The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-10
THE WOE PRESIDENT.

The announcement that Hon. Henry vii
son, of Natick, Mass, is soon to make an ex
| cursion Throughout. the Southern States
welcome to our citizens of all parties, ciasse
and colors. He Will have a good CHARGE t
learn the truth respecting our social, poilti
cal, monetary and industrial condition, to as
certain the actual wants Of the South, to SET
| the evils under which We labor, and to ponder
On the remedies.
| His kuogledge of the former condition O.
these States will be no guide to knowledge
! of their present status. The South, as he re-
| membered it before 1861, will lave but few
| familiar features. There will be the same
some regions perhaps an improved system OF
agriculture. But when he looks upon our
social and political ate he will find vast
changes which he has not fully antici-
pated.
While he has sagacity and intelligence far
too great to have been deceived into the be-
lief of all that has been said and written about
US, still his sentiments and opinions must nave
been toned tinged and shaded by the atmos-
phere of anti Southern thought and converse
ton around him. We believe it scarcely posi-
bic that one who has been an anti-Democratic
voter forty-three years, for thirty-five years
Wing, or Free Soil or Republican legisla-
tor and, during a long war, a very earnest
opponent Of the seeding States, can view us
through clear eyes or hold towards us I'M
prejudiced feeling. Perhaps he comes
among Us to rectfy his errors and to change
his preconceived notions, as facts carefully
observed and information from trusty sources
may suggest. When he comes to learn for
himself The trouble taken implies that he
wants to know the truth.
1t is probability if nothing else, that the
tour through the South has
something to do with shaping the policy Of
the Republican party for the next Congress,
Or that portion of the party which he repre-
'ents. Ii is even possible that what he may |
observe and report may have something to do |
with the contest Of 1876, in which he is by |
40 means an impossible candidate. Gen.
Wilson's early career as a farmer, as a Jour
leyman mechanic and manufacturer; the
act that he rose from the masses and was q
elf made man; the active interest he has
AIKEN in public afi.irs, his career as an
his lifetime opposition to
he Democratic party, his strong par
isan bias, the confidence which
lincoln, Seward, and other eminent
republicans had in him, as many surviving
eaders of his party now have are among
he facts which point to him as one of the
most prominent names which will come be-
ore the anti-third-term men of the Repub-
can Presidential Convention He is ortho- I
OK enough to suit all but extremists in his
arty, and he seems to be broad enough to
nit the generality of Liberal Republicans. '
Considered from such point, his visit to |
le South has peculiar significance. He will /
suredly find here abundant reason to pur-
le and recommend liberal course. That S
commentator, early made, will be a con- C
smnation of the course Of Grant and his a
bid, South hating Radicals, which will work t
J due eff ct among their more reasonable n
untrymen. Il