Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-20
The Grant Mania!
A SCATHlN0 REBuKk-NEWe FROM THE
LOWER COAST--PLANTERS NEED
PROTECTION "A CHILD
KILLkD-CROPs.


PROTECTION "A CHILD
KILLkD-CROPs.
Won't Bend the Knee to Baal !
DEAR CAplTOLIAN-Your recent obser-
vations on the invitation extended by
the city Council of New Orleans to
General Grant to visit that city, and
your late editorial bearing the caption
of "vive Ia Republique," were so express
sive of honest sentiment and reflective
of the feelings Of the Southern people,
that, as one of your constant readers, l
am constrained to congratulate you up.
on the position you have assumed. Tho
hospitality thus rendered by the officers
of one of the chief cities of tho South to
o man who was the main author and in
strnment Of its woes, is mystery which
meditation cannot solve, and certainly
does not receive the approval of the
people who suffered so much during his
despotic administration. It is unreas-
enable to suppose that any people who
have undergone the severe ordeal of re-
construction and military despotism, so
far forget themselves as to share with
him the festal board and drink toasts
with him over the bloodshed and DESC
latiOn that has marked his career from
the day he was promoted to the highest
offices Of the army and government of
the United States. 'Like o fawning
spaniel, lick the hand that would smite
you" It does not belong to Southern
blood or Southern character. Put aside
all his acts as commander of the Federal
armies-his brutal 'butcheries of men
his desolation by fire and sword, and
take him up as president of THE PEOPLE,
and we have enough to curdle Southern
blood for the next thousand years to
come, and yet ono Of the leading papers
Of the great Southern metropolis has
suggested as one Of the peculiar signs
ofthe times, the Southern soldiery would
prefer him to such man as Tilden to
be the next President of the United
States!
Call up the departed spirit Of Cali
gula, Of Nero, the slumbering ashes of
Alexander, and feel for moment the
trembling pulse of the Car Of Russia,
and ask if such be tho kind of men we
would chorsse to preside over a free
people and republican government! {!
Arc we 80 soon to forget reconstruction,
so-called, in South Carolina I Will OBJ
livion spread it's mantle over the high
handed outrage perpetrated by Adelbert
Ames in obedience to orders from Presi-
dent Grant, who, with an escort of arm
ed soldiers, removed from the gubcrna-
torial chair of Mississippi, Benjamin G.
Humphries, the legally and constitu-
tionally elected Governor of the State 7
And what of louisiana 1t would re-
quire more space than whole volume
Of the CAPITOLIAN to record the wrongs
that were perpctratcd upon the people
Of Louisiana during the administration
and connivance Of this modern despOt
to whom the City Council of New Or
leans tender generous hospitality. The
people Of this State have not forgotten
that they elected John McEnery Gov
crnor, and were robbed of his admins
tration. They have not forgotten the
midnight order Of Judge Dnrcll, nor the
glittering bayonets Of Gen. DcTrobiand,
who, with body of Federal soldiers,
entered the halls Of the Legislature and
forced from their seats Robert l.. Luck
cit and other legally elected members
Of that body. The establishment of
negro supremacy, upheld by Federal
military power, the wholesale robbery
Of the people under the guise Of taxa
ton, the diaholical outrages perpctrated
upon the defencelcss women in every
nook and corner of the State by demons
in human form, instigated and protect
ed by metropolitan police and Federal
dragons, are not crimes to be overlook
looked and forgiven in single decade.
In Winn parish a devoted husband yet
mourns terrible tragedy which robbed
him Of yonng and beautiful wife. In
Grant parish, on the memorable plains
of Colfax, are buried mother and
daughter, two highly respectable ladies,
outraged and murdered by the nations
wards, whom Col. DcKlinc, ,one of Grants
military tools, refused to arrest.
Thus miSht go on from State to
State, from parish to parish, from neigh
borhood to ncighborllood, from house to
house, and recount tho dreadful scenes
that transpired under Grants admins
tation, which came to his knowledge,
and which he refused to notice. And
did he pause and yield to the demands Of
outraged civilization Only in the last
days of his official tenure, when the same
heroes who had so often beat back his
legions in Virginia again armed them
selves, raised theiE defiant yell and de-
manded justice at the altar Of death. We
owe Grant no gratitude whatever. If he
protected Lee and other Confedcrates
after the war it was by virtue of his obli-
cation as q soldier and the terms of sur
render, tho performance Of a bounden
duty. If he acceded to the inaugural
tion of the Nichols government and the
overthrow ofthe Packard-Kellogg regime
it was because he couldn't help himself.
We owe him nogratitude and no thanks.