New-York tribune., 1874-10-14
LOUISIANA.

ONE GREAT CAUSE OF SOUTHERN TROUBLE.
CHARACTER OF FEDERAL oFPICE-HoLDERs AND MIS-
UsR OF FEDERAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WEAK
NESS AND Observation-Disclosures OF
U. s. MARsHALs WITH THE NEGRoES-THE PREsi-
DENTS RESPONSIBILITY IN TIE AlTKR-kEPon-
LCANIsM NORTH AND SOUTH.
Jynon THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
NEw-ORIEANs Oct. S-To get right at the root OF
the matter the prime cause OF Republican msgoV-
eminent and popular discomfort in the South 10 the
character of the men who fill the Federal Offices
This is fact that cannot be too plainly stated nor
too often reiterated We might go back ten years
and find much to condemn and much that was evil IN
effect in the Reconstruction acts andin the spirit OF
those Southern whites who held alOof SO long from
political alliance with the newly enfranchised. But
these mistakes are of the past and are beyond con-
troll. The abuse of Federal patronage is thing OF
the presents il is disease even now poisoning the
life-blood of the South. The remedy is apparent
and easily available; if the physician can only be
induced to apply it, the is as certain as the COM
plant is dangerous. Moses in South Carolina Is
bad man ; his name has become synonym OF ofnclal
corruption but Moses is not the real Governor Oh
South Carolina. The power behind his tnrone anu
which has expelled him from it, because his crimes
have become two notorious. is welded by wallace
the Marshal, and Worthington, the Collector
officers appointed by President Grant, who do the
bidding of Senator Patterson, because they recog-
nize in him a political trickster superior even to
themselves. Kellogg in Louisiana governs only IN
name kind heart was misled by cupidlty ana
ambition; Packard the seducer. entered in and
took possession of his prey. That is the story OF
Kelloggs fall The poor fellow is sorry for his poi-
cal crimes and fears the vengeance OF the outraged
people He will tell you with tears in bis eyes that
God knows he means to do right, and that God
Nnff hrSC ON
is too late to retrace his steps. Packard and his
gang are ever at his ear because they cannot trust
their tmid and conscience stricken creature out OF
their sight They tell him that the fate of the Re-
publican party rests in his hands; that the loyal
North" is at his back, that the President will see
him through" that retreat will brand him as
traitor that his own life and that of every Repub-
lcan who has held office in Louisiana will be lost In
the overthrow of the usurpatlon and that the en-
forcemeut of the infamous registration and election
laws will lead to an apparent Republican majority
in the approaching election, to which he can point
with pride as vindcation of his course. Thus thev
play alternately upon his hopes and his fears, and
make him appear now as bully, now as a craven,
now as a knave.
But Governors are not the only tools with which
the Federal officials work. They manipulate Legis-
latures corrupt courts and by misuse OF patronage
retain in their interest petty parish officials who IN
return for Federal sanction of their schemes, are
glad to promise anything that may be required OF
them. Gov. Pinchback goes to Donaldson to-day to
speak against the Packard candidate for Senator
from the Parish of Ascension and in this case the
Packard candidates. is not the regular Republican NOM
inee the latter being too independent to do the Mar
sbars bidding Packard hirelings pack Conventions
in every parish in the State at the command OF their
master; the tickets nominated must meet his ap-
proyal and when the candidate becomes the office
holder he must remember to whom he is indebted
for success The coored people everywhere are
taught to believe that Grants will is law and that
the man whom Grant appoints to office IS the au-
tborized expounder of that law They see that the
Marshal rules the Governor and has the army and
navy at his beck and CALL and to them he naturally
appears as the embodiment of power as well as OF
authority Here is found one reason why it is so
bard TO induce them to form new political alliances
The negro respects success and the powers tnat De
easily command his allegiance. Had the Penn Gov
ernment held the State month the negroes would
have rallied to its support by thousands; three days
of it's mild but firm administration did much toward
loosening the bonds of their political slavery.
A change of policy in appointments to Federal
Offices would not bring immediate reform and pros
perity to Louisiana and South Carolina for the rem
edy must have little time to permeate the system
of the patient but the cure would be rapid never
tbeless If the President will merely let it be known
that he dscountenances the interference of Federal
ofcebolders in local politics, and that an offender
in this respect is in danger of losing his place.
great deal will have been gained. But he can do
more Why not remove the offenders already noto-
rious and supply their places with honest men VINO
would not stoop to political trickery-men who COM
mand the respect of the people with whom they are
10 associate and who will hold fast to their po
litlcal opinions without trying by bribery and IN
fho ipta of thpir
The South will not have peace until the country has
q President who prefers an honest man to party
man, and who is wise enough to know that the well
fare of his party as well as of his country Is best
promoted by making his party respectable. meet
Northern men and Southern men who say " claim
TO be as good Republican as Gen. Grant. or MIR.
Conkling or Mr.. Morton. can stand with sincerity
ON any plank of the National Republican platform.
At the North l would avow myself Republican
and vote with pleasure for such man as Dix, or
Talbot or Halsey But here In the South it is every
wear more disgrace to be called Republican it is
worse than being called Democrat in New-York
CITY in the days when Tweed ruled / will vote
with Rebels Democrats, Reformers Fusonists-any
pary that is honest-rather than follow the lead of
Packard Kellogg, Moses, Patterson and the rest of
that dsreputable crew." One irate gentleman with
whom have talked conveyed the same idea in
different and even more forcible language when he
said: by George Sir the truth is that IN the South
the glorious American Eagle is now nothing more
nor less than Turkey Buzzard~
TWO LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF THE
STATE.
ATALK WITH LEUT-Gov. PENN AND Ex-Gov PINCH
BACK-HARMoNY BETWEEN THE TWO on MANY
PoNTs-THE TINES RIPE FOR A MOVEMENT