The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-16

u Politicians.
The last round in the great political prize
fight between Andy Johnson and the radicals
Stanton was bad enough ; but the accession OF
Grant to the Office Of Secretary Of War is such
stunning blow that the radicals find them
selves nearly knocked out of time, and come
up to the scratch in the condition known in
the vocabulary of the ring as 'sgroggy," hitting
out in wild and bewildered manner, beating
the empty air and letting their blows fall with
out effect in all directions Some of them cry
out that Grant could not help himself and that
in accepting the Office he only obeyed orders as
soldier must Some avoid Grant altogether
in gingerly manner, and content themselves
with showering abuse on the President. One
affects to believe that some important points
in the Grant-Stanton-Johnson correspondence
are "designedly kept back" by the President,
and seeks to get over the troublesome affair
with knowing and mysterious shake of the
head One designates the appointment of
Grant as "Jacobin trick and hints that
unless he enters his protest against other acts
alleged to be in contemplation by the Presi-
dent, he will "destroy himself or at least
s'suffer in some measure the loss Of that pres
tige which has heretofore attached to his
NAME" Another asks, But what OF Grant?'
and answers his own question by declaring
that she should have taken the responsibility
of disobcying an Illegal order" Another
''does not mean TO say that General Grant is
in sympathy with the real purposes OF the
President" but allirms that if he had refused
10 lend himself to the arbitrary suspension OF
an officer against whom no shadow Of charge
had been laid, the President must still have
been practically powerlass." The special
Seward organ of this city says nothing at oil,
being evidently waiting nervously to see where
the next blow will fall. Even Wendell Phillips,
who has more brains and boldness than all the
other radicals put together, while casting whole
buckettuls of his abuse over Johnson Wilson,
Seward, Fessenden, Conkling and Sherman,
announces that he will "forbear comment" on
the action of Grant "untl events show their
course more fully"
But the most curious feature in all this radi-
cal perplexity and CONSERVATION is the foun-
dering of Greeley. He is as much bothered
about Grants acceptance Of the War Office as
the cOpperhead organ was short time ago
over the Tennessee election. He announces his
conviction Gin the kndest spirit that Grant is
not radical of the Ben Butler and Ashley
school. He assails Grant, who is soldier, for
not mixing in political controversies and
criticising the acts of the President He COM
plains that Grants able report on the condition
of the South effectively" used up partisan
electioneering account got up 10 radical order
by Carl SchuYz. He quotes the questionable
authority Of a Tribune correspondent to prove
that President johnson once said to somebody
that General Grant was supporter of his
policy, although Greeley will not hesitate to
stamp the statements of the President as not
altogether reliable. Then, did not Grant ac-
company Johnson when he swung around the
circles Did he not actually stand by the side
of the President when he once made speech
at the White House? And has he not now
accepted the appointment to the War office !!
asks Greeley.
After all this convincing testimony it is
very probable that the people generally will
become satisfied that General Grant is not a
negro-supremacy radical of the Ben Butler and
Ashley school. They will no doubt conclude
that he is simply patriot and plain honest
man, who is resolved to do his duty to his
country without regard to the copperheads
who fought him during the war, or the radicals
who are fighting him now. Whether the poll
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relation to his political sentiments is very
doubtful. For two or three years the Confede-
rate generals tried to discover his positions
and to battle his movements, and they tried in
vain. 1t is not likely that the bottled up radi-
cal generals and political guerillas will be
mora slccasafill