The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-06
s.suyGTos CORRESPONDENCE.

The huge Radical mountain '" ii'ii
,.,o,ed last week to bring forth a
ZION lion; and only produced a very tame
suee has had the offspring before
eo,,ate Committee on Foreign rela-
.:o,,s and the Doctors of that August
hodv are divided on the merits OF the
sarn,inous thingssbrought forth after
% much froth, fret and fume. The
? Presidents allies, the friends Of
npace, think the tame mouse the very
th;ne please Spain and to tickle the
poople, whose hearts are with Cuba !;
b,,f those who desired to bring forth
-, animal with claws are sorely dis
se,ssed with the Bingham mouse and
sre for smothering it. They consid-
y tbe House resolution authorizing
tbe President to take measures,
reaceful protests, to prevent the
murder of prisoners in Cuba as moth
inc more than mockery to cover up
The infamy which attaches to those
who are assisting Spain in her efforts
h continue her unbearable tyranny
in Cuba, under all the twaddle on
The side of the Spanish interest, by
Ben. Butler & Co., there is a job and
It was SO charged by General Logan,
q Radical, in his speech. VIII the
Radicals be able to explain this Gu
ban business satisfactorily to the
people in the fall elections? The
Senate Finance Committee have mace
some important amendments to the
Hause tax bill. The income tax
which the House fixed at three per
cent. with $500 exempted has not
been touched. Rumors are ahoat
that the President has yielded to the
pressure brought against Mr.. Aker-
man. his nominee for the Attorney
Generalship, and will withdraw bis
nomination and send in the name o.
Senator Williams, of Oregon, whom
the Democrats of that State have de
cided shall retire to the shades O
private life. The drudgery of public
life has more charms for the Senator
than the much vaunted beauties o
private life, especially as he has
young, and charming wife who doate
on fashionable society in this gay CT
ty and will no doubt consider resi-
denee in Oregon dreary exile. Thi
nomination will give entire satisfac
ton to the numerous friends of Mrs
Williams. The pressure against MI
Alderman is growing stronger ever
day. Mr.. Akerman's being a yolur
iary aid On Gen. Robert Toomb's sta
is "a capital excuse for the 'trul
loil Senators to object to his confil
nation. His purifcation in the W,
tiers of Radicalism during the pa:
four Years should have cleansed a
his former Impurities and have mao
him as Immediately white as Lon,
street, Stokes, of Tenn, and the lie
of those who have bent the kne
bowed the head and cried pecau
and received the Radical absolute
and an Office at the same time as
inducement for other unrepenta
Rebels to also come up to the Rat
cal altar. II the Radicals C. go bacl
on brother Alderman the purchase
bic Southerners will take the ALA
and hold off. This nomination
one of Grants master strokes CT p
icy, very fine, so,fne that most pr'
ably chat his masters, the arrogi
and domii1eering Senate, may fail
see it. The. nomination was REFER
to the Committee on the Judicia
Now that General Grant has
more offices TO sell and has not ma
a strike in any Of the jobs in VIII
he has embarked he is trying, or
least one of his Secretaries, to bla
mail the ofice-helders under him
getting subscriptions for the purp'
of buying the President paid
life insurance policy of $4,000. ]
cost viii be $27, 900 cash i; and i
proposed to grind this sum out
ofice-holders and those who asI
to positions. The voluntary S
seriptions for Houses &c, with
most the certainty ola return in 2
portion TO the sum given was
graceful but this black mailing, a
is nothing else, is Infamous.
presentation Of the subscription b.
means ''your money on your pla
as the victims well know, it is onl
polite way of saying it. The pla
Of those who will not give would s.
be given to those outsiders who {
In its least repulsive form is it
monsIrons that The President of