Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-05
Opinions of General Grant.

| boston Inst week, and the +" Commonwealth .
| gives tie following account Of what he said
| about the General:
Mr.. Washburne regards General Grant as
wholly IN sympathy with Congress and it's
| plan oi Reconstruction. TO the particular in
| quiry os one 81 orr Senators, Mr.. Washl,urn.
| replied tlmt he considered him not only in f;,.
| vor of thoro,gl, rccuns,ruction MS the nd-
| vanccd mIan understands it. but in favor o:
standing hy the blncks in all the civil, social
| and political rights rs conferred bv the recon-
structh,n acts. lie was in constant c,n~uta.
I tlon with Secretary Stanton. Mr.. WnShturn,
| 'ihrms IN regard to the Impending change it,
| the Cabinet. rec ;ing notice from Stnutn,l
| lust before he went out that his dismissal
| would soon take place. mot only was this
tie case, ;, said Mr. WashLurnr. = but | know
tlnt the letters from Grant to both the Presi
| dent aud the Secretary were written by Grant
himself, upon consultation with. and in full
| knowledge ot Mr. Stanton" Mr. w furthc,
| remarked that he should have dccn,rd it Il.
| criminal negligence in Grant not to have nc
"crtrd the place under the circumstances {;
and that it is now his duty to remain until
the meeting OF Congress, rvcn though the
! President may want to ct rid of lin.
! General Grant Mr. Wasiburne further rep
resented. WAS filed with ,s great apprehension
v
he. He had remarked that when in the
war; he WAS comparatively crsy nh ut the =.
| suit; he knew Whit WIS t" br the end. and
"nde his preparations "ccurlin.!y; hut now
| ne w,,a Tiled with aE,ru he could lut fnrctcl
| wb2t would t~nsplre fr"n day tn day, and
such anxiety he had nrvrr before had 81
nr"tnt had he been that Congress should do
its full duty at the late session. that he had
personally rutrrtt ii Senators to retain the
power to tliSinisA the DiStrict tn'n,naudrrs
which the House lad granted, i,eariur what
has since tr'nspirrd. (This statement in re-
gard to Grant was c"rrohoratrd bv both our
| Scnators, Mr.. Wasrturnr uldiu. tint Trun..
bull and .Shrrmun alike were deaf to the up-
peals of the Genrra.)
| General Grant further remarked Mr. Wash
| hnrnc, vas not AN indifferent or careless ot
s"ryec-nt pnssing events. He was an intrli-
! vnnt rsadinc man. lie consulted the l,..,;,i.
journals, and noted carefully the criticisms
| n!mn his movements. When hs letters see
The ght-as they would surely when Com
"r"sS met. il not before they would be found
IN loyal, as true to the demands IF the times,
. any could ask He did not know that
| Grant would be retained in the Cabinet ten
days longer but whether or not. the country
could rest assured that he was with it, nnh
that it would. sooner or later, recognize in him
fast aud valued friend. AS the final remark
"I this conversation. Mr. Washhurnn said the
confidence reposcd in General Grant was not
displaced, aud that all loyal men could Stnrd
up tor him without hcsit,ncy or the shadow
Of doubt
| RALEIGH, September 23.-The P,myyess
and SrHt'ns', Conservative newspapers, will
tn.morow cont in the following call f,r pri
| ~.
men, signed hy over two hundred influential
citizens:
Z" the (bnserOni,ve Union Men n Wuh~
| lnnnty
The undersigned citizens of Wake County
| friends Of the imnric ~ Union and snpp0r
ters OF the Constitution OF be Unit q, St;tes
being convncrl TINT the incorp ,r.ionnf thu,
Br"~now and Holden Radcal prograne in
to tho Constitution Of tho State would mos,
surely smh,rra-s, if not annhil,te all en,nr
rr'se, and all hope Of re operation. and would
discourage oil Immigration and investment o.
capital. AID dmin,s', or destroy the sources
nt employment 1T l,tmrin. popnntit u, d.,
most earnestly inporr III Conservative Cit
zcns of every cnnut, in the : ate TO hold me-,
in"s for til, adoption nf s,,', plans ~ they
| iny deem wiscst and best for uniting and
CO soliciting the Conservative innn"nc. ~
the State, and to effectively prevent III" al,
! c"ss q ultra Republican or Radical rule H.
our State organizations.
| Tn" Congress of the United States has Gu,
soif fur the present FROM all prtirip ton
in national politirs--riothin@ is left us but the
care of our State institutions. This move
mcnt has nothing t. d with national POI tics
or with hindering or attemp,in. to obstrnct
the operation of my law of Congress 1t
has simple reference only t, preventing tho
Incorporation Of those Radical principles ond
measures into our Strte org,niz tim. whi"i
would place the control Of the government il.
the hands of the ignorant and vic'ous and
nost unpr;nciplrd persons among u<--which
would ccrtrnly result IN tho destruction o.
the enterprise and vitality Of the Statcs. All
I'D or encouragement. therefore. which this
noven'cnt would give l., the friends Of con.
SiItnion'l liberty and free government "ls"
whcr" would he simply Incidental. Wrth"r"
''"re urge I'll Cnnscrv tive Constitutional
slnion mrn of the County Of Wake holding
these views to unit" with us in holding mccl
'mg,at the n,urtll"n.r j., tn city nn Frilay.
September "a. to effect tn abnve named o /.
ject. We urge our fnllnw.citizrns in the sew
nral registration ,pre.incts of the cnnnty To
nntn with us. in holding meetings In their
several precints."
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