New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
THE LOUISIANA Z STRUGGLE
VIII THE PRESS SAYS
Governor WarmOth Sustained
The st. Louis Democrat saws:

The St Louis Democrat says:
| 1t evidently will not be Governor War
| moths fault if the Louisiana fued does grow
| to riot and blOOdshed. The situation now
| threatens to resolve itself in manner not
| exactly anticipated. A member Of the War
moth House has been killed in a struggle
| with the sergeant-at-arms of the Carter
House. Thereupon the Speaker Of the lat
| ter, Carter himself, is accused as accessory.
before the fact, to murder, and the GOverOr
undertakes his arrest. This brings the grit
of Carter and his men to the deci-
s;ve test. If they will not re-
sist this movement upon them, they
may as well adjourn sine die. In his deter
mination to apprehend Carter, the Cover
nor had the entrance to the hall Of the Car
ter House blockaded on Tuesday, prevent
| ing the assem- bling of that body. This re-
suit was itself a settlement. for the time, OF
| the de facto question between the two
houses. 1t will soon appear whether 1t is
| to prove a permanent settlement. The legal
question will come up for judicial decision,
| if not before, upon the trial Of the parties
accused Of Wheyland's murder. If the Car
ter House was genuine, they acted as au-
thorized officials, and the killing was ustiti
able; if the contrary, it was murder.
| The Louisville Courier-Journal, from
which the following editorial is copied, does
|
help of individual Democrats, and Demo
cratic committees, the Carter Republicans
would be utterly powerless:
| 1t is hardly probable that the present
trouble in New Orleans will pass by with
out serious riot and blOOdshed. 1t trouble
does come, the blame must all be LAID at
the door Of the Radical party. The Dem
| Ocrats have nothing to do with 1t. 1t Is
|
outgrowth Of a series Of long continued par
| tisan malpractices and persecution, to say
nothing OF thieving and public robbery,
| which ALWAYS brings the actors in it to shame
and exposure and disgraceful death, and
that is what is the matter with the Radical
party in New Orleans now. Two factions
| arrayed against each other, one with the
cry of reform in its mouth, and the other
with the charter Of the people in its hand,
each profess to be the representatives OF the
people, when, in TACT neither have been III
| trusted with authority to speak for the peo-
pie, who in fact compose the community.
Having established themselves in power by
fraud from the first, they now seek to de-
| fraud each other.
One is working in the interest of a man
: who wishes to force himself upon the peo-
pie fo1 an additional four years, while the
other is personally directed by man whose
position is becoming precarious, and whose
outrageous practices have made it So
Grant and anti-Grant are the battle-cries,
and when the fight comes, as it surely will,
there will be some mighty nasty family
blood spilled. The respectable people OF
the city have appealed to martial law for
protection. As an idea of the spirit in
which the quarrel is conducted, we give
the following paragraph from an issue of
the Grant organ Of several days ago. 1t
smells loudly of gunpowder and hemp:
1.-The immediate point of interest is the
violent intent to Illustrate the will OF the
people and daunt their Representatives
by a riot within, and by the police without
the House. We warn II. c. WarmOth that
he has committed fatal blunder as he will
discover. Let him depOrt himself rih pain
f,u circunspection. There is danger ahead.
The citizens Of Louisiana are not only
United States citizens, against whom no
unlawful combinations can direct their
'conspiracies' and violence, but they
NAV improvise their own laws and illustrate
them from the lamppOsts'
The Chicago Tribune has another facetious
editorial:
The civil war in New Orleans has given
rise to a great many epithets and phrases
which are not civil. The Warmoth papers
refer to the Carter faction of the House as
gin shop legislators, on account OF its sit
ting at liquor saloon. The opposition, In
turn, allude to the Governor as His Fraud
ulencv. Quorum has become a byword
with everybody, and small boys in the
streets threaten boldly to break each
others 1uorums. The national administra
ton organ explains that the retreat Of the
Carterites to the Gem occurred; because
to enter it the Thugs Il. e., Warmoth'>
poice) would have been compelled tc
T ascend the narrow winding stairway in
Indian file. thus enabling the Representa-
T tives to defend themselves and repel the
assaulting miscreants one at time.
Then follows a puff of the saloon and the
quality OF its liquors. evidently in llquida
ton of certain accounts run up by "our
reporter" Meantime, it is terrible thing
to be member of either of the riva
houses: tor as one of them shows his head
at his boarding house, he is bounced upon
by a sergeant-at-arms in pursuit OF q
quorum. Here is specimen scene from the
. session ever the gin shop:
"At ten minutes past two o'clock our re-
porter left the House. where fifty members
were present, nearly all asleep. Mr.. Fonte
mined. Evidently the trouble is not yet
concluded. Sergeant-at-Arms still absent
in search of absent members, and crOwC
of about thirty sympathizers mounting
guard in the street"
The Mobile Republican, ignoring the fac
that Governor Warmoth recommended, il
his annual message, the ''reforms demanded
by the people, says:
The Louisiana troubles have reached NJ
conclusion. The Mayor Of New Orlean!
has appealed to President Grant to declare
martial law in the city, on tie ground tha
, it is essential to the public peace and secur
ity. and is desired by all classes. The Pres
ident declines to interfere, however. The
: State Senate is still without a quorum, ant
there are two Houses of Representatives
each claiming to be the legal one. 1t seems
clear that the responsibility for these com
plications rests with Governor WarmOth
who could end them at once by pledgine
himself heartily and unreservedly to thu
a reforms demanded by the people.
The Cleveland Leader says:
The situation at New Orleans remains I'm
changed. The Warmothtes appear to have
the upper hand, having possession of the
State House, and having quorum OF The
| House of Representatives. and the Metro
poltan Police, and the Governor, on theil
side. The Carterites, with whom the Demo
| Gratis act, hold their sessions in hired hal
on Royal street, and the question of legiti
macy between the two bodies is to be settled
by the courts, whittier the appeal has beer
carried by both sides. An armed collision
between the two factions has thus far beer
avoided, but may take place at any time
The people, if we can credit the dispatches
sympathiZe with the Democrats and Carter
lite Republicans, who are pledged to the re
peal of the constabulary, Metropolitan Pc
lice, election and printing laws, which are
regarded as tyrannical and obnoxious. Thu
federal authorities will take sides will
neither faction, and will interfere only tt
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