Year: 1872

Rebulke Of Federal O0lcials.
vALED1CToRY OF COLONEL CARTER-HE
REPUDlATEs THE STATE TICKET.


We publish this morning the vale
dictory of Hon. George w. Carter,
chief editor of the National Repubi-
can, upon his retiring from tho con-
duct Of that journal. It reads as fol-
lows


For q period Of almost twelve
months 1 have edited this journal,
and the duties incident to such q po-
sition have brought the full measure
of my abilities and an earnest desire
for the success Of the Republican
party. During this period I have
experienced from my brother Jour-
nalists many courtesies, for which I
desire here to express my deep sense
of obligation.


I retire from this journal deliber-
ately, and from q conviction that I
can not consistently be connected
with it in the advocacy of the ticket
for State officers, which it will, for
the present at least, indorse and sup
port. I think it due to the public
that I should frankly state my rea-
sons for thus withdrawing. I was
present at the recent State conven-
ton at Baton Rouge, and saw the
means employed to nominate the
State ticket, which now stands at
tho head Of these columns. A ma-
jority Of the candidates are compara-
tive strangers to me, and I am not
prepared to form either q favorable
or unfavorable estimate of their
qualifications, nor Go I propose to
criticise those gentlemen known by
me, and who, under different au-
spices, I could chcerfully support.


The wishes Of the Republican peo-
pie were thwarted by certain federal
officials in the convention, and that,
too, largely by the use of the force
which could be borrowed from the
federal patronage in the State of
Louisiana. The grand doctrine which
understand to be the very founda-
ton, not only of the Republican par
ty, but also Of all republican govern
1nent, that rulers should be selected
by the people, was wantonly tram
} pied upon, and a ticket was present.
ed which, in word, represents SIM
ply the preference and choice chiefly
of tho federal officers within this
State. I believe it wrong in princi-
pie to sanction such a selection, and
| further believe it would be futile
to attempt to accomplish the cleo
ton of officers SO selected. There
fore I have deemed it more in accor-
dance with my duty to the Republi-
can people Of the State to do at once,
and frankly, what I should be COM
PEELED to do latter, and under cir
cumstances which would allow, pos
sibly, of no successful endeavor to
remedy the evils thus imposed. If
this act of mine-be it sacrifice or
otherwise-shall contribute to rous-
ing the people Of the Republican
party to sense Of their danger, and
to an effort to relieve themselves of
the consequences Of certain defeat,
which in my opinion, awaits them,
with the roll of candidates thus Sc
lected, shall feel the consciousness
of having shown something of the
deep interest which I feel in the
great Republican party, which has
honored me in the past, and, I trust,
will ever honor me with it's conf
dence.


In my judgment, the part taken
by such Of the federal officials as at
tempted to control the convention
was dictatorial and indelicate, and
calculated to reflect upon the federal
government, and to place under sus-
picion and in jeopardy the integrity
of the party in the State. Manifestly
much more Difference was shown by
the managers to the prejudices Of
orr nn1itic01 onamios than IN tho