Note 179 — Chapter III
Reading edition
“We do not propose to inquire into the legality of the action of the Governor in ejecting Mr. Wickliffe from his office and appointing a person to supply his place, because we consider it too clear for dispute that Mr. Warmoth has no such power, and that his proceeding is a naked trespass.... The white population of Louisiana are entirely callous to the result, and don’t care whether ‘Mossup whip Barry’ or ‘Barry whip Mossup.’ They are in the situation of the onlookers at the fight of the Kilkenny cats, and would have no cause to weep if the combatants scratched each other’s eyes out.” Bee, Mar. 27, 1869.
The Bulletin and the Picayune took the same side more conservatively. See Bulletin, Mar. 27.