The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-01-06
GRANT AND HIS FRIENDS.

As the time for tho Inauguration O
the President elect approaches there
begins to appear a speck of war be-
tween Gen. Grant and the most ultra
Radicals of the Republican party. The
remote cause may be found in the fact
that Gen. Grant was never their choice
for the Presidency but was rather put up
to save, by his military reputation, the
party when it was sadly in need OF
somebody to save it. The immediate
cause is the repeal of the Civil Tenure
Bill. This Bill was framed for the
purpose of preventing Mr.. Johnson, an
anti Radical President, from turning
out of Office an immense horde of Radi-
cal Office holders. The Bill was con-
sidered so sacred that its alleged VIC
lation formed tho basis of the only i'm
parchment of an executive officer
known in the history of the Republic.
But now that there is to DO no anti
Radical President to interfere with
the Radical hold on the public crib,
Gen. Grants immediate friends con-
tend that the present Congress must
repeal the bill, and suffer Gen. Grant
to reward his friends and punish his
enemies in his own way, untrammeled
by legislation that was framed for an
entirely different order of things. Gen.
Grants friends say tho bill must be
repealed. Gen. Grant himself says
that this Congress must repeal it, or
else the next within the first few hours
of its existence. Gen. Grant, says SO
little that whatever he does say is ia
ken up and echoed far and wide. This
saying of his is going the rounds and
people arc beginning to ask "what
loes it mean" If Gen. jackson IAN
lrew, VIC mean) had said anything
must be done, We should know exactly
What to expect, but we are slightly in
ihe dark as to the result of the oracle
when given forth by this combination
as We are told) of the spirit of all the !
"ashingtons and Jacksons that ever
ixed. Some people make up in obsti-
lacy what they lack in brains. Gen.
Grant showed some obstinacy during
he war; may he not show it againf
On tho other hand the sixty thousand
ms have a word to say Oh the repeal of
his bill. They claim that they COLI
no little to the election of the
ew President by furnishing material
id in the way of a per centage on their
alaries, and that their opinions are en-
tiled to some weight. OF course they
&c no necessity for tho repeal of the
ill, and will throw their influence
gainst it. .a.. ...... re
Within few months this first con-
est must como to q head. If it is ne
cssary to move without Grant, the
adicals will not hesitate to come to
n open rupture with him. Among I
10 first things they will do will be
purge the House of it's Conservative :
ement SO as to have the necessary
yo-thirds majority which will enable {
lem to do without Grant as soon as
ley find that they cannot control him, ;
hey will then enact with Grant the
me role they played with Andrew c
'hnson, who was as much elected by
eir votes as Gen. Grant was. d
Gen. Grant himself will have a hard
'ad to travel. Tho history of the ad-
Illustrations of John Tyler and Of .
ndrew johnson do not afford much D
nsoiation for those who place them s
Ives in antagonism to the party nv u
hlch they arc elected. If, however. q
will throw his influence against the "
evolutionary doctrines of the party
it'll which he now affiliates, he will q
I'd hlulself sustained by tho con serva- o.
70 element in every party in the
mon. In few months We shall see q
nat we shall see. ait ..t8 II