The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
CONFAB OF THE CUSTOM
HOUSE CABAL.
A NOISY, INHARMONIoUs CREW

In compliance With the edlct OF the
delectable body of worthless known as
the House State Executive
Committee, there assembled at the
National Theatre, New Orleans, last
: Tuesday noon, one of the most motley
and disorderly crowds of human be-
ings it has ever been the lot of this
editor to gaze upon. To be sure there
were some honorable and notable eX-
ceptions to the general rule of rattle
headed and noisy delegates, but these
were few and far between, and at
tracted little notice among the uni
yersal hubbub and racket that pre-
vailed during the sessions of the body
which is best known by the title of
Custom House Convention. While
there is some endeavor being made
among the leading spirits to bring the
noisy lesser lights whose presence
they have invoked down to a point of
quietude and order that will permit of
a temporary organization of the Con-
vention, let us look around the hall or
theatre and see what is to be seen.
| AT the back of the stage is tackled up
a large bed sheet upon which is
printed an extract from the well
known letter signed by the late Ia
mented Oscar j. Dunn, addressed to
Horace Greeley, and of which Geo. w.
Carter is pointed out by popular be-
lief to be the author. The extract is
denuneiatory of Gov. Warmoth, ac-
cusing him of alliance with Democ-
raey, and declaring that the Repub-
licans of Louisiana would never sup
port him. As we gaze upon it and
our thoughts revert back to the early
days OF the present year when the
men who had pretended friendship to
Gov. Dunn and allegiance to the
party whose principles he upheld
were in infamous league with the
Democrats endeavoring to accomplish
the overthrow of Republican govern
mcnt IN Louisiana, we almost wonder
that the spirit of the dead man does
not appear to rebuke the assembled
renegades who are using his name and
memory.to forward their own selfish
ends and destroy the very party to
which he was so warmly attached.
Suspended above the footlights of the
stage is another sheet Of smaller di-
mansions, upon which is displayed an
accredited utteranee of hetlead Lieut..
| Governor: E'Tell the boys to hold
| together" Aye he told them to hold
together, yet here are some of them
under the very shade of his memory
doing all in their power to disunite
the coiored people " the boys J, and
with his advice blazoned before their
eyes that will not see, their ears that
will not hear. Unfathomable the
understanding which prctends to find
justification of evil in the very
warning uttered against it! To the
left of the hall, suspended over the
gallery, is another large piece of cot
ton domestic which improperly gives
PRESIDENT Grant the credit of paving
OF the national debt so rapidly, and
opposite this still another which more
improperly charges Governor War
moth with the large increase of the
Louisiana State debt. There are men
in the midst of the noisy and turbulent
crowd assembled under these floating
sheets who are members Of the Legis-
lature and who have voted to pass
over the veto of Governor Warmoth
the very swindling measures that
have contributed most to increase the |
burden of State debt and taxation.
Docs the flush of shame mantle their
faces as they gaze upon the libelous
announcement which lays their crime
ut the door of an innocent man? In
either parts of the hall are other strips
OF domestic of lesser note, with in
serlptions as inappropriate as those
already quoted, while over the gallery
hang flags of different nations CON
veniently borrowed from the Custom
House.
After considerable lapse of time,
and when the members of the Custom
House brass band have become
broken-winded from endeavorinc to
make their music heard over the din
n IL k,,,1 -. .