The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1865-12-28
General Grants Last Campaign.

General Grants Last Campaign.
The report of General Grant read on
Tuesday before the Senate, Is, In many re-
spects, of more Importance than his his
tory of military events The latter was n
journey over familiar ground, aud, in con-
sequence, few people cared to undertake il,
While those who did, saw nothing but what
they had seen thousand times before. The
former covers new ground; it passes
through new scenery, and hence is matter
of great interest to the nation.
This last report of the Lieutenant-Gencral
is with reference to trip which he made
from Washington to South Carolina. The
principal fact of his journey were estab-
lished at Richmond, Raleigh, Augusta,
Savannah and Charleston. 1t is true that
these points include, in their characteristics
and surroundings, but small portion of
the Southern States; but one who under
stands well the character of matters at
these places will understand very tho
roughly that of the whole of the late So
called cOnfederacy. If disaflection exists
anywhere, it would be in South Carolina /;
If any portion of the people of the south
etn States required the pressure of military
power IL would be those living in the vicin-
ity Of Fort. Sumter, and that magazine of
live Goals for the consumption of iire-eaters,
Charleston.
General Grant finds none of that rebellion
which is seen SO plainly by the clairyoyant
editors of the abolition newspaper press.
He says that he is satisfied that the mass of
thinking men Of the South accept the pres
ent situation of affairs in good .fdith. The
questions which have hitherto divided the
sentiments of the people of the two sec
tions--slavery and State Rights, or the
right of State TO secede from the Union
they regard as hdUing been settled foreUer by
the highest tribunal (arms) that man can
resort to-" ....l ...
These assertions will be very nauseous
pill for swallowing by the Greeleys, Col
faxes and Summers, who have been insist
ing on a 'change of heart" in the Southern
people. But what the Lieutenant-General
says little further on in his report, is still
worse than what goes before. He believes
that asmall military force should be re-
tanned in the interior of each state, not to
subjugate rebellion, not to protect negroes,
not to overcome and humiliate Southern
white men, but simply to assist in preserv-
ing order until civil authority Is re-estab-
lished. Still more heterodox is the further
assertion that these garrisons should be
ALL WHITE TROoPs." "Hhe presence"
says General Grant, ''of black troops, lately
slaves, demOraliZes labOr-both by their adj
vice and by their furnishing, in their camp,
a resort for the freedmen for long distances
around .
This is wholesale slaughter by the Lieu
tenant-General. He is veritablc pirate in
his blOOdthirstiness. First, he makes radi-
cal Aboltionism walk the plank and this
Is scarcely overheard before he bundles
after II the whole army of niggers. Not
satisfied with this. he hImbes over after
the nigger troops the philanthropic Freed
mems Bureau. He thus disposes of this
right-bower Of Abolitionism
Conversations, however, on the subject
with officers connected with the bureau
led me to think that, in some of the States,
its Affairs have not been conducted with
good Judgment or economy, and that the
belief SO widely spread among the freed
men of the Southern States that the lands
of their former owners will, at least in
part, be divided among them, has come
from the agents of this bureau. This be-
lief Is seriously interfering with the will
ingness OF the freedmen 10 make contracts
for the coming year" lu .rI ia
After having thus tossed overheard
Northern radicalism, nigger troops, and
the Freedmen's Bureau, he adds to the lot
a choice selection Of Freedmen In the fol-
lowing style: ...H. .#.
"ln some cases ! am sorry to say, the
Freedmen's mind does not seem to be disa-
bused OF the idea that he has the right 10
live without provision for the future, The
effect of the beiiefin the division of land Is
idleness and accumulation in camps, towns
and cities. In such cases think IL will be
found, vice and disease will tend 10 the eN-
termination or great destruction of the coll
ored race
Taken in all, the last campaign of the
Lieutenant-General Is his most active, bril-
liant and decisive one. I'm writing this
motley phalanx, composed Of abolitiOnists,
nigger troops, philanthropic bureaus, and
lazy darkeys, he has gained quite as great
a victory as when he received the surren-
der of the starved remnants of Lees rebel
army.- Chicago Times.