The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-15
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people Of Louisiana That people had staked
their fortunes In great struggle and had lost.
They came out OF the war with little else save
honor. They came to their desolate homes
with the intention to rebuild them and live in
peace. But their hopes had been blasted. They
had been plundered and oppressed by aliens
until they had risen and cast them off. Those
who had robbed them had the insolence
TO spit their venom at them. They hated
them because they could no longer oppress
them; they insulted them because they were
no longer permitted to plumber them; they
sneered at them because they were now no
longer able to njure them [ApplauseJ This
had gone on long enough. For one he would
not consent to remain silent under the fnsinua-
tions and the imputations that had been
thrown throw ~ out. The puny wit OF the gentleman
his irony had had play at the true people OF
the State long enough. He was largely re-
sponsible Tor the Ills under which they had
50 long suffered, and 1t was time tnat his
cnaraclsris.c e,.n attacks upon them had been
Delegate Warmoth resented the lnsinua-
ton that he had insulted the paonIe. He
knew more people In the State than the gem
that he had not always treated every opa
with courtesy. But he intended to expreaa
his opinions, and did not intend to be cried
down. Nor did he intend to be driven out Of
the State. He had come here to stay AS for
the acts Of his administration, he Intended to
stand by them. He had done some things
which he would not do now that he had ar
rived at maturer years, but he should stand
by them all. Those acts had been sustained
by the Democratic members Of the LeRisla-
ture-sorne Of them unanimously, all of them
by majority. So that party was equally
responsible with him. He had come
into the State after the war to live.
rebeon ns haa and phgf bs a n s9 npa put = down the
for doing 80. When he was nominated for
Governor he protested against 1t. After being
elected he sought to 30 administer the affairs
OF the state as 70 build up her resources and
ported In his administration by the conserya-
tive classes Of the community. and by their
assistance had saved the State In the Carter
rebellion where ne fought the Grant Re-
leans, and over 100000 In what was known
as the Carter warrants. It was cow
ardly TO seek to fix the acts OF the adminis-
tration upon one man. He admitted
that the Auditors figures as to the
expenses OF the government under his ad-
.ministration were true, and that the taxes
had been much too heavy. But he was moi
responsible for these things, and the Repub-
lican party was not responsible. The lobbies
Of the Legislature which passed the acts
complained OF were made up Of the bankers
and merchants Of this city, who used every
effort to get them passed. Every newspaper
in the city, except the Bee, had supported
them. The proprlety of issuing the various
DDLlS ub SILL CtuGuuSu IDE. HaQ the bonds
been sold at fair value and the money an
piled as 1t was intended 1t should be applied.
the condition Of the State to-day would BE-
very different. We would have two railroads
| to Texas and other necessary internal Inn
provements. The failure of the roads
to Texas, for which $4,000, 600 of bonds had
been issued, was due solely to the act Of the
Morgan monopoly, supported by 100 .mer-
chants and bankers Of this city, which had
issued circulars denouncing the bonds and
| circulated them broadcast over the country
and Europe, and thus destroyed the credit of
the State and the value of the bonds. The
issue itself was proper. III the act was wrong
why did the Democrats OF 1873 vote the
Shreveport bonds? That was yindcation
In this respect Of his administration. Hegave
notice that he did not intend to be driven out
and he should always express his opinion,
even II he could not always do SO as well and
display such gigantic wit as the gentleman
from st. Mary.
| The main question was then ordered and
on the motion to reject the majority report
| the yeas and NAYS were called with the fol-
lowing result: Yeas %, nays 50, and the mo-
| tion to reject was lost, and the majority re-
port was adopted.
| On motion the Convention then, at S :25, ad-
| iourned until tomorrow at 2o'clock.