The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-22
LIS General G ant a Radical or a Con-
serYatiVe3

servative3
A RECENT INTERVIEW between General Butler
and newspaper reporter closed with the follow
ing interrogatory and answer
"Reporter-Well, General, should like to
ask you one more question. The conservative
year voted against the Republican ticket In
this State and elsewhere. are now going ior
elected he will eschew radicalism and make his
administration strictly conservative. what Is
"General Butler (after long and profound
no Information"
The subject here referred to is one about
which no person is authorized to pronounce
an authoritative opinion. The habitual reti-
Oence of General Grant forbids the idea that
he has promised either "rad calls" or "conser-
vatives" that he will blindly follow in their
footsteps, and he is too sagacious and inde-
pendent man to commit himself to any fac
tion or wing of the great party which he is
leading on to victory. All that was important
and essential he told the whole people. He
accepted the Republican nomination. He in
dorsed the resolution Of the Chicago Conven-
ton. And at the same time he declared that
he would remain untrammelled in regard to
future issues 80 that he could act freely
and wisely as they arose, and carry out as
fully as possible the wishes of the American
people. He does not aim to enforce an
obnoxious policy of any kind upon
an unwilling constituency. The nation
has suffered too much from Buchauan's
attempt to en- orce his Lecompton policy,
and from Johnson's efforts to secure the tri-
nmph Of his reconstruction policy, to desire
that any future President should prostitute
the powers of the first Office of the Government
to the unholy purpose of defeating the wishes
Of majority Of Anne rican citizens. At the
same time, General CIR ant is a Republican, and
1t will be to him pleasure, as well as duty,
to secure the triumph of Republican princi-
pies as they are popularity understood by the
mass of his supporters. In the present aspect
Of American politics there is no cause for divi-
sion among members of the Republican party,
and it is idle, if not impossible, to attempt to
classify them as conservatives" or "radi-
GALS" The developments at the Tammany
Hall Convention and subsequent to the nomi-
nation Of Seymour and Blair have been sufi-
cient to satisfy every patriot that the triumph
of the Democratic ticket in the coming Presi-
Dental election would exalt and enthrone
the Rebellion as etfectually as if the Rebel
armies had captured Washington during the
war, and dictated the terms OF peace to de-
feated North from the portals of the White
House. Under such circumstances loyal men
rally around loyal standard with as much
enthusiasm and unanimity as they evinced
during the dark days when the forces of the
enemy were striving to destroy the National
Government with bullets, instead of the Demo
cratic ballots which are their present weapons.
And when these Vaccinations are thwarted, as
they doubtless will be, by the election of Gran
and Colfax, there will remain no serious differ
ence among Republicans. 1t will be the duty
of the new President to enforce all the laws of
he United States in all portions OF the Union.
Radicals can ask for nothing more, oonserva-
tives will be content with nothing less and
General Grant will discharge this duty with
answering fidelity. The whole subject is dis
posed of in the single sentence:-"LET US HAVE
PaAcB"--a peace based on the terms of dust
ment dictated by the Republican party-a
peace that will protect every honest citizen,
and thwart forever the efforts of batiied con-
spiratOrs to foment a new Rebellion.