The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-22
From the Chicago Times.
n Gramt and the Boys in Blue

lt Grant anu the Boys In bise0s
AS the convenient object Of interest
and sympathy, the Union soldier Is again
coming to The front. Another election
draws nigh, and the good politician
plncks him by the armless sleeve ana
kindly invites him to pick up his artifi-
cial leg and walk into a place OF honor
and profit under the Government. Gen.
| Grant, whose fame was built upon the
bones he scattered 'twixt the Wilderness
and Apponattox, Is now, rs ever about
polling day, his cordial and considerable
friend. The Democratic House having
discharged eighteen Union soldiers to
give place to twenty-six other Union
soldiers, Gen. Grant, with that tender
solicitude for the material welfare
of his. companions IN arms when
years not known politically as
"off," instantly announced that he
would make place elsewhere for the gal
liant remnants OF the boys who once
wore blue upon their backs, and who,
in these weak, piping times of peace,
were compelled to surrender to the Con
federates whom they once defied. 1t
was an act which did credit to the
bright head and big heart OF our illus
trious chief magistrate. That Grant, in
the distribution Of places OF trust and
| uOIIOJ, IbS uilAlOA MY uiAA 1"' Nv"
and the country's gratitude to the dar-
ing men whom he directed to save the
Union, and who, by a merciful chance,
survived the service, WI need not go out
Of our own district to learn.
Who are the men who hold and have
held tho Federal offices at this point ?
There is J. Russell Jones, collector.
When the blast of war blew in our ears,
J. Russell Jones, casting o contemptuous
glance at the soft allurements OF peace,
called for his armor and calamity en-
tered upon an arduous campaign. Dur
ing the long and bitter strife he never
faltered, and so apparent was 1t to Gen.
Grant that his arrangement of the West
Division Street Railway Company con-
tributed not u little to the termination
Of the sanguinary strife, that he gra-
~ciously consented to permit him to in
vest n certain amount of his (the Gen
eral's) savings in the said company. AS
the dauntless captain OF that company,
Jones wrote his name upon every CORY
car between State street and Western
avenue, and, to escape the greatness OF
his fame, was sent ambassador to the
Belgian court, whose king never .wearied
of Jones' variations of the brilliant
dashes of his hOrse-car cavalry.
There was Jones' immediate prede-
cessOr. the dashing and strategic Gen.
n. Bonaparte Judd. At the commence
meut of the war he was sent upon a
perilous campaign against the Dutch,
and, planting himself before Berlin, he,
single handed and alone, held Bismarck
at bay. So persistent was his siege Of
the Prussian capital, and 50 firm his
confidence in his power to prevent the
march OF German reinforcements to the
Confederate camps, that it was with diff
iculty that he was recalled. Ordered
afterward into the CustOmhOuse here,
he regarded it as a citadel, and held on
to it while there was a shot in the lock-
er. "No surrender" was eve the motto
of this doughty warrior, and it was
characteristic Of his g~eneralship that he
captured posts with avidity, and held to
them with the tenacity which justified
the motto he had chosen.
The predecessor Of Gen. Judd was Nc
Lean, q skiIlful captain, who, with the
aid Of Grants brother, Orvil, maintains
ed with such credit to himself as was
possible, considering the character Of
his associate in command, u frontier
most on Lake street. Though menaced
often he never abandoned his position
until with flying colors he marched into
the Customhouse, a post OF honor and
| Of profit to which the grateful Grant,
ever mindful Of the boys in blue, had
promoted him.
Herman Raster, rewarded, ut one
Revenue, was, like the great Pagan
from whom he takes his Christian name
"a warrior tried and true. He had mar
shaded whole columns Of brave Deutscf
leaders who fought the good fight in the
Staats ZeitMng. That valiant trio, Bar
dolph, Nym and Pistol, were nothing tc
Raster, who impaled more. rebels upon
the point of his formidable quill ant
mapped out more campaigns with the
same serviceable weapon than all the
Union generals put together. =.
has claimed him, but of Phil Wordsworth
: the gallant hero Of twenty wards, we
cannot be too eulogistic. His fierce heac
swelters in the basket where it fel
when the guillotine was last at work
but the memory of his gallant charges
will never fade from the memory o.
men who love to honor heroes. As
Byron said Of Marceau we may say OF
Phil. "Brief, brave and glorious was
his young career; his mourners were
two hosts, his friends and foes" Ito the
latter of whom, kind soul, he never die
aught that was harmful(, "and fifty may
gallant spirits bright repose," He is
gone, is Phil. The hand that raised
him was the hand that smote his down
but who shall doubt that Grant in re
warding him was not mindful OF his
duty to the boys in blue.
There is Campbell, the marshal
Campbell was chiefly conspicuous as
strategist. He is from Galena, a towI
famous for its military chieftains. Early
IN the wal he moved with great intre.
pidity upon Chicago, and with rare skill
drew his besieging lines upon the mar
shal's office. He fought it out on tha'
line, and, instantly garrisoning. thu
place with all his relatives, he has held
occupied and possessed it since with 9
devotion to his country seldom equaled.
In the pension office vas Dave Blake
ly, a big boy in blue, who was rewarded
on the sole ground that he was a better
soldier than Gen. Sweet, who, because
he had been so imprOvident in his per
son as to get filled up with bullets, wa:
not considered a discreet officer, nor {
fitting man for pension agent whel
such a worrier as Blakely applied 70
the post. Blakely, in the gloomy days
Of war, had wept over the O Of his
country as copiously and easily as ht
had ever wept over his own woes, ant
to their sorrow, many Chicago capital
lists know his facility In that regard
Thanking the goodness Of Grant in fit
tinply remembering so puiSSant q SWaSh