The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-06
GRANTS m IsssAGE.
why shnmid He lug Louisiana and Miss.
issippi into Hamburg
fChieaeo Times. /

tChicaeo TimesI
Gen. Grant answers Gov. Chamber.
lain with uncommon discretion. II the
peace cannot be maintained by the State
authorities, Government aid will be put
at the disposal OF South Carolina. So
far good. Every State should be assured
that, il unable to deal with It's lawless
elements, the Federal assistance may
be counted upon. But why does the
President alIude to the recent outrages
in Louisiana aud Mississippi? No out
RACES have been heard of In those States
since Ames left the one and Wheeler's 8
committee readjusted things In the
other. The last outrage that fingers In
men'3 minds in Louisiana WAS the dis
persal OF the Legislature by United
States troops. Certainly Gen. Grant
cam 1 allude to that? Or is he poking
fun at the Packard convention and its
unseemly wrangling? That was an out
rage, but il was no more an outrage
than the nomination OF the yenal trick
ster Culom. Packard is notorious
through his carpet-bagged State for u
career Of rascality. Cullom is known
in Illinois a. the accomplice Of Harper
and Smith. Does Gen. Grant mean that
he thinks the partiSans should put
Packard off the ticket to efface the
OuiIUlts Dc lltluO1S PAL Will
be driven to throwing their incubus
overheard, even though there is practi.
cally no organized opposition to him
But the exact meaning of Grants
double barreled message is not to be
thus explained. Why should he lug in
Louisiana and Mississippi In n message
about South Carolina? The ruffians
who murdered the colored men at Ham
burg will Of course be punished prompt
ly. Why shouldn't they be? The
Governor Of the State has the courts
and the militia to enforce summary
Justice why the Senate should seek In
formation doesn't seem clearl The
Senate has made no demand for the
facts in the case of Clusters destruc
tion-yet there were three hundred
killed there-and it Is said by we'll in
formed critics, because the forces were
Inadequate and the combinations
sloyenly and ill-digested. The intense
solictude Of the Senate will, we fear, be
mistaken for a party on purpose to up
looks like 1.-THE Presidents disin-
genuous allusion to the Mississippi re-
port, sweltering its venom in the bosom
of that pariah OF the Treasury, Bout
we'll What is hoped from such tactics?
SUPPOSE you prove that the South Is
seething mass of dissatisfaction it
not rather reflection upon the mis-
spent years of power which the Repub-
lican party has welded and wasted?
What, though the comparatively few
irreconciabIc madfnen in the country
are bent upon mischief, is there any re-
assurance that the forces which have
been unable to reconcile them hereto
fore, can be any more successful in
another four year? No, Messieurs
Partisans, the North has been pillaged
and msgoyerned upon this pretext too
long to give ear any further. Ii the
party that rules the South is like the
banded horde that rules the North, we
have every evidence that they are un-
speakably more in corruption, though
it would be impossible for them to be
more corrupt 1t is not at all surpris-
ing that anarchy is the chronic condi-
tion Of the South, the only wonder is
that it is not revolution. That it is not
is no fault Of the Spepcers and Kelloggs
and kindred slumqullions, who have,
under pretense Of love for the colored
men, brought misery and bankruptcy to
them and their homes.