The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-21
VOLUME mo. 80.
THE SALVATION OF
GRANT AND TIE RADICAL
RARITY.

poses of Grant and his followers in regard tc
their future political course. When Messrs
Hoar, Frye and Wheeler set out on their phi
grimage to this Mecca of carpet-baggery, II
was with the design of SO conducting tEeir
investigation into our troubles as to extract
therefrom a plausible pretext for the hasty
recognition of Kellogg by the President, and
II possible to make such report as would
Justify the Executive in the further agrees
sions he was angrily meditating upon this
stif-necked people. As, day by day, they
burrowed deeper into the mass Of evidence
laid before them, il became evident that this
amiable plan was hopeless Of success. 1t
then suggested itself to the mind Of Mr.
Wheeler to propose the compromise, that
never-failing panacea OF all our woes-that
soothing medicine which the North has al
ways found effective for toning down the too
equality before the law. A shrewd politician
Is Mr. Wheeler He saw, even before the
President saw it, that TIE game of intimidation
could no longer be played by the powers at
Washington with safety to themselves, or to
The great party which was responsible for
them. And as Grant could not, with any
greater safety, back down completely from
ais original stand Of vindictive persecution Of
Louisiana, the compromise was the only
escape for the President and his party from
:heir perilous position. What arguments
we're used to secure the cooperation of suf-
.ficient number of Conservatives in Louisiana
to give this compromise body and shape, We
shall not discuss. Enough names were
secured to justify Mr.. Wheeler in the assertion
that nothing now remained but the approba-
lion of the President to make it a fat accompH
It was not deemed necessary to obtain the
assent OF Kellogg and his people. The crea-
lures of Grants power, they would not dare
TO oppose his will. At the time OF Mr.. Wheeler's
return to Washington City from New Orleans,
things were not propitious for the success of
ais scheme. Intlamed with ever increasing
hatred toward people who had dared to hold
political opinions at variance with his own,
The President was in no mood to listen to the
vily Wheeler Force and violence were
FOR the fnal solution of the Louisi-
ana question. Indeed, so furious was his
tempest Of rage at that moment, that he ac-
.ually announced to the trembling Radicals
n Congress his purpose to pursue even more
revolutionary courses in Arkansas than had
marked his dealings with Louisiana, and
sternly demanded the passage Of a law which
should by ticipation legalize any and every
act he might see fit to commit, in order to
strangle at once and forever the despairing
cry for freedom III the South. 1t was a crit
zeal moment. The Force bill went through
the lower House under whip and spur and
The whole nation looked on with bated breath,
mute and helpless, awaiting It's final passage
oy the Senate. Here it failed; partly for want
of time to overcome the sturdy opposition Of
The Democrats partly from the reluctant hes
4 tation of certain Republican Senators to en-
gage in such dangerous legislation. They
were willing to forge additional chains for the
South, but dreaded that new ones might be
riveted on themselves.
Grant, finding that Congress had adjourned
without giving legal sanction to his proposed
scheme of overriding the law, became now
more willing to listen to prudent counsels.
is in the Wilderness, when hurled back by
The fierce resistance Of Gen. Lees army,
ne covered his discontinue without relaxing
MS purpose by some swift flank movement.
So. now, he resorts to like strategy in his
campaigns for personal government.
Fooled in his onset upon the legal barriers
which stood between him and the fulillment
Of his purpose by the failure of the Force
bill and by the passage Of the Arkansas reso-
tuition, he draws off skillfully and in good
order Those who have studied with any
closeness the career of this man since his &C
.cesson to the presidency must now be con
WINGED beyond a doubt of the accuracy OF
Frank Blairs measurement OF his character,
As publicly uttered in the year 1868. Polit-
sian he may not be according to the regula-
lion ideas that have governed the leaders Of
,oarties in the past His theories OF govern
.neut NAV be obnoxious to all the traditions
Of the republic; his conviction that KS
presidency, at least is purely personal
affair, may be abhorrent to the high-spirited,
iberty-loving American of whatever creed or
party, but the fact remains unchallenged
shat he stands to-day more thoroughly the
master of his political party than any leader
gr president who ever preceded him
He has now placed himself on record as
agreeing to abide by the Wall street arbitra-
Zen of the Louisiana election. Let no one
ielude himself into the belief that this means
4 new birth of magnanimity and justice to
the people of this State. II means simply
Shat the Conservatives are to be awarded bare
rlaj ority in the House of Representatives,
while the Radicals are to be secured ma
ority on Joint ballot; the present organiza-
ton of the House. with Hahn for Speaker and
II ipers for Clerk. is to be maintained; Kellogg