Year: 1873

He Quarrels with the CustOmhOusers.


Grants Petty Pique against War.
moth.


The Days OF Carpet-Baggers Nulns
bered.


New ORLEANS, Jan. S.-This evenings
PicGyuRs reports that Pinchback in an in


terview said: "You see / am bound to live
here in this city. have house here and
plenty of friends. If went anywhere else,
wouidlnot know what to do and it is there
fore l think to the interest of the people to
help me along because / Cannot but help


them. This last fight Of mine against the


custom house ring on the Senate question


has rather made them show their hand to


the colored people, and If it were possible
l believe the colored people might be induc-
ed to form coalition with the true, honest
native white people of the State and over
throw all this chicanery and tricks Of the
custom house ring" .....


After e:7tns his opinion as to how the


present complications could. have been


avoided, Pinchback continued: "As 1t is,


the programme has been arranged and will


be carried out by the United States Gov
ern1nent. They intend to recognize only
our government, and unless prevented by
Congress viii carry it out to the bitter 81 d.
Therefore the outside body calling them
selves q Lesissatpre has 10 ehapSss n 5S8f-
gress to send a committee of investigation,
when the yhGts facts will laid before them,
and they can then decide which is right.


The Interest that President Grant takes


in the fight is purely of personal nature.
He does not care one cent what the people
say against him now; as he has reached the
height of his ambition in being elected
President for another term. It's mistake
made b. many, to suppose that Gen. Grant


wants to be emperor. BE only desires to


be considered a sort of Gen. Washington.


Washington was victorious, you know, IN
great rebellion, 80 was Grant. Washington


was elected 70 tTo terms; so was Gen.


Grant, and now be is satisfied: He has not


got the ambition and tact to make great
revolution lie that would require, and il


he had, the people of the country would


not submit. The real cause of Gen.


Grants interest In the matter lies in


bis personal enmity against Warmotb,


whom he considers one OF bis bitterest en-


emies. You know how he has abused


him; well, Grant never forgives an insult
like that, and as long as he thinks the peo-


pie Of this State support Warmoth, he will


be opposed to them. He really does not,


himself, understand the situation. He be-


ieveS that it is Warmoth's fight to 60 to the


Senate, so be can fight him. Naturally


enough be opposes this, and men here have


taken advantage of it to place the present
governmenG in power.


Why, you cannot imagine what poor
opinion the people Of the North have Of us,


and it is kept alive daily by outrageous
statements of white Republicans, and 9th


eTs, who say that it is impossible for white


man or negro to live in this city unless he


pretends to be Democrat or has Demo-
cratic friends. By this you will see the
sympathies Of the people of the North are
against US, and as long as we make any
disturbance it is at once cried out that the


South is still in rebellion. Now, you see,
| what I want to do is this: l desire to do
| right to the people of this State. l am a
| representative cOiored man of this State,
OF the South, Of the Union, and as such


have strength with the Republican party.
As was born here, live here, and have


my wife, my children and my property


here, l only desire to be allowed chance,
! fair open chance, and l will show how
am and can be true friend of our people.
There is q great, mighty change going on
| in his country to-day which few. see, and
| yet know there is dissolution of the great
| Southern Radical Republican party, COM
posed of negroes led by Northern men.
! This party has since the war been opposed
| to the resident white man because they
| have hardly been allowed otherwise, but
! the time is coming, and coming rapidly,


when the white and black people Of the
| South will be united il a bond Of unity in
as far as their Several positions liej and
when that time comes there is the only hope
for the people. Give me chance, and the


rest Of the colored people chance, and we


will be with you all in fairness and honesty
of dealing. It will be bound to come some
day, and the sooner the better for the States


and the people.


Pi1chback EndeavOrs to Explain
Himself Further.


To-morrow's Picdyune will contain a
long letter from Pinch5ack in which sur
prise is expressed that conversation ca
sual and desultory in character should have
been heralded as formal utterance of his


upon the condition Of Louisiana politics,
| and claiming that both the tenor and pur-


port of his remarks were misrepresented.
| The PicGyoIle viii state editOrialiy thatth


interview was reported, corrected and pub
| lished by consent of Pinchback. The fol-


lowing is PDchback's explanation Of what


he said about the President:


| expressed the opinion that President
| Grant had taken Gen. Washington as his
model and exemplar. Both were great


military chiettains i'll revolution periods.
Both had been elected to a second term,


and that the Presidents largest ambition


was fully satisfied in emulsting the exam
| pie of the Father of his Country. | could


not believe that the President had any per-


sonsl feeling in this contest, unless so far
as it might arise from the fact that War
| moth, bis public traducer, was leading the
| opposition. But personal motive under
circumstances of the sort could not


reasonably be supposed to exist and infu-
| ence the conduct of the President in the
| premises, with bis highest ambition salts
| fed. did not believe the President in


tended to go outside Of the law and the du-
| ties of his Office to subserve in this case a


personal CT party end, and that no sober
| minded American either desires or contem


plated the establishment of an Empire in
| the United States.