The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-19
GENERAL GRANT,


The Chicago RepubRcan, in a letter
from its reporter travelling with the
Presidential party, makes the following
interesting statements in connection
with General Grants refusal to present
himself to the soldiers who attempted
to call him out in advance of the Presi.
dent's arrival at Cincinnati:
I1tf The fact is, that Gen. Grant knows, as
has been patent to every one during the
whole of this trip, that continued efforts
have been made 10 emkitter, III possible.
his relations with the President by ex-
citing the Jealousy of the latter, or by
making invidions distinctions between
thema and he is determined that no acI
of his shall lend any encouragement to
any such contemplate proceeding on
the one hand; or those that have been
made with like persistency to identity
him with the political views of the
President on the other. Gen. Grant
feels that, next TO the President, he is
the head of the army of the United
States, not the leader of a political
party. He does noticonsiCler the army
a place for a politician, and therefore
will not permit himself to be committed
TO the support of either of the present
political parties, nor that the army shall
be made party machine.
GEN. GRANTS INDoRsEMENr.
have submitted the above to the
General, fOho entirely approves IOhGt
haze IDT'itteT1, and 8dVS that ID TttlLU and
eFGctky expresses HiSgieiDS. Twill, how
ever, state that as originally written,
the concluding sentence was in these
words: "When he becomes partisan
he intends Immediately to resign his
present position and to this the GEN
eral objected, saying that 1t might be
hot
ne did intend to become a partisan,
where, as his only intention in using
these words was to express, as an officer
of the army, his disapprobation of any
attempt to identity him with any polit-
ical party whatever.
The above conversation with General
Grant took place in the baggage and re-
| treshment car attached to the train, in
| the presence of Maj. Gen. Rawlings,
Chief of Staff to Gen. Grant; also of an
other Major General, who, / think, was
Gen. Stoneman, but of this am not
certain, for ] did not take any particu-
lar notice who it was.
In addition to these military men.
there were also present Mr.. Warden,
.Whois connected with the New York
Times; John Hogan, of st. Louis, Mis-
souri,; Mr.. Chadwick, of Willard's Ho-
tel, Washington, and one or two mem
bers of the Columbus delegation, whose
- sS RSfR -
In about a minute afterwards Gen.
Grant, VINO had been in the Presidents
car to present himself to the people as
lsembled at West Junction, re-entered
the car, and, having seated himself,
beckoned to me to come and speak
with him. did SO, and, on seating
myself by his side, he went on to say
that he thought that if published the
account already submitted to, him, he
would like it to be understood that he
had refused to receive the proposed de-
monstration, entirely because he felt it
htts duty to reuse any reception or de1no1l
StrdttO1t teldered separately to himself
uItite trnUekir0 NTH the President, or to
DO anything 9Oltfch 1tigltt be construed as
/ JdV0rtIg any political I1drty. He then
went on to reiterate his determination
not to be used by those who sought to
commit him either for or against the
Rresident's policy, or TO attach any po-
lltlcal significance to his presence ON
the Presidents excursion. He had also
been much annoyed at the use which
had been made of his name by John
Hogan, who has presumed to state that
Gen. Grant was politically with the
President, and on one similar occasion
by MIR. Seward. He felt that it was.
above all things, desirable for officers
of the army to avoid participation in
ordinary political conflicts, except it
was their duty as citizens to support
only men who could show a record of
consistent loyalty. Whether a man's
sentiments were Johnsonian or Repub-
licau, he said he felt that it was an in
suit to any loyal man to ask him to
vote for any candidate who was not a
loyal man in 1861. In this connection he
said that, without expressing any views
ofh1S own for oragainst the ohnson poll
icys he yet felt 1T to be a misfortune for
HI
policy in the States through which he
had just passed, Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana, had in some Instances put on
their ticket men who in 1861 and 1862,
had been guilty ofknown disloyalty to
the Government; because (and this was
said in q very emphatic manner) he felt
that TO ask men whose sons had shed
their blood for the Union to vote for men
who had been disloyal to it, was the
greatest insult that could be offered.
Southern men he could make allow
ancss for, and he could ride through
the South and getout on platform and
shake hands in friendship with such
men as Lee, johnson and Forest, be-
cause, though they had almost been
educated into cesession, they were now
truly honest and loyal in their adhe.
renee to the Union, and were seeking
to strengthen it. But he did not feel in
that way toward Northern men who had
OuC6 DeoA -ulSIOydIy anu u9Slreu
to associate with them nor have them
for his friends. No such men should hare
mas support, nor ought they, to be support.
ed 6y MT. JOIsI8On'S friends throughout
the Northern Estates. He particularly
instanced, as specimen of this objec-
uonable class OF men, Hester CIymer,
the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania, saying that to ask any
soldier to vote for snnh a man. of at one
time known disloyRlty, against anoth-
er who had served four years in the
Union army with credit to himselfa
benefit to his country, was a gross fn-
suit. Iflmen desired to support Mr..
liJohnson's policy let them, but, at all
events, let them vote only for such men
as were true to tnelr country in 1861. 4
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A Pointed Extract from 4 TeIIIne
Speech. "
"a few days ago, Mai. Gen. John w.
Geary made a speech at Erie, Pa. From
the published report OF it in the Phil
adelphia Press, we make the following
extract.
The position of the Democratic party
to- day reminded him of story. There
was once manwho wanted coach
man, and three applicants appeared for
the vacancy, He took them to a preci-
pice in the neighborhood and asked the
first how near he could drtve7to it with
out danger. He replied tsWithin an
inch and a half.n Stand asicle.u was
the reply. The second said he could
drive within hairs breadth, and was
also told to stand aside. The third said
that he should drive as far as possible
BILE from it, and was taken. The
Nofthefn Democrats claim that thav