New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-12
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS
EMBRACES or THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRACY

staunch Republican journal, says:
The situation at New Orleans is certainly
critical and it looks very much at this DIS
tance as though the conflict between the
Customhouse clique and the Governor mns1
throw the State into the hands of the Demo
Gratis. The action of the Governor In can
ing an extra session of the Senate a re"
DAYS before the regular assembly OF the
Legislature, for the purpose OF selecting a
successor to the late Lieutenant Governor
Dunn, is pronounced by the opposition an
understandable and expensive exercise OF
his prerogatives. The result was favorable
to the Governor, whose candidate, senator
Pinchback tcoloredl, was chosen 10 III the
vacancy. But since The Legislature con-
yened, the Democrats. in solid body, have
united with the anti-Warmoth Republicans
to defeat the State administration. The re-
moyal of Speaker Carter and the election of
one of WarmOth's supporters to preside
over the sittings of the lower House have
given the organization to the Warmoth side,
but the coalition has thus far prevented a
quorum in the Senate, and has set up a
House of it's own. The indictment Of Gov
ernor Warmoth at the instigation of the
opposition. and the use Of United States
troops, bear rather the appearance OF rash
partisan tricks than OF necessary steps for
the vindicatiOn OF law.
Let us not be misunderstood. We are as
uuNulluS W COuucmu ldSlioh
heard, as we are to acquit either OF designs
upon the spoils of office. Least OF all do
we regard the embraces of the Louisiana
Democracy, which the large Republican
minority has shamelessly enjoyed, as evil
dences of the purity OF those thus prostl-
tuted.
Nothing is easier than to make charges
of conspiracy to defraud the State.
No doubt, in the case of any Of
the parties to the disgraceful SQUAD
BILE at New Orleans, nothing would be
easier than to prove such charges. But II
Governor WarmOth vetoes the bills rushed
through by Speaker Carriers ring, let us
thank God, and take courage to attack Gov
ernor WarmOth's ring when its measures
are urged.
How far the great body of the colored
voters of Louisiana who were controlled
by Lieutenant Governor Dunn IN oppO-
sition to the State administration, can be
led by the Carter factionists into the arms
of the Democrats, it is not possible to
doubt. Whenever they shall discover that
they are politically cheek by jowl with their
bloody adversaries of 1868, they viii I'M
hesitatingly repudiate their leaders. II
Governor Warmoth can not regain their
support, he is hencefOrth politically as dead
as herring. In short. it is difficult to I'M
derstand how the Republican minority in
the Legislature can survive, while the Re-
publican majority in that body are like to
lose their places and the State altogether.
Perhaps it is better SO. Honest men
would prefer to leave dishonest government
to their opponents rather than to be sus-
pected OF conniving at official rascality and
aifiliating with corrupt party. Let US
know who are the honest men of Louisiana.
The Cleveland (Ohiol Leader has an ed
itorial, the closing portion of which We re-
produce;
II will thus be seen that the battle is
pitched, and that more trouble is ahead.
The conduct of the Republican factions in
New Orleans is disgraceful in the extreme,
and ought to be put an end to. The protest
of the party throughout the country should
be enough to silence and pacity the out
rageous tumult in that city. The scenes we
have sketched are worthy only of Paris in
the days of the red revolution. or of Mexico
after Presidential contest. Are the War
mothites and anti-WarmOthtes civilized
Republicans, or are they wild Indians? A
council Of Apaches could hardly do worse
in defying the rule of law and the behest Of
order There are courts in Louisiana where
all conclusions between Legislative factions
as to the Legitimacy Of their rival claims
ought to be tried. Let the appeal be to
these civil tribunals, and not to revolu-
tionary violence in the Legislative cham
New Orleans. The country is tired and
disguised with these Louisiana mnddles.
janges, and incipient revolutions; and If
they don't stop pretty soon we hope that
the Democracy will carry the State and
turn both WarmOthites and their antagoD-
lists out of office. We are glad to learn
from Washington that the administration
proposes to have nothing to do with this
war of factions.
Considering that the Democrats were the
prime movers in the recent attempt at revo-
luton, and that they numbered more in the
Senate ard the House of Representatives
than the Carter Customhouse faction, the
following editorial from the St. Louis Times,
o Democratic paper, affords very refreshing
reading. Single handed, either one of Il csc
parties could be easily beaten by the Re
publcans, in either branch OF the General
Assembly, who sustain the State admins
tration but combined together, as the Dem
ocratic communists and Republican revolu-
tionists have been, the struggle to circum-
vent their conspiracy was more difficult,
though at length the conspirators have all
been defeated. This is what the Times
says:
That the terrific war of Radical factions,
which has 80 long disturbed the peace of
Louisiana, Obstructing the material progress
of the State, and even JeOpardlzlng the
public safety, would sooner or later end IN
their mutual destruction and the restora-
ton of the masses to theiH rights and bib
critics, we have never for moment doubted,
although the prospect has been gloomy and
unpromisiDg indeed.
Our Democratic friends in that State,
who really constitute the body OF the PEG.
pie, have always been entitled to peculiar
sympathy, for the apparent helplessness Of
their condition. They have been ground
as it were between tie upper AMI the
neither millstones; confronted upon the one
hand by the audicity of federal power, and
upon the other by the infamous corruptiOns
Of the Warnoth ring; but II We have a
a proper understanding Of the late turbu-
lent proceedings in the Legislature, an
opportunity has arrived at lastt when they
may make their power felt and obtain some
concessions to their long neglected in
terests.
As to the merits of the immediate guar
rel between the executive and the Custom
house, Tor such We must suppose 1t to be,
we are of course imperfectly informed: but
it seems to be the almost universal senti-
ment of the conservative citizens of New
Orleans that the time has come to over
throw the State administration even at the
risk of promoting the interests of General
Grant, who here appears il the somewhat
anomalous character OF q reform leader.
The great object of the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature, by their alliance
with the ant-Warmoth faction, undoubt-
edly is to secure repeal OF the various Oh
noxious laws that now detace the statute
books, and as the Times observes, "reGuce
the people to virtual vassalage," such as
the election law, the registration law. the
constabnIary law, the Metropolitan Police