The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-01-22
GRANTS LOUISIANA MESSAGE.

GRANTS LOUISIANA MESSAGE.
In answer to the Senate's inquiry the
President has addressed n lengthy mes
sage to Congress concerning the political
troubles in Louisiana. The informa-
aggregation Of Democratic outrages, So
called, upon Republicans, as one would
expect to find nowhere else but in a
letter of the paid correspondent of an
organ like the Inter-Ocean, Forney's
Press, or Washington Republican, Of
which style of literature and romance,
in justice to the average Radical CORES
pondent it may he said, the Presidents
attempt at imitation is but weak,
clumsy listed effort. Our readers by
simply recalling to mind what has been
said by Radical newspapers and starv-
ing officials time and again of the in
tolerance and violence of tho whites in
this State, will have about as true
conception of the pith and tone of the
message, as il the whole document was
laid before them. HI no paragraph, or
sentence, does the President stop in his
bill OF Indictment to account for the
conduct of the whites, or &c banditti,"
or to palliate their alleged offenses, by
even a hypothesis that the Republicans
have not always acted properly and
fairly; nor does he seem so much as to
imagine that the whites nave had
grievances hard to be borne, in the acts
of dishonest officials and in the shape
of confiscating governments. His facts
are all on the Radical side and his
pleading strong against the whites, just
as if he were the paid attorney of the
Republican rascals in this State and
not the President of the Union whose
business it is and whose ambition it
should be to heal all disorders by dis
covering the true causes and by wise
application of a safe remedy. TO such
Il President the fact that he had written
partisan message which even those
he seeks to crush view with calmness,
if not with satisfaction because of its
extreme vindictiveness,- AS the people
Of this State do,-would bring the les.
son that the exalted Office he holds is
powerful to inspire respect for the indi-
viduat only when he has respect for his
Office and the true interests of all the
people, and that when he ceases to be
tho President of all parties and becomes
the attorney of one, he brings discredit
upon his position and degrades himself
in the eyes of the whole world. But it
is not in Gen. Grants organism, as we
have often had occasion to notice, to
rise superior to the dictates Of his
logged will and strong party bins; nor
is he seeking SO much the praise and
encomiums of posterity AS one who
loved his whole country and people, rs
the overthrow Of his political enemies
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of himself ;,nd
friends and the Capitalization of power
in the hands Of a few. But it is matter
OF congratulation that while Louisiana
is passing through n trying ordeal IN
der the mailed hand Of such i; parven
she has given occasion to other States
in her peaceable resistance and failure
for full appreciation of the general dan
ger and of the character of the mar
who stands at the head of National
affairs, and II feeling of indignation has
been aroused unparalleled for years
which continues to increase notwith
standing the frothy war bulletins o
Sheridan and the pettifogging messages
OF President Grant.
WAnuvEp, pDNls 4 &nunNS