The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-24
MILITARY GOVERNMENT.

the latter, ne is undoubtedly the peer of an
classical writer; yet, inthe former, he is entire
f unequaled and stands as monument of geniu
f alone.
1t is fortunate that we can find in this day o
general corruption record which cannot b
o changed, and one biograp er who may rot pal
hate. Callums Register is source from which
We may draw the true synopsis OF the life Of an
:, aud every graduate OF West Point Military AcsI
emv.
From its pages we VIII take Grants record
III Maade's. and letting each one make his Own
, comparison feel that the only hope OF permanen
peace and prosperity with Southern States is il
the establishment OF military government il
Louisiana, if no: through 'ut the South, for tht
) coming four years. To begin have:
Q. S. Ora t, born in Ohio aud entering Wes
Point from that state in july 1899, graduating il
43 as -. 81 in class of 80; fighting through the
Mexican war, promoted for gallant and meritor
GUS conduct in the battle OF Moline del Rey, Sept
Sth. 1874, to LIST Lieutenancy, and again brevet-
ted Captain at Chepultppec on Sept. 3, Of same
year; after this war running the ordinary career
Of an army officer till he disappeared from the
army list as Captain aud Regimental Quarter
master in 854-the record saying simply resigned
July 81, 1854.
His civil history follows Farmer near st.
| Louis, 1S54-59; real ate agent, st. Louis,
| 1890; merchant, Galena, lS6oGl again com
mences his military history, ending with General
Of the United States Army, July 2Jth, 1866. Let
us now supply the hiatus and then proceed to
state from the same authority (Meade's Record }
Grant as a resim-nta quarterm tster was 30
addicted to gambling aud drunkenness that his
Major, Buchanan, compelled him to sign a pledge
to abstain from liquor, ard bound him by taking
his resignation with date in blank. Finding him
| drunk after this, he forwarded the resignation,
Jefferson Davis being the then Secretary Of War
| Ii this We're all it would be bad enough bat
| upon examination OF Grants accounts az regi-
| mental quartcrm aster he was found $4,000
short, and through the clemeney of Davis, his
| resignation was allowed with proviso. He does
not, therefore, come out to civil life with clear
character However glorious bis war record may
have been Meade being his brains all the while,
and he the mere bull dog fighter, getting the
lions share OF the glory, this stain renamed Il
blot upon 1t, until af er the war, under the lasl,
Of the New York Herald, he square up his shorts
with the quartermaster's department. His polit-
cal career is thoroughly known. As Democrat
he accepted the nomination of the Republican
party, making bid for it with a lie in the John
son mpe At hment affair, and since his election to
the Presidential Office, mere tool III the hands
Of band Of plunderers and prostitutes male
and female.
Geo. G.. Meade entered from Pennsylvania
though born in Spain, and graduated 10 10 =
class OF 81, in the year 1855. He ros!gne in
1896, but continued in the engineer service Of the
United States until 1872. when he re-en cred the |
service as Lieutenant Of Topographic Engineers |
First Lieutenant for gallant conduct III thu
several conflicts at Monterey, sept. q, ISL 5, |
aud after the Mexican war serving in the ell ,
ainocr corps until the grade Of Captain was
reached. When the social d rebellion broke /
cut lie raised brigade Of Penn ylyania reserves.
and was severely wounded ut the battle Of Glen
dale, June 80, 1862. This sol vice heins; in the
vclunte army, after reaching the grade Of
Major General Of Volunteers, he became again
a n officer in t gular army Brgadier Gen
eral July B 1863, and promoted 10 Major General
August IS, 1864.
For the battle Of Gettysburg he received the
thanks Of Congress, and ter the war was put IL
of the Military Division of the Atlantic
States, including South Carolina, to sc. and re
manned in the service until his death in II
With these two records, We pretty well
measure the failures Of Grant by the perfect
scale of his fellow soldier, Meade. Now tamper.
ing with politics, fighting whenever there was q
Geld to be and working to restore and i'm
prove, when the battle was oyor. Mead. s carce
is fit Standard Of what perfect soldier ought
ln HAT ot,,:,,, -
army Of the United States, there can be no
doubt.
Being therefore satisfied that the United
States army can furnish man who is thorough
ly soldier, is it not the most desirable event to
be hoped for by Louisiana that such an one
should lake the helm?
AS for looking to Grant for this it would be
lie. His party used the disastrous riots Of '66 j
10 complete the plans they had formed for plum :
Ienng the Sonth, and the iust and righteous up
rising OF the people on the 14th instant would !
gladly be perverted by it to the same dlabolical
purpose. We must look, then, to ourselves
nave compromise at all with politicians not be
licked by promise from parties whose greatest |
olt. is to lie cIcums; antslIy, not to hearken for
IN instant to pack OF beaten demagogues and
,ecn converted to gcnere us and friendly neu-no!
ct us Geek to wiring from hitherto unheeding :
Congress of the nation walked ut last 10 our
,ries by the blood Of our valiant martyrs, and
irgcd to hear with the heart MS well as the tar by
sympathizing kindred North, East and West,
md stay moi until We have IN lieu OF a rascally i
rckster, colder who knows not the meaning Of '
hribe, and compartments not the nature of a
hrcat. Louisiana has beer SO sorely plundcred !
hat military rule is the only Government under
which she may ever hope to rocuperatc.
We do not ask of the nation any assumption Of .
,ur debt We do not ask any change of tariff in I
our favor but simply that they will free US from
he entanglements Of party strife, and put u-
lpon plane OF equitable government, and let us !
work out that sternest problem Of na- .
onal politics-of how conquered people, with !
newly emancipated factor. III Its population, can
'esist the tendency to sink into permanent an {
,rchy To this Nay OY thinkino tho Repnhiicsp