The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-08-25
A Blast at the President.
WENDELL PHILLIPS OPINION OF GRANT
AND HIS CABINET.

Wiseacres remind us that We must
not expect too much at once that as
great q change has already been made
as reasonable men would expect in one
generation; that history moves. in
four cases out Of i've; pendulum fashion
action and reaction. We know all
that. We know also why it il 50 ip
four cases ont Of Eve; and why, had
God given ~ q great man - leader
we might have been the fifth excep-
tional case and moved straight forward.
Had Grant been wise and brave enough
for the hour, the Sonth would have
been as law-ahidihg 40 New England
and loyal men would have dared to
show their wealth and their opinions
there, under the protection of the law
Politics would have marched to the
music of safe, gainfnl, end conten-
ted industry. Sull, Richelieu; or Bon
apart, Cromwell, Walpole, Chatham,
installed at Washington, would, in five
wears, have made New Orleans and
Savannah the twin-sisters of Boston
and Chicago. Charleston would have
been the banner town of the ultra re;
publicans, and Galveston would have
taken for its motto: IF any man in.
suits the stars and stripes, shoot him.
Instead of this, what have we for Pres
ident9 A Jockey and seaside Iounger;
a restless boy, needing constantly to
be amused; and so impatient Of bus.-
ness that he cannot stay at his post
more than week at time. Five
months in Office, he has not yet given
us an administration. But, posting q
copying clerk here and there, to keep
the machine in motion, he hurries of
to idle week at a watering place, act
dummy at a monster show, or helpless
at s.eambOat excursion. The presi-
dency must, indeed be a sinecure, il, IN
such an hour as this, q man bred in a
camp and tan yard can properly dis
charge its duties 200 miles from the
capital, in the intervals of the race
course and the half hours left after the
theatres and concerts:
Northern property sale nowhere at
the South. Texas covered with out
RACES on women and murders of men.
Tennessee playing the same game as
Virginia. Stokes, at the risk of his life
unsupported by government, fighting
on forlorn hope. Andrew johnson
clamoring for the election of Senter,
and Greeley quietly hoping for the de-
feat of Stokes ! In one-half the South
lOyalists telling US that unless there is
a change ut Washington they cannot
live there-"must fly across the Ohio
and throughout the whole South the
same men warning ns that in 1877
Democrats THAT is rebels) will rally
the South on their side. This is toe
uniform to be accident. 1t is the re-
suit of plot at the South, and Of dis
loyal apathy or honest incapacity al
Washington. There Grant shows him
self occasionally. Fish never was q
republican. Cox was johnson man
Boutwell, stands alone-n0 press to
support him. If you look at the Tri-
bune, its editor treats slavery IA q
dead issue, and longs for the old whig
party, while it is managed by one who
opposed impeachment, and would have
voted for Chase as the Tammany cam
didate for 1868, and wants him as such
candidate in 1872. If Johnson's trea'
son and Grants neutrality he succeed.
ed by Chase and Wade Hampton, sent
to Washington by Tammany Hal
where will IL such years leave the ma
tiOns To your tents Q Israe
for a second Buchanan sits in The
White House tempOrizing while the
enemy gets into battle array Anti
Slavery Standard.