The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-11-15
From the Anti-Slavcry Standard. I
WondOll Fhillips on Grant and Sherm \,

Wendell Phillips on Grant and Sherman,
',Thc day has gone by" said friend.
"whcn man can be Pre- tsident of the Uni.
ted Statcsmcrcly because he keeps his mou:h
shut No buying again pig in poke
There IS n rc!iccncc which hides nothing.
hess. Surely that is no Qualification for
responsible office. gherc is n rc,icence
which hides something We wish TO know
what that something is before we trust such
Tcticence With power
!. lfGencral Grants friends mean TO ask
the country's support of him as President.
they must allow Us at least I, man mast
wear the uniform OF one party or the other.
rms General Grant declines 70 do. Then,
like all ueutrals he must be Watched and
4 prevented from leiyohief, but never trusted.
+ This conclusion, weresGk, Judging kimonly
by his words or lack of words, When we
come to actions, he let's him self be the tool
OF the reaction Alike from the duties
which he neglects anu from the subserven-
cy which shows when he docs act, We infer
,thnt Grant docs not wantto have any opin-
ions on Che great national problem lie is
content to be the unreason;ng tool Of mcu
about him as his own guns in Virginia. In
these days, However, we need n man, and
not merely figured head, for Presidckt.
~ who, holding the thunderbol,s of the
Sosernment in his hand. allowed the New
OH ans massacre and the Memphis riot
the commander who lets the world see that
iRthe territory he processes to have con.
qHerel law cannot be executed, and re one
OF his own soldiers is safe beneath the DAG,
is either incompetent or disloyal. If this is
a,specimcn OF his fitness for Office the ma
tion has had more than enough of hin. His
future should occasion nc surprise Tho
routine soldier, like The routine Sailor, is
GENERALLY unfit for anything else.
Shcrmdn can hide undor no such excuse
There is no loubt he has genius. Emerson
tells of n Colonel Buiord, ut West Point, who
struck tho trunnions OF II cannon so many
thousand blows with n hammer that nj last
lie broke them just so Grant broke the
rebclion; Sherman conquered with his
brains as truly as with his sword lie will
never be a King Log 1t is vtaly lmpor.
tant that his steps toward the Presidency
should he viglantly scrrtmizcd. Long time
ale'ident of the eSouth, he has all the naly ~
preiudices and absurd opinions Of ideas it
rel r2sentc. lie has nothing but cursCs and
cYncmptuous criticism for Massachusetts;
not, OF course the geographical State, but
The principles, ideas, and purpose which
that name stilS in the mind of exery man
who hears it We fear he has learned little
from the war Bigottcd half-ininrmel,
lntcuScly.SSCtiOnal INC moment armed rcSlS-
: tencc ceases, he is just the man TO serve
the South III her effort to regain by Intrigue
what she lost by arms. If he is or next
l'resideRt, he will carry out to its fulflmcnt,
on Hienal scale, that disgraceful and
wholosa Surrender to Johnston which only
u Northern growl, that drowned even the
thunder of Niagara, frightened him and his
comrades from completing. After living
twenty years at tho south in intimate rcla.
lions with her leaders, after sweeping
through her territory at the head of n vic.
torious arny and taking the latest survey
of ler mood and resources. he proposed to
treat the war as froic, and let both sec.
sions resume, substantially. the relations
they held before the rebellion General
Sherman is too shrewd and capable manto
allow of our explaining this on any groond
g! croduliiy or misapprehension. Such m
oifor could hsye come only from mind in
curably Southern in it's bias and opinions
lfthe hot'fires Of such c,vil war; could not
burn this folly anu wickedncss out of him,
&c is past cure. lEis clear, logical common
stRse taught him what honor and f,sr play
dc mandet While lie had no relish for ,hc
pan of allowing negroes 10 fight. and flung
aisinhuencc against IL, lie confessed that