The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-22
9ittmond 1ispatrll.
WEDNESDAY. ...AUGUsT %, 1866.
General Grant.

General Grant.
The presence of General GRANT at the
ceremony Of the presentation of the pro-
cccdings of the Philadelphia Convention
by the committee appointed for that pur-
pose to President JOHNSON is generally
interpreted to mean that the General APP
proves the principles and objects OIL ',e
Convention. We did not feel entirety
satisfied that such an inference was cor
rect: but as il has been very scneFai'S
drawn, we hope it is warranted oy 'n'
fact. General GRANT has shown a yer!
proper prudence in not becoming Pon',-
clan. and being content TO wear INC ms"
honor with its respectable compensation
bestowed upon him by the government
ro, having at any time been politician,
,,a-as well as we can understand his cha
,ac,.r from his brief career as national
man-bcing too sincere and unambitions
>.become one after the style Of these mo-
Hcrn days, we suppose he has subjected
himself to no severe restraint in keeping
aloof nom party politics, but that it was
altogether agreeable to his taste and senti-
ments. We think it, nevertheless, quite
consistent with such a character that
strong sympathy with the great move
ment inaugurated at Philadelphia for the
salvation Of the country should be enter
tanned by the distinguished officer. That
movement is one elevated so high above
the bad passions and sordid motives of or
binary partisanry that man who dcspises
these may well give his heart and hand to
that. Therefore We see no good reason to
suppose that General GRANT is hostile to
it, or that he should not sympathizc with
il. He has not committed himself in any
way to make it inconsistent to entertain
that feeling towards ii. Our own doubts
were based upon the notion that his per-
sistent abstinence from party orsanlza-
lions and alliances made his presence
more matter of courtesy TO the Chicl
Magistrate than manifestation OF his own
feeling and position on the subjects then
prominently presented to the nation. 1t
must be remembered, too, that some how
or other the active and cunning Radical
party had succeeded in imprcsSing the
public mind with the suspicion that Gene
raj GRANT was leaning over towards their
side. We had no proof of the business of
that impression, but we had no proof 10
the contrary.
The circumstances, more closely weighed,
are strong to encourage the idea that Ge-
neral GRANT, by his presence at the impor-
tant interview at the White House on Satur-
day, intended, as far as his well-known pru-
dence would allow him to GO, to manifest
his sympathy with the Union Conservative
party: and this idea is strengthened by the
fact that with all the advances, all the STU
died and persistent coquctry of RadicaliSm,
he had, as far as any public indication could
cnlightcn us, stood firm and unaffected by
them. However we may have feared
the seductive Influences Of Radicalism, and
however we may have been impressed with
the idea thrown out by the Radicals that
he leaned towards them, we see that no
act Of his justified the suspicion of such an
alliance, while we may rest assured that
had hc yielded to their Establishments his
name would have been used by them to
the full extent of its influence, and he
would long since have been placed at the
head of their partisan sheets as their can.
didate for the Presidency.
Let us hope, then, that General GRANT
is really with the patriotic people Of the
nation, who have inauguratcd the only
means by which the Government can be
saved from subverSion and the country
from ruin.