The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-01-18
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE,
WAsHIseToN, D. c.,

~ Happy NEW 1edi ~ All, pOtuiGuII'S
as well as socially and witha glance
over the political year OF 1870 aud tho
present aspect ut affairs, / h in i
we can chee,f',Ily and h opefull,
say to each other happy New
Year for the dawn Of Demncratic day
is breaking. As rats desert sinking
ship, so does john W. Fprney desert
| Washington, the experimenting ground
Of Radicalism and the home of Grant
and Bean Hickman. sForncy has sold
the Court journal, the Chronicle and
in his valelictOry, a sad farewell to MI
his hopes of "tfiee under Grant or any
other man, he says: His Piiladclpl,ia
paper, The Press requires all his lime
and attention aud that if he would he
truly happy he should confne his eff.
forts to that establishment alone. anal
he goes hacksfo his home and family in
Philadelphia. Forney is sonred ard
disappointed man. Buchanan did not
recognize his peculiar talents and after
going over to the Radicals, Lincoln
had no use for him and now after do
ing all the dirty work required Of him
i"r Ulysses he is east off without even,
bone. Forney admits that he is not
q trnly happy aud he onght to know.
bale F"rncy. The happy Radical
family Me having ~ jolly time all
round. 1t ha.in. been stated that
Judge Adyoeate General Joe Holt, the
Infamous. proposed ut the time af Mrs.
surri,ft's trial t" give her up if john
Surrat would come forward aud that
therefore Mrs. Surratt was. held and
excited as hostage. Holt now de-
MES having done so hut another coup-
sci for the Government and Hollis as
sMiate says that the original statement
is true. A little time will show M u
great many Radical vilIainies which at
present they manage to keep from the
light of day. John Surratt was adyer-
tisca to repeat The lecture here which
he has delivered in other places bur so
great is the ".loiity "nf the Radicals in
the Capital that he was prevented Ivy
the threats of the Grand Army Of the
Republic, an organization which even
Horace Greeley denounced as inimicaI
to the safety and perpe,nity of Repuh-
lean, institutions. There were two
hundred of them banded together and
s"erp to prevent his lecture taking
place and these threats coming to the
ears of Majhr Emory, he instead IF call.
ing upon the entire power of the Gov
ernnient to protect SHrratt in his rights
as ii citizen against the threats of an
organized mob. in his official capacit,
warned and advised >urratt not to lee.
tn,e. In the first place L,ncoln. Hall.
hnilt by the Young Mems Christian
Association, and Odd Fellows Hall
were both rented by Mr.. Surratt's
agent and in boil, cases the agreements
were broken. which coupled with the
threats of the Radical office holding
fanatics and the almost refusal of the
Mayor to protect him against their pro-
posed violence he did not lecture aud
TINS in the Capital of the country was
the dearest principle nf American lil-
erry violated by those who pra.e of
liberty.
Wo'li any mob he allowed to pre-
vent Douglass, the negro from h,lch-
ing forth his venom, and slanderinc the
white Democracy of the country Oh
ho Grant would order ont the army |
very quickly to protect the negro but |
Surratt is only a white man who has
no friends t" see that the has Justice
lone him. Oh! for the time when
will not he mrte,l ont to us a,
the whim or will of a set of political
fanatics who feel and would act as /
heard Yankee female Treasury clerk
express herself, she said. They oucbt
to hang John Snrratt as they did his
mother.
The San Domingo war RACES in the
newspapers. The Republican
vt this city Is ont in a two and-h half
column article to show the trne reason
If Summers opposition t.kGrant's pc,
speculation. The arti.le charges that
when Grant called "nSi'mner, he, Sum
ner. wanted to bargain with the i'm
raculate Ulysses as t., the price ofhis
support which was the retention Of the
Notorious Ashley as Governor Of Mnr-
ana. which said VI, sses did not do.
Also another cause of Summers falling
III from Grant was that tie refused To
'preint Il Mr.. Phelps. Summers bio
.rapfer, to the position then occupied
~ General Andrews, United States
MARSHAL of Massachusetts. For these
NO acts has the fav0rite SON Of New
England gone back "n the great .jol,ber
md scliemeist. In this vii.dication off
'ur much beloved President Sumneri is
allied pet names sucl, as " political
nggler with oratorical tricks,". Title
'at Iitmousr, and n question Of verac-
~ is raised between him and the /;