New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-15
GOVERNOR wARMoTH,s DEFENDERS.

ton, he could easily find them in the wit
nesses summoned to testify against him.
These gentlemen find it is one thing to make
charges for political capital at ward meet
ings, in the coheehouses, in the opposition
newspapers, or on the corners of the streets,
and quite another to come up and swear to
then before the world. None of the Gov
errors accusers cared to 60 so far. Con-
sequently, their testimony may be offered
in evidence for his defense, in case such a
defense is needed. His full and clear yindi-
cation by the testimony taken before the
congressional committee, is doubly crafty
ing to us, for We can not but feel a pride, as
Republicans, at the position which he now
occupies before the whole country. AS
the organizer and leader of the Republican
party in this State, he has accomplished
what, perhaps, no other man in the United
States could have done. With extraordl-
nary executive and administrative abilities,
real tact and Judgment, and with peculiar
suavity, he has performed what seemed to
many an impossible task. He has had to
war against passion, prejudice and opposl-
ton of every kind; he has had to coalesce
and crystalize into homogeneous work
ing majority the most incongruous and
HETEROGENEOUS elements and classes of So
ciety. Out of the seething, boiling erup
tive cauldron of lawless disorder, he has
reduced the almost immiscible mass into
quiet and orderly elements, and he now
stands the recognized head of the Repub-
ican party in this State.
In working out this great problem Gov
ernor Warmoth has had to encounter every
species Of opposition inside and outside
the Republican party. That he has ruled
with a strong hand may be admitted but
this was absolutely necessary in the ex-
citable and turbulent condition OF society
when he took the helm of State And for
this he has been stigmatized with every
vile epithet that could be invented by hate,
envy and malice !; he has been charged
with nearly every crime that disgraces
human nature. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, and the efforts of all the Packards,
the Caseys, the Lowells and the Carriers,
he stands to-day in prouder position be-
fore the Republican party of the Union
than his best friends could have hoped for
When the so-called Democratic papers,
as well as his opponents in the Republican
party, charged him with bribery, corrup-
ton, fraud and perversion Of his powers,
he has always, as he did in his Turner
Hall speech, declared
l am ready to stand any investigation
that these gentlemen may think proper to
institute; and l say, to-day, that II 1t shall
be ascertained that l have used the office
the people have given lie for my own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, that have detrauded the
State to the extent of one farthing, that
have used the powers given me for purposes
that are wrong, it is the duty of the Legis-
lature to bring me before the bar OF the
Senate and hurl me from the high office the
people have given me.
Little did he or his well-wishers, at that
OWN
occur as that offered by the congressional
committee, for fair and impartial oppor-
tunity for all his maligners, defamers and
accusers, Of every kind, color, complexion
and party, to present their charges, with
the proofs 1t came, and at once every
stone was turned, every nook and corner
was searched, every crack and Granny was
examined by his enemies, of every hue,
with most malignant alacrity, in the vain
endeavor to stir up some evidence against
him; and, like that well known beetle, the
scorobeus piluIeusis, commonly called the
tumble-bug, they manifested a most extra
ordinary interest in very dirty work.
And what came of it all These disap-
pointed accusers and their reliable wit
nesses were compelled, under oath, to roll
away the filth which they had endeavored
to pile up at the Governors door, and were
forced to scrape away the daubs with
which they had aimed to blacken his char
acter, and they have made his name shine
white as snow beside those Of his malicious
accusers.
Not bribe revealed, not an act Of cor
ruption ascertained, not charge proved;
and now that the false charges have been
dissipated, the opposition papers assert
that the Governor is trying to obstruct and
delay reforms. Have they read his mes
sage sent in on the fifth instant? In that
message he asks for and urges upon the
Legislature no less than nineteen reforma-
tory measures. Every one who knows the
Governor must know that when he lays
down a programme he always carries it
out, cost what it will, and nothing is more
certain than that he will use every means
in his power to procure the passage Of the
measures he has recommended. Let the
discounted parties to the corrupt coalition
whine, and the Democratic whippers-ln
chide, but the Republican party, not only
in this State but throughout the United
States, will give Governor Warmoth a
stronger support than ever. The reforms
he proposes will be carried out, and the
Republican party in this State, purified
and united, will sweep the State at the
next election by an increased majority,
and this unity and efficiency Of the party
will be mainly due. to the efforts OF Gov
ernor Warmoth.
ind irs,, ha-,-
Pursuts some greatly good intent,
With undiverted aim
Nor can the camOrs of the crowd,
Nor can their threateniD2s fierce and loud,