The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-14
General Grant and the President.


From the World.
The lusty cheers with which the radical Con-
vention at Philadelphia received the lying tele-
graphic announcement that General Grant and
Admiral Farragut had deserted the Presidential
party at Detroit, shows how sorely they are
CALLED by the adherence OF those illustrious
heroes to their Commander-in.C Chief What oc-
CURED at Cincinnati, night before last and yes
terday, must immeasurably deepen their cha
grin and annoyance, as well as convince the
people that the solid sense and sterling patriot
ism OF General Grant disdains and repes, as in
suflerable impertinences all attempts TO separate
him from the President. 1t seems that General
Grant reached Cincinnati IN advance Of the Pre-
sldential party, and that on Tuesday night he
was in that city awaiting their arrival. 1t oc-
CURED to some silly people that it was a fine
occasion to pay the great soldier attentions
which might wear the appearance of singing
him out from his companions, and compliment
him in manner which would be interpreted as
dsparaging to the President. General Grant
met these prohers with disdaintul rebuke.
He was IN one of the Cincinnati theatres at
the time, ia private box, and had he allowed
the demonstration to proceed, the whole theatre
would have become scene of the widest en-
thusiasm, which would have been paraded yes
terday morning in the Cincinnati newspapers,
as a specimen of the ovations that would be
paid to the illustrious General if he could be
separated from his bad company. The design
was artlully ulSgulseQ unuer q military snow,
but General Grant is no such greenhorn as not
to see through such manGuvre. To the depu-
tation of soldiers, or pretended soldiers, that
came into the theatre to request that he would
90 outside and receive the greeting that awaited
him, he expressed a wish to see their COM
mander. Captain Baker accordingly came into
the theatre to the Generals box, when the latter
expressed his annoyance at this dirty attempt
to drag him into the mlre OF partisan politics,
declared his faithful adherence to the President,
and scomfully chastised the lmpertlnence Of
this intrusion on his privacy.
An incident which occurred on Wednesday on
the boat, as the President was crossing the Ohio
from CoylDgton to Cincinnati, affords an addi-
tional illustration of the faithful attachment of
the Grant family to President johnson. The
father of General Grant was presented TO the
President, and assured him of his cordial appro-
baton of the Presidents policy, and expressed
earnest wishes for its success. There can be no
doubt that General Grant himself cherishes the
same views and wishes, although his sense of
the proprieties of his position keeps him stu
dlously aloof from party politics.
| We commend General Grants steady adhe-
renee to the President to the notice Of the
| bloodthirsty radicals who are breathing out
| threatenr gs ana slaughter, and talking glibly
| of q new civil war. II they are determined to
| provoke a bloody contest, they may as well
| weigh some of the obstacles. The great generals
| of the country will not be found fighting on
| their side. President johnson will remain the
| Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy; he
| is made so by the Constitution, and no law of
Congress can dlvest him of the office. Every
| ship and gunboat would be placed under the
command of officers of known fidelity to the
President Every fort arsenal and armory
would, in like manner, be committed to faithful
men. Every army officer who faltered could be
relieved from duty; every one who was unfaith-
tul could be court-martIaled, and cashiered for
disobedience. .'
With the army under the command of the
President, the radicals would make a poor
show IN civil war. although they might, nc
doubt, do great deal of mischief They would
however, be mere insurgents, mere Rebels
against the authority of the Government; and i
President Johnson should follow the pTeceden
set by Mr. Lincoln, and suspend the habeHs cor
pus by mere executive authority, the mutnoul
Leaders might be summarily disposed of, before
the Rebellion had made any great headway
When the radicals talk with such atroclous flip
pancy of new civil war, we beg them to con
! slider who is the Commander-in.C Chief OF tn
. army, and to ask themselves how they wou
: relish the idea of following General Butler in
| campaign AGAINST General Grant2