New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-19
4 Bitter Letter.

| leans correspondent bitter as gall in his pre-
JUDGES against Governor Warmoth. He is
| strong Carter partisan, and writes:
The killing of Wheyland, one Of War
moths members, elected by Carter at the
| time OF the Governors arrest, was an mex
cusable blunder on the part of some OF Car
| ter's men, and would greatly rebound to
Warmoth's benefit were it not for the fact
| that Wheyland was a bad and dangerous
character. at whose death the community is
| greatly rejoiced.
| repeat that there is no necessity for this
quarrel, and no reason why it can not be
| healed, other than the determination OF
few. leaders to control the State or throw it
| into the hands Of the enemy. Ii WarmOth
| can unseat Carter he can keep in force the
bad and imperial laws and if Carter can
| hold his seat he will prefer articles of i'm
parchment against WarmOth, which would
| cause immediate suspension, and make Car
| ter Governor pro tenn.
Once in the executive chair, the adrOit
| x-Colonel of confederate cavalry would
| quickly make the conviction OF his enemy
certainty, and would undoubtedly remain
master of Louisiana.
This is the programme, and accounts for
| the fact that Pinchback's election as Lieu
| tenant Governor is contested and held to be
| illegal, and that is why a quorum in the
Senate is persistently broken, for it would
| re-elect Pinchback, to put the matter be-
yond dispute, and impeachment would
| make the wrong man Governor
What the Republican people want is
| modification OF the election and other laws.
so as to give them a republican form of
government and relieve them from War
moths dictatorship, and at the same time
| protect them from ku-Klux abuses and
bring out the full Republican majority.
IN every direction, and they demand that
! the open corruption that has piled the debt
| up to Sl0,000,0 900. and made Republican
administration simply indetensible, shall
| be instantly and sharply checked They
| do not want to impeach Warmoth and will
not encourage Carter in his attempt TO do
so, if the Governor will only make the
concessions which it insults reason and the
| liberties of the people to refuse
Although order and quiet have prevailed
since the dispersal of Carriers Legislature
| BY the police, the end of our difficulties is
| vet by no means visible. As the sentiment
of the Democratic or white element pro-
! nounces itself with more and more empha-
sis for Carter, the feeling among the blacks
begins to veer over toward NarmOth, and
a deep-seated suspicion is manifesting itself
that the reckless character OF the House in
tends to betray the State into the hands of
the Democracy.
Warmoth has every legal advantage in
the contest. He has possession, which is
more than nine points of the law, and the
federal government has been compelled to
save him, by lending him the aid of its
troops to suppress an impending riot.
when its whole sympathies are certainly
against him. The Democratic papers here
are rampant for martial law, and are be-
ginning to canonize the Kuklux bill.
1t is astonishing how quickly percepti-
BILE its beauties become the moment
they discover it can be used to relieve
them from oppression. The Bee. the most
influential Democratic organ, this morning
tears its hair in anger because the New
York World and other Democratic papers
side with WarmOth and denounce the
interference Of the federal officials whom
it champions. 1t protests against the OBJ
trusion of the present struggle into national
politics. and saws the shameful eagerneSs of
its Northern brethren to make political
capital against the President is what causes
him to hesitate in his well known desire to
give us martial law.
That correspondent in another part of
his letter says of Carter:
Chased from the Capitol with his Legisla-
ture to the Gem" and from there finally
dispersed and forced to hide from arrest. he
has wrought revolution in popular feeling
in his behalf, and in behalf of the colored
people who follow him, that is of vastly
more importance than any legal temporary
success. He has Obliterated in the minds
of the people his Objectionable personal re-
cord, and is rapidly enshrining himself in
their hearts as the hero of reform. The most
of the Republican members of the House
who cling to him are cOlOred men. and they
are true to him as steel, because they re-
gard him as carrying out the programme of
their lamented and beloved Dunn. They
declare themselves determined, in order to
vindicate the colored mans right to the bal
lot, to institute reform. and it is notorious
that every one of them has had as high as
five thousand dollars publicly offered for
them to desert to WarmOth.
The old rebels here know that corruption
in New Orleans has become respectable:
they know that the Democracy has greatly
contributed to make it SO, and they look
upon this steadfastness Of the colored men,
when several of their Democratic members
have unbushingly sold out, with astonish-
ment and qualification. The tremendous
outpouring at Lafayette square on Monday
night, where thousands of the wealth and
responsibility cheered the Republican
colored orators to the echo, was humiliat
ing confession on their part that their
whole course toward the negro ever since
, the war has been dismal mistake. When
thousands of men who followed Lee on the
plains Of Virginia throw their hats in the
air in honor of the utterances Of the very
| speakers they fought to keep in slavery,
, and cheer wildly at the suggestion that
Grant will crush a State outrage with the
! military, we can well believe that the spirit
of rebellion is dying out; and were Dem
Ocrats not invoking the Ku-KluX bill to kill
States rights, as interpreted by WarmOtb,
we might believe that there is no necessity
for further Congressional legislation to Sc
! cure colored men their rights in the South.
WarmOth's danger comes from the fact
that he can now conciliate none of the ele-
ments united against him outside of the
Legislature without cOnsenting to the re-
peal of an election law which places him
above the ballot box, and, no matter how
the vote goes, will make him Governor
again if he sees fit to return himself elected.
Ii this law is repealed, the present popular
Indignation against him will probably
sweep him out of power Besides general
siding wi Ii Carter on the part OF both the
! white and colOred elements, the Bee and
Times heve gone ardently to his support,
and the Picoysae has lost hundreds OF sub
scribers by persisting. in its wonted neutral
ity. He is editor of the National RcpuJlican,
the Customhouse organ, and is opposed
only by the New Orleans REPUBLICAN,
which is chiefly owned by the Governor.
| Carter could at any time have taken the
| Capitol by force that would sweep the
| police out of existence, bat that would be
! producing riot, and the federal troops at
hand would have been compelled to fire on
him.
A quadroon mule. the foal of a mule by a
| horse is exhibited at Yreka. He was sired
| in the southwestern corner Of Oregon in
| 1868. has no name, tail like cow, jack