The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-22
oeneral Grant W. Sumner and Stevens.


The attitude In which the parties whose
names stand at the head Of this article pre-.
sent themselves before the world on the inn.
portant question now agttating the. country
10 emtnently proper. as wch ~ highly instrnc-
tive. General GRAxr Is the most successful
warrior OF the age. He has just brought to a
conclusion one Of the most gigantic wars OF
which history gives any account. He has no
private griefs to assuage, NO wrongs, fancied
or real. to avengc. Victorious every where, y
is but natural that he should entertain no
vfndictive feelings towards those over whom
he has triumphed in war. Of undisputed
courage, tried on a hundred felds, 1t follows
As q natural consequence that he should be
mercifnl and magnanimous.
On the other hand, STEVENS and SrMNEE
have never smelt gunpowder. They have
never known what it.was to conquer, or even
TO confront an enemy where gunpowder was
to be burned. On the contrary, one of them
is known to be disgracefully timid, and the
other is believed to be not much better. Now,
we do not mean to assert that the timid are
always cruel, but we do assert that they are
much oftener cruel than the brave. SrxSER
and STEVENS are the very men, of all Others, to
urge a continuance of bloodshed GRANT is
the very man to urge a course Of peace and re-
Cancellation. Besides, as we have said, no
man ever rattaned General GRANT. Had any
one done so, flor brute S trength might prevail
even over General GRANT, had any one treat
ed General GRANT in this manner, he would
not, most certainly, have pursued the course
SUMNER has pursued. If there was to be any
vengeance. he would have avenged himself OH
the spot He would not have sneaked off un-
der the plea of indisposition to shed human
blood and then attempted to crafty his re-
venge, when he found it safe to do SO. by pro-
scribing millions of men. Further, nobody
ever burnt General GHASr's iron mills. He
has no iron mills, SO far as we can learn. II
they had done SO, he would never have taken
a pecuniary injury for an offence that could
only be expiated by the destruction of eleven
States.
Finally. if General GRANT had been in
Harrisburg at the time of the bUckshot war.
he would never have leaped out of a window
10 save his bacon. NERO was the most cruel,
as he was likewise the most cowardly of all
the Emperors. The monster MARAr, whod de-
clared thai three hundred thousand heads
must fall before France could be safe, was an
eXecrable coward, and RoBEsP IERRE, with the
ferocity Of a tiger. had the courage Of Il hare.
The RoBEspIERREs and MARArs of the present
day are not behind their illustrious prede-
cessors in either cowardice or thirst for blood.
But above all, though his education has been
entirely military, General GRANT has proved
himself to be infinitely more of statesman than
the demagogues with whom we have coupled
his name temporarily. He knows that what is
destructive to one portion of an empire, cam
not be beneficial to that empire as a whole.
He feels no alarm about the state of the coun-
try, and he knows that it cannot be wise to fos-
ter those sectional animosities which led to the
late war, and which must ever be a source of
weakness as long as they continue. His popu-
larity, fortunately, knows no bounds, and we
look to happy results from the expression
which he has made of his sentiments.