New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-14
Letter to st. Louis Times.

We give some extracts from New o..
leans letter, dated the sixth instant. to III.
St. Louis Times, an out-and out Democrats
journal, to give the views of Democrats.
eyewitness and close observer of events !,
this city. He says, after stating that Gran,
had gone back entirely on the Carter far.
ton. A fine picture of Carter is drawn:
This is the death blow of the anti-War.
moth faction, for it was on this very same
federal assistance that they chiefly relied
and without it they are as harmless as FaI
staff's men in buckram. They get ittla
sympathy or encouragement from the De.
mocracv, and few iniudiciOus Democrats
have encouraged them; but the more pru.
dent and thoughtful men of the party have
so far, stood aloof entirely, animated nv
pretty much the same feelings as possessed
the old woman when Bruin and her husband
we're locked in deadly embrace. If, indeed
they have any sympathy with either, they
lean toward the WarmOth faction.
The action of Grant in disownng the
revolutionary and high-handed measures
of the Carter and CustOmhOuse clique sur.
prised them no less than it did the opposi.
ton and the general public. There is M
doubt that the Washington administration
was IN full accord with them until it was
discovered that they were in hopeless
minority, and that the Warmoth party
could not be ousted without open and
palpabie revolution, without possibly blood.
shed. Grants brOther-in law, Casey, the
collector of this port, has been the chief
leader and wirepuller of the anti-Warmoth
party, and every federal OtiicehOlder in
this city and State has worked like
beaver against WarmOth. The United
States revenue cutter Wilderness was, and
is now, used as refuge for the abscOndine
Senators, in order to break a quorum in
the Senate. Everything points indisputa-
bly, to the fact that MIR. Grant has been
aiding. abetting and encouraging the oppo
sition in their course. and the curses and
maledictions that are heaped upon his head
by the Carterites for his recreancy are both
loud and deep.
George w. Carter, the leader of the Gus.
tomhOuse clique in the House, is the Speak
er of that body. He is an ex-confederate
officer, having served in the latter part Of
the war as Colonel of a cavalry regiment
He is likewise an eX-minister of the gospel
having at one time in his checkered career
been an itinerant Methodist preacher
Army associations, however, knocked all
the religious spirit out Of him. ii he ever
possessed any. Now he swears like
trooper. and it is said he can hold his own
with the best at draw poker. He is far
specimen of the bold Western politician
rough, off-hand in style and man
ner, with little polish or ceremony
He is bold and interruptions schem-
er, and possesses the courage and
daring to execute. He is, however. lacking
in discretion and judgment. With a moiey
of WarmOth's tact. skill and generalshp,
there is no doubt that he would have won
an easy victory over the latter. Carter lisa
REPRESENTATIVE from Cameron parish
whittier he went as registrar few weeks
before the last election. The whole term Of
his residence in the parish does not exceed
thirty days, nor has he been in the parish
since he was returned. He holds some sub
ordinate position in the New Orleans Gus
tOmhouse. He is a genuine type of the ex
rebel, radical. carpet Dagger. without prin
ciple, honor, honesty or other commendable
trait. An ex-fedcral carpet-bagger is bad
enough. God knows; but those miserable
sneaking. recreant, perjured ex-conied-
crates, who have crept into the Radical fold
to prey upon the Southern people, from
such, good Lord, deliver us