New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
Special Correspondence of the Republican.

-aL" IOhiA, Ouue Id.
Still no Republican leader except Gran
presents himself, though it would look thi
morning as if Mr.. Greeley's friends ar,
really in earnest in their intention to hay,
him nominated. Greeley has been luke
warm on Grant for some time, and he is ou
nat against a presidential service for tive
terms. Greeley would certainly be a good
candidate for the South, and for the West
too, II he would let down on his high tariff
hobby little. Pennsylvania would go for
him with rush, for hasn't he been defend
ing her pig iron and coal interest for years
WHAT GREELEY SAYS
friend met Mr.. Greeley yesterday at
the Fifth Avenue. He was an old and fami-
liar friend, who had been in confidential in
tercourse with the Tribune philosopher from
the palmy Democratic days, when they
pitched Lovejoy's press into the Missouri
river, from when Pryor and John Potter
had their bowie-knife scrimmage in the
house, and when John Brown started re-
volution in Kansas, which eventually in
vOlved the nation and killed slavery and
quarter of million of citizens.
Your correspondent was younger party,
and In the conversation remained silent
-" How did you like your visit down South,
Horace y inquired Mr.. -.
1T was one continuous ovation from Gin
cinnati to Galveston" replied Mr.. Greeley.
why, could not account for it. l had
the freedom of the country. / could not
pay anything anywhere. When Iasked for
railroad ticket they said: Mr.. Greeley,
just tell us how many friends you have in
your party; your ticket has been sent to
your hotel; here are free tickets for the rest
When l tried to pay hotel bill there was
never any charge, and, in fact, the only
III oney was able to spend at all was now
and then quarter which l succeeded in
SNUG CLING into the hands of an unsuspect-
ing darkey. In one case, in New Orleans,
a negro came back and wanted me to take
some money back, as he did not know who
| was when he took it. If kind. generous
treatment will win over anybody, Nelson,
then I'm won over. like the South to-day
more than l can say. Nothing but kind
ness greeted me everywhere
''Some change, Horace, since they drove
Judge Hoar from the Charleston courts
and Matt Ward shot the schoolmaster
there ?"
well l should think so. We have be-
come homogeneous nation. They are i
little hot headed down there, which comes |
from the climate, Ipresume, but now slavery |
is up why we are bound to be united |
nation. All we want is to tear down every
down limited amnesty and
to prescribe any one, and let every
1ody, North or South, go to the poles on
he bare issue of like or dislike to the
'unning candidate. If bands of Ku- Klux,
ike our New York rioters in 1868. the
whisky rioters of Pennsylvania, or the
present rioters in Mississippi and South
carolina get too strong, put them down with
he national troops. We must not expect
o stop these things all at once. You can't
hange five million blacks from mere prop
rty to free citizenship by war and few
'roclamati0ns. 1t must take time and pa
fence. The SOutherners are generous, frank
nd as lawless as the devil. Plantations
re SO far apart that every man is his
wn police officer. He has to defend him
elf. The country is sparsely settled The
tiles are all right. New Orleans is as well
overned as New York and ten times
heaper. Our Tammany ring of Irishmen
worse than their negro legislatures. Our
ct are worse than the dishonest carpet
aggers and the ignorant negroes together;
My, we've got used to it. Suppose New
orleans was the great commercial centre;
oppose the Tribune, Herald and Times were
ublished there, would not they be crammed
Ill OF letters about the corrupt, stealing,
rohigate Tammany ring, backed by such
used associations as the Americas Club,
hose principal members are John Cham
erlain, the gambler, and Jim Fisk The J
NIB would be turned 10 the lion them
Mr.. Greeley spoke about as have written,
lcept that he let's out d-n now and then
his private conversation which sup
ress.
Inc above was written yesterday, but Mr.. /
reeley said about the same thing again in
IS Republican club reception, only in a
ore dignified way. His reception here ON n
s return from Texas was certainly fiat
ring tribute to an honest private citizen.
MON square was crowded, and our strong
invention Republicans, like Rufus +. An =
ews, John V. Gridley, General Cochrane,
nclair Tousey, and others, were out in
rec.
STATUE TO A GREAT LIVE MAN.
1t is great thing for a man to have his
atue put up in a great public park by his
miring contemporaries. When DR.. John
q wrote a.
See nations slowly wise and meanly lust,
To buried merit raise the tardy bust, 81
did not hit the case of Professor Morse.
lose large bronze statue went up along n.
lie of Won Humboldt's in Central Park on
turday. 1t was great day for the Morse