Year: 1875

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their fear Yet the murderers of Cou


shatta and Grant Parish, of Teche Parish


and New Orleans, must hear almost will


a grim smile that their rude cunning anC
daring falsehoods have found any ere
l dence in the more civilized part of the
| country; and that their violent attempt
/ to seize on the government of Louisiana


has been countenanced by any honest OF


humane men; that great meeting has
/ been held in New York to sustain them


in their new rebellion; and that respecta


BILE citizens have been so far deluded by
| their pretenses as to look upon them as
/ the victims of Republican oppression,
and join in a fierce denunciation of the
1 tyranny of Grant and Sheridan. With
what peals of ribald laughter must they
| learn that their rude inventions are re-
peated by respectable journals; that the
Northern Democracy is willing to assume
the responsibility of their crimes, and
shield them from swift justice; that a
venerable poet is prepared to chant their
praises as the martyrs of freedom; that
astute lawyers uphold their usurpations,
and Irish judges defend the cause of
rampant murder; that even some reputa-
BILE Germans have been deceived by their
hypocritical complaints; and that all the
followers of Tweed and Sweeny have
once more crept out into the public eye
from their hiding-places no longer con-
scious of the general detesta ton, to join
in the assault upon the nations defend
ers!


The patience and kindliness which
President Grant and his administration
have shown in all their conduct toward
the rebellious South through their whole
term of office-their careful abstinence
from all military interference in the re-
volted States, except where actual muir
der and riot forced them to intervene
their generosity to unhappy Louisiana in
its recent disasters, when large part of
its people were fed by the public charity
their willingness to confer offices and
emoluments. on every loyal native of the
South-their frmness and discretion,
will, we think, be remembered by the
nation, if not by enraged and rival poll
ticians; and it is certain that the judg-
ment of future ages will decide that no
policy could have been devised more
likely to heal the wounds of a suffering g
section than those plans of education and
internal improvement which the Repub-
lican legislators have impressed deeply
upon the Southern States. In response
to this lenient treatment, what return
have the Republican party and President
Grant received? Future ages will hear
with shame and sorrow the reply. His
life is openly threatened by the assassins
of the South whom he has striven to
tame and subdue. A journal in New
York plainly demands his assassination.
He is called tyrant or dictator, and as
sailed with all the ribald terms the White
League of the South or their Northern
allies can devise He on whose life once
rested the fate of freedom before Rich
mond whose arm saved the nation in the
midst of a thousand foes, who is the de-
fender of the rights of the working men
of every land, is now assailed once more
by the terrible minions of slavery at
home and abroad, and by their deluded
followers at the North and the South.
At the recent meeting in New York,
when Grants name was mentioned, there
was cry, Hang him p Hang him p
And grave men sat looking on, and made
no remonstrancel And for what? Why
do they seek his life? Because he has
labored earnestly to protect the weak
and the suffering in Louisiana, and is
firmly resolved that the murderers of
Coushatta and Colfax shall neither es-
cape just punishment nor bring utter
ruin to their perishing State. If this is
an error, it is so venial a one that it will
probably be shared by the great majority
of his countrymen. The people cannot
be deceived, and should the rufians of
Coushatta or any of their Northern allies
proceed to execute their threats, a living
wall of faithful hearts and manly breasts
will gather around their country's chief
defender, reaching from Maine to Oregon,
and from the Lakes to the Gulf that not
all the rage of the White League nor the
fercest shafts of rival politicians can
pierce.


1t is instructive to review the histories
of many of the men who gathered at the
recent meeting in New Y ork to assail the
fame and threaten the ruin of the con-
querer of Richmond. Many of them were
the same violent partisans who ten years
ago were laboring to starve the national
armies in the field and snatch the Con-
federacy from the grasp of Grant and
Sheridan. There were noted reactionary
politicians to whom slavery was once
dear, and who had now come together to
avenge its fall; there were the chiefs of
the ultramontane faction in New Y York;
there were noted rebels who were once
fighting against the armies of the repub-
lie; there was the secretary of Jefferson
Davis, now pensioned by its Mayor upon
the diminished revenues of our city;
there, possibly, was Quincy, the former
keeper of the Libby prison, who is also
maintained at the cost of New York;
there was an array of much that must
have shocked every patriotic heart;
there Herman declared that he was pres
ent in spirit-an assurance scarcely need
ed and there in spirit were present
every Ku-Klux and every ruffian of the
South. There, listening to the subtle de-
nunciation OF the President by practiced
advocator, whose argument would have
been more effective had it been founded
upon facts, sat thicH array of the Crokers
and Kellys of Tammany Hall. There were
many honest and just men, misled, no
doubt, by the daring fictions of the
Southern .Leaguers. But one thing was
wanting; the heart of the people was not
there. 1t still beats full of grateful con-
fdence for him whom the country owns
as its truest friend since Washington,
and in whose honesty and sincerity, fore
sight and prudence, it trusts as firmly
now as it did when, ten years ago, it
shielded him from the hatred of thou
sand foes until Richmond fell


Cross Katie and the "OId Scratch"


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