The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-04-06
NUMBER 80.
The President Responsible.

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Republican party is beaten in Louisi-
ana next fall, the President alone viii
be the cause of that defeat, thus
clearly notifying him that he is res
ponsible for the conduct of the federal
officials in New Orleans, who have
created, and are endeavoring to
widen the breach in the party. He is
responsible, because he holds the rem
edy in his hands, and will not apply
it. President Grant appointed these
men to office, and he has the power
to dismiss them whenever, in his
Judgment, the public interest demands
the exercise of that authority. 1t is
useless for him to attempt to eyade q
public duty upon the score of not
wishing to interfere with the local
affairs of State. The local affairs of
this State have been outrageously in
terfered with by his appointees. They
have packed convention in the Gus
tom-House, called in federal troops to
keep out the lawful representatives of
the people, insulted State sovereignty
by offering insult to the Governor of
the State, and concluded their out
RACES upon this particular occasion by
constituting certain comparatively
unknown men State Central Execu-
tive Committee for the Republican
party of louisiana These high
handed measures have created no Sc
rlous alarm, it is true, among the Re-
publicans of the State, because they
knew the political strength of the Gus
tom-House faction consisted in their
official positions, and believed that
when their conduct was laid before
the President he would promptly dis
miss them, and that would put an end
to anything like divisions in the Re-
publican party of Louisiana. This
course on the part of the President
would have healed up the little breach,
first made by the Custom House fac
ton, and wiped out the stain put
upon the national administration by
its subordinates in New Orleans, who
had caused political convention to
be held in the Custom-House and
sought the aid of federal troops to as
sist in organizing it to defeat the will
of the people. Leading Republicans
took all early opportunity to inform
the President just how matters stood
down here. A delegation was dis
patched to Long Branch, and they
patiently labored to +enlighten the
President and make him feel and see
the necessity Of placing men in the
federal service here who would not in-
terfere in local affairs to the detri-
ment of the public service and the
Republican party. The mission of
the delegation failed to accomplish
any good. The President could not
see Louisiana and federal affairs in the
same light the Republican party down
here did. Therefore, he refused to .
apply the remedy, and the breach has
continued slowly to widen. Embold-
ened by the indisposition of the Pres
ident to listen to the representatives
of the Republican party who were
sent to him last summer to invoke
change that would bring harmony in
its ranks, the federal officials renewed
their war ON the State administration
with determination to effect vio-
lent revolution. They expected to do
this by combining with the Democrats
in the Legislature. The President
and the whole country are well aware
of the outrages that were attempted
to be practiced upon lawful govern
ment by few federal officials, aided
and abetted by men eager to obtain
the spoils of Office. For weeks these
acts in Louisiana were
made the leading theme of all who
felt an interest in the success of Re-
publican government in the United
States. The Republican party finally
defeated the coalitionists, in and out
of the Legislature, and triumphantly
sustained Governor Warmoth, plac-
ing the three departments of the State
government once more in accord
This should have been enoughto sat
isfy the President that the faction
formed by federal officials in this
city for the purpose of getting posses
sion of the State government, sooner
or later, can in no manner be consid-
cred the Republican party of this
State or competent to control it's des-
TIMES. Yet the President hesitates,
and while assuring Governor War
moth that his desire now, as hereto
fore, is the good of the country and
the success Of the National Republi-
can party, he does not seem to fully
comprehend the way to bring about
those great results. 70 be successful
the National Republican party has
got to be true to its principles, among
the..frst of which is that the majority
shall rule, the minority shall be sur
bordinate to the civil rule, etc. The
federal officials down here have vio-
lated these leading principles of the
National Republican party aud Sc
riously interfered with the local affairs
of the State, thereby acting in
,detriment to the good OF the
country. The President has re-
Gently been made to see this. He
has interviewed great many per-
sons from this State and should be the
best posted man in America on Loui-
siana affairs. He is responsible, and
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