The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-28
THE WORK TO WHICH GRANT Is
CALLED.

An undoubtedly very eminent pol itician OF
Boston writes letter to the New Orleans
Republican, which appears in the Saturday s
issue of that journal. The argument OF the
letter is accumulated proof of the fact that
neither the country nor, what is OF vastly
more importance, the Radical party, can be
saved from perdition by any other agency
than Gen. Grant. Grant is described as the
Idol of the Grant Army of the Republic,
the /" Leader of the anti-slavery sentiment OF
America, the Champion of Protestants, the
d" Defender of Free Schools, etc.
The programme marked out for Grant by
this learned correspondent is as follows:
l. That the presence of Confederate leaders
and generals in both branches Of the American
Congress as the representatives, OF a compaet,
turbulent revolutionary, re-sectonallzed south,
neces estates the uprising of an armed ana
watchful North to preserve the nation.
2. That there is but one man IN the Onlted
States to-day able to lead the North and to cope
with this threat ening Confederate-D democratic
conspiracy.
3. that Gen Grant is the recognized leader
and political head" Of the Protestant party In
America as Bismarck is in Germany.
In August and september last the Repu6stcdn
published the reasons which would force the
North into the attitude it Is now taking up-an
attitude which will end in the expulsion OF Con-
federate representation from the American Con-
gress How this will be done is a subject for fu-
ture consideration. 1t will certainly be done
within the next two years, and Confederate
politicians" may take notice accordingly.
By Confederate representation " we can
only understand the representation OF South
ern constituencies by their own countrymen.
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morally and intellectually capable of repre-
senting the true Southern people except
those who were adherents OF the Southern
side in the late war OF secession. In each OF
the Southern States there were few, and in
some considerable number, of those who
chung to the cause of the Union, but they were
not then, never had been, and can never be-
come representative men for the people
among whom they dwelt Therefore the
writer of the Republican means by "Con-
federate representation in the American Con-
gress y nothing else than the Representatives
of the Southern people OF their own class.
The threat is no less than to drive from the
halls of Congress the delegates of nearly one
q work more audacious than any
Caesar, Cromwell or Bonaparte ever under
took, is mapped out for the autocrat, who has
already assumed to be the great North Ameri-
can adversary of the Catholic Church, the
very personifcation of anti-slavery sentiment,
the self-appointed champion of the great pub
lie school system which nobody has attacked,
and the idol of the army as it is, and of an
organization known as the Grand Army Of
the Republic, representing the army as it is
to be when our Cromwell drives the Southern
members from the Capitol.
1t seems as if the rank and file of the Grant
party are getting very thoroughly saturated
with Cesarean ideas. They seem to catch the
contagion Of dictatorship, and to imbibe the
instinct of despotism. They appear to recog-
nize the INSCRIPTIONS conscience, the un-
changing will, the dauntless ambition, and
the remorseless persistence of our modern
Caesar, who was never known to abandon q
purpose, or scruple at the means of over
coming an obstacle.