The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22
gen. Grant and the Administration.
A late article of the Chicago Times is
partially as follows

Gen. Grant and the Administration.
A late article Of the Chicago Times is
partially as follows
We gire no credit 10 the administration al
Washington that Ficlbugg has fallen. On
The contrary, had is design Leea Carried out,
probably the place iy>un neUer hoUs yEllen. 1t
is well understood that when, several
weeks ago, Adjutant General Thomas
lefs Washington for tho region of war on
the Mississippi, ho bpe an order of the
President supeyseaing General Grant By the
appointment Of General Ne OeTnand 70 tho
command Of the army in Hat quarter, and
6a, The order iDas not executed because Adjut-
ant General Thomas discovered that is erecll-
ton pould Be ~repagn0nt 20 the officers and dis.
hardening and d~enoralzng 20 the soldiers,
whose attachment to and confidence In
General Grant were as great as their dis
like of General McClernand was confirm
ed and ineradicAble. IL is extraordinary
that the Administration did not persist
in its purpose of supersedure, notwith-
standing the discovery by Adjutant Gem
eFal Thomas as to the prospective conse-
quences of persistence, for II lie not the
habit of the Administration to Lot any
consideration of success or defeat In
military operations stand in the way of
it's political operations. General Grant
had not been remiss in his military du-
ties on the contrary, ne had performed
them with a skill and energy which had
not recently been known In any other
military department But he pas suppos-
Cd 70 b aasoaMd on the negro"
To this the Chronicle of Washington
gives authoritative denial:
There is not a single allegation In thi
article that is not deliberately and know
ingly false.
In the first place, "wheR Gen. Thomas
left Washington for the seat Of war on
the Mississippi" he bore no order of the
President superseding Gen. Grant by the
appointment Of Gen. McClernand 10 the
command OF tho army ia that quarter.
In the second place, and per conse-
Quonce, Gen. T homAs could have discoy-
cred no such repugnanoe 10 the removal
of Gen. Grant as is stated among the Of
iicers and soldiers, because he bore no
order for Gen. Giants removal.
In the third place, if the supersedure
of a general officer wal contemplated by
the Administration, il was more the re-
moval of Gen. McClernand than of Gen.
Grant.
In the fourth place, General Grant has
not been @unsOund upon the negro" but
so far the reverse, that he has cO-opera-
ted earnestly and constantly with Gen.
Thomas in all hisrecommendations and
when General Thomas returned 70 this
city from the army Of the Mississippi, he
was unbounded in his expressions OF adj
miration and confidence in that brave
aud intrepid officer.
These are the facts stated by author
ity, aud we may add that il better con-
tradietion than this ample and specific
contradiction is required, the editor OF
the Chicago Times is referred 20 General
Grant himself, who will probably give
him not only a lesson in verAcity, but
a lesson In politics; and unless we arc
widely mistaken, may convince him that,
however much OF q Democrat ne may
have been, or continues 10 be, he does
not belong 10 the class who, like the
Chicago Zines, use the name Of Demoo-
racy IS . cloak for treason.