The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-10-29
highway for travel and commerce, and
will get our portion Of the credit due for
so much energy and enterprise.
General Grant.

Our admiration Of General GRANTS
character grows day by day. His cor
rcspondcncc with General THOMAS in re-
gard to the troubles recently unprecedented
in Tennessee has been published, and
shows that General GRANT Tor some one for
nina new W. w. s. BLISS for this new
General TAvLoR) yields o practiccd pen.
His replies to THOMAS would do credit to
the vulpine reputation of MARTIN VAN
buren,, who was compared by SARGENT S.
PRENTlss to the fox that had bad cold
and couldn't smell at ali, at ALL" and
therefore could not even detect the scent
of birthstone. Er oao disco omnes:
"WAsHISGToS, ID. c.,
" September 26-i =. NJ.
To Mnjor- Gtf,eral George u. Th"1"os:
"Nou are to prevent conflict. If the Exc.
cutire Of the State issues his proclamation de-
clarng instruction or invasion TO exist TOO
formidable TO he put down by the force at his
own command, and calls upon the United
States to aid him, then aid will have 10 he
given. Your mission Is 10 preserve the peace,
and not to take sides in poll tical differences un-
III called out in accordance with the law. Ton
are to prevent mobs from aiding either party
If called upon legally TO interfere, yourdniy Is
plain. /. ). GRANT, General
TT is but just TO the Federal officer in
command at Nashville to say that he was
decidedly of the opinion, and so wrote to
General THOMAS, that BRowNLow was in
the wrong.l
But this correspondence is not the only
evidence we have that General GRANT
knows how to ride both sides of sapling
His right-hand man, Mr.. WAsHEURN, OF
Illinois, has already proclaimed him
Radical. So has Speaker CoLrAx, MI
KELLY, and other distinguished politicians
of that party. On the other hand, we are
informed by the S,a's Washington CORES
pondcnt that southern editor "who has for
"some time been advocating the election
I" of General GRANT as President went tt
Washington last week for the purpose Of
Learning directly from the General his
"political status. He obtained an inter
"vicw with General GRANT, and informed
" the latter that many of his friends, whc
were supporting him as the cm3odi'
"ment of patriotism and the fit repre-.
"sentative Of the truly conservative
"men of the country, had been alarmed
at the position in which Mr. WAsHBuRH
chad placed him in the Galcna speech
"that if Mr.. WAsnDURN correctly stated
General GRANTS political opinion he
General GRANT is as much Radica
Gas any of them, and belongs to the Radi
q cal party. The editor says that Genera
g GRANT replied to this that he was not ;
"party man, and never had been of any
"political party, and perhaps should never
"be; that he voted for Mr.. BUCHANAN fol
" President, but had not done much TotiD:
"since, because Of his unsettled residence
"The editor further says that the impress
ssion he derived from the conversation
"was that General GRANT will not accep
ga nomination for the Presidency from th'
"Radicals proper, but that he would &C
"ccpt the nomination as the representa-
Give Of conservative men,"
Now, to what party does General GRAN;
belong?