The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-04-21
GRANTS APPOINTMENTS.

Every day announces a new list o
appointments to high Offices by tn
President, and UP to this. moment Their
has been no improvement on the sys
tenn which he adopted when he wa
first indicted into Office He seems tt
have set out with the idea that it wa;
wrong in a President who had beer
elected to inaugurate Il new order o
/ things, to appoint capable men to Of
fee, and he has adhered strictly to tina
idea in all subsequent appointments
Thesannouncement of his Cabinet was
received with horselangh by his po-
litical opponents, and with the utmost
Indignation by the leaders of the Radi-
cal party, who had spent long years in
building up the party while Grant was
an obscure pot-house politician belong
ingto another and quite different pol
itical organization. They foresaw in the
imbecility and incapacity with which
he was surrounded the certain doom of
the party of which they had SO long
been the leaders. The Cabinet did
not hold together three days, and the
tincapacity of other members will be
daily demonstrated until not one of
the original appointees will be found
in Office in six months. 1t is no Won
der, therefore, that Congress manifest
ed so much reluctance to entrusting
Grant with full liberty in the appoint
ment of officers. 1t is 20 wonder that
the Senate insisted on reserving the
right of supervision over the work of a
man who does his work in such a bung-
ling manner.
The subsequent appointments made
by Gen. Grant, after the settlement of
the Tenure of Office question, are all
on par with those of his Cabinet
Ministers. Not one has yet been APP
pointed for any special fitness, and not
one would probably ever have been
thought Of for the Office by any other
man than Gen. Grant. The most im-
portant foreign mission is filed by Mr..
Motley, who knows nothing of states
having been buried in his
library all his life, and whose incapac-
ity as diplomat was demonstrated in
tie only Office he ever held, the Aus
TRAN Mission, from which he had to be
recalled. The French Mission is filed |
by Mr.. Washburne, who not only can
not speak French, but is even unable
to speak ineligible English, and who
was appointed solely as reward for
favors, and after he had prov
ed his lncapacity for the Secretaryship
of State, which the President was anx-
ous for him to ell.
But the President has blundered
even more seriously than in putting in
high places his imbecile sohite friends.
The ink is hardly dry with which he
put on record his opposition to negro
suffrage and his opinion that they are
Incapable OF exercising it rightly
And yet, after true Radical fashion, he
lever loses an opportunity to appoint
me to good Office, whenever he is
that such appointment will
'rove particularly CALLING to Southern
'ride. He appoints a negro post-mas-
OF in the refined city of Columbia for
he reason, doubtless, that the people
# that city were not sufficiently out
aged by its conhagration at the hands
If his man Friday. He appoints sew j
raj black and greasy negroes to Office
rom Louisiana, among them the noto-
lous Pinchback, who doubtless spe-
tally recommended himself to Grant
y his barDarous threat to lay the city
t New Orleans in ashes. And so on
o the end of the chapter.
This country is little too extensive
be governed by, one man. 1t is as
luch as President can do to govern
!, when he. surrounds himself with the
est talent the country affords. 1t
annot be governed at all if all the off
ess are filled by imbeciles. Gen. Grant
1T out with the idea that he could do
hat nobody else was able to do be-
IRE him, and the politicians of his ..
wn party are determined that he
hll acknowledge that lie cannot get
long without them. Up TO this point :
e has shown himself to be about as
nall specimen of President as ev-
filled The chair, and it will not take
ANY more weeks for him to "run his {
achine off the track" g
GofToN NOT TAxED.-Ihe question Set )
I'd Defnitely.-To remove all doubts on Il
lis subject, so far as thew can be sattlod t