New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-20

| federal troops; and the civil authorltleS see
no path of escape from the dangers which
encompass the city except through the de-
claratiOn and enforcement of martial law
What a shameful commentary is this
upon the practical workings of the political
| system in which we, as Americans, are wont
| to feel SO much pride What a miserable
satire upon Republican principles, the the
ory of self-government and all those things
which go to make up popular freedom
What wretched burlesque of the Demo
| cratic ideas which we claim should extend
throughout Christendom and bind mankind
in common brotherhood of liberty! One
| such scandal as Louisiana presents does
more to lessen national prestige, break
down national reputation and bring the re-
public into contempt than all the abuses
which have crept into administration from
| 1889 to 1860.
| Where rests the true responsibility of
this scandal? Upon the shoulders of the
| Radical party, who. in Louisiana and other
| Southern States, have driven the plough
| share of sO-called reconstruction" through
| every barrier of law and right; set aside
| the constitution, nullified those precedents
which were hallowed by immemOrial usage,
| overturned the ballotbOx with the bayO-
net, and delivered a helpless people into
the hands of contemplate minority, to
be abused and plundered without let or
hindrance. Radicalism has debauched pub
lie sentiment, corrupted the fountains of
justice, elevated tyranny and brute force
upon the ruins OF freedom and equity, and
planted those seeds the legitimate and in
evitable fruits OF which are seen in Louis
lana. Is any sacrifice too great that shall
defeat and destroy this party forever?
We copy the following extracts of a letter
from the editor of the Monroe h,tliigenccr
to that journal
Hon. A. OvertOn was at the 'Gem
Saloon until Saturday last, but on Mon
day returned to his seat in the House of
Representatives, and has been in constant
attendance since. He stated to me that he
was satisfied that the measures proposed by
the leaders of the Gem" House of Represen-
tatives would be injurious te the Republican
party and to the colored people, and he,
therefore, could act no longer " ith them.
Mr.. Wheyland was connected with the
Freedmen's Bureau in Ouachita parish in
1867 and 1868, and was therefore known to
many of our citizens. The attempt, since
his death, to impusn his character and to
bring forward revelations as to what he
may have been at one time, comes, | think
with very bad grace from newspaper
which, had he been with it in this contro
versy, would have lauded him to the skies.
1t is in exceeding bad taste. and on a par
with the efforts of this paper. the National
Republican, to bring about riot in this
city. Never have l seen more desperate
efforts made to involve city in bloodshed
and riot than have been made by this
paper, and | am pleased to say, never with
less success. All its efforts have fallen still
born.
On Monday night last a meeting was held
in Lafayette square relative to this state of
affairs, at which number OF Democrats and
Carter Republicans spoke. This meeting
has been heralded as having numbered at
least 5000, but from parties conversant with
such matters l learned that the number in
attendance did not exceed 1900. 1t was got
up exclusively under Democratic auspices,
and was not a success There was an at
tempt made to get up meeting at p. NJ.
ON Wednesday, by the same parties but. for
some reason, it did not take place.
The Philadelphia Telegraph has not
grasped the fact that the old Democracy of
New Orleans instigated the recent political
quarrels in this city. and are alone to blame
for the disturbances here. The Telegraph
says:
The disorders and threatened outbreaks
which endanger the peace of New Orleans
and unsettle the foundations of the State
government of Louisiana, while they are
deeply to be regretted, seem to be the logical
and of the inherent intractability of large
portion of the citizens of that unfortunate
region. New Orleans is the New York OF
the South, and like New York. she is hot
bed of corruption and cruelty. The old
Democracy of New Orleans were as famous
for their skill in carrying elections by fraud
and force as the Tammany repeaters, and
in more recent times they distinguished
themselves by rlOutOus attacks upon South
ern loyalists and by resort to errorsm in
1868, to carry the State for Seymour. What
is most to be regretted is that many of the
Louisiana Republican politicians who have
held power during the last few years appear
to be as venal, INSCRIPTIONS. revengefnl
and tyrannical as their Democratic prede-
cessOrs, and the existing quarrel between
rival factions is becoming deeply digraceful
to those who are actively concerned in it,
as well as dangerous to the public peace.
The Chicago Ereniny Journal takes care
not to mention the fact that what it terms
Legislative thieving" has been perpetrated
by the Customhouse-D Democratic allies over
the vetoes of Governor Warnoth, and
against the protestations of his friends.
This is how the Journal blEnders:
The latest news from New Orleans is that
the dead lock in the Louisiana Legislature
has been broken. There is temporary
suspension of hostility, and now the old
game OF plunder, arrested for a few days
can be resumed. There was never more
disgraceful political row than the Louisiana
quarrel. Like the fight between the two
Republican factions in New York, it is
wholly squabble for power and plunder
If both could be swept into Lake Pontchar-
tram, aid the places they now disgrace be
filled 10y new set, 1t wOuld be great
blessing to the State and country. 1t is
nevertheless true that between the two
there is a vast difference.
The Warmoth faction runs State poll
tics; the "Customhouse clique" controls
federal patronage. There is this broad dis
tinctiOn between the two while the most
outrageous frauds have been proved against
the WarmOthltes, it is not so much as
charged that there is corruption in the col
lection OF impOsts. The charge against the |
clique is that the members meddle with |
State politics, and did on one occasion last |
summer call in federal bayonets. We be-
lieve that resort justitiable but even if it |
were not, that wrong was not at the worst, |
at all comparable with the robberies com
mltted by the faction which has control of |
the State government.
In 1868 the public debt of Louisiana was |
l4,5O0,OO0; now it is nearly if not quite |
500 900. For this enormous expenditure |
the state has nothing to show. Its levees |
especially are in a most dilapidated condi- |
ton. There is imminent danger OF general |
imundatlon. Never did legislative thieving
go to greater lengths than in Louisiana un-
der the Warinoth administration. The per-
sonal squabbics OF the two factions are not |
worth noticing; but the gigantic robberies
being Committed threaten to bankrupt the |
State.
The Journal omits to state that Governor |
War,noth has had the ID, in"cratic lobbyists