The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-03-07
THE END OF GRANTlSM.

elves to some extent by the refec-
ion that we are happily done with
1rant at any rate. Ordinarily it
would homogeneous to pursue fallen
oe and ungracious to kick man
when he is down, but when that same
elbow has insulted our helplessness,
leaped calumny upon our unreslst'
ng heads, trodden our dearest rights
lnder the iron heel of power, laughed
1t our misery, scorned our appeals to
lis manhood, and lost no opportunl-
" to cypress and degrade us; we are
absolved from any considerations OF
pity, and free to indulge our vein OF
satisfaction that at last our enemy is
fallen so low, that there are "none so
poor to do him reverence none so
base as to dispute the shame that
will follow his name down tie ages
of Time.
Grantism will henceforth be the
synonym (?) for all that is base as
to private character and corrupt as to
official position. History will accord
him the name Butcher in war, and
Drunken partisan in peace. The
eight years of his administration will
be a foul blot upon the page that
tells future generations of the histo-
ry of The Republic, and countless
Americans to come will blush to
think that man so low in his In.
stincts, so like brute in his tastes,
and so corruptin his practices should
have been elevated by their ancestors
TO the highest place within their gift
He who revelled in power and
Rugged to his guilty bosom the phan-
tom of his greatness, is now without
power to Cypress the weak, or ability
to raise up the pigmies and tyrants
who have been the recipients of his
favors. Landaulet Williams can is,
sue no more orders to reinstate kel'
loggs and Chamberlains. Bahcock
can organize and run no more whis
key rings. Belknap can sell no more
Post traderships; brothers and cous
ms of Grant can get no more fat pla
ces and no matter what Hayes may
do Grant is a dead cock in the pit
No man in the South he loved sc
we'll to Cypress, mourns his faller
greatness or will seek to cheer his
loneliness of grief at departed power
and honors that have fled for ever
more. AS he looks back at the year:
so filled with the smiles Of syco
p;ants that mnistered to his vanity
and the cringing and fawning o
place hunters that fed his esteem
how he must regret the loss of the ont
and sigh for the continuance Of th'
other! AS he sees himself the cen
trail figure in long procession o
jobbers, lobbyists, ring and corrup
tionists we wonder if any sense o
shame tinges his cheek, or any reali
J zation of what he really was and i
clouds his brow2
AS he sleeps at night do an.
ghosts of murdered States and weep
, ing laws stalk forth in their blood,
, shrouds to disturb mis- slumbers? A
be walks by day and sees around hin
gaping wounds he might have healed
a divided country he might have uni
ted, financial distress he might hav
averted, we would like to look in hi
Utmost soul to see if there rankle
, there any computations of conscienc
2 or any regret at lost opportunitie!
Who knows? Under the garb of
Sphinx he has for years hidden hi
ignorance, and under the cloak {
; silence he may yet hide his chagri
and bewailings.
Let US be thankful that we are ri
of him and his, even if a cheat and
fraud does take his place. Histor
will do ample justice to the succee'
ed and the successor, but we doubt
it can find in the worst, Hayes CO
do a parallel to what Grant has don
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e -MCCRAINIE, of the Ouachi
). Telegraph is yet level and clea
headed on bargains; hear him:
We find also Representatives fro
l. this State, who, not yet convinced
l. the folly of compromise and ba
6 gains, are willing to say upon the
re oaths that Hayes carried Louisian
50 provided Hayes will return Nichol
as Governor.
And adds that certain Congress
men-
- Are pursuing Hayes with the C
of "stop thief with the intent
8 swap the vote of a State for Pres
. dent with the thief for q State 60
y eminent.