The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-12-22
Conversation With President Grant.

Suiio"o SuuVofotIlOu Is repOFC6
to us as having recently taken place a
Washington between President Gran
and rural citizen; conscientious alb
olitionist member of thecoalition whic1
put Charles Sumner into the Senate
This estimable citizen of Massachu
sets, who in his carly youth had cob
bled on one bench with the late Vice
President Wilson, went on to the CAPT
tai to see that statesman in his last i'll
ness. He had read with simple horro
most of the disagreeable revelation
which have been made during the las
two or three years of moral and fiuan
eial backslidings in the Republican
party, and he took advantage, there
fore, of his presence in Washington t,
call upon the President, "bear his ties
timony" and get some explanation O
all these uncomfortable matters. Thu
was the result:
Venerable Abolitionist Presi
dent, we in Massachusetts abhor tn
devices of Ben. Butler, and are shock
ed at your allowing him to trampl
Civil Service Reform and all decenc,
under foot in the way you have done
Why have you done this
President Grant-My friend, hav,
you ever reflected upon the horrible
character of slavery in Cuba9 Do W,
not owe it to our posterity to abolish
that atrocious system at our doors
peaceably if We can, forcibiy if W,
mustf
Ven. Abol.-Mr. President, how cal
you excuse yourself to the honest mel
of this country for your open patron
age and protection given to Shepherd
and the rogues of the District Ring
President Grant-Revered patriot
Have you read Mr.. Gladstone's abb,
exposure of the Internal designs O
Romef Is not onr school system il
danger when red-legged Cardinals are
openly nominated to high ecclesiastical
Office in this hitherto drab- colorei
community
Ven. Abol.-Mr. President, will you
not answer one question directly
Who is the 'Bab" that figures so i'm.
pudently in correspondence at Wash.
ington with the thieves of the St. Loui.
Whisky Ringi
President Grant-Noble. hearted he'll
of the Puritans! does not your heart
bound Indignantly at the outrages per.
petrated upon the negro land and cat.
tie owners of Texas by the savage
Mexican bands of Cortinai Can you
blame me for sounding the trumpe.
and setting Sheridan at these marau.
ders3
Ven. Abol. lin despair)-Mr. Presi-
dent! Why have you insulted the
deathbed of our own Wilson, the cham
pion of total abstinence, by recalling to
your council chamber the flaming coun-
tenance of Chandler7
President Grant--Exemplary philan.
thropist! Ought we not out Of our
gladly to saddle ourselves
with a new debt of several hundred
if necessary in order to rescue
the groaning freemen of Cuba, Span
isb, negro, Chinese and promiscuous,
from the yoke of their barbarous op-
presses y
Ven. Abol. Mr.. President! Has
the Lord deafened your heart9 What
is the truth, the dreadful truth, about
your brother, Orvil Grant, and these
wicked rogues of the Indian Ring
whom Professor Marsh so manfully ex-
posed9
President Grant-Descendant of En-
dicott who cut the Popish cross from
flag! Did not the blood
curdle in your veins when You read
my Attorney-General's awful 'revela-
tons in my Des Moines speech-and
learned how the stealthy Jesuit is
creeping cat-like upon our innocent
schools to crunch them in his ensan-
guined jaws7
At this point the aged votary Of
great moral ideas fairly gasped for
breath; he moved his jaws as if to
frame a new question, but no sound
came forth. The President whose po-
likeness is proverbial, promptly caught
up a decanter of Bourbon from the ia.
BILE, poured out a tumbler, and offered
it to his visitor. This happened on
Sunday afternoon. The remains of
that unhappy man were yesterday
transported to his native village. He
was the last of the honest, original Re-
publicans of Massachusetts.-[N Y.
World.
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