New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-17
parading the streets, and mat

rs look really warlike.
The Carter faction is condemned by all
good citizens who are not blinded by parti-
san prejudice for the hasty, imprudent and
ill advised action that resulted in the loss
of human life. They have thereby virtually
lost what sympathy and moral support they
had from the better portion of the cOmmu
nifty. Whatever chances they had of sue
ceeding in their struggle against Warmoth,
they vanished the moment they stained
their hands with human blood. The helm.
BUSINESS and culpability Of their conduct is
heightened by the fact that Wheyland, ac-
cording to the minutes of their own proceed
ings, was not member of the Legislature
at all, having been declared ineligible to the
seat which he claimed, and another man
voted into it. According to their own jour
nal, they had no more power or right to ar
rest him than they had to pick up any citi-
zen on the streets and compel him to attend
the sittings of the Carter Legislature.
cratic journal, has an editorial about re
pulsive alliance of the Democrats with the
Carter faction" and says:
The resolutions adopted by the meeting
of the citizens of New Orleans, held in
Lafayette square on Monday night, and
published in our telegraphic columns yes
terday, do not impress us as wise in every
feature. The lawless proceedings Of War
moth may justify the close. yet certainly
repulsive alliance of the Democrats with
the Carter faction, manifest in the proceed
ings of the meeting, and we fully indOrse
the tenor of the resolutions denouncing the
gubernatorial usurper and official plum
derer, who at present seems to sway the
destinies of the State, through the
bludgeOns of the Metropolitans and by the
nefariOus administration of the public
funds; but we question the necessity or the
wisdom OF the appeal to General Grant to
interfere. 1t is only a last recourse, and
for the prevention of actual and bloody
revolution that the interference of the
federal government could be desired, and
such an appeal justified.
We hope for no beneficial results from the
intermeddling Of Grant with our local at
fairs. WarmOth is perhaps worse man
than Carter, and has at present prepOn-
derance Of power, secured by the most open
bribery: but while WarmOth is a corrupt
man, Grant is a dangerous one; his inter
ference would SIMPLY result in the over
throw of WarmOth, and q reorganization Of
the factions under Grant leader, and the
consequent loss to us of the influence we
of power between the factions.
Let them fight on, while we hold ourselves
ready to cooperate with either in measures
of reform, identifying ourselves with the
quarrels or destinies of neither.
A New Orleans correspondent of the Gin
natl Ga-eue writes:
In my last it was remarked that if Pinch
back election were sustained the suprem-
acy of the Governors friends would be
established; and that thought Governor
Warmoth able and strong enough to put
down all opposition he might encounter.
then had little idea of the character of that
opposition, or Of the illegal, desperate. mur-
derous and reckless efforts that would be
made by the Otfice-holders under the
national government here, and of their
allies, the Democrats, to subvert the Re
publican State administration. 1t has
half a Senate of anti-W WarmOth Republicans
with all the Democratic Senators Of Louisi-
ana, have been for a week hid away in the
United States CustomhOuse, or spirited
away in the revenue cutter Wilder
ness, by the efforts of the customs
officials and United States marshals
how the Governor and some Of his
leading senatorial friends have been
arrested on false and frivolous charges
by the same desperate parties, at which all
the Democrats and Democratic papers we're
as ,JuUlldut, CUuSTdtuidtOTy duu
selt-satisted as they used to be ON hearing
of confederate victory Yet, though this
and ten times more is true, we have had
peace and no bloOdshed through it all, in
spite of the efforts of the Democratic and
anti WarmOth press to incite the excitable
people to deeds of violence, by Governor
Warmoth setting the example to other Re-
publican leaders by peaceful submission to
wrongful arrest, and by their avoiding
eve y pit fall set to provoke disturbance In
deed, the Governors conduct has forced the
national authorities at Washington to side
with him and his adherents; and the oppo-
site course by his opponents has brought
upon their heads an implied censure
by the Secretary of the Treasury, whose
unworthy appOintees they are. Yes, We
have had peace: but the revOlutiOnists owe
their immunity from attack entirely to the
fOrbearance of the Governor This able
officer would not permit the use of violence
even when urgently called ON Yesterday
evening. by Colonel Squires, to punish a
rabble of ku-Klux youngsters and levee
rats, who. acting under the suggestions of a
leader OF the opposition, broke open an
armory Of a Louisiana Legion and robbed
it Of its guns. At all events, / was right in
my belief that the Governor would prove
equal to any emergency, and he has done
so i'll this most trying attempt at revOlu-
ton, when he had to bring all the military
and political power of the State into requi-
sitiOn, and when the national soldiers sta
toned here, under brave old General Emory,
had 10 be guartered over the city and held
in readiness to nip this new Southern rebel
lion. And though the Legislature is not
yet completely organized, no quorum having
been obtained in the Senate from the cause
above mentioned after a weeks trial; yet
the end is near, and already it is acknowl-
edged by friend and enemy that the State
administration has won the victory. Of
course, the readers Of the Gazette, with
myself, have heard or read many complaints
of the government of Louisiana, complaints
of mOnOpOlies, injustice and official robbery
of all kinds among government officials
and others; but l believe there is no more
foundation for these complaints here than
OF other State governments all over the
land. But how much it is to be regretted
that, laying aside personal attacks and petty
jealousies, all the Republicans here would
not unite as one man, and with one mind
and one heart apply themselves sedulously
to the internal improvement and develop
ment of this excellent, beautiful and
naturally rich State. Its value is utterly
unknown either to the general or local
government. As Sam Slick said of the
Nova Scotians, the Louisanians '.have all
they can AK, and more than they desarve."
But, to return to their politics, although
neither l nor the Louisiana people gener-
ally idolize Governor Warmoth-at least to
the extent South Carolinians did their
statesman, of whom it was said that "when
Calhoun took snuff the whole of Carolina
sneezed"-yet we would like not only to see
him undisturbed through the remaining
year of his administration. but to re-elect
him for second term. For believe with
old Mr.. Slick, already quoted, that it is in
horses. he used to say: My rule is, I'D
rather keep critter whose faults l do
know than change him for q beast whose