New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-15
4 GREAT ERRoR solEWHEKE.


S ington should certainly investigate itst
to discover why it is that SO many life-lor
5 Republicans at present occupy an III
friendly or Indifferent attitude toward II
. President whom they helped to elect. II
e men who have been known for years {
the great leaders Of the Republican part.
and whose fidelity to its principles We
the ruin of their political fortunes, render
ing them unavailable in compariso
| with others that were less pronounced i
their views, are at present stranger
to the counsels Of the administration
, which is supposed to represent thei
ideas.
! Senators Sumner and Wilson, in Massa
chusetts, Senator Fenton, and Messrs
Greeley, Beecher, and Tilton, of New
York, Senator Schurz, of Missouri, Cas-
sius N. Clay, Governor Brown, Of Mis-
souri,, Governor Geary, Of Pennsylvania
Senator Trumbull, Chief Justice Chase
Governor Moves, Of Ohio, the Tribune and
Republican, Of Chicago, the Gazette and
Commercial, of Cincinnati, together witt
other men and papers of lesser note but
equal consistency, are all opposed to the
manner in which General Grant has full.
filled the duties of President These men
were Republicans years before Grant was
heard Of. They moulded and led the party
from its infancy, and to them belongs the
credit of its great success. They are Re-
publicans to-day, but they are not the
friends of Republican President. They
are. in fact, almost strangers to the pre-
sumpive head OF their own party.
There must be reason for this. Some
body has committed An error of judg-
ment, and it is the duty of the Repub-
ican party to investigate the matter, and
discover who is the author of the mistake.
President Grant has no right to drive out
men who have made the country what it
is, free to every race and color, without
reason; nor have the great men who saved
the republic any right to withdraw from
the active support of the President, with
out cause. And yet, either the President
or his ancient friends, have done this very
thing, for it is certain that most of the
leading Republicans are outside Of the
circle Of that political confidence which
prevails in the Presidential mansion.
The blame for this condition Of affairs
m ust rest on the President, because the
other parties are too widely separated and
too distant in their ideas, and too pure in
their patriotism, to allow Of the sugges-
ton that they are inimical to the Presi-
dent by concert Of action. Mr.. Greeley
opposes Grant for one reason, Senators
Sumner and Wilson oppose him for
another. Senator Fessenden for another,
Mr.. Clay for another, and the great jour
nails that we mentioned, for all these rea-
sons combined. Many Republicans dis
like the President for having accepted 50
many presents, and for having rewarded
The giver with Office under the government;
others dislike him for having appointed all
bis relations to lucrative positions; others |
see in him man dangerous to the free
dom Of the country, since he has not re-
buked those who overawed a convention
IF the people with the army Of the United
States; others find their complaint in his
attempt to buy the island Of San Domin-
20, and with it war with Hayti; others
;ay he has neglected to do that for Cuba
which any other American President
would have done long ago; that he has
Flowed his patronage to be dispensed by
Democrats, such as Murphy Of New York
S strongly suspected to be, and as Herwig
nd Casey are almost known to be; that
lie has not restrained his appointees from
in the local affairs Of the Re-
publican party for their Own benefit,
'lmost to the destruction Of the party, as
n New York, Louisiana and Missouri;
hat he has favored new order of men
bout Washington and elsewhere, to the
leglect of the old and reliable Repub-
leans, as We all know he has done in
louisiana.
Tie men who bring all these arguments
onward are working each independent of
be other. This demonstrates the absence
any conspiracy and proves that the
lame must rest with the President. If
e had not offended all of his old friends
hey would not have left him, each going
is separate way. If they had agreed to
Ike ofense they would have chosen a
ause of quarrel to be used by all the con-
orators. As they have no mutual griev-
nee, it is plain that they were wounded
and that all of them withdrew
lently and uncomplainingly, not one
cling the other of the ingratitude that
I'D stricken him.
It is certain, therefore, that the FRESH
ent is responsible for the i'll will that
Insists toward himself among his old ,
lends, and which is imperiling the sue
ess OF the administration, and that he ..
wes it to himself and to the party to in
estigate the matter and adopt some sort
measure to restore that harmony which .
now so much wanted. Republican VIC
'ries are being gathered, but his ap-
ointees are not winning them In Lou :
lana, if the election had been left to :
Re direction of the federal officials.
le State would have been swami b,, tho | =