New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-10


her my services, and fought for four years
that same flag which covers and protects
to-day the deliberations OF that great Lib
eral party of which he, the Governor,
stands as one of the principal leaders, and
vet, notwithstanding such record of the
past, I will certainly, if he is nominated by
said party on the fifth of August next, give
him my full support, as being my first
choice in the present condition of our pr
htical affairs.
Much has been said of Governor Warmoth
since his election in 1868, and especially
since the meeting of the Democratic and
Reform conventions in this city. He had
to undergo the foatrches caesdines of all the
Ciceros and Demosthenes of those two most
prodigious and notorious deiberative as
semblies. Assailed on all sides, charges
upon charges have been preferred against
him which, if substantiated, would have
been more than sufficient to consign him to
the gallows,
will not undertake to investigate those
various accusations. Congressional and
legislative committees, strongly impressed,
to say the least, with the guilt of the ac-
cused, were appointed for that purpose, and
yet not one has ever dared to return YER
dict consistent with its well known inclina-
tions. Furthermore, we must admit, and it
is beyond denial, that whenever evidence
has been required to corroborate those vari-
Gus charges - whenever they have been
tested by law as to their merits--the .accu-
sations, inevitably, always did fail in their
designs. appeal to Mr.. J'Q. A. Fellows
for the veracity Of my assertion,
In the own language of the Governor, I
would candidly put the question to the in
telligent portion Ct our populations Is it
possible that the Governor of State, sur
rounded by so many aggressive and power
full organizations, and having the whole
press power against him, could have been
guilty of all the offenses he has been
charged with without creating an uprising
among the people such as to demand aud,
if necessary, to enforce his immediate i'm
parchment.
Governor WarmOth, notwithstanding his
numerous appeals to the business and in
telligent portion of the people, has been
almost exclusively elected through the
support of the coIored population. and on
that account has been held by his Oppo-
nents responsible for all misdemeanors
that may have been committed by that
class of the population holding, by election
Of the people, public offices in our State gov
ernment Is this logic Is this consistent
with common sense-with horse sense
would ask the Bee, or any Democrat or
Reformer yet determined, at this eleventh
hour of our electoral mpaign, to be buried
/ in the last ballot box ditch (far different.
from the bitches of Charlottesville or
Cold Harbor bridged over by the fallen
heroes carried thither by streams of blood
flowing from both sides of the contending
armiesl, l would ask them, say, is it fair,
is it chivalrous to hold one party respon--
sible for the actions Of another party when
he has but limited control over them
Suppose, in the event of Grants election
(which may God forbid y he should, armed
with the Ku-Klux law, backed by the
bayonets left at his disposition by the
prOvisions.of cur constitution, his sword in
one hand, the public treasury in the other,
and following the example OF some of his
predecessors on imperial thrones, inaugu-
rate among us a dir-buiien,e brunGire or
second of December, would the national
assembly, unable to resist such an outrage.
upon the sacred rights of the people, be
held responsible for such perjury of his
excellency! Evidently not.
I.
much vigor as it was in his power to do
so, the encroachments upon our constitu-
tional rights of a portion of the party
which carried him to- the gubernatorial
chair; and when resistance was no longer
possible, as a faithful servant he unbesi-
tatingly reported the same to the people at
large, isolated himself from his political
friends, and in his letter to General
Campbell, president of the Republican
convention, stated in full the reasons and
causes which led him to such determin-
alton.
To-day he stands uneonnected with any
political party of the past. He has burned
his ships and. placed himself at the head Of
that great political revolution which cul-
minated at Cincinnati under the banner of
the Liberal party.
1t may be said with Justice that said revo-
luton was loudly called for, considering
the actual condition of our national govern
ment.
In the history of nations there are two
kinds Of revolutions; the one that tends to
the extension and ameliOration of the
natural and political resources. of the coun-
try; the other, on the contrary, which indi-
Gates an early decomposition of the old in
situations and of all the privileges of the
land. The only way for the people to dis
criminate the character of the two, is to
well consider which is the element that
predominates in each.
Whenever revolutions are contemplated
to serve the vices, crimes, of one man or
his individual ambition, it shows evidently
decay and decomposition Of all moral senses,
not only with those who may assist such an
achievement, but also on the part of those
who do not oppose them with all the might
and power they are capable of. Those are
the symptoms which have been manifested
in the administration Of the government,
ever since the advent of General Grant to
the presidential chair
But, on the contrary, when revolutions
originate from moral idea, from logical
cause, from good sentiment, from an as.
piration to a better order of government or
society, from a desire of securing more de-