The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-01-08
Gil Havell's Manias.
(Charles Nor1hoGm tie HeratdJ

fCH0ItfS NOffho,U M ne HefQtGJ
Among the objects of Bish OPP
Ravens bigoted detestation and
fear the most prominent, / SUBJ
pose, are the Roman Catholic
Church and the Southern white
people.
His desire to renominate Gen.
Grant is no new thing. More than
a year ago, and after his return
from Mexico, about which country
he was then issuing what proved
to be. III the general opinion, a
very offensive book, he surprised
me .ith the declaration that I'VE
must have that country holding
Il map of Mexico before me ; and
when [ replied that it could not
be got without "A war, he said,
eve must have it it belongs to
us our people want it ; what do
you think of Grant and Mexico as
a platform in 1876! Don't yon
suppose that would sweep the
country % | was shocked that a
clergyman, even Bishop Haven,
should deliberately propose il
scheme of robbery, he exclaimed,
"Iou'll see that | am right you
are all wrong about this matter.
Iou are opposed to a third term,
| lrar;yon don't ike Gen. Grant
You don't know anything about
it.: you're as wrong MS you can
br.' He is d.tr>tcd all over the
South for pubic expressions in
favor Of AN tmalganatlon OF the
Negro and white races, ami | he.
came satisfied uring Il tour oi
the Southern StateSi he had dome
a great deal to keep up and even
emhitter wherever he lahnrcd. not
only race prejndices, but the
feelings naturally remaining from
the war. When he comes to the
North he iniIustriously spreads
tales of the 'disloyaltyA of the
Southern whites and of the
suffered by the "poor negroes"
and of the danger to their future.
In fact, he talks of the South pre-.
cisely like the average political
carpet Dagger. and the final clause
OF his argument. like that of the
political carpet-bagger, is always,
ave must reflect Gen. Grant to
keep down the rebels and pro-
tect the negroes" He presumes
TO sit in judgment upon the late
Nlce-PreSident, and to declare
that he was struck down by God
because he would not support
the Force bill. Lon the other hand
declare that in a journey through
SIX Southern States. made for
you during the last spring and
summer, | saw. with one cxcep
ton, not Il single honest and re-
spectacle Republican who did
not freely tell me that there was
no need of a Force bill that even
The present Enforcement act was
useless that what the Republi
can party needed in thse States
was publication from the control
OF rOgues and plnnderers, and
that what kept up the ill feeling
against negroes, so far as it exists
anywhere, was their too ready
and constant utilization with low
whites and arttul demagogues
who, under the plea of being Re
publicans, use the negro vote to
rob the taxpaying and property
owning citizens.
Some prominent Methodist
clergymen do not refuse to use
their influence as Methodists with
the President to further applica-
tons for office. A conspicuous
instance of this kind came dis
agreeabIy under mp notice two
years ago, at the time when the
appointment OF Collector Sim
mons i'll Boston created very Bit
ter discomfort among the reSpec
table Republicans OF MaSsachu
sets and unfavorablc comments
elsew here. Gen Buffers influence
with the President was supposed
at that time to nave procured
this appointment, but Judge
Hoar, certainly no friend to Gen.
Butler, told me that it. was
the Methodist influence in Boston
which carried the day for Sim
mons, and | satisfied myself after
ward that this vas true. There
are other and more scandalons
Instances OF such misuse of Me
IhnliSt iafiuence which it is not