The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-07
EX-GOV. P. 0. HEBERT.
aAl roads from Greeley lead to Grant

/ p. o. HEBFRT.
| In the last Presidential campaign the
| Greeley ticket had 10 stronger supporter
I than the distinguished gentleman whose
name heads this article. Active, earnest and
\ indefatigable in his labors in behalf Of the
opponents Of Grant and Radicalisin, he gain
ed for himself prominent position III the
ranks Of the Fusion party. In his travels
to the watering places OF Virginia, he was
ever alert to speak a good word, write an
| eloquent letter and DO a good deed III behalf
Of Horace Greeley. His whole soul and mind
seemed bent on the defeat Of Gen Grant. In
his cogitations one day, brilliant thought
struck HIM, which found utterance in that
laconic and ever memorable aphorism-"All
roads from Greeley lead to Grant
The present generation of politicians
evidently thought that, in Gov. Hebert,
they had found valuable and staunch ally
and counted extravagantly upon the IN
iIuence he could and would bring to bear III
behalf Of the cause he so zealously espoused
But older heads and more thoughtful people
recollected the political intidelity OF Coy.
Hebert IN past years and We're not so much
inclined to regard his alliance with any
party as Of much Importance or value.
They recollectcd when Gov. Hebert, elected
on the Democratic ticket, abandoned his
party and joined the know-Nothlng
organization ut a very critical moment OF
his party's existence: and from that time
they have not had the most implicit faith in
his political stability.
Those who knew the inirmties Of the
Ex-Governor, then, were not surprised to see
him. after the defeat Of the Greeley ticket,
% over bag and baggage" TO his former
class mate Gen. Grant. The road which he
constructed III his Imagination, leading from
Greeley to Grant. lie found 50 thronged and
blocked up that b. his peculiar knowledge
as Il Typographical engineer, he took much
shorter route, known only to himself, and
reached Gen Grant in advance Of the
swiftest followers Of the great chtttain Of
the nation.
Ga his arrival GOV. Hebcrt found Gen.
Grant waiting for him, with a commission
prepared for 4 fat Office. Then "a change
came DER the spirit Of the dream OF the
Ex-Governor. Some act on his part Of 10y
atty and devotion to his late benefactor was
required, however, and we find him then
writing, not from the Virginia Springs, as III
the Greeley days OF yore, but from Washing
ton, under the egis of the black goddess OF
liberty Of the national capital. The people
The government imposed upon them by
President Grant, his patron, was bench,
cicnt one, and satisfied all: Kellogg was a
maryelously proper Governor, and, together
with himself as Leyee Engineer, Louisiana
would be happy, prosperous and free from
overflow
Again the Governor, in his zeal for the
Kellogg Government, has given rise to
charge which he does not directly deny, of
using the time that he owes to Il commercial
body here, for bosterng up the claims OF a
fraudulent government in Louisiana. The
Chamber Of Commerce, however, has given
him a quicius OH this point, 50 far as that
body is concerned: and, we believe, that
when next Governor Iebert aspires to po-
IticaI honors il his native State, his COM
rades in arms and old political associates
will consign him to an indefinite period OF
to the shades of private life