New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-05
The Freedom Of Louisiana.

,snce the leading members of the Nations
Republican party in Louisiana have deter
mined on resOrtiug TO q court Of law to pre-
vent, If 1t NAV be, the entire administrator
OF the State being under the sole control G
one man, cry has been raised by the NOR
INSCRIPTIONS portion of the venal press
which supports Democracy, (Warmoth inclu
ded,) that freedom has departed from anon.
us.
| 1T must be pniesscd--thuugh not for tn
| reason above alluded tovthat never was tn
! freedom of the State in more danger than i
is at the present moment: and should tn,
almost almighty power of the Chief Magis
/ trate, as il exists at this time in the hand,
of II. G. Warmoth, become perpetuity, The
! people of Louisiana will owe the bitter evi
wholly To the reckless seli-seeking of tho
Democratic party as il now stands developed
no longer party that can attempt to accuse
error in principle by claiming honesty of pur.
pose, but party pregnant with the deliber.
ate intention to do that which it has over
| and over again pronounced to be wrong, for
the purpose of gaining power. In, short it
has violated its own professed principles BY
An infamous coalition with II. G.. Warmoth,
and this for the miserable obi Get of securing
party triumph. 1t needs but a slight re-
view Of Warmoth's career to show how deep
al hiohS tilc DClioCTdtS oi 1.OulSialll nave IN
tlicted on the State by banding with the arch
traitor and renegade to every principle of
action which men hold in esteem and honor
the traitor whom, more than all the other
corrupt politicians together, the State Of LOU
isiana owes its present evil case.
TASTY and incompetent legislation placed
in this mans hand an amount of official
power far beyond what should be entrusted
to any. He had it in his hands to use the
official authority thus conferred in such a
manner that immense benefits to the State
might have resulted. He chose to violate
his implied compact with the people as well
as his solemn official oath, by turning all this
power to further his own base and selfish pur-
poses, regardless Of those who had elevated
him to his high position. Nor can a single
instance be adduced wherein he executed an
important official act without reference to
his personal interests. The moment sub
ordinate State official became obnoxious to
him, from refusing at his command to exc
cute some act Of crying unrighteousness, that
official was displaced. Indirectly il might
be, and by the intervention Of some official
corporate body; yet the act was as much
WarmOth's as if he had performed it in per-
son. Like that English Henry who never
spared man in his anger nor woman in his
lust" Warmoth never suffered the rights of
individuals, personal or Official, to stand in
the way of his purposes. He displaced duly
and legally elected Secretary Of State upon a
pretext that hardly amounted to pretense,
because the Secretary preferred the law to
Warmoth's bidding. Hundreds of instances
can be cited, too, of wrongs, legal and moral,
perpetrated by this man upon the citizens,
with an IMMUNITY which he owed to his power
of putting out of his way all who withstood
him.
After disgusting and alternating the party
which was deceived in electing HIM, so that
his chance of continuing in power by means
of that party was gone forever, he now be-
trays it and sells his power for evil to its
enemies for the consideration of a high
bribe--a seat in the United States Senate.
We blame not the carrion-crow for indulc-
ing in obscene food, nor the hog for wallow-
ing in mire, and it must be said for Warmeth.
that in selling the power intrusted to him
for the good of the State, he acted after his
kind. But what can be said Of the party
that opened IFS arms to receive him, and
which, at this very moment, is using the
foul means at his command to insure party
triumph: Truly, the Liberals Of the State
arc in danger, when a party of such loud
mouthed professions of integrity as the DEM
Ocrats of Louisiana bands for evil with War.
moth, whose every act "smclls to heaven D
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