The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-12

We would urge the policy Of Cancellation
upon the administration no less earnestly
than the duty of frmness. General Grant can
afford to be the President of the whole people.
His fame as well as his Office requires it. But
he cannot afford to be the President of q fac
ton in any part of the country. If he lends
his ear more to one side than to the other
he may have cause to regret it while
he lives The complaints of both sides are
we'll worth his consideration, and he is bound
to know the whole truth of the situation in
Louisiana He will add to his own lasting
honor by assuring the Southern people that
peace on their part means justice from the
dominant party. There ia nothing which so
becomes soldier President as the magnanim-
ity which endears him to the whole people.
A word from General Grant, if spoken in
season, may do more to conquer the hearts of
the discontinued and desperate spirits of Lou
isiana than if company of soldiers guarded
every town and hamlet and there was an
armed man for every cane stalk in the State.
To the people of Louisiana also we have a
word Of friendly counsel at this crisis in their
fortunes. Peace to them is more necessary
than any gift which can be bestowed upon
them. jealousy as we would guard for them
the rights of the ballot and the sacredness of
popular elections we would urge them to con-
slider the futility of every attempt at armed
opposition to what they may, perhaps
with good reason, regard as usurpa-
ton. Every outrage upon the negroes
will rebound to their great dscredit, and
Colonel De Blanc makes more indissoluble the
chains that bind them. And they must not
forget that they too, have failed in their duty
to themselves their fellow-citizens, their State
and their country. Preaching politics is for
them q useless occupation compared with
producing sugar and cotton. They will be
better off raising cane that Gain" The
establishment of successful cotton mill
somewhere in the State would be greater
victory than triumph over all their enemies.
Important as may be wise and conservative
interest in politics on the part of the people of
the State, ON earnest and energetic effort to
promote prosperity and peace is more i'm
portant still. The one may aid in securing
political purity, but both together will secure
the happiness and comfort Of the entire
population, and make soldiers as unnecessary
in Louisiana as in Maine.
The College Races Mt Spring held-Why
Not Invite the Englishmcns
The greatest water .fete ever known in
America has been set down for the afternoon of
the day nine weeks from next Thursday, and
already. at twelve of the best known
universities and colleges of the land,
busy preparation is making for this ex-
citing event. Hundreds and probably thou
sands of students alone will be on hand that
day at Springfield to back and encourage their
favorites; and the time of year is so well
chosen, as every one almost is then taking
vacation, that the gathering promises to be
unprecedentedly large.
Our purpose at this writing is to suggest to
the various competing crews step which,
if promptly and energetically taken, will prob
ably prove successful, and which, if SO, will
as effectually and surely throw the interest in
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the shade as that same interest will surpass
any known heretofore.
Let the captains of the various crews, or
even o majority of them, at once forward o
note of invitation, signed in round-robin if
they feel modest, indicating how unusual ON
interest is felt here in the July races and
how glad they would be if Oxford and
Cambridge would join them in the
friendly struggle. The captains of the clubs
of the two great English Universities could
soon get their eight men, who rowed so
very fast but few weeks ago, again in order,
and thus have each two spare men ready
in case of need. In fact, MIR. Benson, OF
the winning Cambridge crew. here in the city
within q week, and perhaps others of them are
also here. The long vacation would give them
abundant time for their trip and training, and
they might not feel badly even if it did not.
The steamship company which carried the
Harvard crew made a most generous re-
duction, and any of them would be
likely to do even better yet in this case.
Though this race is for six-oared boats-craft
unknoWn III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ClaSper would
soon supply the lack, or any of our builders
here would be glad to- And if the strangers
fear that they could not learn to row without
coxswain they have but to remember how
easily the London Rowing Club surmounted
that difficulty when they beat the Atalanta
men SO badly last Summer on the Thames, or
the picked English professional crews when
they did not beat the Ward brothers on Sara
toga Lake in September of 1871. Here,
too, will be the easiest sort of course, only
three miles long, instead of nearly four and
half, as the Putney to Mortlake, and almost
entirely straight, while the race is the
only one the Englishmen know-namely,
''straightaway."
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