The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22
gen. g ram. and the administration

A late article of the Chicago Times is
partially as follows:
nHe qi.,e no credit 10 The Naturalization at
Wassinqtoa that Ecls6uy has fallen. On
the cogltyurg, had IFS design teen cerTied out,
pru6aJlgt.ts place lo2ttld neaer nave fallen. 1t
is well understood that when, several
weeks age, Adjstant General Thomas
left Washington for the region of war on
the Mississippi, he bore an order Of the
President sHperssdiRg General Grant BY the
amendment of General MoCleTndnd to the
commend Of the army in that quarter, and
Not he order agds not ereci6e2 beoclse AGint-
ant General Thomas discovered that It's erecU-
ton ,5oula berepngfaant 70 the gscers and dis
5easess ged aprG isRaa % thss .salasfffh
General Grant were as great as their dis
like of General McClernand was confirm
ed and ineradicsble. IL is extraordinary
that the Administration did not persist
in its purpose of supersedure, notwith-
standing the discovery by Adjutant Cen
eral Thomas as TO the prospective conse-
quences OF persistence, for it Is not the
habit of the Administration TO let any
consideration of success or defeat in
military operations stand In the way Of
its political operations. General Grant
had not been remiss in his military du-
ties on the contrary, he had performed
them with skill and energy which had
not recently Been known in any othes
military department. B@hescas stppos-
Cd 10 be unao,gd on the ascru. /"
To this the CErUxsc1s Of Wsshinaton
gives authorative denial:
There Is not single slleg alton in til IL
article that is not deliberately and know
ingly false.
In the first place, "when Glen. 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. McC4ernand to the
command of the army in that quarter.
In the second place, and per conse-
quence, Gen. 7 homas could have discoy-
cred no such repugnance to the removal
of Gen. Grant rs is stated among the of
ficers and soldiers, because he bore no
order for Gen. Grants removal.
In the third place, If the supersedure
of O general officer was contemplated by
the Administration, il was more the re-
moval of Gen. McCiernand than of Gen.
Grant
In the fourth place, General Grant has
not been 4unsound upon the negro" but
so far the reverse, that he has co-opera-
ted earnestly and constantly with Gen.
Thomas in all his Recommendations and
when General Thomas returned to this
city from the army of the Mississippi, be
was unbounded in his expressions of adj
miration and confidence in that brave
and intrepid officer. Is 81
These are the facts stated by author
ity, and we may add that il better con-
tradiction than this ample and specific
contradiction is required, the editor of
the Chicago Times 10 referred to General
Grant himself, who will probably give
him not only lesson in veracity, but
q lesson in politics; and unless Wo are
widely mistaken, may convince him that,
however much of Democrat he may
have been, or continues to be, he does
not belong to the class who, like the
Chicago Dimes, use the name of Democ-
racy rs cloak for treason.