New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-24

average Unionist here can pretend to little
more than modest hospitality; the cham
payne batteries are in the hands OF the
enemy of the blue, and are adequate for
unlimited social salvOs. A tableclOth may
become tempting flag of truce; but Sheri-
| dan has never been morally crippled by
cork bullets. He is first soldier in the
vlgilant discharge of duty, and while an ear
! nest pmpassiOn throbs under his waistcoat
for the wronged Unionist, he seems to have
no room there for toasts TO the health of the
proud rebels, to whom he would extend
little courtesy save that of hospitable
| courtmartial He understands that the
Democratic host does not conquer his
oualms as Union officer for moth ng-that
a political quid is expected for the prandial
quC-that the guest must relax his stiff
loyalty. Since September the whisper from
diningrOoms has slipped into the White
League newspapers that nearly every army
and navy officer here feels ashamed of his
duty under Kellogg's' acquisitions. This is
mainly untrue, but it denotes the rebel sem
timent that is the undertow of the diplo-
matte hospitality. Munchausen, the exem-
plar of a League editor, not only for YER
aeity, but for tempestuous valor relates
that in penetrating 1.-THE tTlghtful deserts
and gloomy woods of America beyond the
source of the Ohio he came with his com
panions upon castle hwhOse drawbridge
was let down, and they were suffered
to- enter. The governor sat with all our
company to table, surrounded by his friends,
of very fierce and waTlike appearance.
The dishes were brought in by number of
bears walking on their hind legs, and on
every dish was a friea sse Of pistols, pistol
bullets, sauce of gunpowder and aqua
yitP. This entertainment seemed rather
indlgestible by even an ostrichs stomach,
when the governor addressed us and in
formed me that it was ever his custom to
strangers to offer them 1or the first course
a service similar to that before us; and If
they were inclined to accept the invitation
he would fight them as much as they
pleased; but if they could not relish the
pistol balls, etc, he would conclude them
peaceabIe and try what better pOliteuass
he could show them in his castle. In short,
the first course being removed untouched,
we dined, and after dinner the governor
forced the company tOpush the bottle about
with alacrlty and success" The Southern
hospitality shown TO federal officers is only
the butt.end of a menace, and they are
esteemed "peaceable' only at the expense
OF their loyal and political virtue. The
Baron must unconsciously have wandered
"sou, SOU east" iu his historic march, and
should be recorded as Yankee slanderer.
1t was dOubtle 80 while torecasting such an
angry i'nputatiOn that he remarked, The
fact Is this-there is a right and. wrong
handle TO everything, and there is more
pleasure in thinking with pure nobility of
heart than with the llliberal enmities and
sarcasm of BLACKBOARD, which is a sand
paper plaster to the raw, wounded heart of
a White Lacquer. When he swears a
tatulent oath, he likes people to take their
hats off, but Sheridan seems to care little
how much a traitOrous stomach belches.
He has saved Louisiana from bloodshed,
and $4,000 loyal men, and every Democrat
whose conscience is not in pawn in Ogden
and Marl's pockets bless him for it.
Now for the other sentry, Packard,
United States marshal of Louisiana. He is
bulky fellow, so shut up in flesh that
his retIcence seems natural, and would pass
tor moroseness but for the good nature that
quickens at his eyes. 1t is flesh that
wrinkles and quiyers with humOr. His
nerves are so deeply imbedded in this
carnal pudding that he takes Bullets with
the comfortable inertia of cushion he
never seems discOmpOsed. His brain is
never idle, and in the pursuit of political
enemy prefers a still hunt. He is then as
quiet and dangerous as an elephant, toward
whose proportions he has dstended his
skin to its limit. He husbands his vigors
well; strikes but once and with fatal fe-
rOcity. WarmOth, whom he vanquished in
n, and 90 wounded politically that the ex-
Governor died the next year on the Demo
cratic breast. has been curious ever since
his short resurrection to know who struck
him, and whether Packard's political
knuckles are not the Old-fashioned batter
ing ram. The chief of the Republican party
in this State, and in the occupation of it's
State Central Committee chair he surveys
the whole field; knows where negro
falls a political victim, where a knavish
partisan attempts mischief, where mObs
gather, and Just what is done in every
In conventions be is a calm,
pregnant with storm; he has often raised
breeze most inoppOrtunely for partsans
with sinister aims and sent them off in chase
OF their hats whirled in the righteous tor
nado. Like Sheridan. he is not afraid I'd be
frank, and his party, knowing this believe
implicitly in him, and every time he at
tempts to vacate the Craftsmanship of the
Central Committee he is pushed back into
it. His power of command is quiet but TIRE.
menaous. You know there is a formidable
blade in the clumsy seabbaFd-an iron man
in the big pad of hssh. The best tribute
that could be paid him the White League
pays-it respects and fears him; and since
that crew can not impeach his personal
honesty it makes gHnaces at his politics.
Sheridan and Packard are the Leagues
greatest antagonists, and President Grant
in fully trusting them both never exhibited
trueF discretion. So much for the last
twins that monopolize public attention in
New Orleans