The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-02
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH.

Since the temporary adjustment of the Louis
lana troubles by the restoration Of the Kellogg
government, we have frequent reports from
Washington of a contemplated change of the
personal policy towards the South. There is an
idea that the people Of Louisiana deserve some
thing for the docility with which they yielded
their triumph and nesubmitted to the detested
| authority OF Kellogg, and it is being minated
that the President himself takes the view that
ne owes something to them as we'll as to Kel-
logg. He has, therefore, made up his mind,
after careful consultation with his Cabinet, to
give the South better Federal appointees-to ig-
more the carpet-baggers and knaves who have
| too long been the recipients Of his favor, and
select men OF better personal character for the
Federal Offices in that region.
We sincerely wish this may be true, and that
the country may see it carried ont immediately
Even il the President and the Republican party
owe nothing to the South, they do owe something
to the peace Of the country. They owe it to the
cause OF public order to avoid that needless rohcy
OF which produces the constant
ton do not expect to have any others than Re-
publlcans appointed to Federal Offices in their
midst; but even in their humiliation they have
the poor right OF asking that these officers shall
not be insolent knaves and scoundr.ls, whose
chief business is to stir p trouble between the
whites and blacks, and throw their official autho-
rity always on the side OF oppression and usurpa-
ton. There is no: q lar-midded Republican at
the North bu, will admit that not only the
Cuutl, bGt lle WuOIe country mas been
wronged and disgcaced by b; such men
as Du.ell. Kellogg and Warmoth in Lou
isiana, Busted in Alabama, Bullock in
Georgia ard Scott in South Carolina, and the
similar characters who have been the recipients
eff Federal favor in other Southern States. Had
better men filed their places, the reconstruction
of the South would have been comparatively
easy: and even now, if the Administration will
withdraw its countenance from these evil men in
the South, and select citizens of good reputation
to hold the Federal Offices. great deal Of
trouble will be avoided. It may be asserted that
this miserable Louisiana business that has de-
stroyed the peace OF that State and disturbed the
peace Of the whole country is the work Of four
ndividuals-Collector Casey, Marshal Packard,
Judge Durcll and VIM. P. Kellogg, to whose
naign counsels and appeals the President
listened rather than to the patriotic advice Of
hetter men.
1t is the least the country can ask of the Presi-
tnt to choose upright and discreet men in the
huth to WELD the Federal authority, and to
premptorily dismiss from Office those who
move themselves to be neither upright nor dis
oeet. He can maintain order at the South with
out any sacrifice Of the rights Of the Government,
~of the substance of the Republican policy, il
hewill. All that the task requires is withdrawal
Of his countenance from the men who have
abused their power, and the selection of better
chHacters to hold the Federal Offices in the
Soun.-V Louis Republican, 29tit ut.