New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-26
THE LOUISIANA REVOLCTlONlsTS.
Utterances Of the Press.

Utterances Of the Press.
The Vicksburg Times says:
From our New Orleans dispatches IL Will
be seen that the disgraceful squabble IN Inc
Louisiana Legislature continues. a CON
flict seems imminent, which must result IN
the shedding of blood. We have very little
| sympathy with either party. but what little
we have ia for WarmOth. We have never
doubted but that the Governor and his
friends would be victorious in the end.
Governor Warmoth is a shrewd and bold
| man, and there is no man or set OF men In
! Louisiana that can reasonably hope to sue
cesstully cope with him in desperate
suuabble of this kind. The congressional
committee start for New Orleans tO-mOr-
not speedily be settled that the national
| government will interfere, and put an end
| to them.
This is from the Chicago Erening Post:
If George w. Carter be true to his word
| before this issue of the Post shall have
reached its readers New Orleans will have
! witnessed a scene of tumult and blOOdshed
| as calamitOus to the city as 1t will be dis
graceful to the country and republican gov
ernment. Or if a grain OF common sense,
of honesty Or of patriotism be left in the
heads of Warmoth and his supporters
| compromise may be effected which will at
least save civilization the horror of witness
| ing the wholesale murder of citizens by
citizens in the name of the form OF govern
ment which both factions have outraged
under the pretence of defending.
The feud which has reached this alarm
| ing crisis is not the growth Of day, nor is
| it possible from the information, which has
! been given in an authentic form, to decide
| that either faction has the lawlessness ex-
| clusively on it's side. Party lines have dis
| appeared: personal hate and individual am
| btion and revenge have usurped the place
of principle. The struggle is contention
for supreme power to be exercised, judging
| from the past and present, in a manner
who'll y.arbtrary and with policy aimed at
| the overthrow OF clannlsh enemies. The
moment NAV come when the country will
| regret the Presidents refusal to declare
martial law as requested by the New Or
| leans business community, and the present
situation of affairs certainly justities any ac-
| ton which will save bl0Odshed and send the
| question at issue to the courts for dust
ment.
The hope that no bloody conflict will oc-
| cur rests chiefly on the fact that the mass
of the citizens whom Carter SO imprudentiy
| summons to arms will have a chance for
sober second thought before obeying the
mandate. and that Warmoth, whose inde-
fensibe conduct should have already
| awakened his mind to the atrOcity of its
consequences, will avert the calamity and
| save himself from execration by offering a
| compromise.
If the Post kept itself informed it would
acknowledge the fact that Governor War
moth, in his annual message to the General
| Assembly, proposed the very reforms which
the revolutiOnists have clamored for, and
that he has no compromise to cffer to trai-
tors.
| The ST. Louis Democrat says:
Carter, of New Orleans is, evidently, not
made for the hero of a revO utiOn. At the
critical point he is discreet rather than
brave. Some days ago he announced that
he would commission posse of sergeants
at tarms TO disperse the WarmOth guard, and
| put himself in the Speakers chair in the
| State House, and his men in their seats
! there. but postponed the plan on learning
that General Emory would interfere to keep
the peace The Warmoth House on Satur-
day declared the seats of the Carter men
vacant, and thereupon Garter made a new
proposal to arm body of citizens and cap
ture the State House. But Washington
dispatch to General Emory instructing him
to suppress any conflict of arms, has again
| spoiled the Carter plan of campaign, so that
| he iudiciously cOunsels further fOrbearance.
This attitude of the United States forces
| will. doubtless, continue while the case re-
quires, and the Carterites will, probably.
continue 20 rbear. The national troops
indirectly defeud the WarmOth Legislature.
as less evil than civil war in the streets OF
New Orleans The way out OF the trouble
does not yet appear
There has never been anv doubt as to the
way ont of the trouble, and that way is now
so clear that even the editorial writers OF
the Dcmocro; may see it. Members of both
houses of the General Assembly are now in
their seats, legislating for the people.
The Dcmoc,wt has also another editorial
which we reproduce, blunders of fact and
errors Of opinion included:
Since the New Orleans contest must come
to crisis, the country will ask atresh
which party is right! In the immediate
| issue the Carterites are. The full House
| was in regular and unnuestoned session
with Carter confessedly the lawful Speaker
on the fourth instant There was an undis
puted adjournment to the next day at
meridian. Meanwhile Governor Warmoth
convenes special session for the evening
of the day of adjournment This session is
composed mainly of WarmOth members,
! the Ca, ter men having withdrawn to their
homes. contemplating no such trick. The
places another member liz the Speaker
chair, while the State House is put under
| guard of police and militia to prevent Car
ters approach. Under these circumstances
| he and his party, forty-twO in number. meet
in another hall. Their demand now is that
the Speaker and House be reinstated as it
adjourned on the fourth. The demand is
evidently just.
| But this is not the whole case The Gov
| eruor has an excuse for his action Eighteen
Warmoth members had been suddenly ar
rested and taken before the United States
| commissioner lust as the House was about
| assembling on the morning of the fourth.
Their absence, thus enforced, was taken ad-
vantage of to unseat a halt dozen WarmOth
members without allowing them a hearing.
| The procedure was an outrage, provoking,
but not ,justifying, the Governors subse-
1uent outrcge.
In conflict so brought on there can be
no very profound sympathy extensively
felt for either faction. As far as the moral
merits of the parties themselves are con
cerned, it is case of razor cut razor,
"dog eat dog But this does not change
the extremely serious nature of the point IN
issue between the Carter House and the
WarmOth House, and no wrong can make
right the stark usurpatiOn of the executive
i'll stepping in, with armed men, to reOrgan-
ize the House as he judged best. 1t is a
crime to be acGuiesced in only when the
peoples necks are ready for the tyrant's
heel
WarmOths success since his daring stroke
is due to the fOrbearance OF the Carter
men. He has given them the alternative OF
permitting his scheme to hold from day to
day or beginning bloody fight. Presum
ing they would shrink from the latter, he
has gone coOlly from step to step, scrupling