Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-07
whore Does General Grant stand !?

| Whore Does General Grant stand +.
To large class OF people, 1t is Of the ut
most importance 10 know where General
GRANT now stands-whether he stands by
Congress or by the President. With swift
ness and unscrupulousness, the Radical
press heaped reproach and denunciation
upon General SHERMAN for the treaty of
peace he entered into with General JOHN
sToN, whereby the whole Rebellion was
surrendered. He was denied patriotism,
and his military services were passed over
as Of no account. They pronounced it
"Sherman's surrender" Is 1t to be wonder
ed, then, that President JOHNSON should be
denounced as traitor worse than was AR
NoLD-as an infiiction upon the country
worse than the plaques the Lord visited
upon Egypt in the early ages of the world
because he has the temerity to, so labor as
| that the fruits of the war shall not be wasted
| In chronic discomfort, and practically dis
membered Union? The Radicals having
impeached the patriotism of these two men,
they have not yet ventured to impeach that
| of General GRANT. Indeed, they have even
spoken of bin as man who would make
for them suitable candidate for the Presl-
dency. They would be glad to have the
country believe that he approves the do
ings of Congress; they would that the
country should believe that he and
Admiral FARRAGUT are travelling with the
President ty constraint, and when the
Loyalist Convention now assembled in
Philadelphia, wherein FRED. DOUGLASS Is
looked upon as the most sagacious men,
Der, heard that Gen. GRANT had taken a
boat at Cleveland for Detroit in conse-
quence of illness that required the utmost
repose, they construed it as evidence that
Gen. GRANT thereby expressed disapproba-
tlon of President JoHNsoN's policy, and
felt longing to be at Philadelphia that he
might wrestle with THEODORE TILToN for
the honor of walking arm in. arm with
FRED. DOUGLASS. ... .s .s
Where, then, does Gen. GRANT really
stand?
We have heretofore shown that In re-
port that the President submitted to Con-
eress in December last, Gen. GRANT de- |
clared "the mass of the thinking men
of the South entitled to be looked upon as
men "acting in good faith > that they were
done with Secession and Slavery; that
"they are in earnest in wishing to do what |
they think is required by the Government
not humiliating to them as citizens" and
that 1t was "to be regretted that there can
not be greater commingling at this time
between the citizens OF the two sections,
and particularly those entrusted with the
law-making power"
l, And now we have before us the answer
of Gen. HnLYER to the question: "Where
does General GRANT standp ?" From this
answer we get the declarations that "GEN-
ERAL GRANT STANDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES IN HIS EFFORTS TO RE-
STORE THE UNION" that 'the same spirit
which GRANT manifested at the surrender
of LEE has characterized every act OF
JOHNSON in his treatment of the subjugated
South; !" that General GRANT meant what
he said in his final report, that he wished
that all 'might live In perpetual peace and
however mistaken the cause, had drawn
forth such herculean deeds of valor;'' that |
zone of the first, II not the very first, ap-
plicstion made for pardon by prominent
Southern man to the President of the Uni
ted States was made by General ROBERT E.
LEE, late Commander-in-C Chief OF the Con-
federate forces, and on the back of that ap-
plication is an indoFsement--a warm, ear
nest, eloquent ndorsement-asking and
urging that that pardon should be granted; \
and that Endorsement is signed U. s. Grant,
Lieutenant General commanding the armies of
the United States;" that "tohen the
President had prepared his first letter TO the
Provisional Governor Of North Carolina, be-
fore he sent IL or published it, he submitted
It to General GRANT for his opinion and
General GRANT indorsed euery
loord and syllable Of that letter - that "that
letter was the keynote to the subsequent
policy Of the Presidents" that sin the diff s
Guilty between Congress and the President ]
upon the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau I
bill, General GRANT stood By the President :" |
that Congress adjourned, and the repre- ]
of the people assembled at Phil |
adelphia and sent committee to congratu- I
late the President on the Endorsement of {
his policy, and while that committee was
in the performance of its mission, General
GRANT stood at The right hand of the Prest-
lent" -
And by the side of President JOHNSON {
General GRANT stands to-day. Do you q
suppose there is much treason in policy G
Of which General GRANT is a hearty sup l
porterP If he finds that duty to the Con-
stitution and to the Union makes it pleas ,
nre for him to stand by the policy OF Pres :
dent JOHNSON, can not patriots of every t,
and low-fnd it to be their
iuty and pleasure to do likewise? ,