The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-05-26
Radical Growls.
GENERAL DISGUST AMONG ALL HAND.

A GENERAL DISGUST AMONG ALL HANDS.
fW ashington Cor N. 7. World, 9th.
Cameron openly says: No friend Of
mine has been appointed to Office by this
administration. Without taking my ad-
vice the President and Secretary of State
succeeded giving constitutional drunkard
| good mission and constitutional thief q
consulate, besides credting Pennsylvania
with Secetary of the Navy who has sue
ceeded within six weeks in Kidding the
party of every workingman's vote. The
only munster we have excepted negro
who cannot be voter in our State) is a
man set down for Russia who ought to he
sent to the Lobas Islands oice g,sano re-
mOred' Schurz says to and of the Presi
dent Your selections are unknown men
who do not represent the party or conduce
to it's strength in the State of Missouri"
And to the Senate: ~ hope that men who
have dared to impeach one President will
not finch before the face of another"
Ross, Fowler and Brownlow have open
ly broken with the President, and Sprague
says, HE is utterly tied up ny the polite
ions;I have no hope of him; have de-
parted from him."
The Vermont Senators gravely and pub
licly complain that their State has not a
single appointment, just because they, on
principle, opposed and defeated the repeal
Of the tenure.ofofice law. Mr.. Edmunds
takes pains to sDub the President on every
occasion. He declared. when the President
sent in a message requesting action in the
case of Virginia and Mississippi, "that the
President had all the power under the ex-
listing laws, if he has only acquainted with
them" Howard of Michigan, said the same
thing, and always acts that it may be un-
derstood that "he takes 10 stock in toady-
ing to Grant"
Senator Trumbnll, failing to be recog-
nized and appreciated because Of his action
in the tenure ofofica matter, openly de-
nounces all Senators who seek Office of the
President or bis secretaries, and declares
his intention of offering bill to make it a
penal offense for congressman even SO
much as to put their name to papers ask
ing appointments.
A II the carpet-baggers declare that they
have been told to rebate their claims. for
sooth, because thei South before 1860 had
Il majority of the Offices, and because they
have been Informed that enough men of
intelligence and character cannot be found
in any or all the six States, "tbe white vote
having been SO small down there" Mr..
Sawyer of Massachusetts, announces from
his place as Senator of South Carolina that
the administration has pursued exactly
such policy as will demoralize and dis
hearten the Republican party in the South,
and that General Grant and Mr.. Fish have
verified the taunt of the Southern whites
to the Southern Senators, that they re-
present nobody"
General Grant tells Mr.. Sumner: II espe-
cially desire favorable report on and full
confirmation of Messrs. Sanford j. Russell
Jones and John Carlisle" and forthwith
all were killed with incident haste in a
single executive session, Likewise, w. A.
Pile, on whom, not satisfied with the Ven
ezuclian mission, Grant thust the greatness
of the Brazilian mission, is rejected, and
even contumeliously so, on the published
ground of "incompetency,
Ben Butler said when Grant caved on
the tenure-of.office question:: "The Presi-
dent dosen't know anything more about
law than an old hen, aud anyone can wind
him around his fingers"