The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-11-14
GEN, GRANT ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

GEN. GRANT ON NEGRO SuFfhAuE'
Now that it is known Gen. Grant has been
chosen (by those who were permitted TO vote)
TO the Presidency, his views upon the import
ant subject Of Negro Suffrage cannot but inter-
est every citizen. In speech delivered IN
New York City only few nights prior to the
election, Judge Plerrepont assured the audi,
ence Of the truthfulness of what he repeated as
having been stated to him by Gen. Grant in
respect to that subject Judge Pierrepont IS
the eminent Radical lawyer who aided in the
prosecution of Surratt, and he streDuously
urged the impeachment of President Johnson ;
he has figured conspicuously as one of the club
of wealthy New Workers, who had been Demo-.
Gratis. but who labored to have Gen. Grant
nominated for President, and he has been I'M
ceasing in his efforts and lavish OF his money
to make the election sure. He gave $2O,OO0
from his own purse to be used in aid of Grants
election. All these facts considered, it is quite
safe to rely upon what Judge Pierrcpont states
in regard to Gen. Grants views upon public
questions. He thus stated Gen. Grants posi-
ton on the subject of Negro Suffrage:
One day at his house in Washington, while he was
Secretary of War, told him that thought he would
make good Democratic candidate if he was right on
the question of negro suffrage He replied that he
had no wish Tor the Presidency; that he had now
much higher office than he had ever expected; that
General Sherman would make good President. and
that he would gladly give half that he was worth To
make Sherman, or any other fit man, the President;
that his feelings and sentiments entirely opposed
to negro SUFFRAGE but that he did not wish to be re-
strained by any pledges from the right to change his
opinion in future, if new exgencies convinced him
that he wrong; for, said he, You Will remember
that early in the war, when was in command OF the
West publicly stated that If the negroes had an IN
surrection would hold my army in check until it
was put down. But long before the war was over
should have been glad of negro insurrection. and
would have moved my army all the faster. What l
want is the Union-the whole country returned to
peace and submissive to the laws. do not like uni
versal negro suffrage but the freedmen ought to
be protected and il the only way to protect them III
their helpless condition is to give them suffrage. then
shall be in favor of letting them VOTE I want the
Union restored and to have the South come back,
obey the laws and submit good citizens and il the
future proves that they will not do il without negro
suffrage, then l would give them negro suffrage.
If General Grant acts up to this standard,
nothing in the future can be more certain, we
predict, than that before the end of the first
session of the next succeeding Congress, Gen.
Grant, or President Grant, will find himself
in much the same attitude towards the extreme
Summers and Morrlls and the
Schencks and Julians and Kelleys, inside of
Congress. and of the Phillpses and Tiltons
and Garrisons'. outside as President Johnson
has occupied for year and more. They may
not be able to impeach him, but they viii be-
devil him to his wits end, and with all his army
1T his back, he will find it quite as difficult to
make Roadway against his Radical adversaries
IS johnson has found it. And he will come TO
feel that his lease of life is most insecure for
having that extreme Radical demagogue, Col
tax, from his place to the succession shadow
ing the chair of the Presidency from the poten-
,ial and encroaching and minatory Radical lu-
ninaries behind and about the Vice President. |
It was noble Brutus who struck down great |
Caesar; but they were consI traitors or base
lssassins who poisoned or strangled or butch |
,red the several Roman tyrants who succeeded
% the absolute power which Rome's Caesars
lad fastened upon the people out of their ex-
ravagant pride of military heroes, and their
disposition to surrender to their most success
ul warriors the supremacy which no people
EVER should relinquish to their rulers. in any
went. Radical might, in its fanatical malig.
fancy, stops at nothing which lies between it
md the object of its lust. But may Heaven
vert the calamity foreshadowed.
THOSE NATURALIZATION FRAUDS. The New York
World thus exposes the rascality pracsed upon nat
lralized voters in the Pennsylvania October elections
After all the Radical hue and cry about fraudulent
papers in Philadelphia, the following
,lain facts transpre and put the whole matter on
he ground where il belongs. They show rnoreovor