, 1866-11-23
RaaIoaI Attaok upon General Grand.

great radical chief, delivered q speech in the
Cooper Institute, which We fnd reported in full
in the New York papers. The main object Of
the speech was to show the necessity Of at once
dsposing the President, but the great radical
chief did not confns himself to dsnuuciAtiOns
Of Andrew JOHNSON. OF General Grant he spoke
as follows.
Gen. Grant represents the armed hand Of the
Government, and men link his name with epi-
thets of honor. That Andrew johnson is res>
ponsible primarily for the massacre at New Or
leans all know, but in true sense Ulysses Grant
is responsible also. The most humiliating posi-
ton occupied by any man Is occupied by UlYs-
ses Grant. (E1isses and applause-the LATTER
predominant. Well, you may hiss me. Have
We conquered New Orleans7 Or have we not
Does it belong TO US or to Jefferson DaVis2 "a
voice Gto DaTis.") So it does. Ifit really be-
longs to US tits whose business 10 see that the
streets Of New Orleans are safe for every man
that has right to walk under that hag2 "a
voice, uGrant's.'') The armed hand of the ma
ton wreathed in tobacco smoke and bAthed in
the softest breezes ofthe lake, while the national
baupst clings in every Southern city, to the flag
staff heavy with Union blood. Imagine Ireland
n rebellion and imagine the rebellion subdued.
Imagine the news coming to London, TO the Iron
Duke in the War Office, that an Englishman
cheering for Victoria had been murdered in the
streets Of Cork. Do you suppose that Weling>
ton %ould have gone on pleasure japnt with
the Queen to the Isle of Wight, other isles. He
Iould have been in the streets of Cork, in two
hours, and if there had been enough soldiers in
the British empire, be would have made it safe
for an Englisbman to walk the streets. APP
plause.) General Grant can anticipate trouble at
Baltimore. He knows beforehand that there
will be boodshed in the streets Of Maryland
He can hold long cabinet counsels with this man
and that to see that there is no riot that
can favor radicalsm in Baltimore. Why
don't he know of riot in New Orleans? If he
did know, why didn't he hurry to the spot2 l
claim it of the war arm of the Government, that
if we have conquered the South, it should be
safe for Northern meu anywhere where the flag
floats. (Applause.) If is said to ne that the
flag floats in safety over Bunker Hill as it b. 8
for sixty,years' if General Grant is general, and
at the head of the armed forces of the United
States, he is there to make the flag my protec-
ton, as much in Memphis as in the streets of
Boston. (Applause.) If be has not troops enough
to do it why don't he go TO Congress aud say so?
| If he has troops enough why don't be do it?
Does any man binder him Applause If there
is any hinderance in the Nation what is his duty2
Tell US of it? IftGS araG OF national affairs is
| not permitted to make the streets of the nation
safe for ms citizens, who hnders2 That answer
] =
of the Northern rebuke; imagine the utter ami
hilation of Andrew johnson If Ulysses Grant
had said at tie time of the massacre at New Or,
| leans: 81 wanted to prevent it but WAS not per-
mitted." | do not ask officials like Grant to sub.
nit to indignity in office, when they are not
| permitted to discharge its duties. | don't allow
them to misrePresent the responsibilities OF the
Office if they don't try to perform its dutie A
year hence you will agree with me the most hu-
initiating position occupied to-day is held by
lieutenant General Grant. (Hisses and applause
| the latter preyailing.) | have compared him
to England: let take the risk of partiality
and come nearer home. Put our Ben. Butler in
Heutenant- General daughter, ,cries of spoons,
and applause Give k1m command of the forces
Do you suppose New Orleans would have been
! possible? (Voices-'No, no, never But il for
some unforeseen circumstance it had taken place
do you suppose Munroe would have lived to day
| to boast tn dt be had deied the Government OF
the United States and bathed the streets Of New
Orleans iu loyal blood2 (NO, no.'') Men say
General Grant sides with the President for fear
hs-yill put a. 0rse- nAR- -iR-. De -voa suppose
could mot be permitted to do his duty, the army
| ofthe United States could not have been led by
anybody against him? Could the President have
| braved Grant and Sherman, and the army and
Congress2 What demand of Senators, when
they see a traitor in the White House, is to try
/ and get him out; what demand oe the army aud
Lieutenant General is that they make the streets
of the conquered South srfe, or give up their Of
fee. The question to day is whether the Pres
dent of the United States is to be allowed for
two years to hold this government over the edge
Of Niagara, and whether Senators and Heuteu-
ant-General are to stand there prating of dignity
and silence, and journals are to preach of con-
ciliaton? | say no. The war is not ended,
the fight commences in new shape. If Gener-
al Grant has surrendered as Shermrn did TO John
son-if he, like Sherman, has surrendered to
Johnson, let US know it.