The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-03-17
THE BEGINNING.

to inaugurate the millennium, does mo-
seem to bring that peace and good viii
among the Radical brethren, black and
white, which the election of the Gene.
raj of the armies was said to hardin.
ger. The new order of things refuses
to "march." Grant endeayored to dc
something at the outset which no other
President ever attempted, and, as a
necessary consequence, he has had to
stand the opposition of all the old To-
gies who have holy horror of reforms
and innovations of all kinds. Former
Presidents generally commenced, i'm
mediately after their election, to look
around for their Cabinet ministers,
and, to aid them in judicious selec-
ton, the faithful men called in to rem
der their advice. So that, when the
4th Of March arrived, the Cabinet was
ready "cut and dried" and the admin
istration was put on it legs. But not
so with the new President. He snubs
all the old fogies of his party, goes
around the highways and by-ways
with search warrant hunting up men
who were never heard of before, in
forms his Cabinet ministers of their APP
pointment through their nomination to
the Senate, and when the whole thing
comes out, necessary muddle ensues,
which causes connection in political
circles that seriously interferes with an
suspicious commencement of the Radi
cal administration. His Secretary of
the Treasury is disqualified by q law
nearly hundred years old. which
some of the seekers after the Office have
exhumed in order to get him out of the
place. The Secretary himself is I'M
willing to go and offers bride of his
yearly receipts for the privilege of
staying in. This not appearing exact
ly the "clean thing" to the Republican
simplicity and severity" of the new
President, the New York counter-hop-
per has to go overheard, and the shop
keepers wife has to forgo her earnest de-
sire to have an establishment in Wash
ington next winter. And then again to
a successor is no easy matter.
The President wants Boutwell,, but
that necessitates the retirement of
1Ioar, who comes from the same State
of immaculate Radicalism, and Hoar
does not want to retire. So nuless
Hoar's ambition can be Modified by a
foreign mission we can see no other
destiny for Boutwell, than to be "pitch-
cd into the hole in the sky" the myth
ical receptacle which his brilliant i'm
agination had prepared for Andrew
Johnson. In the mean time there
seems TO be something shaky about the
State Department. Washburne accept
ed and resigned his seat in Congress,
but, in a week, became satisfied of his
incomretency for the office, and now
wants the French mission where there
is nothing to do, especially for minis
Ter who knows no other language than
The "Sucker" dialect. This vacancy
will also cause futter among the
thousand aspirants who think them
selves qualified for it, and the lucky
Individual who gets it is apt to turn
'ut the unluckiest and most unfortu-
late of all the applicants.
The Interior department is said to
oe by no means in as harmonious
condition as could be desired. The |
Did Ohio politicians who want the place
-Schenck, Ashley and Dennison-have
discovered that Gen. Cox, though
good soldier, is unsound on the negro
suffrage question, and that this must
De fatal to his promotion in the niger
party. Grant, having declared for the
amendment, cannot ig-
lore this reasonable objection.
On the whole, therefore, it seems
hat the Cabinet viii break up in a
week. 1t has always been a great OBJ
ect with a President to have his Cabi-
let unit. If Gen. Grant cannot start
With a unit, when will the unit he OBJ
aimed?
And, then, there is trouble every
Ime a subordinate officer is to be ap-
pointed. Some of the over faithful
Grant men in Louisiana who had set
heir hearts on the Custom House have
'een COMPOUNDED by the announcement
hat Gen. Grant intends the place for
lis 5rother-in-law; and, you know,
Ill the Presidents poor relations, and
lis wife's poor relations, must be taken
are of out of the public crib. In Mis-
ouri Drake and Schurz, puritan and
IN infidel-a more singular combina-
ion than Mr.. Randolph's "Puritan
md black-leg united upon slate
which the President incontinently
mashed up, to the great CONSERVATION
f the two Senators from that great
Western State. The President said he
Tanted to give good Office to a man
rho helDel to pet him the off;oo NJ