New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-09
THE FIRST GUNS FROM THE NOhih
EXTRACTS FROM LEADING REPUBLICAN
PAPERS.

| From the Cincinnati Commercial.
! A LEGISLATIVE SCANDAL.
| The administration is served in Louisiana
| by as njudicious friends as ever Killed
cause or destroyed a reputation. Expo
| diently considered, no greater Diuhuti
| could have been made than the attempt u
| oyerawe the action of the delegates To the
Republican State convention last summer
| The unprecedented act of the Customhouse
officers and of the military could not be
| justified, and those engaged IN the disrepu
| table business were glad to sneak out Oh
the responsibility by misrepresentation OF
facts and downright living. Had the Fresi-
| dent sent the whole of them packing, III
Guiding lis precious brotheIir-law Casey,
| he would have strengthened himself I'M
measurably with the country.
Beaten at all points, this miserable fac
| ton, kept politically alive in the face OF an
| indignant public sentiment by the perlul-
| sites and stealings In the CuStomhouSe ana
| other federal offices, now seeks to prevent
| the organization Of the legislature, and Its
tactics are worthy the men who devised a
| Gathng gun convention and converted a
| United States CiIstoInhOuse into an arena
| for sauabbliny over the offices and spolls OF
| @ State.
| While Carter, in the House, refuses to put
| a motion which he knew would result III
| GUSHING him from the Speakers chair, and
| has conveniently hidden in the Speaker 5
| room gang Of desperate fellows who. at
| his call, rush in. armed for conflict. and
ready for anything, TO oyerawe the House,
| the Customhouse and Democratic members
| OF the Senate. unable otherwise to defeat
| the organization of that branch of the
| Legislature board a United States revenue
| cutter to escape arrest by the Sergeant-at-
| Arms, and pass the day in making short
trips up and down the river in front of the
| city. The convenience these fellows make
| OF the property of the United States, its
| custOnhOu5es, revenue cutters, soldiers,
| guns. and other appurtenances. is beautiful
| to behold.
| And this is done simply to thwart the
will of the people of the State. Beaten by
| the Warmoth Republicans in the election
of delegates to the State Convention, they
unscrupulously employed the means which
as officers of the United States they pos
sessed, to control the action of the con
| ventlon, and failing in that, they organized
| by themselves and filled vacancies by
| electing delegates whose names were even
| unknown III the districts they pretended to
| represent. Beaten at the polls, they now
| seek to prevent an organization of the Leg
! islature, and do not hesitate as to the means
| by which that object is to be accomplished
| The sight Of truly loyal Administration
| Senators hobnobbing on board a revenue
| curious "a spectacle as has been seen among
men il these days. VIII it be highly agree
able at Washington!
From the St. Louis Democrat
The Louisiana Legislature met on the
| first. and on the second the hostility of the
| two Republican factions exhibited itself in
| an attempt to summarily unseat Carter and
| in its summary Illustration. as related in
! our dispatches of yesterday. Tie situation
| I Il
| as we'll ds very closely the taxpayers Of
! that State. The legislative session is lin
tied constitutionally to sixty days. the Re
| publcans are largeI " in the majority in each
House and matters Of grayest Importance
are pressing for attention. Meanwhile the
mutual bitterness Of the clans threatens To
PROSTATE legislation and issue in the worst
political results.
The country is simply disguised with this
interminable personal quarrel of Repub-
lican leaders in a great State which should
take commanding position IL the sister
hood OF the Union. The pride. patriotism,
party principle and interest. selt-respect
seltiShness itself. should lead these chiefs
10 harnoniZe their differences, end their
dlscurd, and set themselves to the work OF
doing some good to their suffering common
wealth.
Elsewhere we publish from New Orleans
letter sensibly written in the interest OF
cancellation, UnG UcstOnahlv rejecting the
sentiment of the Republican masses of
Louisiana. and the whole country. The sur
gestion OF mutual forbearance and conces
sion. and a sinking OF the WarmOth and
anti-W Mammoth teud in the daily growing
necessity for salutary legislation and Rcpub
lean unity, will assuredly be needed if there
Is Vet wit enough left among the leaders to
to save the State from tiagitious misrule
and ITS Republican party from merited
overthrow.
The following is the letter alluded to
above:
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