The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-26

can as General Grant could not be aware that the
Officers and men OF the First regiment OF Infantry.
now stationed in LOUISIANA, had been so long i'll the
South had associated 50 Intimately with rebels and
sec ssonsts that they had become worse rebels than
the Lousianians themselves, and could be expected
TO afford protection to the truly loyal men or the
State. lie therefore suggested TO the General that
he should at once recall mat regiment and replace It
py one faithful and devoted to the true Inte-
rests OF the republican party and OF its Presidential
candidate, Tue reverend gentleman, In the SIM
pcity OF his heart probably supposed that this last
home touch would induce GENE raj Grant at once 10
carry out the modestly profered suggestion. This
was not the way that great soldier chose to deal
with his comrades IN arms Inc iester was RESPECT
commanding Fifth Military District" BY General
Buchanan the document was referred to the officers
OF the magned regiment las gallant and loyal set
OF men as ever fought for their country. II went
the rounds OF the regiment; each officer endorsed
upon It his opinion OF Chaplain Conway and his
charges, and, thus ornamented, the document has
been returned to Washington. II Is to be hoped the
War ONCE will permit its publication. x testi
mOnial 10 President Johnson, with the endorsements
OF Butler, Ben Wade, Sumner and Wendell Phillips,
would not be much funnier reading.
Aside from the wolf G. les OF blatant radicals II Is
painful to mark how much anticipation OF evil times
there is among thoughtful men, who are compare
lively unnerested spectators of affairs in the South
From two gentlemen, opposite as the poles in char
acter, experience and politics, lately heard prog
nOstics OF the same kind. One trained and infili-
entail politician of the Northwest an intimate friend
OF stephen A. Douglas and one OF the hrayest and
most distinguished volunteer officers OF the war,
said:-"l do not believe we shall have Presidential
election. rear the breaking ont or an internecne
war be ore the canvass Is half through. There are
twenty points OF danger. Governor Brownlow, in
Tennessee, persists, as he unquestiOnably will, in
sending his negro militia districts hostile to
him. The whites are going to whip them and the
republicans will make common cause with Brown
low and bring on internecne war. II not III Tonnes
see 1t may break out anywhere. ! have no conf
dence in the future, none" The other gentleman,
all extreme radical, not long since in high military
command In the south, was just as despOnding:-'I
believe we are on the verge OF another reyOIition
admire General Blair a soldier and man but
can conceive nothing more dangerous and infian-
mat0ry than his recent utterances. III he Is elected
he promises revolution; II he Ii defeated he almost
advises it,"
So far as Louisiana ia concerned, prominent men
OF both parties seem really in the desire to
avoid an outbreak. conference OF republican and
democratic leaders was held couple OF days since
while the canvass goes brlskiy on, not only in the
city, but In the country. It's bitterness Is intensified
by recent acts or the Governor and her Legislature
Governor Warmoth staked his reputation and his
influence for good on the Printing bill. He lost all
influence for good when he allowed that measure 10
pass, taxing the State needessy and Enthusiastically
to The extent OF at least $4,000 year for the bene
lit OF newspaper OF which he (the GOVERNOR him
self is one-Iourth owner. AS TO the Legislature t
may be doubted whether any further acts OF theirs
can sink their reputation lower It would cause a
blush even at Albany II at every street corner men
showed a list OF IOrty-nine Observation-Disclosures
and repubicans-whose votes had been puichased
at prices varying from 500 for coored vote up to
5000 for an influential white-if it was notorious
tnat $4,000 mad been paid, principally by
two wen known honorables of New York
one IN Congress at the present time, the
other an eX-Congressman, TO secure the pass
age of a Lottery Monopoly bill, the profits OF which
are estimated at S50,U00 month, and that The oniy
question IN dispute was not whether these stat,.
mes are true, Tor they have been publicly published
and remain Lncontradicted, but whether the Gov
ernor himself was bribed with ZOO to let the bill
become law Dy lapse or time or whether, as he him
self states ne was ntimdaed into passing 1t by the
threat that II he vetoed it enough votes would he
bought To pass 1t over his head and the support OF his
party would be Withdrawn from him. The bribery
OF The Legislature ~ conceded all hands aud Gov
eInor Narinoth wisely says that his experience de-
terinlnes him more than ever that the choosing of
PRESIDENT electors shall not be left the Leslsa-
ture for II they can be so readily bought for Lot
iency.