The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-02-26
THE NEW YORK HERALD on GRANT.

* Instead of "peace'' his ad-
ministration has brought increasing
elements sofdisturbance. The condition
of the South, politically, economically
and socially, compares unfaVorabty
with its condition at the date of his
first inauguration. He has brought
the business of the country to stagna-
ton, the National Treasury to the
verge of bankruptcy, and has reduced
his party from a victorious and SEEM
ingty invincibte majority to Il humilia-
ting minority in most Of the States
that have recently held elections.
The industries of the country, the
tranquility of the South, the condition
of the treasury and the prospects of the
Republican party are so different from
what was expected from President
Grant, that even he must perceive that
his administration is a political failure;
and by the sound rule of judging a tree
by its fruits, he ought to see that his
policy has been a stupendous mistake.
The Republican journals do not
desire the continuance in Office of Il
President whose conduct and policy
they are ashamed to advocate and cam
not defend.
The strange Arkansas message, un-
accountable even from Grant, must
intensity the Republican regret that
Mr.. Wilson is not at the head of the
governmet. His ENcellency seems to
have lost his memory, besides ablica-
ting all the claims he ever had to com.
! mon sense. 1t is inconceivable that
any man who had not holessly lost his
wits, it is astonishing that any man
outside the walls of an asylum for
lunaticS could have sent to Congress Il
| message which so condemns and repll-
dates his own recent policy respecting
affairs in Arkansas.
In 1872 Brooks ran on the Greeley
ticket and Baxter on the Grant ticket.
The Grant party in that State counted
Brooks out and Baxter in, with the
Presidents implied sanction. Brooks
has since changed 'front.' and become a
supporter of Grant, and, for no other
reason known to the public, his Excel
lency has also changed front ,and main-
ttins at this late day that Brooks was
elected.
Why did he not make this dicovery
more than two years ago, when the
returns Of that election were as access
bic as they are at present? 1t is scan
lalous for the President to change his
opinion on such Il point for no other
disccrnable reason than that the Greeley
candidate, who was counted out, has
turned his political coat and become a
supporter of Grant. Did this whiflling
oflice-secller's desertiOn of his supporters
change the number of votes cast for him
i'll 1872?
There is still stronger reason, if a
stronger be possible, why the President
should not have made this late recogni-
ton of Brooks. No longer ago than
last May General Grant issued proc
lamation, in which he asserted the
title of Baxter and dccied that of Brooks
to the Governorship. The argument
put forth in that proclamation was
sound.
The recent message, compared with
the May proclamation, presents the
most remarkable instance of scEf-stuIti-
| ijcation to be found in the official
| records of any government. 1t can not
be doubted that the country, irrespec-
tive of party differences would feel Il
sense of relief on the resignation of such
& President, nor that the Republicans
would hail with accIaiming JOY the
substitution for President who so
wantOnly deties public opinion of a
true, tried and judicious member of
their own party like Vice President
! Wilson.