Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-09-03
General Grant English Statement Of His
Politics and Chances for the Presidency.

New York, July 2, Correspondent Of the London
Netgs.
There has been good
deal Of guessing as to Grants pohii~
cal opinions, and his great reticence
made it very difficult for long while,
even for the entcrprising newspapers
to get ut them but they were
brought over very fully in his exams
nation before The Judiciary Commits
tee the other day lie declared him
self frankly and fairly in favor Of the
policy OF Congress, and expressed
his strong desire to sec it carried out,
while he at the same time, was, OF
course, anxious to haze the South re
leased from military control at the
earliest possible moment This dec
laration Of his opinions, combined
with the general confidence in his
character, will, have very little
doubt, in the absence of some very
unlocked for change inthe meantime,
procure for him the Republican nom
ination for the Presidency. It is
quite true that, as a general rule, the
more man is talked OF for the mons
ination beforehand, the less chance
there is Of his getting it, inasmuch as
the mere fact of mans being much
talked of proves that he is a very
prominent politician, and therefore
has as many enemies as well as many
friends, and is likely to be as strong
ly opposed as supported, even in the
ranks of his own party.
But Gen. Grant is not a politician,
and has no enemies in the political
arena, and his military fame is so
great and his services so brilliant
that nobody OF any party except
Wendell Phillips ventures to decry
him. Wendell Phillips abuses him
roundly, but, as we'll as | can make
out, it is for not executi ling some kind
of coup d'etat against Johnson and
taking the executive power
into his own hands--a piece Of neg
fect which, however, is not likely to
tell strongly against him in the eyes
OF the public for whom his silence,
his modosty and his shrinking from
all assumption constitute his princi-
pal attraction. The democrats, Of
course, do not like him. His success
has been the ruin of their party, and
the cause which he vindicatcd has al
ways been detestable to them but
they havesnever ventured to attack
him. At one time his persistent ST
hanna nj oil, al 4,f.,
patton in political gatherings led
some Of the Democrat papers to hope
that he was perhaps secretly ostie
to Congress and its policy, and the
result was some moths Of eulogy.
Even now when the delusion is ex-
ploded, probably none Of their pa
pers or orators will venture 10 speak
disrespectfully Of him, and i the Re-
publican party shonld nominate him
| think il is very doubtful whether
the Democrats would "run" any
body in opposition to him. 0fco0Tse,
letting q presidential cieation 90 by
default, as ii il called. would be
formal confession that the party had
ceased to exist but the fact is it has
ceased to exist for all practical pur>
poses. The only hope Of its revival
after the war was over lay in the
chance that the South would once
more unite with it, rs in the oldcn
time, but that hope has, | believe,
vanished. The bond between it and
che South appears to be completely
broken and whatever position coth>
ern politicians assume when they
come back into the Union, it seems
that they will not take their places
in the old Democratic ranks. They
feel not only that the Northern Dem
ocrats betrayed. them, but that they
are so weak that their alliance is not
worth HAVING.