Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-01-09
LOUISIANA.
PinehhaCk URbosOms Himself.
He Ouarrels with the CustOmhOusers
Grants Petty PiGue against War.
moth.

He Quarrels with the CustOmhOusers.
Grants Petty Pique against War.
moth.
The Days OF Carpet-Baggers Nulns
bered.
New ORLEANS, Jan. S.-This evenings
PicGyuRs reports that Pinchback in an in
terview said: "You see / am bound to live
here in this city. have house here and
plenty of friends. If went anywhere else,
wouidlnot know what to do and it is there
fore l think to the interest of the people to
help me along because / Cannot but help
them. This last fight Of mine against the
custom house ring on the Senate question
has rather made them show their hand to
the colored people, and If it were possible
l believe the colored people might be induc-
ed to form coalition with the true, honest
native white people of the State and over
throw all this chicanery and tricks Of the
custom house ring" .....
After e:7tns his opinion as to how the
present complications could. have been
avoided, Pinchback continued: "As 1t is,
the programme has been arranged and will
be carried out by the United States Gov
ern1nent. They intend to recognize only
our government, and unless prevented by
Congress viii carry it out to the bitter 81 d.
Therefore the outside body calling them
selves q Lesissatpre has 10 ehapSss n 5S8f-
gress to send a committee of investigation,
when the yhGts facts will laid before them,
and they can then decide which is right.
The Interest that President Grant takes
in the fight is purely of personal nature.
He does not care one cent what the people
say against him now; as he has reached the
height of his ambition in being elected
President for another term. It's mistake
made b. many, to suppose that Gen. Grant
wants to be emperor. BE only desires to
be considered a sort of Gen. Washington.
Washington was victorious, you know, IN
great rebellion, 80 was Grant. Washington
was elected 70 tTo terms; so was Gen.
Grant, and now be is satisfied: He has not
got the ambition and tact to make great
revolution lie that would require, and il
he had, the people of the country would
not submit. The real cause of Gen.
Grants interest In the matter lies in
bis personal enmity against Warmotb,
whom he considers one OF bis bitterest en-
emies. You know how he has abused
him; well, Grant never forgives an insult
like that, and as long as he thinks the peo-
pie Of this State support Warmoth, he will
be opposed to them. He really does not,
himself, understand the situation. He be-
ieveS that it is Warmoth's fight to 60 to the
Senate, so be can fight him. Naturally
enough be opposes this, and men here have
taken advantage of it to place the present
governmenG in power.
Why, you cannot imagine what poor
opinion the people Of the North have Of us,
and it is kept alive daily by outrageous
statements of white Republicans, and 9th
eTs, who say that it is impossible for white
man or negro to live in this city unless he
pretends to be Democrat or has Demo-
cratic friends. By this you will see the
sympathies Of the people of the North are
against US, and as long as we make any
disturbance it is at once cried out that the
South is still in rebellion. Now, you see,
| what I want to do is this: l desire to do
| right to the people of this State. l am a
| representative cOiored man of this State,
OF the South, Of the Union, and as such
have strength with the Republican party.
As was born here, live here, and have
my wife, my children and my property
here, l only desire to be allowed chance,
! fair open chance, and l will show how
am and can be true friend of our people.
There is q great, mighty change going on
| in his country to-day which few. see, and
| yet know there is dissolution of the great
| Southern Radical Republican party, COM
posed of negroes led by Northern men.
! This party has since the war been opposed
| to the resident white man because they
| have hardly been allowed otherwise, but
! the time is coming, and coming rapidly,
when the white and black people Of the
| South will be united il a bond Of unity in
as far as their Several positions liej and
when that time comes there is the only hope
for the people. Give me chance, and the
rest Of the colored people chance, and we
will be with you all in fairness and honesty
of dealing. It will be bound to come some
day, and the sooner the better for the States
and the people.
Pi1chback EndeavOrs to Explain
Himself Further.
To-morrow's Picdyune will contain a
long letter from Pinch5ack in which sur
prise is expressed that conversation ca
sual and desultory in character should have
been heralded as formal utterance of his
upon the condition Of Louisiana politics,
| and claiming that both the tenor and pur-
port of his remarks were misrepresented.
| The PicGyoIle viii state editOrialiy thatth
interview was reported, corrected and pub
| lished by consent of Pinchback. The fol-
lowing is PDchback's explanation Of what
he said about the President:
| expressed the opinion that President
| Grant had taken Gen. Washington as his
model and exemplar. Both were great
military chiettains i'll revolution periods.
Both had been elected to a second term,
and that the Presidents largest ambition
was fully satisfied in emulsting the exam
| pie of the Father of his Country. | could
not believe that the President had any per-
sonsl feeling in this contest, unless so far
as it might arise from the fact that War
| moth, bis public traducer, was leading the
| opposition. But personal motive under
circumstances of the sort could not
reasonably be supposed to exist and infu-
| ence the conduct of the President in the
| premises, with bis highest ambition salts
| fed. did not believe the President in
tended to go outside Of the law and the du-
| ties of his Office to subserve in this case a
personal CT party end, and that no sober
| minded American either desires or contem
plated the establishment of an Empire in
| the United States.