The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-07-07

0nGS SalQ M, 'that bhOses parts OF the
South which have not felt the war. and
particularly those which Lave been within
! our lines and have therefore escaped the
rebel conscription and taxes, are much
less disposed to accept the situation in
good faith than those portions which have
) been literally overIun with fire and
! sword"
} Referring to the tempered the Southern
people, he remarked that they are much
less disposed now TO bring themselves to
? the proper frame of mind than they we're
one year since. "a year ago." said he,
''they were willing to do anything; now
they regard themselves as masters of the
situation. Some of the rebel Generals, -
he added. care behaving no5ly and doing
/ all they can to induce the people TO throw
aside their old pFediudices aud to conform
their course to the changed condition of
things. Johnston and Dick Taylor, par
ticuiarly, are exercising good influence;
/ but, he added, flee is behaving badly
He is conducting himself very differently
from what had reason, from what he
| said at the time of the surrender, to sup
pose he would. No man at the South is
capable of exercising tenth part of the
influence for good that he is, but instead
of using it. he is setting an example of
| forced acquiescence so grudging AID per-
nicious in its effects as to be hardly Tea-
LIKED.
"The men who were in the rebel ar
miles," said Grant, 'Facquiesce in the re-
suit much better than those who stayed
at home. The women are particularly
bitter against the Union and Union men
OF course" he added, ''there is some bit
terness of feeling among all classes, but
am satisfied it would soon die out if
| their leading men bad not somehow, got
| the idea that treason after all was not very
bad, and that the Southern cause, as
they phrase it, will yet triumph, not in
war, but in politics. In my judgment,
| said Grant, ''the tone of certain men and
certain papers in the North is such as to
| do incalcu4able mischief in making the
lare rebels believe that they are just as
much entitled to rule as ever, and that if
they will only stand by what they are
pleased to call their rights, they will
have help from the North. ''This," sig
nifcantly added Grant, sis only playing
over again the incipient stages of the re-
bellion" He was confident that the large
majority of the Southern people would
smother their Ie5eptments and become
good citizens if these mischief makers at
the North (the copperheads) would only
let them alone. For himself, if he had
the power, the first thing be would do
would be to seize the New York News,
and kindred sheets, which are giving the
l. IIno - tIoT
position and rights" Dick Taylor"
added Grant, ,'told me that the great
BODY of the South would settle down qui-
ely, and be satisfied with anything if it
was not for this false ideaof, their rights
and so~cslled iA-trestment fostered by
such Sheets"
Troops" said General Grant, Unjust
be kept at all the principal points in the
! South for some time to come. This will
be necessary to repress the turbulence of
class of the South very dangerous to all
well disposed persons, and also to protect
the rights of the freedmen, who are look
ed upon with deep hatred by very large
proportion of the people. | am In favor,
however," he added, ''of not retaining
our volunteers for this duty, because they
very naturally think that they fulfilled
their engagement one year since. Hence,
whenever 1 have heard of any dissatisfac-
ton in a volunteer regiment, 1 have a.
once ordered their discharge. I couldn't
consent to the punishment for turbulence
Of brave men who had been through the
war, and who regarded themselves as be-
ing wrongfully held. I have given orders
for the immediate discharge of all the
white volunteers.
Grant spoke in high terms of Sherman,
Sheridan, Howard. and other Generals,
and referred to our Mexican difficulties,
forcibly adding that he believed the
}, French invasion of Mexico a part of the
rebellion, and he should have been glad
to have seen detachment of our army
sent there one year since. He would en-
gage that Sheridan, with plenty of arms
and two thousand American troops, and
a goodly number of American officers,
would, with the aid of the Mexicans, clean
Macmillan out of Mexico in six months.
But we have already extended our ac-
count of this interesting interview too far,
and must omit many other matters. Suf-
fee it to say that we left Gen. Grant, more
deeply impressed than ever before, even,
of his great ability, his unfinchiag patri-
otiam, and his thorough devotion to lib,
erty and justice. We thank God that in
this crisis such man is at the head of
our armies, aud if duty and his country
calls, that he will be ready TO take upon
himself more responsible duties.
! AN ArFEcr1Ne lErrER.-The New
York Legislature, last session, passed a
, law prohibiting the free pass system on
) railF Dads in that State. By a provision
) of the law, old passes were taken up on
and after the first day of May.
g The editor of Western paper had his
, pass taken up on the New York Central
g Railroad the other day, and by special re-
. gust of the conductor, stopped over" at
D Utica. He addressed the following af-
: fecting letter to his spouse:
e UTICA, N. Y, May IS, 1865,
r BLUE LION TAVERN.
g DEAR WIFE. Sell my t'other clothes
s for what they will bring, and remit Al
o once. Had my linen buster for supper
d and my snare shirt viii have to 60 fol
) II. Era- \. obla tn make n lSChi