National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-02-17
AFFAIRS IN LOUISIANA.
hLJygEW eff TIE SITUATION AMI
THE CIESIS THAT LED TO IT.

Louisiana seems to claim prescriptive right
sisurdrrs. The slave clause In her treaty. Of &C
WON to the Union was the germ Of the Nilsson
question, that State having been part Of Il
he original Spanish territory of Lcuisian
Jefferson was denounced as having infringed Il
Constitution in consummating her purchase, IN
3rant finds no less vehement Q criticism upo
sin efforts to conserve her peace. 1t should be
natter Of rejoicing to the Republicans Of tn
URien that their brethren in Louisiana have nevs
thus far done aught to bring scandal upon tn
party name. Democrats, 1t is true, are constantl
eeiting us with epithets because Of Louisiana, bu
hey will discover in the fall elections that tn
03w-balls they have throw Up hill are gradual
swelling to avalanches that they cannot steer o
rom their own party lines. The 90 massacre .
rats and two hundred graves of black men ai
test equally with the fraudulent Fusion return
Of the II State election, wherein 1900 colorc
VOtes were either thrown out or denied deposit
he persuasion that q freemans especial sin is
lark skin, and that the party that harbors him
IN ACCESSORY, to decimnate, defraud or Islander
which is the religious duty Of Democrat. Tn
Democracy OF Louisiana, unable to compass he
administration by an honest challenge of suffrage
hired Warmoth for his official legerdemain witt
he ballot boxes They had stigmatized him 70
.hree years as O scoundrel, had applauded the Re
publican party for disavowing him in its II Stat
:onvontion, yet did not scruple to recruit him 70
heir own ends. They knew he wanted asylum
somewhere. and that he hungered to avenge hi
expulsion from the Republican ranks. To suffic
aim In these respects, and to utilize alike hi
hatred and his official powers, an election WA
determined upon and effected. To quicker
bis zeal yet further they pledged him sea-
n the United States Senate. 1t d
we'll known to the country to what license he ven
.ured IN improyising spurious canvassng board
,nce he could not tame the legal board to hi
iorr9pt purpose, and in emitting stupendou
1cspite his most strenuous efforts, the registra
don by his own appointees revealed SO large
Republican majority that he dared not refuse thu
ffe va m enn RI
hem in the returns to the extent only Of the mi
aortty promised to the Democrats.
but it proved fruitless alike to them and to him
lelf They were estopped by Judge Durell, and
they disclaimed their trade with him. They losi
he administration and he the Senate, to which
ihey DISPATCHED Mcmillan during a farcical ses
sion last winter. If ever man conterted himself
with wrath, it was Warm0th; and now he seeks
arderto pay back the Democrats for their peridy.
To discover that they really detested him no less
during than before his affllation with them, that
they esteemed him n useful hireling, not an asso-
ciate, whom they could as sponsors accredit to
The Senate, shat they wanted for the nonce his
marvellous tact as n ballotbox suffer and did MOI
mean to pass absolutiOn on his general turpitude
by conceding him any new Official honor-to dis
sover all this is myrrh to Warmoth. who, while
hating the Republican party no less, certainly
hates the Democracy infinitely more.
For several months past he absented himself
from Louisiana, where he found neither cOmpan-
sonship favor and sought to instigate at Wash
leined might not only satisfy his spleen toward
Governor Kellogg, but enable him to form some
Dew combination in the Rel ublcan ranks against
he Democracy. He thus admits that party to be
Always in the minority, except when. as In 1872,
he was its henchman. Were 1t possible for Nc
Emery by his pretensons to the executive title. to
'upplant Kellogg, Warmoth would not be whit
more appeased, for the Kellogg folk simply
surmounted his sham returns, while the McEnery
ok -contemptuously gave him pebble for the
promised Senatorial loaf. sin against himself
d incapable.
He recently shot out of your city under amusing
circumstances. While he was desponding over
The barren chances for new election it was whis-
pored that requisition from louisiana for his
arrest was on its way to Governor Shepherd. Ii
was tin pan he had long dreaded for his tail, and
the haste with which he fed from the Territory
Of Columbia to New York. where his friend Bull
lock, of Georgia, turks in shadow, was the subject
sf loud outlaws all over Louisiana. Soon after
be quietly ascertained from here that his fright
was without immediate reason, whereuPon he
FASTENED hither to simulate a courage which he
has failed to establish in social military circles.
Gov. Kellogg said two days since that he would
soon have Warmoth in the penitentary-the
sounts against him are maturing from q rigid
analysis of Louisiana securities now being pros
scuted. Both political parties, clearly, are unan
,mous that he should be abated rs a public
nuisance, and impatient for his conviction. He
was an extravagant highwayman, and pillaged
BY millions. The people are still compelled to
surrender their money in taxation because Of his
bills he long held at halEcock to their heads.
Signal relief is now afforded, however. by the
sew funding bill, the passage Of which Gov; KEEL
,0gg, aided vigorously by the Chamber of Com
Aerce, composed of four hundred of the old solid
Democratic merchants and capitalists Of New Or
cans, has recently accomplished in the Louisiana
Legislature. When such men can checrfully
combine with Kellogg to maintain the interests Of
he State, it is evident that amity and material
progress have been reached, and that the new
election plea receives no responsible emphasis
acre.
Everybody there, except a score Of McEnery
who forecast term of rapine was for q
i'm NJ n IN m
Such an event and its predatory canvass would be
fatal wounds to the whole Industrial system of
The State, and the planter, the merchant and the
laborer announced their firm disinclination to
make so serious q sacrifice simply to appease the
ehagrin of McEnery at his discontinue. Be-
in many they gave na him Their
were virtually pawns of their crops, their profits
sr their labor for their candidate after election
lay had lapsed: The recent published letter Of
sx-Gov Hebert, one of Louisiana's Oldest and
most honored sons, and lifelong Democrat to
Senator Bayard, OF Delaware, 10 q significant
oxen of the Democratic sentiment there: The
Ex-Governor pronouuces vehemently against q
new election, yet no man contributed more mate
,ial service TO the McEnery canvass in - Than
It'd be. The New Orleans Picdyune. the most OBJ
Iurau democratic print here, says that new
Ieal is peitn.as necessary nor even probable"
The New Orleans .twfs, q persistent enemy Or
he Republican party, tHus comments upon He.
vert letter:
.'p's view 80. - IT.. of new election, ordered
" Congfess. and had al time when an :ic IN.
lustriaI energies of our pe9plS should be en-
rrossed by their crops. is one which will be OBJ
ected to only by ultra politicians Of a certain
tamp.
1.-TWO wrongs do not make n right. Ifby unau.
horned Federal Intervention, whether judicial
II executive, O usurpation has been foisted upon
louisiana It is unwise, especially at this late day.
% attempt the correction Of the wrong by an act
Il Congressional Intervention equally unsuthor-
xed."
Its very next page thus reports the proceedings
N A a preyious of the New Orleans Chamber
u Commerce:
Mr.. Sandidge offered a resolution Of thanks to
he funding bill and the evident intention shown
70 ward me-s--"s in the interest OF reform.
Mr.. pslesby said such a resolution ought to
me il vas due to ths Legislature to thank them
Tor theIi action. He had noticed ip the Picoyune
. protest signed by bondholders. They were New
ork bon lholders, who had been instrumental in
planned OF They had been leyislating for us. but
how We pI oppose 10 do 1t for ourselves. At least
Zig hty per cent. Of the bondholders signing that
article re of the concern known the 81 600 900
Chatham oga railroad swindle. New York legis-
lated thu bill and paid for IT, 1t was too late TO
[ature h ID acted more hvorably toward the bond
holders than towards rs. II they had made It
hfty per cent. It would have been az even ttingi
age e III @ were the
DnIy ones who complained.
.The re. oiutIcn was adopted, and the chamber
lQloCrne0.
| Now, une, You bear in mind that Mr.. Sandidge,
he mover Of me resolution, is an old Democrat,
who Tor years I'D the chair OF the conventions OF
his party; that tn Chamber Of Commerce nuEi-
bers nearly four hun. red Democratic merchants
and bankers and that II. nresid--.,, Mr.. ORlesby,
d likewise president of the Louisiana National
tank ana the head Of large mercantile house,
The Acknowledgements Of such formidable body
10 the Kellogg Legislature are deserving OF espe-
eial notice. When responsible individuals thus
forget their party predictions and mako cordial
alliance with the other party because they dis
the mischiefs OF the Warmoth administration and
vital reforms; when even the most
stubborn Bourbon prints have to succumb to the
popular impotence at the McEnery quarrel
longer, you may discover without spectacies that
Louisiana is an unit in her effort to conserve her.
self and that Gov. Kellogg, in sharing this en-
deayor, shares large measure OF popular faith.
He IL mailing spurious State obligations to the
sounter with a sledge, not tack hammer The
Legislature was never in such good discipline, all
which he controls 1t for salutary ends has won
Slike for him and 1t grateful Acknowledgements
rom even the most perverse Democrats. He is
assuring the State substantial relief, and that
this pursuit is not to be interrupted by a vexa-
.ious committal of the question Of administration
over the State.
After the three kings of the Senate, Morton,
Conkling and Frelinghuyeen, had parenthesized
Matt. Carpenters speech, the satisfaction WAS
here manifest in every countenance: When the
all canvass shall arrive the Republican party of
he Union may point proudly to Louisiana as an
illustration Of the wisdom and equity Of its ma
ionai policy. Poor McEnery has been playing
Don Qui1ote SO long that his ofiicfai armor OF
pasteboard excites nothing but compassion now
kycq among his party -fsll9wf They OBJECT y ms
M foOl e lance int tn flock