The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-04-10
Wendell! Phillips and General Grant,
Wendell Phj|lins has boon ;n4,.,:

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about Wendell Phillips that we la~
always recognized. He is a bold an,
positive man, and has no conceaImen
OF his opinions or views from the pub
lie. Whatever they are, however un
popular, he blurts them out. Consid
erations of expediency or policy do no
influence him against his convictions O
right and justice. There are man,
persons who ought to be what is called
interviewed" by the reporters of til,
daily press, because they have much t,
say that would be of great advantag,
to the public; butyet they shrink from
1t, and allow public wrong to be com
mltted through their omission of duty
Of that number Wendell Phillips j.
not. He does not shrink from an,
consequences of telling the truth as b,
understands it. He is the known api
intimate friend Of Charles Sumner, the
Senator from Massa chusetts. There is
no doubt that he is authorized to speak
for Sumner, and that he does do it ir
the following manner:
=. In case of the reno m ination OF
Grant, is it likely that Sumner, who is
now opposed to him, will support him
use his influence for him-during the
campaign YES.
A. Mr.. Sumner will not under any
circumstances support General Grant
lie entertains the most contemptuous
opinion of him. During quite recent
conversation l had with him at Wash
ington, Mr.. Sumner said that the Pres
ldent was the most ignorant, corrupt,
dishonest man living. If there was no
other choice Mr.. Summer would rather
not vote at all than vote for Grant. II
Grant be renominated the Republican
party will lose the influence of some of
their most prominent and powerful
members during this campaign.
Can there be anything more emphat-
lc than the opinion of Mr.. Sumner
from which Mr.. Phillips does not dis
sent-that Grant is "the most igno-
rant, corrupt, and dishonest man liv-
ing 7" To those who desire a change
of administration this consideration is
of infinite Importance, for it appears
that. in the opinion of these two emf
nent Republicans, the country must
gain, and not lose, by the change. We
thank Mr.. Phillips for letting out, in
this public manner, the views of his
Senatorial representative, for otherwise
they would not have fallen upon the
country with equal effect, if indeed
they had ever been promulgated. But
the apostle of abolitionism, at time
when Grant was ro-slavery, does not
stop here. He strikes at the Presi-
dents political and personal character
when he says:
Recently, while on. a visit to the
West, in the vicinity of Grants former
home, asked friend of mine. at
whose house I was stopping, what the
people there thought of the President,
and he replied that they had very
poor opinion of him; they did not
think he was an honest man. Nv
friend asked me to ride around within
the neighborhood and he would show
me at least FIVE grog- shops where the
now President of the United States has
yet whisky bills standing against him,
the score not having been yet wiped
outw
1t is by small things that we judge of
great. If the President of the United
States has not liquidated his "grog-
shop and whisky bills" in Galena, Hi
lais, he certainly should do it now, at
The first opportunity. Even reformed
men do not go so far as to
lay previous liquor bills are to be re-
undated. The man who repudiates
lis private debts is not exactly the one
o be the embodiment ofthe sacredness
If the public securities. But, the facts
tated by Wendell show what kind of
man we now have for President. 1t
S his (Phillips) opinion that Grant
las made some 100000 or $500, 900
Turing his administration, and that he
wants to make al,OOO,OOO more by a
e-election. The question is, will the
eople give him that opportunity.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Phillips that {
If the Democrats should select good ,
that can control to any con- ;
iderable extent tho soldier clement ,
is quite possible Grant will not be
lected," and that che would stand a Z
DOR chance" Grant will not be his s
wn successor. That Mr.. Phillips, and !
II others concerned, can't set down as
ertain.-[Cincinnati Enquirer. - +
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SOUTH CAROLINA AS SHE Is.-A late
unlber of the Charleston News gives
gloomy picture of affairs in the Pal :
letto State: l.,
Some forty persons, many of them
Id citizens, have been placed in Jail T
thin a week, under the Ku-KIux T
III. The zeal of the new U. S. Mar .
lal las done this wo9K. 1t was ru- f
ored in the county that four hundred q