, 1873-01-09
POLITICAL,
PiHcHDAclt's VIEWS ON GENERAL GRANT AND
LOUISIANA MATTERS

PiHcHDAoNs VIEWS ON GENERAL GRANT AND
LOUISIANA MATTERS.
New ORLEANS, inn. s-Thls ovoning's Pic
"You 800 am bound to 1.-Two hero In this
city. l hayo n house lore, and plonty of
frionda. II wont anywhere ,e1ao, I would not
tho interest of tho pooplo to help mo
along because caanot but holm tf,on. This last
fight of mi1.o against tho Custom House Ring on
tue Senate question laa rather mado them lend
possible, boiovo the colored pooplo might be
induced to form coalition with tho trlle, honest
native whito people Of tho Stato aud overthrow
al this ,ehicanory and the tricks Of tho Custom
After giving hia opinion how tho present COM
plieation might havo boon avoided, Pinchbaok
"As It il, tho programme has boon arranged,
and will DO CARRIED out by, tho United States
gross, will carry 1t out to tho bitter end There
fore, The outside body calling themselves
Legislature has no chance to succeed
q Committee Of Investigation whom tho whole
facts will bo 1nid before them, and they can then
decide which ia right. The interest tl1at General
drant takoa III tho fight ia purely OF d personal
nature. Ho does not caro- one cont what the
elected President. for second torn. s
L IL mistake mado by many to suppose that
General Grant wants to DO Emperor. Ho only
desired to bo considered sort Of second General
Washington. Washington was victorious, you
know, in great rebellion 40 was Grant. WASH
ington was elected to two ternls; 10 waB General
Grant, md now he is satisfied. Ho has not got
ton like Tint would require, aud, il ho lad,
the people Of the country would not submit
Tho real cause Of Genoral Grants interest in
.tho matter lios in his personal onmity against
s,2 Sst enemies. You know how 10 hay abused him.
Vol, Grant never forgiyoB au insult lik that ando
as long aB ho thinla tho pooplo Of
this State support Warnlotl, he viii
bo bo onpose1 to them. Ho really. docs, not
that it is u Warnloth fight to got to tho United
States Senate, go llv can fight him. Naturally
enough, ho opposes tl1n, n1:d mon horo hayo
taken atyantago Of It to place tho present Gov
ornment in power. Why you cannotimaguo what
III, aud it il kopt nltye daily by tho outrageous
atatonlonts Of white Republicans and othorB,
who ray TINT it is impossible FOR white man or
noc?9 to 1.-Two IN this city unless ho prctends to
this you will SEQ the sympathios Of tho people OF
the North nro against uB, md ns long aa VIC
ako my disturbance ut all ii III at onco cried out
That tho Sou!h le still in robollion. Now
1
right to the people OF this State. I aal repro
sentative colored man Of tl4is State, tho South,
and tho Union, and ns such, hayo strength with
me Republican party. AS was born here, live
ho1le h1 nv p4 1ono1tS have my vf' my eh;dron
be allowed t. cl,anco, fair opon chance, and
will uhow how aa mud can DO a true friend Of
our people.
tl,ia country. to-day. which few Aee and yet in
il know thore is n dissolution Of tho great
Southern Radical Republican purity, compohei Of
negroes led by Northern wlito mon: This
party. las, Einco tho var, boon opponed
been allowed otherwiee but tho time is coming,
anu coming rapidly, whom tho white and black
people Of tho South will bo united in boud Of
unity. III ns fnr AZ thoir several positiouD lie,
and when that timo cor.cB tlero is tho only
hope for tho people. Give mo q CHANCE md tho
rest Of tho colored people chance. and wo will
be with you all in fairness and honesty Of deal-
ingH. Tt will be bound to comp nomo day. and
tho sooner tho better for tho South and tho
people,"
To-morrow's Picayune will contain q long
letter from pinchback, in which surprise is OK
prosgcd that n conversation, casual and dcsul-
tory IN it's charactor, should haye beon heralded
az formal uttcrance Of bis upon the condition
Of Louisiana politics, and claims that both tho
tenor and purport Of hB remarks wero mis-
represented.
Tho Picay,snc will state conditionally that tho
interview was reported correctly md published
by consent of Pinchbncls. Tho following il Pinch
President:
~ osprcsscd tho opinion that President Grant
.' had taken General , " MWashtngton "a Its model
sheftatna s IN revolutionary sy' erios, fs 'iso bot
hn been scotcd to second term, and tlat tho pres-
Ing lie aSamlj" i tho Fathef Of lis Country. /
eo'd no. 70 that ths President ad
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