Louisiana capitolian., 1880-01-10
ToADY1NG TO GRANT.

TOADY1NG TO GRANT.
Southern manhood will blush with
shame when it is known that in the
States of Georgia and South Carolina
there have been communities 80 for
getful of their self. respect as to pay
homage to Grant-the very man who
mercilessly drove the Southern peo-
pie into the lowest depths of ruin and
degradation!
We can well understand how a fal-
len foe could admire the great cap
tain on whose brow shone the Laurels
of Lodi, Arcola, Austerlitz, Friedland,
lena, Wagram, even unto the glo-
rous defeat at Waterloo; because
Napoleon was, as Kleber said to him
on the sands of Aboukyr: "General,
you are greater than the world"
Indeed, there stood the rival of Ju-
lius Caesar, a grand warrior, states
man and being possessed Of those
generous traits that fitted him to
wear so proudly the diadem Of an EN-
peror!
He it was who viewed with grief
the palm of victory won over his
countrymen amid the horrors of in-
testine war.
His aim it was to heal the wounds
created by civil strife; for no sooner
had he become the ruler of France
than the gates were thrown open to
receive the exiled of the Revolution.
When the Grand Army took up its
line Of march for Austerlitz, the sans
culottes of the Reign Of Terror were
in the same invincible battaliOns as
comrades of the SONS of the chivalry Of
France!
The followers of the Red Flag that
guided the insurrectionary sections
Of Paris, and the faithful defenders
of the snowy standard, upon whose
folds was embroidered the Lilies of
Royalty, all were grouped around the
glorious Tri-cOlOr!
And history might have repeated
itself in the annals of the American
Republic, had the soldier and the
Cavalier, ROBERT EDMUND LEE, stood
in lieu Of Ulysses Grant after the bat
tie flags were folded at Appomatox!
Where is the man-it matters not
from whence he comes, North or
South, East or West-wlo would
dare assert that Robert E. Lee would
have lent his name to and have de-
creed the enforcement of the inf,-
nous reconstruction acts over his
fallen foes and unfortunate country
men, through the Sheridans, the Dog
Merills, the Brookes' and the other
soulless dragons that Grant sent
amongst us to sustain the Alnes', the
Brownlows, the Moses, the War
moths, the Kelloggs, the packards,
and their robber satellites I
He is but the Great Fraud of the
agc-the soldier who, during eleven
months Of slaughter, was unable, des-
spite the aid of the mine under the
Confederate redOubts at Peters
burg, to pierce at any time by assault,
with five men against one, the lines
defended by the ragged and starving
veterans Of Lee, whom he did not
vanquish but kill by hurling the un-
ceasing stream Of re.inforcements
placed every day at his disposal!
He is but Greater Fraud as the
statesman who, for eight long years,
kept the South in turmoil, poverty
and despair, while he unblushingly
parcelled out to his friends and rela-
tives the Offices and the money of the
Nation!
A fraud as a soldier, u fraud as a
statesman; a narrow minded, selfish,
marble-hearted man, he seeks to re-
gain the Presidential Chair for an
other term, in order to perpetuate
himself as the ruler Of this people!
He cares little for the antecedents
of those who aid him. He pays them
with the Nations treasury!
How many Mosbys will there be in
the South in 1902
For one we cannot believe that a
Southerner whose heart is in the right
place can sincerely believe that he is
not recreant to himself, to his family,
to his country and its honor, when
as a craven, he bends the knee Of
servility and submission SO low rs to
proclaim U. S. Grant the man whose
past career entities him to the conf
dence and respect of his people
Let those who are not ashamed of.
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Sydney Johnston and all those who