The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-17

Is the AetIne Secretary of War an
sympathy with Congress PA Few
Points Submitted.
The New York Tribune is determined
that General Grant shall show his hand
before nomination time rolls round. 1t
has opened out gently of late In regard
10 the peculiarity of his status, and has
softly suggested that it would be well
not to be in hurry about getting up
hurrah until we know certainly for
what and for whom we are hurrahing.
The Tribune is right in this respect. AS
a people we are prone to go of half
cooked, so decided is our tendency to
idolatry when once we see "!he coming
man, Neither General Grant, .'or
any other man." is likely to become
the Republican nominee without an
unmistaka BILE understanding as to-the
current of his sympathies. And his
acts, too, must correspond with those
sympathies. The country does not
propose to be deceived again AS to
what sort of nominee it has got. And
no man, not even General Grant, can
secure the Republican nomination iy
an exclusively reticent policy.
The article of the Tribune is as fol-
lows: So llr
The Times, which is now one of the
most Conservative-Radical Copper
head Republican, Democratic papers
we have, and manages to oppose and
support all men and measures with
marvellous consistency, says OF General
Grants acceptance. of the War Office:
cd that General Grants compliance with the
call indicates hts approval of Mr.. Stantons
which exRcts that proceeding. On this head,
fortunately, there Is no room for misrepre-
sentRtion. General Grant has not allo~ wed his
hab tual reticence 10 Ledpe the c5ItfTD IN dOlibt
us 10 his position on the great occasion OF off
ference between Congress and the Executive
he Iupports The plan Of CoHGresE, and is in IA
The Copperhead counSelors OF Mr.. Johnson
will derive no Buccor from General Grant,
Here are certain statements of fact,
which we challenge in the kindest spirit:
I. When has Gen. Grant ever depart
ed from what Is called "his habitual
reticenoe" to sustain Congress. or in
any way criticise the President?
II. When the President began his at
tack upon the policy, OF Congress, did
he not send Gen. Grant down South to
make a report which could be used To
neutfaIIzes the effect of the exhaustive
and able report of Gen. Schurzf Was
not the report of Gen. Grant effectively
used against the policy Of Congress7
III. Did not President Johnson state
in letter recently printed in these col
umns, and written by Trustworthy
gentleman, that he had never doubted
that Gen. Grant was snpPorterot OF his
policyf
". In the very crisis of the Presi-
dental struggle with Congress, did not
Grant accompany the President on his
elecuoneering trip9 Some of his apollo
gists have said, whisPeringly, he did it
by official commando. Has anybody
ever seen the orderR II the order COM
PEELED him TO make the trip, did 1t also
compel him to visit the White House
and stand by the President while he
Dried over the PhilRdelphia Conven-
tinnf
+. ly constituting a law of Congress to
mean that his office is not in the hands
of the President, distinctly states that
he will make an issue with the Presi-
dent and fall back upon Congress, do
we not see Gen. Grant step in, "accept'
the office, aud by this 'aeceptanee, SO
completely diaarm Mr., Stanton that he
retires2 Does not every reasonable
person know that had Gen. Grant de.
clined the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES being Q
civil Office he had a right to decline
the President would not have succeed
ed in removing the War Secretary Is
il not we'll understood that Gen. Grant
Is keeping warm this place until some
Conservative may be found to take it?
We are not complaining OF General
Grant. he has right to his opinions.
He may honestly sustain the President
just as other people honestly oppose
him. II is a difference of opinion
which does not in the leastdetract from
his own renown as a soldier nor from
his patriotism and fidelity as q citi-
zen. But we most decidedly OBJ
ject to an attempt OF The
Times to make him a radical when
there is 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 a contrary Inference, These friends