New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-26

teresting to know something of the prospec-
tive pOtenates.
Governor Warmoth is the handsomest
man in Louisiana. He stands six feet in his
boots, is of slender, graceful form, has an
intellectual forehead, a keen dark eye and
a magnificent black mOustache. His whole
presence and his manners are of the most
captivating kind. He has that same cordial
grasp Of the hand and smile of welcome for
everybody which enabled John C. Breckin-
ridge to take the hearts Of all with whom
he came in contact. Fluent in cOnversa-
ton, he Is also quick as lightning in public
debate. He is, in sense, an imitatOr OF
Danton, for he evidently believes that the
three requisites of political success are
"audacity y ''audacityl' Y ''audacity!" He
is certainly forward boy" and would
now be in United States Senator Vests
place had he been thirty years OlG last win
ter Those who are competent to judge
regard him as scientific trickster rather
than as sound politician. They say he
belongs to the school Of moral philosophy
which holds that all human action springs
from unmitigated selfishness, that he pro-
ceeds upon WalpOle's theory, that every
man has his price, and that, as conse-
quence. he cannot fail to flourish in COM
munity like New Orleans, which has always
been politically rotten. If he fails in his
intrepid course and falls, the fundamental
cause will unquestiOnably be found in the
fact that he has underestimate the honesty
and intelligence of the blacks, and sup
posed them to be as corrupt, ignorant and
purchasable as the Louisiana Democracy.
His record is good up to the time he be-
came Governor. How many of the mis-
deeds perpetrated under his rule are direct
ly charged to him it is difficult to deter
mine, but as whole the administration
has been very bad. The evil it has done
and the good it has left undOne, would be
unanswerable arguments in favor OF it's
overthrow, were it at all certain that any
thing better could be obtained in its stead.
1t is claimed that after the Governor had
hoated into fortune upon tide of cOrrup-
ton, he sought to stay its current and save
the people, but that the pentup torrent is
now turned against, and is about to burst
upon and 0verwhellA him. A pretty accu-
rate knowledge of many leading reform
ers" convinces me that there is great deal
of truth in this view. At any rate, it is
known that leading Democrats have been
the chief corruptOrs OF the Legislature, and
no device for making Warmoth their scape-
goat can shield them from their share of the
responsibility.
closes:
If the legality of the repeals passed so
suddenly by the Governor was not doubt
full. reform would be substantially accom-
plshed, and the end of the split visible
but, unfortunately, it is held. with much
show of reason, that the obnoxious laws are
not yet dead, because a genuine quorum
was lacking in the Senate that repealed
them. All is still clouded, therefore, in an
uncertainty that the telegraph may dispel
before this reaches you.
If there is doubt of the legality of the
repeals. the Customhouse-De Democratic fac
ton are alone responsible.
A New Orleans correspondent of the st.
Louis Times says
Business has been almost paralyzed: So
ciety torn asunder. the utmost cor fusion
and disorder have reigned, and it is high
time "a stop was put to it. The party that
rejects the olive branch. when rendered in
the proper spirit and on reasonable basis.
will be held as worse than criminal. 1t is
asserted that the Warmoth faction will ac-
cept no compromise. nothing short of an
unconditional surrender, for the present,
at least They irely largely on the con
gressional investigating committee, which
will probably arrive in few days. for a
thorough and complete vindication of their
course.
The Carter faction still preserve a hostile
attitude, and hold their daily pow-wows at
the Cosmopolitan club rooms. Carter him
self has toned down wonderfully in the last
few days. The fiery Hotspur who, a few
days ago, marched his valiant Falstaffian
army up to the Warmoth citadel with the
avowed intention of stOrming its gates.
and, like Frances noted monarch, ''marched
down again" is. to-day as mild hammered
lal c1i 4
Not word has been heard from the
Bombastes FuriosO for three whole days.
Mayhap he is nursing his wrath for the
coming Storm and that all this calm is
but the prelude to fresh outburst OF the
war.
The refusal Of Grant to permit the United
States soldiers to be placed at the disposal
of Warmoth has subjected Ulysses, or At
torney General Williams, in whose name
the refusal was transmitted, to no small
share Of abuse from the Governors par
tisans. The Attorney General is getting a
pretty thorough overhauling for what is
characterized as his ignorance of the law
in such cases. That, high official is Ger
tainly open to the charge of inconsistency,
it not of ignorance, as q little scrap of his
public history very unpeasantly attests.
1t will be remembered that one of the counts
in the Indictment againt President johnson,
when he was impeached by the Radical
Senate, was based upon his refusal to order
troops into this city, for the protection OF
the illegal and revolutionary constitutional
convention that assembled in the very
building where riot is now threatened
George Ii. Williams, then United States
Senator, voted tor the conviction of John
son on that very count. To-day he does
not see the wisdom or legality of permitting
the use of Uncle Sans boys in suppressing
violence or preserving the peace, except
in a clear case of legal right or overruling
necessity" Chickens wiH come to roost.
Business still suffers from the depression
produced by the Legislative squabble, and
dealers, as general rule, are scarcely
making enough to meet their rents. The
cotton factors are about the only class that
have not suffered heavily on account of the
troubles, though they too have felt it to a
considerable extent.
The Washington Republican of Monday
says:
Telegrams were received in this city last
night, from Governor Warmoth, reciting a
printed address issued by George w. Car
ter one of the claimants to the speakership
of the Louisiana House, wherein the author
called upon sufficient number of people to
act as sergeants-at-arms and thereby enable
him to recover possession of the legislative
hall, from which he and others claiming to
be the legal members had been excluded.
The address is long, and rejoicing in high
sounding words. 1t will be remembered
that Governor Warmoth denies Carter's
right to the speakership, while the New Or
leans courts recognize the same. This
creates the action reported of Carter, who,
alleging to be the lawful Speaker, proposes
an attempt to recover the rights Of which
he claims to be unjustly deprived of by
Warmoth.
Dispatches received from the federal