New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-22
I BIT OF POLITICAL HISTORY.

| New York lines, IN defending
uener Grants appointment of his
orotnein-law to the relationship of this
port, cody declares that casey has taken
the Custphouse out of the hands of poll
t'clans' As this statement might mis-
Lead the ul~ary, we may as well explain
now ar. tsey has accomplished the
work with wich he is credited.
Obtaining Se Office in opposition to tie
wishes of the tpublican leaders il Loui-
sIana, and whuy by virtue of his con-
nectlon vita the Presidential household
Mr. Casey at one attempted to show his
spleen at and indeendence Of the Repub-
lican party by flag the Customhouse
with Democrats, MAY of whom had taken
active part with the A-Klux in the bloody
campaign OF 1865. amost universal in
dlgnaton and protest som the supporters
here OF the national administration COM
PEELED through orders pm Washington.
a change in his tactics, md would have
ousted him from the otfic, he only NOM
lnally fills but for the mstaken pity of
Governor Warmoth, who ecame, after
much solicitation from Case and his i'm.
mediate hackers, sponsor fc his future
fidelity to the party and its pr,ciples
Good officers and earnest republicans
were selected by the Governor id State
Central Committee to fill the hces Of
the lukewarm friends and open eem;es
whom Casey had elevated to pow.. and
these changes were made in time texsr-
else happy influence in the impotant
State election Of 1870. But the '.nesral
kentuckian," and those controlling ,;s
actions, could not remain true to t.
party they had espoused, and upon IT,
first opportunity returned, as nearly al
they dare, to their former allegiance. In.
stigated and fostered by few unscrupu-
lous Democratic politicians, and secretly
trading with the Democratic committees,
boiling faction was organized in the
Republican party, which was not per-
mitted to die out even when the victory
had Teen won Ambitious demagogues
and disappointed Office seekers We're raj
lied to the standard Of the boilers, and
with spacious pleas and imaginary griev-
lnces for justification, an open alliance
was finally made with the Democracy.
And it was during the elimination of this
basely treacLerous plot that Casey, to
again quote the New York Times, ''took
'he Customkouse cut of the hands of
politicians. He transferred its powers
md emoluments from the control of the
Republican politicians, who had re-
1eemed Louisiana from slaughter-feld
If colored men, and made its government
'ne OF liberty and protection for all, to
hat Of men whose Republicanism was
imply a cloak for self-aggrandizement,
nd whose councils were inspired by the
Interest foes our party has ever had to
ontend with.
And to-day this is the condition of af
airs under Mr.. Caseys rule. We can not
ct believe that the President realizes the
act that the greatest danger to Repub
can supremacy in Louisiana comes from
he misuse OF the powers which he had
ntrusted to weak and wicked men, and if
ur contemporary will but assist in open
1g his eyes to the fact and procuring a
eform, it will be doing General Grant
astiy more good than defending him from
ne threadbare charges of Democratic Cos
p-mongers.