Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-22
Cursed be the Soul Of Benjamin Frank
lin" Also that Of Ulysses Grant.
From the Anti-Slavery Standard
EnLNHLIN-GRANT,

From the Anti-Slavery Standard
FnLNELIN-GRAHT.
The language we used touching Frank
Inns influence on the money greed of
some of his countrymen, has called forth
criticism.
Except one melancholy attempt at
wit in the New York 1ribune-borrowed
even at that-this eruption of cant seems
to be confined to the Grant press. The
character of the General is so eminently
apostolic and evangelical, exhibiting
such rare sobriety of life; such strict
propriety of language; such devout
tastes and habits-all inspired with
heavenly. mindedness--tha his support
ers would be excussble if, in phrase and
epithet, they were almost prudish. The
exceedingly refined, ascetic, and even
sanity peculiarities of their candidate
excuse, if they do not indeed dictate,
this demure imitation of what awkward
Knickerbockers fancy to be Puritanism.
The present purpose of the party itself,
to save its money-bags in coin, even if
Judgment is turned away backward,
and Justice standeth afar of" is so ex-
actly in the line of Holy Writ that we
we're not surprised at this delicacy and
sensitiveness as toreligious phraseology.
All readers of Swift know what sort of
ideas nice men usually have. They swal-
low camel of bad actions, but strain at
a gnat of plain words. &C. could easily
have escaped" said the wretch who
picked the old pensioners pocket " but
conscientious scruples prevented my
travelling on the Sabbath"
Here is a man with princely revenue
and a more than princely title-con-
ferred on him for whst2 That he may
make the flag protect loyalty wherever it
floats. No thanks to him that it floats
in honor at New York or Boston.
His sodiership is shown when loyal
men are safe under it in Galveston and
New Orleans IL we have indeed con-
ouered Tennessee and Louisiana, then
Memphis and New Orleans are ours
Grants soldiership is proved when loyal
men walk those streets in safety. While
in half the Southern cities loyal
men hide themselves, and rebels, fully
armed, stalk defantly abroad, the head Of
our army is either no soldier or he is the
willing tool of traitors. Imagine Well
lington smoking at TattersaHs, or any
other horse market, while Ireland was in
such condition as the South is to day
He never earned his Iron Duke" by
any such effeminacy. While Durant
quits New Orleans because its streets are
not safe for Union meanwhile riot rules
Memphis and blood flows at New Orleans
while Union men, all over the South,
hide themselves from rebels - Grant
flaunts his undeserved title in the face oil
a disgraced nation, and flches his uu.
earned salary from an impoverished
people.
But johnson won't let him do hi
duty" Then do not let him take titl'
and pay for a duty be is not allowed L
discharge. But the excuse is sheer false
hood. IL Grant had done, at the time o
the New Orleans riot, what Fremont o.
Butler would have done-gone to New
Orleans aud begun TO do his duty, John
son would not have dared 10 cripple hin
with restrictions Had he done so, AM
, Grant had returned to say to Congress
and the country, Union men were sho
down in New Orleans because the Whit
House would not let me do my duty,
/ Johnson would have ceased to be Presi
, dent in thirty days The same is true {
Memphis and Texas. When throug
Grants hands passed the report tbs
J Texas could be ruled only by marti'
3 law. and il was not instantly afte
, nut under martial Law, Grant wrol
no soldier" or traitor tool on b
b own record. We speak in earnest, f
e there Is not q more disgraceful blot 0
n our record-and that is q daring stat
II ment-than the nations cruel desertio
Of Union men al the South For n
Grant Is the front sinner. BE. more lhs
y any other man, could have prevented
y OF him Il is more emphatically true tbs