The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-05-19
Grant and His Party.

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The course pursued by Gen. Grant in making his
appointments has brought down on him the venom of
many of the leading spirits of the Radical party and
created great deal of dstrust jealousy and hate.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald writes at length on the subject and from which
we take the following extracts:
/ Washburne says, and all the men who swear with
and by him say, That Grants selection of Mr. Fish
has ruined the party and that in every State except
Vermont. Iowa aud Massachusetts, all coming elec.
tons, will go against the Republicans On the con-
trary, the Fish men say Of Washburne: He put up
General Grant to the selection of all their mutual
friends and relatives, and the very scandal of such
iavoritsm and nepotsm has been even less than tho
outrageous lncompetency, the gross corruption and
the notorious character of the appointments them.
/ selves"
The Iowa men say: "our State cave as aree .
proportional majority Massachusetts, and vet after
offering the State Department to Jas T. Wilson. and
after he had accepted it. it became impossible for him
to assume it becahse Illinois fool and swagcerer
was was put INTO IT. to whom Wilson was to play second
/ fiddle by subsequent entrance on the charge Then
We asked the appointment of Mr.. Wilson as Minister
to England. 1t was given to Massachusetts author
whose best claim was that he had quarrel with Mr..
Seward Then we asked the appointment Of our
present foremost Congressman Mr. Allison, to a first
class mission, and all State gets is the appointments
OF an unknown Mr.. Hudson, to Guatemala, and he is
blood cousin to the President himself and has been
living in the White House since Grant eneredit
and another man l.. G. Glasgow, is made Consul to
Havre only and just because he has been real estate
and railroad operator for Washburne himself, who
wants him at Havre and who thought that with Gas.
glow there and Montgomery and Gibbs in Paris, he
could do fourishing business in exports"
The Indiana Republicans say: Our great Senator,
Mr. Morton, led the demand for the repeal of the ten
ure fotlce law. His colleague, Mr.. Pratt, ably and
perslstenty backed him. General Grant himself
promises everything to Mr. Morton which he asks vet
when Senators so to the State Department, Secretary
Fish almost freezes them with excessive courtesy and
cooly gives US just four consuls and one minister
erediting two more consus to the State, one of whom
comes from Illinois and the other from Kentucky.
While Ohio which defeated negro suffrage which sent
most ultra Democratic Senator to Washington, which
defeated three or four Republican Congressman in
strong districts, has three fat missions two territorial
Governors, and twice as many eonsulaes Indiana
Cameron openly says: "No friend of mine has
been appointed to office by the administration With
out taking my advice the President and Secretary Of
State succeeded in giving constitutional drunkard n
good mission and constitutional thief consulate
besides crediting Pennsylvania with Secretary Of
the Navy, who has succeeded within six weeks in rid
ding the party of every workngmans VOTE The only
minister we have Except negro who cannot be vo-
ter III our State) is man set down for Russia who
ought to be sent to Lobas Islands, geno reored"
Scburz says to and of the President Your se!ec-
tions are unknown men, who do not represent tho
party or conduce to its strength in the State of Mis-
souri," And to the Senate I" hope that men who
have dared to impeaeh President win not finch
before the face of another.
Ross, Fowler and Brownlow have openly broken
with the President, and sprague says He Is utterly
tied up by the politicians; have no hepe of him
have departed from him."
The Vermont Senators grarely and publicly com.
plain that their State has not single appointment
just because they principle opposed and defeated
the repeal of the Tenure Of Office law Mr. Edmunds
takes pains to snub the President every occasion,
He declared, when the President sent in message re-.
questing action in the case of Virginia and Mssissipp
THAT the President had all the power under the ex
isting laws if he only acquainted with them"
Howard, OF Michigan said the thing, and always
acts that it may be understood that he takes no stock
in toadyiDg to Grant"
Senator Trumbul', failing to be recognised and np--
preclated because OF his action in the Tenure Office
matter openly denounces all Senators who Saels
OF the President his Secretaries and declares his in
tention of offering bill to make It penal offense for
congressman much as to put their names TO
papers asking appointments.
All the carpet-baggers declare that they have been
told to rebate their claims because forsooth the South
before 1850 had majority of the Offices and because
they have been informed that enough men of ntel!i-
gence and character cannot be found in any or all of
the six States, the uAie vote having been so small
down there" Mr. Sawyer of Massachusetts, announ-
ces from his place as Senator of South Carolina that
the administration has pursued exactly such policy as
Will demoralise and dshearten the Republican party in
Tie South and that Gen. Grant and Mr.. Fish have
verified the taunt of the Southern whites to the South
ern Senators, "that they represent nobody"
Gen Grant tells Mr.. Sumner: II especially desire IL
favorable report aud full confirmation of Messrs
Sanford j. Russell JONES' and John S. Carlisle" and!
forthwith all were killed with indecent haste in SIN
gle executive session. Likewise VIM. A. Pile, one
hon. not satisfied with the Venezuelan mission, Grant
thrust the greatness of the Brazilian mission is re.
ected, and even conumeously so, on the published
ground OF "incompetency."
Ben Butler said when Grant 'eaved on the tenure
of-ofice question: '!The President doesn't know any
hing more about law than old hen, and one can
wind him around his fugers."
III now demonstrated that Forneys trip through