The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

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pull we'll together. Williams, CRATE
full to the hand which kept him il
the Generals office after hi
had been invited by the United States
Senate to walk out of it as a disrepu
table person, is hard at work in Wash
ington disseminating falsehoods
about the condition of the South
ordering the United States Army
right and left, all over the Southern
States, an d doing his best to helI
Senator Morton keep alive "unti'
after the election" the notion that
we are in the midst of a "new rebel.
lion' and of a half-developed civil
war. Meanwhile President Grant is
junketing about the West with his
family, visiting cattle shows and
horse-fairs, and keeping upon the
prairies, if not what his new organ
in New York has indiscreetly de.
scribed as a "Long Branch fintoxi-
cation" at least a "Long Branch in,
difference to the public duties and
responsibilities of his station.
Now, one oftwo things is perfectly
clear. Either President Grant de-
serves impeachment for ~neglecting
his duties, or Acknowledgement Will
liams deserves indictment as a public
nuisance. Williams is the man who
was ANONYMOUSLY rejected by the
Senate as unfit for the seat of Chief.
Justice Chase, yet who shamelesslY
chung and clings to the office of At
torney-G General after receiving that
public slap in the face. If Attorney-
General Williams has the slightest
warrant of truth for the stories he is
daily promulgating about the lawful
condition of the South" then Presi-
dent Grant is worthy of impeachment
for the brazen disregard of his duties
and his responsibilities which he
shows by founging and '4oadng''
there is no other word which so ex-
actly describes his performances all
over the West while these things are
doing in the South. The English
people and the English press make it
a charge, not unfrequently, against
Queen Victoria, that at times when
there is nothing extraordinary going
on either in the domestic or in the
foreign politics of Great Britain,
Her Majesty insists upon removing
herself to her home in the Highlands,
and so retarding the despatch of pub
lie business. But what would be the
feeling Of the English people, and in
what language would the English
press give utterance to that feeling,
if Queen Victoria were to remove to
Balmoral in the midst of an outbreak
in Ireland.
The measures which President
Grants discredited and discreditable
Attorney General. is daily taking in
the South are such measures as no
English Government has ever dared
to venture upon in Ireland except
with the direct and express sanction
Of Parliament, and in the face Of
armed i%nsurrection too fragrant to be
questioned or doubted about. Mar
tial law is practically proclaimed over
q large part Of the American Repub
lie to-day by the simple fat of low
political adventurer whom nothing
but the personal favor and the perso.
nal obstinacy Of President Grant keep
in q position which makes it neces-
sary for men of character to tolerate
occasional association with him.
Domiciliary visits are made by this
mans authority, conventions are bro
ken up by armed men under his or
ders. The Lieutenant General of the
army is invited by him to strip the
frontiers Of the troops needed for
their protection that he may be able
to extend his incendiary operations
over q wide area of territory, And
while all this is doing, President
Grant is whisking about from town
to town of the West, looking at fat
cattle, eating good dinners, and gene
rally amusing himself like a shoddy
Spectator on a railway picnic!
One is tempted to ask whether the
people of this country have absolute
~ abdicated the first duties of free
men and of good citizens when he
sees the public opinion of this coun-
try thus insolently trifed with by
the Executive of the nation and by
the vulgar and unprincipled tools to
whom the Executive losses over the
discharge of the functions he has
solemnly sworn to perform, as uncon-
cernedly as if he were a village bar
keeper calling in a stable drudge to
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