The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1872-02-14
Correspondence of the Telegraph.
New ORLEANS, Feb. ], 1872.

agreeable war between the two radical
factions in the State legislature, has at
last been brought to termination, and
once more "peace reigns in Warsaw"
The dreams of our people are no longer
disturbed by visions Of riot, bloodshed
and pillage. Trade is no longer par
alyzed by impending anarchy and reyo.
luton, and brokers and bankers COM
PEELED to send their cash-boxes to the
country to place them beyond the reach
of the plundering mob. sWeak-nerved
women again venture on Canal street
to do their shopping and air their pretty
toilets, and the great boulevard, lately
resonant with the tramp of armed men,
and all the ''pomp and circumstance
of glorious war" has resumed the ha
biliments of peace, and presents its
wonted bustling air. Timid shop,
keepers, no longer disturbed by visions
Of bankruptcy and ruin, which for
three weeks hung threateningly, like
the sword of Democles, over their heads
have again thrown their doors open,
and decorated their show-windows in
their gayest colOrs. Yes, "grim>
visaged war has smoothed her wriakled
front, and everybody breathes q sigh
Of relief and utters a hearty Thank
Cod the affair is over, and that matters
are no worse than they are.
We search the annals of American
history in vain for a parallel to this
factional fight, unless we cross the
border into Mexico. Its like revival
Of the barbarous times when armed
retainers were wont to sally out of their
strongholds and fight their battles in
the streets. The extraordinary spec-
taclc is presented of great city placed
in a state of turmoil, confusion and
disorder bordering on anarchy, a SOW
ereign State torn to pieces, society rent
asunder, business paralyzed, and a
reign of terror inauguratcd by the petty
quarrels of two ambitious, unprincipled
politicians, who, if they had justice
meted out to them, would be serving
the State in manual capacity within
the strong walls of the States prison
the one a carpet bagger, only six
months a resident of the State prior to
his election; the other an ex-Confed>
crate officer, and recent convert to tie
radical faith-both working and plot
ting for selfish aims and purposes
neither caring an iota for the people,
except to rob and oppress them. Like
the squabble between the two republi,
can factions in New York, it has been
wholly scramble for power and plun>
der, and is one of the natural results
of radical rule. The battle cry of
reform" with which both contestants
entered the struggle, was a mere snare
and device with which to deceive and
bamboozle the people. 1t is the height
Of absurdity to suppose that Henry c.
Warmcth is honest and sincere in his
professions Of reform. His whole adj
ministration, from the time of his
induction into Office in 1868, down to the
present time, has been one of the most
corrupt and fagitious that ever cursed
a free people. 1t is written in fraud,
corruption and blood. 1t is but the
history Of a people plundered, out,
ragged and oppressed. 1t has been one
grand steal from the beginning up to
the present time. The State has been
plunged irreirievably in debt, and the
people, ground down with taxation, and
almost rendered desperate by the OPP
pressive, outrageous and tyrannical
measures of this imported scoundrel
He came here as poor as Lazarus, and
is now worth over million dollars,
every farthing of which was stolen from
the State. To say that such a man
could, at the eleventh hour, be at heart
an honest man and in favor of reform
legislation, is the very height of alb
tsurdity.
So, too, with George w. Carter.
Like Warmoth, he is an irresponsible,
ambitious adventurer-a travelling
mountebank, pitching his tent wherever
he can gull the people and ride into