The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-01-06
GRANT, SIBERIAN AND OTHERS ON
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.


regard to the opinions OF Gems Grant and
Sherman and other eminent commanders of
Union army on the negro suffrage question:
l had he pleasure of reading the other day
a declaration made in Madison, Wis, by Sen
ator Doolittle, where he proclaimed that he
had a conversation with Gen. Grant, and that
Gen. Grant had given bim, permission to de-
clare at the meeting which was held at Madi-
son, he was opposed to negro suf ffrage in the
| South that be believed it fraught with dam
ger to the country" So also Sherman, who
stands next to Grant in rank, and certainly
next to Grant in everything else that consti-
tutes great and good man. He is also OPP
posed to negro suffrage. Senator Doolittle,
| in the same meeting and at the same time,
declared that Gen. Sherman had authorized
| him to make the statement of this kind and
to this effect. He then held up these two
great and glorious men-the men who, under
God, have saved our country from its perils
whose wisdom and courage have been the
means of sustaining our country in its despe-
rate straits These two men were held up
before the people of Wisconsin, and Senator
| Doolittle made the demand whether the
bone guards are entitled to more respect
than these great military cbieftains. could
name also Sheridan and Thomas, and every
army and in the navy, by service to the Gov
ernment during the war; and | venture to
predict and assert that they are upon the
platform occupied by Grant and Sherman on
the subject. !fyou will find me n Maj. Gen
eral or any other kind OF General who has
done nothing for his country, but stayel at
safe post during the war, and who has made
q failure in every enterprise be has under-
taken-.if you meet with such man yoa can
set him down to a dead certainty that he is a
Radical. Look at the illustrous John Charles
Fremont The equally illusrious Ben. But
lerl and that other distinguished General
who eAee commanded the Department of the
State Of Missouri, and who, like Mahomet
went to war on the back Of camel, Curtis
Now, gentlemen, there are reasons for these
things. When these gentlemen failed in
military line, all they had to do was to make
q proclamation freeing somebody elss's ne
groe9 that they were not abe 10 free but
they had to set somebody elss's negro free,
and that would make amends with the Ra Ii
calls for their failures in military line, and
everything else. Yes, and it would make
amends for cotton trading, and for the system
of bringing California pluuderes over here TO
Z, build Notifications at FIVE times their value
and every other species of corruption. But
Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman, Gen. Phil. Sbsri-
dan and Gen. Thomas marched down and set
those negroes free that these fellows made
procIamations about, and but for them none
f of them would have been free.
Gen. Blair has of late formed new political
associations, but his patriotism is beyond all
, doubt, which is witnessed by a military record
. unsurpassed, and scarcely eqpalled, by that o.
: any officer Of his grade derived from civil life
s He has ever been consistently opposed TO thu
f institution of slavery, and dared to own hi
faith and practice 1t, while such men as But
q Ter and Dickinson we're playing into the hand
= of the men who afterwards tried to dismem
a ber our Union. On the simple question o
n the truthfulness Of the statement in relation
to the views of Grant and Sherman, tits suffi
q cient that Mr.. Doolittle has said that IL is so
" bis word is sufficient, and ID is to him and hi
patriotic and conservative co.laborers in Wis
consiu that the Union party were indebted 70
its success in tie geAssal CANVASS of the Stat
:, last fall. Those who were known as radical!
and who there, Gas swhere, claim monop
oily of patriotic emotions, attempted to defes
the party by calling a convention 10 adopt
~ new platform and put forward new candid ate
. This was fortunately prevented by the exc
tious of Gen. Fairchid and Senator Doolittl,
'r and victory perched upon the standards of th
T. Union party.
's In this State an attempt has been made
Ill put the Union organization on the basis whic
~ Sumner and Wade have laid down, aud
20 consequence a profound feeling Of appreheI
10 10 sion has been produced among it's members