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Show GRANT'S FIASCO. We havo compiled from the vol-umnious vol-umnious despatches recsived within the past tew days from New Orleans, Washington and other cities, a great yariety ot facta and opinions which throw some light upon the recent vents in New Orleans, and upon the motives which have actuated the employment em-ployment of military force to control the politics of that state and its future fu-ture position. The proceeding bears all the marks of a conspiracy against tho state of Louisiana which has been concocting in the presidential brain ever Biuce Grant sent the army to New Orleans to sustain Judge Durell's midnight order, which in violation of law and the votes of the people, made Kellogg governor. Although Al-though that order cost Durell his official offi-cial head, although the Kellogg government gov-ernment has ue defenders of its legality, legal-ity, and has boen repudiated by con-gross con-gross and ty the universal voice of the press, the president has adhered to it with desperation, and notwith-etauding notwith-etauding the fact has been clearly ahown that the returning board for the recent election violated justice and their official oaths, by counting in men who were never elected to the legislature, and throwing out members mem-bers who wcro chosen, Grant sent Sheridan to New Orleans and increased in-creased the army there for the express purpose of sustaining this outrageous fraud on the ballot boi, and maintaining the Kellogg Kel-logg government in power. The president evidently regards New Orleans as the key to the south, and it now looks as if he had been playing a desperate game to hold the control of the gulf states as a basis of politi cal operations. Nothing ehort of this intention could justify the enormous enor-mous expenditure incurred at this point, the great military and naval force concentrated there and the transfer of Phil. Sheridan to New Orleans. It certainly looks as if Grant had determined, if not to play the role of a usurper, at least to shape events so as to render a third ! term an inevitable incident of the I aoxt election. But it must be said that Grant has ! fatally disclosed his programme at ; at too early a day. If the popular I sentiment can oe trusted, be is more likely to be impeached by the next house of representAtives than to be ' nominated for re-election. The public sentiment runs strong against hisi usurpation, and unless he can assign, some better reason for his action than ; now appears, the verdict of the people is likely to be disastrous to his am- j bition, and hi administration will go out ing'oriously. 1 |