The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

by which 10 measure the career an
character OF man; and vet it wonl
unjust to Judge that President A
lthur docs net mean TO rise above fll
sttlevcl Of General Grant in the lig
Office upon which be has Just now 81
ltered. 0minsns ms il may appear {
sec THIS notorious patronist OF Uorrup
rings. this central figure of the fhir
term revolution, so early and ronspicu
ously accompanying the ner a'rrsidenl
yet 1t may he more the result of acci
dent or of former friendship and nssn
lristion than from any purpose of Pres
ident Arthur TO be guided by so dan
lgerous n counsellor. 1t may seen
strange, indeed, that General Gran
should be so prominent figure since
the death of the late President. I'll.
is arm in arm with president Arthur
Mt Elberon, accompanying him 10 New
York; then seen again among the higl
,ofiicisils of the government in the
funeral Journey TO Washington; keep
ing in company all the while with
President Arthur, and then at the
ceremony of tie inauguration. Ut IL
announced that the President already
is looking troubled and careworn. No
wonder; the gravity of the sitnation is
immense the responsibility prodi-
gious. Never before has President Ar
thur had sueh a demand made upon
his firmness; never WAS such a test
made Of his manhood. He cannot fail
10 see and appreciate that 1t is abso-
lutely necessary for him to be rid of
Grant and all his third4term followers.
For he is forced TO see that the admis-
sion of Grant to his councils is simply
to open the door again 10 Brady and
Belknapiand dorsey and Babcock and
I1andaulet Williams, and the whole
host of scouuslrels tllat swarmed around
Grant, and are realty to crowd imtoI
whatever place Inc may be suffered to
enter.
Grant undoubtedly is the most dam
gerors mau in America--dangerous TO
the liberties of the people and the.
honest administration of the govern
ment. 1t is not because of his brilliant
intellect, for he is notorionsly stnpid.
II is not because of his sobriety, for.
he is pfoverbially otherwise. Itisinst
because of his good faith, for Pres
dent johnson proved him falsifier in
lie presence of his whole cal,ineI. IT.
s not because of his truflffulness, for
when last year he went from the hos
FATALITIES and kindness he had received
It the South, he vcntnrod ut Cairo and
toread the truth as lie had
'ecn it, and had written it, to the I
crowds that gathered 10 see him, and
yet in a few weeks thoreafter all over
Inc North, wherever Mr.. EDnlling car
led him, he stood, as well as Tie could, \
before vast crowds, and IN his naudlinl
sortls Went back on the truth he had
old, and slansiered the south, as he
lid 'GencruA Hancock, to his hearts 4
content. aud 10 the delight spf those I
xlo trained him. lie is dangerous,
lot because his own administrations
we're honest and able, for thcy were
he most corrupt and pitiable that ever
iisgraccd civilized people. An cm-
naTlt citizen, Senator West, of Mis-
onfi, in ailaie letter quoted from Cen
raj Grants recent nttcrance s"tllat
tensions must be paid 70 none but
Ini0n soldiers. and asks what ssdialg
an have SO changed the speaker since
lis words at Cairo and Bloomington,
slien he paid tribute 70 the devotion
o their nsnatry of those who wore the
,says The language If Grant is an
nsinnation Of tile basest sort, for ex-
Jonfedcratcs have neither asked nor
hougl,t Of pension Suits And vet,
Or all that, i is simply like him to
make sncii IinsinEations. lie is dane
,erolis, because If Ibis nnsasncd anabi-
ion for power and lsisinsatiabIc groed
or gold. He Is dangerous, heeause of |
be strange infntnation for him and his
Ways that possesses 40 large a portion
4 the North. 1Ia ii The reccgnigcd i
'ead-eenter and faol of the imperial
s.s. And the iinpcsialists. Though still
ow, are not dead. Conlslipg is CON
ne 10 the frpnt again. Cameron &
rafting and watching. they failed atl
sineinnati ID sopeuing the way 10 the
lsronc; but they showed tie spirit
hat Doasaksa6 Them n Il 4ho sniritl