New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

Curt MS trying position, that he has beef
thus beset on both sides of the water TIL,
mission of BoTie, Grants Philadelphia ex
Secretary of the Navy to Europe was il
part to manipulate our returning minister
but " Towering low with Establishment
did not win Curtin.
Washburne, our minister to France, the
Galena nurse of Grant, dined and winec
Governor Curtin in Paris, and assured hin
how much Grant loved him. Genera
| Schenck, our minister at London, wlned
and dined the great Pennsylvania IL that
city in the hope Of sOttening bis heart four
years longer for Grant. The great Badeau
consul general at London; the champion
historian Of Grant, who, it ia said, was the
asst man to handle the Buell. records in the
War Department, also tried his hand at
the work of mellOWing the stern and retl-
cent Curtin, but without avail. John Rus
sell Young, dismissed from the editorial de-
| partment of the New York Tribune for mis-
appropriating Mr.. Greeley's news to the
use of his own paper in Philadelphia, and
the reputed author of so much of Grants
last annual message as was not ''put in by
| Morton, !" now in Paris professedly as cor
respondent Of New York paper, but
| really as a secret agent Of Jay Cooke & Co,
| and the representative of American stock
companies, wasted his time in Paris IN an
attempt to convince Governor Curtin that
"
| buttered.
Elliott G. Cowdin, the elegant gentleman
and accomplished orator, who is the head
Of a silk importing house in New York, and
resides in Paris, said graceful things to the
Governor. Mr.. C0wdin, when in New York,
| does the ornamental talking for the Board
of Commerce, and when in Paris blows
Grants trumpet; in after dinner speeches.
Colonel PulestOn, in 1861 a war cOrrespOn-
dent of a New York paper, afterward upon
the staff of Governor Curtin during the last
two years of the war, and later a banker
and broker in Wall street ian unusual and
extraordinary place tor an eX-cOrresp0n-
dent, and now one of the members of the
great London banking house of Jay Cooke,
McCullOch & Co., called upon the Govern
or, and banQueted his old chief. Puleston
is an Englishishman. He came to this coun-
try to try his fortune, and through the in
fuence of Governor Curtin he made extern
sive acquaintance, acquired influence, and,
without ever being naturalized, believe,
he captured an interest i'll the former house
named above, and now speaks officially for
the syndicate. So it will be observed that
Curtin was made to feel the power of the
syndicate in the afectiOnate embrace of
friendship with one of his old stat. Let us
hope that this was not prcmeditated.
But all this was not enough. Governor
Curtin had to be confronted upon the deck
of the ship that brought him to our shores
before she had time to reach her dock. A
grand reception and banquet and rich purse
awaits him. A man who can resist Grant
ism presented in such disguised and tempt
ing forms is certainly a rare specimen of
the American patriot, and worthy of the
name. The devil who has taken Curtin
upon this mountain top and tempted him
with this lavish display is none other than
Simon Cameron.
Governor Curtin is not ignorant.of the
fact that his present strength and future
power rests wholly in his uncompromising
adherence to the support of the policy Of
the Liberal movement, as avowed by him |
in letters to Colonel Mcclure and sustained |
by all Of his old friends and supporters If, |
at last, through the weakness of human |
nature, he should falter in his high duty to
the State and to his friends, and yield to
the terrible temptations So profuselv and |
persistently thrust upon him by dishonest |
men in power, then woe be to Andrew j.
Curtin
The price of such shame would become
the common byword. The incalculable
weight Of the infamy attending it would
hasten the victims tall and ruin. The af-
ectiOns, the interests, the hopes and the
pride Of the sons and daughters of the old
keystone State" which so many years
ocused a glorious halo around the name of
Curtin, would be yelled in grief forever.
But let us thank good fortune that such
| humiliation as Grant and Cameron con
emplate is not anticipated by those who
Know Governor Curtin best, the reports to
he contrary notwithstanding. A few days
viii reveal much. SPIKE.