Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-22
THE MILITARY INTERFE RENEE
ATNEw ORLEANS.


States Marshal, Casey, brother in-law of
Gen. Grant and Collector of the Port and
others on the one side, and Gov. War
moth and others in opposition. The
whole struggle seems to have been be-
tween the Grant and the anti Grant wings
of the Radical party. For some reason
or it may be without reason, Gen. Grants
United States Marshal packard and his
brother-in- law-Collector or Collector
brother-in-law Casey suspected the Rad
ical Governor (Warmoth) of being op-
posed TO or indisposed toward
the Grant administration. The
Grant, Packard ard Casey, Brother
in law. Collector and United States Mar
shall party seem also to have feared that
the Gov. Warmoth party were the
stronger ia numbers, and might turn the
batteries of the convention against the
Grant Collector brother-in-law and Mar
shall party. To prevent this dire calamity
the Collector brother in-law and Marshal
party determined to turn United States
battery of Gltlin-guns, sustained by
United States troops, against the War
moths. 1t has not yet been explained
what relation two United States officers,
one Marshal and the other Collector
of the Port, bear to State Convention.
We presume that is one of the nu-
merous family relations which will
be explained in the next number of
the New York Ledger that contains
Father Jesse's continuation of the
biography of the youthful Uly sses. AS
we have already published, the N. Y.
Tribune of the 10th contained the fol-
loving:
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.-Dispatches
received from Washington to day are to
the effect that the President strongly de-
nounces the conduct of the Federal Off
GERS in relation to the late convention,
and that TO save the Republican party,
and keep his administration free from
embarrassment, he will remove Casey,
Packard and others.
But in the editorial columns of the
Tribune of the 18Th we find the follow
ing:
We have no confirmation of the in
tended removal by the President of the
New Orleans officers who have disgraced
his appointment. 1t is pity that SO
needful an act should be so needlessly de-
layed. The President cannot afford to
accept any responsibility for the shame
full conduct of Collector Casey, Marshal
Packard, and their associates The Re-
publican administration that sustains men
who use L. S. troops and L. S. Custom
houses for shutting ont Republican dele
gates or overawIng Republican ConveE-
ton is mad.
The further statements about this dis
creditable affair contained in the card of
Major Gen. F. ]. Heron, telegrsphed US
from New Orleans, are so startling that
but for the undoub.ed character of their
author we should be as slow as we are
sorry to accept them. And We still pre-
fer to deny the right of the persons men
toned in the Cincinnati dispatch on the
same subject to attribute to the Presidents
inspiration the Washington letters they
are carrying to New Orleans.
The Cincinnati dispatch referred to
above, we clip from the Tribune, is az
follows:
Iy.,-r,,,-,--, A,,o,,et II NoD6doptiol
dispatches to the President, signed by
Casey and Packard, of New Orleans,
were shown TO the passengers on the train
from the South, this morning, by New
York Democrat, who was the bearer of
them. The dispatches state that the rea-
son for making use of troops was, that
Gov. Warm0uth's friends were too nu-
merous and threatening, and that, though
troops were present, their arms were
stacked and not used. Friends of the
State administration are stJ led rowdies,
while the Federal officers are called re-
spectacle men, and better Republicans
than their opponents. Evident anxiety is
shown and fear lest they lose their places.
Resort is had to hard names and abuse of
| opponents as a means of diverting atten-
ton from their own great blunders. The
| charge is also made that Gov. WarmOth
and his friends are unfriendly to the
President; hence the necessity for put
ting them down. The public exhibition
of the dispatches in railroad car, is my
only apology for speaking of their COM
tents. The passengers considered them
very silly and undignified.
The card of Gen. Heron, late U. S.
Marshal, in reply to Packard, which we
also fad in the Tribune, addressed to
the editor, says:
On the evening of the 9TH inst. Mar
shal Packard stated to Gen. Campbell,
Judge Dibble, and Kr. Fish of the Re
publican, that he had the highest author
lty in the land for using the Customhouse
| and troops, and has since stated that
Gen. Grant authorized it.
VIII Gen. Grant still continue in office
this L. S. Marshal and Brother-in-law
Cylector2. We have no information of
their removal. In the language Of the
Tribune: at is ply that so needful
an act should lie 30 needlessly de-
layed. But, If Marshal Packard
stated the truth, on the evening OF
the 9TH, to Gen. Campbell, Judge Dibble
and Mr.. Fish of the New Orleans Repo.6-
tican that he had the highest authority in
the land for using the Customhouse and
troops; if he has since stated that Gen.
Grant authorized it, the President will
probably not go back on his friends, buI
will needlessly delay that needful act
their removal, and the good and great II.
G. will be left to gnssh his teeth over the
lamentsble fall of his great chief, Useless
s. q.