New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

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took fire ct the time General Grant wa
Secretary of War. he stands charged will
arson! The destruction of this report
explains, according to the Times, s.wh,
Grant is President" We see not q title
OF evidence in the interview duplicating
General Grant by assertion or insinuation
While this alleged rascality was going on
here, General Grant was in active and
responsible military service, nor can we
see how the proof Of the alleged rascal.
ties could have affected him.
The ex-detective sums up his ILLOGICAL
intimation as follows:
The evidence in that record was abso-
lutely damning. Not man investigated
was not fully exposed. If printed, a. Mr.
Lincoln originally intended, it would have
hlied several volumes. As said before,
VII! repeat now, if the report of the Badly
General U. s. Grant would not now be
President Of the United States. and not one
su,t t0r cotton IN yftty ,chich hare been insti-
Mted. ,could hare been filed IN the Court
| Of Claims.
Now, if this ex-detective be alive and
testifying, why can not his testimony be
taken anew? If all these officers and men
mentioned by the ex-detective are alive, as
many Of them are stated and known to
be, why not take their testimony over
again? The destruction of an affidavit
by fire does not disqualify the witness
from repeating his testimony. There are
now hundreds who might have feared mil
itary vengeance at that day who have no
such fear now. Even the Confederate CO.
par tners might be now compelled to tes-
tify. In one case twelve wagons from the
quartermaster's department
Were filed up with goods at an inn.
mense store, owned by Bloomer g. Co. and
before bringing any wood came back with |
q load OF cotton. The goods were deliv- |
cred at q plantation twelve miles from
Baton Rouge, where an agent Of the Con
fedeTate government temporarily resided, |
and he delivered tbs cotton.
At another time q detail Of fOrty-sev /
wagons was sent out, each of them loaded |
with goods. About the time thew were
ready to start the chief, with q troop of |
cavalry, happened to be out on q scout. He |
reached the plantation heretofore alluded |
to half an hour after the wagons and
caught the entire party in the act of ex-
changing goods for cotton. Both the cot
ton and goods were captured and brought
back to Baton Rouge.
All this testimony is still accessible,
and more. If the Times of that period or
other journals then in.the confidence of
the federal authorities could revive the
"reminiscences of the sanctum and publish
tn e gossip of the period as it comes
always into that Dyonisian ear of the
p ress; if some Confederates who accumu-
lated rapid fortunes by prosecuting this
cont raband trade in salt, cotton and
goods, could be invited by promises to
explain the secret of their wealth and
present political consequence, we might
expect disclosures in comparison with
hich the Badly Smith report would
ease to be remembered or regretted. Not
me cotton suit in fifty now pending,
links the ex-detective, would have been
instituted. Was it possible that
ny cotton frauds were perpetrated by
onfederates upon the calculation that
heir federal partners would protect them
y destroying the evidences of common :
uilt, or were they encouraged to expect
be exercise of political influence which ..
'ould consign the whole crime to the i
blivion Of confagration? The volun- '
AIRY dispositions de bene esse of this ex-de- !,
ctive would seem to intimate q sur n
rise that such influence has proved in i
fectual. The forlorn intimation that Il
lch Investigations may implcate Presi- P
ant Grant, seems thrown out to intimi-
tie the government from pursuing the d
resolutions. We therefore suppose the n n
will institute proceedings n.
r the investigation of sny acts u .;
lating back to the flush times, 81
aen Confederate spectators in salt m
ct federal bummers with permits to hs
al in cotton and each grew rich and in in
lent in bartering respectively cause ~ ~
Ii Oh brave men were daily shedding ba
cir blood to vindicate. We are COM ga
lied to consider this historical and
Eremely ex parte testimony as a very pu
roit though futile effort to alarm the fe
vernment into dismissal of the cotton pu
I'D suits. As a bid for a MOLE prosequi ref
is very ingenious, and the natural
ed of news which animates the rar.-
5ecus reporter has pr ocured for it
sational and illogical head ing in the arr
aes. We shall see if the maneuvre in,
succeed and the nolle prosequi be TIE
cred by the government. Ger
REPUBLICAN POLICY.
We feel degree of qualification at the liza
that without party instruction or con- w"
renee the REPUBLICAN has pursued the pos
rse which has been sanctioned by the onl
,utive investigations, representative Cav
on and the expression of the Repub- ,n0
n press. 1t has been our determine 20