Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-09-27

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the leader of political party. He doc.
not consider the army a place for . ro IGeS
clan, and therefore will not permit him seIf
to be committed to the support of either If
the present political parties, nor that tho
army shall be made party machine.
| GEN. GRANTS ENDORSEMENT
have submitted the above to the Gene
raj, acho entirely approves Of qoAu IAaye,r,,i-
ten, and says that IL fully and exactly erpress-
es has oieavs.
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Inabout minute afterwards. Gen. Grant
who had been inthe Presidents carlo pres.
emit himself to the people assembled at
West Junction, re-entered the car, and hay
ing seated himself, beckoned to me to come
and speak with him. l did So and ON
| seating myself by his side, he went on to
say thai he thought that if published the
account already submitted to him, he woul
like 1T to be understood that he had refused
to receive the proposed demonstration, en-.
tirely because he felt ii lis dauty to refuse ann,
reception on demonstration rendered Sepdy.o1eG
TO himself ec1ile travelling aoith the President
or TO do anything aChich might be constr ned 0S
faroring any political party He then Went
ON to relterate his determination not to be-
used by those who sought to commit him
either Tor or against the Presidents policy,
or to attach any political significance TO biS
presence on the Presidents excursion Ho
had also been much ANNOYED at tho neo
which had been made of his name bv Jobr
Hogan, who has presumed to state that
Gen. Grant was politically with the Pre-.
sldent, and on one similar occasion bv mr.
Seward. - 49,
He felt that it was, above all things. de.
slrable for officers of the army to avoid
participation in ordinary political conflicts.
except it was their duty as citizens to sun
port only men who could show record Of
loyalty. Whether mans senti
ments were Johnsonian or Republican. he
said he felt that it was an insult to any loyoI
man to ask him to vote for any candidate
who was not loyal man in 1861. In this
connection he said that, without EXPRESSING
any views OF his own for or against the
. Johnson policy, he yet felt it to be a mis-
fortune for Mr.. Johnson that the advocates
OF ms polcy IN the States through which
he had just passed-NIissouri. Illinois and
ticket men who in 1861 and 1862 had been
guilty Of known disloyalty to the Govern
ment because land this was said in a 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 dis
oval to it, was the greatest insult that could
De offered. Southern men he could make
lowances for, and he could ride throughthe
south and get out on a platform and
shake hands in friendship with such men as
lee, Johnson or Forrest, because, though
hey had been almost educated into seces-
ion, they were now truly honest and loyal
n their adherence to the Union, and were
eeking to strengthen it. But he did not
eel IN that way toward Northern men who
lad once been disloyal, and neither desired
0 associate with them nor have them for
is friends. No such men should have
is support, nor ought they to be support
d by Mr.. Johnson's friends throughout
re Northrn States. He particularly in
yanced, as a specimen of this obiectiona-
lie class of men, Hester Clymer, the Dem
cratic candidate for Governor of Penn
7lvania, saying that to ask any soldier TO-
Ote for such man, Of at one time known
sloyalty, against another who had served
ur years in the Union army, with credit
himself and benefit to his country, was
gross insult. If men desired to support
I. Johnson's policy let them, but, at ak
'ents, let them vote only for such men as
ere true to their country in 1861.