The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-16
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UPON CURRENT ToPIos-ooMPIED EVERY
DAY FOR THB EVENING TELEGRAPH.
General Grant aud Congress.

oppose and support all men ana measures WIN
marvellous consistency says of General
Grants acceptance OF the War Otfee;-
"Through many channels It will be asserted eii
aoprova of Mr. Santon's removal
and consequently OF the potho6y ~ fortunateIv
that proceeding. on this heao i1 iOI Sienay
there Is no room for misrepresentation, 9ene
raj Grant has not allowed MS napiiu ~ @
- seuVS Soat 81 occasion Of difference between Con-
syress and the Executive. ne StRpOIts 1.e s P1oss
g COng,S s;, @9arcement @u The Copperhead coun-
seHtiors Of Mr. Johnson will derive no succor
from General Grant"
Here are certain statements of fact which
we challenge in the kindest spirit
I. When has General Grant ever departed
from what is called ''hs habitual reticence" to
sustain Congress, or in any way to criticize
the President
II. When the President began his attack
upon the policy of Congress, did he not send
General Grant down South to make report
which could be used to neutralize the effect of
the exhaustive and able report OF General
Schurzi Was not the report of General
Grant effectively used against the policy OF
Congress
III. Did not President Johnson state in
letter recently printed in these columns, and
written by trustworthy gentleman, that he
had never doubted that General Grant was a
supporter of his policy
struggle with Congress, did not Grant accom-
pany the President on his eleotiOneering tripY
Some of his apologists have said, whisperingly,
he did it by official command. Has anybody
ever seen the order If the order compelled
him to make the trip, did it also compel him
to visit the White House and stand at the side
of the President while he cried over the Phila-
delphia Convention
V, And now, when Mr.. Stanton, rightly con-
STRUNG law of Congress to mean that his
office is not in the hands of the President, dis
tinotly states that he will make an issue with
the President and fall back upon Congress, do
we not see General Grant step in, "aocept the
Office, and by this acceptance" so completely
disarm Mr. Stanton that he retires Does not
every reasonable person know that had Gene
raj Grant declined the appointment-which
being civil Office, he had right to decline
the President would not have succeeded in
removing the War Secretary Is it not well
understood that General Grant is keeping
warm this place until some conservative may
be found to take it
We are not complaining of General Grant.
He has a right to his opinions. He may
honestly sustain the President just as other
people honestly oppose him. 1t is a difference
of opinion which does not in the least detract
from his renown as soldier nor from his pa
triotism and fidelity as citizen. But we do
most decidedly object to the attempt OF the
no written or spoken word that we have ever
seen or heard to justify the assertion, and
while all his acts and the acts of his loudest
friends, lead to contrary inference. The
friends of Grant are not so dishonest. The
Herald, until last week extremely radi-
CAL hoists the name of Grant as Pre-
sident with Lee of Virginia as Vice-Presi-
dent, and is now furious in its assaults upon
Congress and its howls over what it pleasantly
calls "nigger supremacy" in the South. This
we understand. 1t is logical. The Herald is
probably as well informed as the Times, and
it openly claims General Grant as its ally.
The World writes long article to show that,
in entering the War Office, General Grant
''acted of his own free choice, and was not
coerced by the compulsive stringency of mill
tary discipline" Grant himself notified STAN
ton of his acceptance" The word is plain
enough to all men. .-..
AS we have said, we are not blaming Gene
raj Grant. We are really defending him. If
he means to be considered supporter of Con-
gress, he is great enough, and frank enough,
and he has ink and paper enough to make
that support apparent. We are bound to con-
slider him not a supporter until better in
formed. We shall be happy to find we are
mistaken, but we do not want to be cheated
by the Times nor to assent to the proposition
that two and two make five when we know
they make four. If General Grant thinks
enough of the votes of the radicals to permit
his friends to support him as a radical candi
date, he will certainly pay us the compliment
of telling us what we are to vote for. We
honor him enough to feel that if he comes
upon our platform he means TO stay there and tC
abide by it faithfully. His New York friends
are not upon that platform. They are as fal
away as they were last summer when they ar
ranged the Philadelphia Convention. 1t il
suspicious that the men who arranged tina
Convention are now the busiest in arranging
Grant. The Times and the Post are as louC
now as they were then, and they follow the
same tactics. They claimed to be Republican
to act in the interest of the Republican party
and above all to represent the majority of tha
party as distinct from a fragment of seditioui
radicals. Their Philadelphia Convention was
success, the party was a success, the ad
dress was a success, the resolutions wer,
wonderfully successful, the tears of John
son were the most successful demonstra
ton in history, if we except a kiss ono,
bestowed by a conservative apostle; but wheI
the election came, the fragment of radicals
swept the country, and these successful anC
ambitious partisans were glad enough to b.
allowed to return to line without being shot a
deserters. Shakespeare tells us that Treason
ia but trusted like the fox; and so we trus
rons had ant-Republcan. They tried t
destroy us last year by the patronage an
strength of Andrew Johnston's administration
They are trying the same game now with tn
dazzling and illustrious name OF Grant. w
how before that name so far as 1t represent
.valor and patriotism, skill in the field, mode
ration in council, and genius triumphant !
war. A wear or two since we bowed TO u
ar,a ~ AndreW Johnson as the represents