The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-05
GEN. GRANT AND THE SOTTH.

ULNs VRANl AND IHE SOUIHs
The Hon. Alex a. Stephens, of Georgi
though protesting to be a Democrat, appear
on every occasion when he delivers himself {
one of his long and rambling speeches, in tn
role Of an apologist for Grant. He thinks tina
Grants treatment Of Louisiana is proper an
legal-consistent all through-a position tina
no prominent Democrat, North or South. ha
assumed.
The truth is, Stephens has outlived his use
fitness, and is regarded by all sensible men a
superannuated politician Che never was .
statesman who "lags superauous on the stage.
| Now and then we hear that he is at deaths door
and the newspaper columns are burdene6
with the reports of his sanitary condition and
approaching demise; but his powers of recu
peration are prodigious, and when we think
that he is in a'ticulo morris, and proceed to
prepare, in anticipation, his obituary, we are
startled and disappointed to hear that he has
delivered himself of great speech at Augusta
or Atlanta.
The time was when we regarded Alex. Ste.
phens as one of the ablest, most eloquent and
patriotic Of Southern representative men
but that was before the Confederate war
before he, as Vice President of the Confed-
crate States gave only a quasi support to the
Government, a part and parcel of which he
was-before age and decrepitude had dark
ened his mind and blunted his faculties to
such degree that he could belittle himself
SO much as to use his voice and pen in
defense Of Grant, the cold-blooded tyrant
and relentless oppressor of the Southern peo-
pie. In commenting upon Stephens's sup
port OF Grants course, the Louisville Ledger
thus speaks Of Grant and his man Friday
Landaulet Williams:
He turned deaf ear to the complaints of
the oppressed people of South Carolina alIee-
ing as his reason that some one in their con-
vention had spoken disrespectfully of him
and he sustained and supported Moses and
his plundering crew he imposed Kellogg on
Louisiana without shadow of right, and re-
imposed him after prosecuted people had
reed themselves of his tyranny; wherever
plunderer, usurper or a tyrant has arisen in |
The South he has found in Grant ready and
"AAAAAE5 ouPPoAtOA. IL dLy more were |
needed to show the spirit of hostility to the |
southern people by which he is animated, it
night be found in his retention in Office of
uch man as Williams, and his virtual abdi |
alton into his hands Of all power over South
I'm affairs.
This man, who has nothing to recommend |
him but his unscrupulousness and his obse-
Iuiousness to the will of his master: whose
'lunders in law make him the laughing stock
+ his profession; whose shameful prostitution
+ the influence of his official position to the
owest and vilest of partisan purposes so dis
listed even the party for whose political adj
ancement his dirty work was done that it did
ot affect to conceal its contempt for him, and
adignantly refused to subject the country to
he ignOminy which the President was willing
, put upon it in order to reward his tool; this
IAN, as notorious for his savage hatred of the
outhern people as he is infamous for the
navlsh dishonesty of the means by which he
as sought to crafty that hatred, is selected
y Grant as his confidential adviser in all
latters relating to the South, and is per-
lifted and encouraged to wreak his spite |
pom her defenseless and unoffending people.
1t is time this laudation of Gen. Grant by
len assuming to be friends of the South was ,
opped. 1t is offensive to the people whom
assumes to be so stupid that they cannot
'mprehend the plain tenor of Gen. Grants
instant conduct toward them. Apart from
is responsibility for Attorney General Will
ANS actions, the whole course of President
rant. in carrying out the reconstruction
'licy of his party, has been marked by die s
torial spirit of IMPLYING intolerance that f
n only be characterized as brutal Presi-
mt sGrant's claims to notoriety as a mute
I'd as bulldog, we believe are universally
1t will be better for hie
,uthern eulogists to confne themselves to I
lebrating these, his undisputed titles to s
nown. They will not succeed in imposing
m upon the people Of the South as friend :,
I'd benefactor, or even as just and impartial !,
rant