New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-29

'tthe master" looks upon men as good sort
OF animals generally speaking, while they
work calmly in harness as drags, but when
ever they strike out to think and act for
! themselves, like these animals. they are
to be hobbled, SO as to prevent any such I'm
pleasantness in the future. Packard faith
fully carries out the instructions; becomes
a hard shell, like Grant; never says any
thing until he wants something done, and
then it is as cold as a meat-ax; adjusts the
various ward clubs after the manner of a
chief engineer, while all his subordinates,
| down to Sandy Packer, carry out the same
policy, each in his circle. Every one
dominates his brother-in-law, his cousin,
his nephew or niece to some position within
his gift, This system prevails everywhere
in the United States where an officer in
Grants service raises his head. Is it time
or not this thing should stop Are the
American people ready for all the preroga-
tives of a dynasty without the shallow
form We rather think not, we, the people.
This is from one of the original Grant men:
II worked hard for Grant in this State, and
besides did something handsome for him
during the war. Twas promised, in writing,
the first place in New Orleans in his gift.
Now from Casey's appointment down to
the present time have looked after the
completion of that contract, and the deep
damnation of the putting off has been my
sole reward l was well off then, am poor
as Jobs turkey now. But Ina playing for
even"
This is a man who had never been poll
tician, and who calculated on Grants
promise. His case is given simply because
he is one of az large class of worthy men
whom Grant disappointed, while he APP
pointed his relatives, gift-giyers, tools, in
struments of applicability, of speculation
and other people who have some claim
upon him.
In politics it is expected that those who
have been disappointed and ignored shall
cast their influence against their enemy.
This class of opposition surprises nobody,
though the element is so large very often
as to be formidable.
The friends of a great man are usually
his destruction. Napoleon the great and
the little both felb through their friends.
Lesser men in this country have fallen by
thousands through the same element. If
| Caesar fell By the stroke of friend, can
not the. same law hold good in America
'Save me from my friends" is an express
sion grown into prOverb. Were Grant
the greatest and the best of men, his friends
| would ruin him forever.
The CustOmhouse is a dynasty; not one
man welding any influence IS in the granite
temple, unless it be in the courts Whose
skirts have not been draggled in the mirel,
| that is not a member of the Grant house
| hold Not one man. Did the public COM
prehend the depth and ramifcatiOns Of this
system, it would alarm them at the spread
| of its power, whose roots, trunk and
branches can only be compared in strength
to one Of our own live oak trees.
Some pretence is made to Repubicanism /;
not one of them understands the first ele
ment of the great principle, at the rumble
of which every despot trembles; and well
| he may. No, not the first elements. The
ward meetings are managed too thin. An
official in the Customhouse is pointed out as
chairman, whose friend shall call the meet
| ing to order. His friend beats about
among the employees, no matter where
they live, and gets up an audience by va
rious means. One brother-in-law is presi-
| dent, another secretary, third treasurer,
and when the stock of brothers-in-law is
exhausted, drafts are made on cousins,
maiden aunts, pets and so on.
The whole business is a daily protest
against a republican form of government,
and is protest the people will file away
among the forever records.