Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-09-28
The Presidents friends In louisiana

port, Of whom tho Nation, tho
OblcBt journal that fights the bat
ties Of tho Administration, curly
said: "l'ho friends of tho Prosi-
dent would rather be hung than
tell why Casey is not removed"
Governor Warmoth testified that
Casey gave us reason for falling
out with him, that he Ohio Cover.
noO would not give him chances
to make money enough. Casey
was one of tho stockholders in the
"Now Orleans lcvee,shcd" scheme,
n gross monopoly, and franchise
so valuable that corruption fund
Of $4,000 was raised to get the
Legislature to pass it, This money
was locked up in Casey safe in
tho custom.house, and when the
bill failed by the Governors veto,
WAS returned to the subscribers
from that safe in II VIGOROUSLY open
way. Casey was also concerned
in u number Of other fraudulent
schemes for plundcring The people
Of Louisiana; he broke the United
States law, and brought contempt
upon the State law, by giving
revenue cutter to State Senators to
enable thcm to escape from max
ing quorum; ho employed brib-
cry, force, and fraud to carry the
primary meetings, and then as.
sembled his packed convention in
the United States custom house,
and guarded them with an array
of United States bayonets.
p. f. Herwig, another "friond"
Of the Presidents and leader of the
Grant party is at once Casey's dep
uty and u State Senator. He was
the originator of the lcvee.shcd
scheme, a subscriber to the corrup-
ton fund, and is thought to be the.
primum mobile Of the custom house
faction.
Charles W. Lowell, postmaster
Of New Orleans, and quite a sine
curist in his way, having been at
one and the same time, United
States postmaster, speaker of the
House of Delegates, and registrar
of Caddo parish, is another promi-
nent friend of Grant in Louisiana
politics. lie was champion of the
"Ship Island canal" which cost the
State some three or four millions,
and gobbled up all the swamp lands
in the vicinity Of New Orleans,
S. B. Packard, the United States
Marshal, and chairman Of the Ca
sey committee, us well as engineer
OF the Gatlin gun programme, was
patron 0ftlao Nicolson pavement
bill, which would have cost Louis
lana S1,250,OOO. Gov. Warmoth
was offered $4,000 to sign this bill.
Senator Ray, conspicuous re-
former, is Wholesale jobbist. He
got an appropriation Of $4,000 in
State bonds to a railroad in which
he was "intcrested;" was paid $7O,-
600 for revising the codes and stat
utcs; worked the previous question
on behalf tho Lcyee Company,
which, out of gratitude, elected
him president, with n salary Of,
and put up the old famil-
lar job Of building II new State
House, himself one Of tbo huUdpg
Mr.. +. G. Antoine, at prcscn' inc
Grant fusion nominee for iijeuten
ant Governor, wnen a member o..
the Legislature claimed and was
paid S1,252 mileage and per diem
as travelling member of commit
tee on elections, the Journal of the
House showing that he was in his
seat every day during tho time he
was paid for journoying.
P. q. Deslonde, the fusion nomi-
nee for Secretary of State, and
notorious Cascyite, is u negro of
Ibervillc, who was an old slavehol-
der, like many other quadroons of
his State, and is delcsted for the
infamous crueltics he practisod up.
on his slaves.
P. B. S. Pinchback, candidate
for Congressman at large, is the
unworthy successor of Oscar j.
Dunn, the negro whom both whites
and blacks delighted to honor.
Pinchback is II mulatto himself,
and shrowd, intriguing politician
He is conspicuous friend of
Grants, and, like him, has high
of presents. 1t is the
testimony of Mr.. S. W. Scott be-
fore the Congressional Investiga
ting Committee that, when he was
lobbying for Kimball's jackson
railroad" bill, while other Senators
held their votes at $1,000 each
Pinchback demanded $4,000 for
his, and-got it. Judge Walker,
editor of the New Orleans Times,
in his testimony before the same
committee, said, dpropoS of Pinch
backs election to the vacancy made
by Dunn's death, shat this man
was SO notorious and infamous in
character that the colored men
would regard it as an insult to their
race to elect him as the successor
of an honest, decent man like Gov.
Dunn" x 4 = "Question-Do
you mean to say that the colored
men are opposed to Pinchback ? l
A. 1 think they are, when they un-
1crstand what a rascal he is. @
Do they know that? A. | think
they begin to suspect it. 4 y II
Q. When you told Gen. Sheridan
and Judge Dibble that PiIchback
was a man of infamous character,
did they deny it? A. No, they
did not. They said he was a smart
fellow; that he was the smartest
niger they knew. = = = @
Do you remember whether this
man Pinchback made q sneech |