Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-27

HE PRIVATE CHARACTER OF
GENERAL WHAT MR.
Triton HEARD AND SAID. |
AND WHAT HAS COME OF TIKI
STORY.
l have conversed with at least score OF
officers who are known to me as gentlemen
incapable of falsehood, and who, from their
positions, have been for the past six or eight
months In daily-some Of them in hourly
official relations with General Grant, from y
o'clock a. M until o'clock every afternoon,
Sundays excepted; and by every one OF them
three, at least, being known to me as per-
sonally and politically opposed to Gen. Grant
the slanderous statements Of the lnde-
pendent, Anti Slauery Standard and MIR.
Wendell Phillips have been indignantly and
yehemently contradicted. have also con-
yersed with numerous ladies upon the point,
and the experience of every tallible husband
or brother with whom occasionally 1.-THE
olives may have disagreed, will suggest
what strict Judges of such matter these Ia
dies are; and from every quarter, without
distinction of social caste or party, the same
evidence has been given. These attacks
upon General Grant, in female phrascology,
are total and scandalous fibs;" for he has
been out every night in society at balls ,din-
ners or parties with Mrs. Grant; and MS
habits have been temperate in the extreme
even so much as glass of champagne being
rarely tasted at the dinner-tabe or at sup
per. It Is humiliating-and so felt by the
writer-to be obliged to correct such parti-
san falsehood in regard to the chief soldier OF
our Armies; but is it not thousand told
more humiliating to such gentlemen rs The
odore Tilton or Wendell Phillips, that they
should have allowed themselves, without
sufficient examination, to have been made
General Buffers instruments or 'conven-
fences" for the circulation of such atrocious
libels?
The above comes from the New York
Citizen (Democratic) and is from the pen
Of Gen Halpine, the editor, better known to
the public IS "Miles o'aeilly." 1t suggests
to us the propriety OF mentioning here, the
statements made in the course of recent
conversation with Mr.. Titon, of the hide
pendent, who lectured in Wilmington, on
his way from Washington home to New
York. He said it was reported at the Capt.
toll that General Grant had been intoxicated
upon the streets, on the previous Sunday.
Upon close questioning he admitted that his
information was to this effect:-
That the General had been calling upon Q
friend, in the afternoon, and upon being
pressed to do SO, had drank, at parting, t
glass of wine.
That the peculiarly nervous Temperament
of the General is Of that character that he il
exceedingly susceptible to the effects OF slim
! ulants.
That he is, habitually, Uery abstemious
on this account, among others.
That this indulgence on the occasion rt
ferred to did somewhat aifect-but not sin
E toxicate" him.
D That he was deeply panied at the occul
: renee and expressed his great regret that h
should have yielded to the solicitations {
: his host.
b That he is not "a drunkard.'
That he is not in the habit Of drinkin.
but, as we have stated, exceedingly tex
perate.
, That the difference between him and 9th,
: highly esteemed public gentlemen was the
: capacity to hold liquor without intoxicatiol
he avoiding it, they taking it simply becaul
their stronger stomachs SO permitted.
/ Mr. Tilton expressed his horror of Il
'e habit of drunkenness in public men,
which the company present Joined hir
! since none are more likely to realize its bi
. ter degradation than the citizens Of Del
!, ware lie admitted, further, that this 0
i currence was an exceptional instance, besid
y which he knew of no other. The compaI
= were therefore sincerely gratiiicd at his stat
= ment, volunteered in conclusion, that
should, as the matter then stood, make
i. allusion to the affair in his paper. All pl
!, sent felt that under the circumstances stat
:. by Mr.. Triton, Che was of course more FL
- and added more details, than we haye in,
. cated,) their regard for General Graz
- their respect for his open and man
:. character, and their love for him
fellow citizen and true patri'
:. was increased rather than otherwi,
! by the consideration of the circu
- stances. They were, therefore, sadly pal
cd to find, in the next issue of the IND
pendent, that its editor had alluded to t
= circumstance, in covert, insnuating pi
+, agrapl, not open and manly, but quite |
a like the usual frank and straightforward
h. terances OF Mr. Tilton. OF course the il
i, endo was undcrst0odby all tho enemies
= General Grant and The country. OF cou
il has been used everywhere by them,
creasing in magnitude as il Travelled abro,
H. until the country is filled with most CT
i, and malignant libcls upon the private eli
81 acter of our great and good leader, mos
~, not all Of which undoubtedly had their {
= gin in the same circumstance referred to
~, Mr.. Tilon, which when duly sitcd amour
i, to so little.
: We say TO the peope-Stand by the II
:, who stood by the country. From this
-. November, Envy and Malice will leave
AZ word unsaid, no lie unuttered, however
20 famous, however vile, to break down
:. character of him whom Providence has c
ve- sen to save the country in this great ell
nj gency.
re- Nix STATION is "Cabinet officer"
his said. He is the Presidents Constitute
adviser"
Will any one find the warrant for $
statements in the Constitution?
una Nothing of the kind is there. The Pi
" 10 dent Cart. ii sec. 2; clause y may
VI squire the opinion in writing of the pri
ioie sspal officer in each of the executive dep
e'u- ''ments, upon any subject rotating to
ON s'tluties Of their respective o6ices.'
ora Search the Constitution and find o
lion vvar,on, than this FOR tbe ;doa flat tho /
ne of the great War Department of the ma
aw' is to be lacquey servant of the Presid
dly in acoord viii h;s everv wisb