence and out.
rage, and interpreted with basele8s
charges against the national authorities,
insinuations against the integrity Of the
federal courts, and low scurrility and
abuse heaped upon an upright, infeXible
| judge Of one Of those courts? This clamoI
comes from the purlieus Of party rejoic-
| ing in the name Of "The Fusion Party, .
Of which we shall have something to say.
Within a period CT time less than nine
calendar months gone by, the people Of
this State saw, besides the Republican
party, three political organizations in
Louisiana, and the aVowed object Of all
three Of them was to defeat the election Of
| General Grant and to extirpate the Re
publican party. One of these organiza-
tons was called the Reform party, an
other the Liberal, and the third the
straight-out Democratic party. The first,
as an organization, was a decided failure.
The Reformers were too numerous for
club and too few for party.
They were eliminated during the
early part of the campaign,
and disappeared in the Democratic
division Of the anti Grant party. Two
very marked features were conspicuous in
the structure of the Reform and Democratic
wings Of that combination. These were,
hostility to General Grant and the Repub-
Gcan party and prescription CT Warmoth,
with whom even the suggestion of political
cooperation was treated with the most
intense scaith and sc0rn. This man, whom
simply to call INSCRIPTIONS would be 20
fall bow-shot behind the terms proper
to characterize bis political infamy, was
denounced publicly by both these wings
and especially by the Democratic division,
in the most unmeasured terms of repro
baton. The liberal wing was brought |
into existence and organized by Warmoth |
for his own selfish ends and purposes.
His object was to combine, on the basis of
the Greeley movement, all the elements Of
to General Grant with such
portion Of the Republican party as he
might be able to draw off from it. For
many weeks during the late political cam
Daign She two parties called Liberal and
Democratic stood in the attitude of de-
,ided opposition to each other, ana
hey banded contemptuous epithets
Il the best style Of that kind Of obiur-
cation. But Warmoth, finding that
cry few Republicans were following him,
nd the straight-out Democrats feeling the
iced Of all the help they could possibly
cquire, fusion at length was effected. !
nd their united forces marched int the ;
cid under the lead Of Warmoth Let it !
e noticed that differing among them t
elves as much IS these parties differed, \
till there was from the beginning one :
Ommon bond Of union between them, | {
nd that was hatred of General Grant and G
&c Republican party. During the days a
Greeley clubs. Greeley hats. and the
reeley Juror generally, she shout was
Used, anything to beat Grant" AS
ato, in the Roman Senate. closed every /
ntence Of d remarkable speech he deIy- :
ed in that august body with the denun- Q
atory dictum, Carthage must be de- 4
royed," SO the mad partisans OF the s,
1sion party cried continually, 'anything
beat Grant" This war whoop was G
hoed from every village grogshop and i
om every crossroads, all over the State e.
}m the gulf shores TO the Texas ant; Ar !.
nsas lines. Let it not be supposed that
is battle-cry vas q meaningless utter
&c, or expressive merely of q decided :"
d determined opposition to the great 1T
rrior. 1t meant in its fullest and widest =
Use oil that the words can be made to con III
7. 1t included also ''anything to break O
wn the Republican party in Louisiana. OF
It meant precisely that any means were 81
be used, fair or foul, to accomplish the III
ect. This ayowed purpose had the ls'
get of uniting the Republican party. n"
defeat that party in fair election was ID
possible. United as it was, it only ST.
nted fair play to carry the State by WI
nty thousand majority VIC
u this condition Of things the canvass in{
ned. Warmoth, at the head of the be
ion party, went forth on his mission. ito
trayersed the State in company with ito
didates on the State ticket Of the Fusion tur
y, making speeches in their behalf and cit.
playing the warmest interest in their wit
cess. But barbecues and speech max tax
were impotent to change the strong tur
ing Of Republicans in favor Of Gen fed
Grant and the Republican ticket. "Ut
or measures had to be adopted, and ano
adopted. Ballot boxes were mel
'ed and stuffed, thousands Of men Y
lied to vote, and especially colored men. DOS
deprived Of that right by the knayish pre
riYances of o set of Warmoth's tools tbp1
lg as registrars. These men con not
d to withhold from this class Of voters ben
opportunity Of registering BY not ofic
ing the registration in the localities mer
e they were found in great numbers, Of a
who, with very few and very rare ex- pers
ons, were VIGOROUSLY in favor Of a CO
raj Grant and the Republican ticket the
lrions other eyasions and fraudulent bett
.hese appointoes Of Warmoth threw tent
imnadineut tbav corI9 !, H.. ,r,., no.,