Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1869 — Longstreet. [ARTICLE]

Longstreet.

The Chicago Tribune is feeiing good over the appointment- of the Rebel Genera!, James Longstueet, ~M“SoiTPycrof thePonofNewOr- • leans, »hd"diecontses rnr the'appoint-' went as follows: Gen. Grant has done the handsome thing in appointing Gen. Longstrcet Surveyor of the Port of,New Orleans. He was one of the greatest of the rebel Generals, who fought hard but fair. W hen the rebellion collapsed he was the first ot the rebel chiefs to give up the “lost cause” and accept the situation without reservations or unmanly blubbering. When Congress enacted the reconstruction laws he promptly endorsed them, conceding the power of Congress to pass them, and confessing to their fairness, wisdom aud necessity. He cheerfully accepted the doctrine of equal rights for all men,irrespective of color, and declared that the colored citizens deserved those rights at the hands of the Union party. He wrote several powerful appeals to his old ex-rebel compatriots to abandon their “lost cause” and State sovereignty dogma as impossible chimeras which could never be realized, and give back their hearts to the old flag and their allegiance to a Union too strong to be broken hv internal or external toes; and he called on them to come forward and proffer the hand of reconciliation to their Northern brethren. 1

General Longstreet proved him*elf the “noblest Roman” o< all the rebels. lie was among the first whose political disabilities were’ retnoved by Congress, and for nparlv two rears he has been fully restored to all the rights of citizenship. Last fall he voted for Grant and the Republican ticket. We are glad that the President has remembered him in a substantial way. for he was poor im purse, though patriotic in spirit. ‘ There i« no need of any such fnltone nonsense over * man who during the war, was one of the worst rebels we had to oppose ns. The dpotrine laid down in the Tribune is diet beoauee be acknowledged be was whipped, accepted the situation and said that the acts of Congress were right, and has not committed

treason since, he should be rewarded because he is “poor in purse but patriotic in spirit.” With a few more sut patriotic men as Lonostrket in the Southern j army and we would not have had i a Union uj’-Uay. | LoNustkkkt is now more hated at [the South by hts old companions in | arms than any other man, and if the ; Ov*irc is to conciliate the South, it could he done much more yflVctiially 1 by appointing some one of their re|l- | rosentative men ns Lke, Toomiik, Sec. But if w e are to buy the support of | those w ho fought against us, we will find it rather an expensive luxury, and the gain will not be commensurate with the expense. Our campaign cry has been that loyalty should govern what loyalty i preserved, and we trust that Sumner j and Brow slow- will find men • enough to stand up to that principle | to reject the nomination.

[2TA Mr. l-’oiuis, who resides in Covington, Kv., is after the Cin- ' cinnati I'ost Office. Mr. Thomas, ' the present incumbent, wants to retain it. The Cincinnati Commercial | suggests that the President remove i Jesse R. Grant from the Covington Post Office and appoint Mr. Foui.Dß to tiiat place, pormittiugMr. Thomas to lie Postmaster of Cincinnati, l while he is preferred for that office iby those? interested most directly and largely in its good management. The CowmtrehU is not in favor of an importation from Kentucky. Could the matter not be settled by giving Foulds the Post Office at the Confederate Cross Roads? If the Tenure of Office law- is repealed, Nasty will be removed. of our readers wtll remember that a Kentuckian by the name of Kinney —called himself Major KinneY —was exhibited last fall by the Democracy in this State, a* a bright and shining light of the eternal, immutable and timehonored principle* upon which the unchangeable party waafounded. He lectured at our Court House—was flowery—was eloquent —gallant—stylish-*dcnounced Congress, the Republican party and General Grant—ey, Kentucky cocktails and “Hop ash-o” Seymour —well he is nbw only Captain Kinney and is reported in Washington chasing around dor an-office and swearing he was 'always an original Qrant man!

EST'Since our last issue Several changes have been made In Grant’s cabinet. Hon. Hamilton Fish of New York, has been appointed Secretary of Stato in place of Hon. E. B. WAsnBChN, resigned, lion. Geo. S. Boutwei.l of Massachucetts, has been appointed Secretary of the Treasury in place of A. T. Stewart, resigned, Gen. John A. Rawlings late of Grant’s staff has been appointed Secretary of War, in place of Gen. J. M. Schofield, resigned. On the 16th inst Gen. Rawlings’ resignation was accepted to date from the 12th of March. t3gr*The New Hampshire election qirthe Bill inst., resulted in a cotmStearns, Republican, was elected* XjrCVTmim'over Bedell, Democrat, by 3,000 majority. A Republican gain of 500. A full Republican delegation to Congress was elected, and a Legislature largely Republicap iu both branches. A strong indorsement of the 15th amendment.

A “man and brother” by the name of Joubert has made application to be appointed Asr-essbr of Internal Revenue at New Orleans.' He states that he don't want the office on account of any pecuniary consideration —oh, no!—but merely to test the disposition of the party iu power as to the rights of his race. Issf“General Jamesß. Steadman, of Ohio, recently Collector of the | port of New Orleans, is in prison 1 in Cuba, for carpet-bagging. Yorhees orationized the Terre Haute Democracy Saturday evening, on the /uovel subject of the negro. He is a dangerous antagonist for the colored barbers, wljite-washers, —boot-blacks, and wootbsawers State to encounter. There is not a man of them whodoesnotknow, and knowing tremble at the recollecton, that it was he who one bunddred thousand men the Virginia rebels. What can the six thoasand negroes of Indiana hope for when opposed by such a mighty whelder of forces, -r/utf. Journal.

—General Howard is to sqeoeed Generaj Sheridan in command of the department of the Missouri, where most of our Indian difficulties have arisen of late. This looks like the beginning of an attempt to realize what themaugural says -about civilizing And Christianizing 'the Indians. T N