New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-12

way, as partisans with either OF the con-
| tending factions; and the State once more
| rescued from the plunderers who nave so
| long tritled with its welfare. we may sa1eiy
| predict the speedy reascendency OF Demo
cratic rulers and Democratic measures.
The New York Sun, which in its bitter
hostility to President Grant, says many
things that had better be unsaid, contains
the subjoined editorial:
On superficial view it would look as if
General Grant had promised to take some
steps toward reprimandlng Casey, Packard
and his other otficeholders in New Orleans,
for their attempt to wrest by force the gov
erument of Louisiana out of the hands of
the properly constituted authorities. But
careful reading of his note to Senator
| West, and which West telegraphed to Gov
| ernor Warmoth shows nothing of the sort.
| Warmoth's two bold dispatches to Grant,
| demanding to know whether his office
| holders were-as they claimed to be-acting
| by his authority in their efforts to overthrow
| the State government, doubtless brought
| Grant to bay. But all that he promised in
| his note to West was that 81 tGrant) will
have the matter investigated at once"
| We place TO reliance upon this promise.
| 1t has been made once before under similar
| circumstances, and was never fulfilled.
| When Casey and Packard stormed the Re
publican State Convention last August with
\ armed infantry and Calling guns, Governor
| Warmoth and a committee of the leading
| Republicans of Louisiana protested against
| the outrage, and demanded the removal of
these recreant officials, Grant then sullenly
| promised that he would have the matter
| investigated. But he never took the first
| step toward an investigation; and, so tar
| from removing Casey and Packard, he has
| kept them in power till now, and beyond
| all doubt has been fellow conspirator with
| them in the attempt to subvert the State
Government, simply because Warmoth and
his friends are opposed to his denomination
| for President.
The truth is that the recent debate in the
Senate, started by Mr.. Trumbull and the
damning disclosures before the committee
now examining into the corruptions and
frauds in the New York customhouse, have
frightened Grant, and he not only shrinks
from carrying through his prearranged pro-
gramme at New Orleans, but promises to
have the matter investigated. He is not
the first man, however, who, under the pres
sure OF an unforeseen exigency. will make
promises without hesitation, which he will
afterward violate without shame.
But whatever the President may do CT
fail to do, the country expects that Congress
Will immediately appoint an impartial COM
papers, and probe these disgraceful pro-
ceedings to the bottom. IT the Republican
party fails to do this, it can not hope to re-
tain any hold upon the confidence Of the
people.
The Albany Eceni,g journal has an edi-
torial from which we quote:
While the opposition to Governor War
moth is charged upon friends of the admin
istration the Governor himself has q dis
patch from the President promising an
investigation of the conduct of the federal
officials. We trust he will make a search
ing inquiry into the matter. The federal
officials are probably no more worthy OF
blame than any other parties to the dispute.
They were doubtless drawn into it, not SO
much because they are federal officers as
because they are politicians, and because
every politician in the State was sucked
into the vortex. We do not sympathize 1
with the dislngenuous spirit which insidi-
ouslv seeks to attach the whole stigma TO
them in spite of the plain truth that the
other side was at least as guilty. AT the
same time We have no disposition to shield
them any more than the others, and We
hope the President will institute an exami-
nation to the end that the exact facts may
be brought TO light and a remedy applied,
if any remedy there be. The late political
history of Louisiana has been stained with
repeated abuses. and public sentiment de-
mands that the disgracetul chapter shall be
brought to a speedy close. Meantime we
are glad to know the government regards it
as war of factions III which it is not called
to take any part.
The Houston Union. ignorant Of the pre-
else condition of affairs, says:
At this distance the recent commotion in
political circles in our neishGoring State OF
Louisiana appears exceedingly alsgraceIul.
We say it with shame, because men calling
themselves Republicans are alone RESPONSE
bic for the disorder and confusion which
has attended the meeting OF the Legislature
of that State. There Is no Democrat TO
blame for it. In tact, the conduct OF the
Democrats during the whole WarnOth and.
Carter squabble has been such as to entitle
them to praise True, no doubt, they have
stimulated the Kilkenny cat fight, in the
hope that the c0ntending factions would de-
your each other In this we do not blame them
much, for they richly deserve humiliation.
II the Republican party is to be used by
ambitious selfish, inscriptions, or bad men
as an engine to subserve their corrupt pur-
poses, then it is doomed. No party can
thrive under such circumstances. In this
case the whole Republican organization Of a
State is degraded TO the purposes OF enraged
and malignant leaders. All principle is lost
slSnU VI tHC iioU ilSIt ioi P''i'y iSatS1
ship. Let the entire Republican press of the
South denounce both parties in this dis
graceful proceeding, and insist that the
party be purged OF the men VINO are respon-
sible for it. Certainly we can find good men
in every State to put at the head of affairs.
If not. the sooner the fact is made known
the better for all concerned. We have done
apologizing for abuses in our own party, and
shall henceforth apply the scalping-knife
where it is needed.
The Galveston Bulletin concludes an edi
torial thus:
The leader of the other faction-George
w. Carter-is so well known in this State
that it is almost needless To say anything
about him. Let it suffice to say that he was
at one time a minister of the gospel. then a
drunkard, rebel during the war, a fire
eating Democrat after it was over, and now
he is the most ultra Radical. With such
men as leaders, the sooner and more seri-
ously the cOmbatants are wounded the bet
ter it will be for the State of Louisiana.
The Lydia Thompson Troupe.