The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-10-08
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n7Om -.-Nhm1 Grant Said
About Kellogg.
From Correspondence of N. Y. Herald

From Correspondence of N. r Herald
The following colloquy ensued:
stWell, General, what do you think
now of the situation in Louisiana"
s'Just what / have thought from the
first, that she would be remanded back
to Kellogg by Grant. There was no
question about that. suppose the Pres
ident felt compelled to obey what he calls
the law"
"But do you believe that Grant
has approved Kellogg's course there
that he really has no sympathy in the
effort of the people to liberate them
selves?"
"As to that, don't know; but Grant
told me that virtually he had no sympa-
thy with Kellogg, and did not understand
anything about the legal aspects of the
case; and could not interfere, He said
that his talent was entirely military and
not legal; and in that" said the General,
laughing, 81 told him that entirely
agreed with him. But damn it, what
was the use of a proclamation The
people ought not to have surrendered.
Enough men could have gone down the
Mississippi from St. Louis and the West
to have
EATEN UP ALLTHE TROOPS
assembled east of the Rocky Mountains.
[ should not wonder if that Louisiana
movement had not its qualifications all
over the country, and in the North, too,
where we have little idea of them.
Why, sir, it might have been the basis
and starting point of revolution that
would have liberated the whole country,
and brought the North, East, South
and West down 20 its constitutional bear
ings."
''You think it possible then that if the
fight were made within the pale of the
Union it would have been attended with
better results"
Nothing more likely, because we
should have had a party at the North
fond enough of preserving the integrity
of the States and thereby a more perfect
Union, to have joined in a struggle that
would soon have developed into a conflict
for constitutional liberty"
Your correspondent here remarked -
"With reference to these ramfcations of
which you speak, do You not overrate
thems / am sure that if the Northern
press can be taken as an index of public |
opinion, no movement of that sort would |
find any real sympathy in that section,
much less such as would take a practical |
auxiliary shape For instance both the |
Herald and the Tribune declare that they |
DO not like the French style-it reminds
one of the days of 1892"
"Weil, sir,
THE DAYS OF '93 WERE DAMNED GOOD
DAYS.
The trouble is, that although the world
was united for long time in emphatic
of the French Revolution
and its principles, the old patriots and
iberators have long since recognized that
as perhaps the most noble blow
that was ever struck in behalf of popular
And there were mighty
few men who went to the guillotire who
lid not deserve tie 90 there"
''Why, General, let me ask, are you so
much opposed to the United States gov
Because it is opposed to the South,
md always has been from the time of the
Congress down. The his
DRY of that opposition is written in every
room through all the great
political crises and questions that have
stirred the country until the present hour
There have been struggles and attempted
through all this period, and
low at last comes Capitalization, and with
comes the death to the
American Republic. Our politicians and
public men have degenerated into mere
,igmies. The ballot box is the tool of
he ballot suffer. The honor of the
lverage Congressman depends upon the
mount of dishonor with which he secured
lis election. Lies and frauds, swindling
contracts and whitewashing investigating |
committees! That's our precious gov ,
Yes, sir; it needs purifying
Why, they are beginning to introduce it
Town South A Yankee correspondent t
nee asked me how it was that the De-
nocracy carried Georgia. / told him
and the General laughed heartily,) by
bribery and intimidation, just as they
lid in some places up North-by the Q
udicious distribution of few half dollars I
nd a little judicious scares' And /
oppose the fellow wrote it down. (More c
eriously.) You know, however, that I
ur course with the negroes has been Q
ne of /
CANCELLATION, I
nd that there are comparatively few I
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