The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-06-05

preparing bHiS WOBAs "uSSAOf H A0O PtO9-
titutsd his talents or not, or abused the OPP
portuuitiss afforded BY bic position, will
appear upon closer examination Of the
work before US. a-
What Grant has Been, Is, Is Not, and
Wants to Be.
There are many lhings 20 be learned from
what the Radical papers do not say in "a
vOr Of their candidate. Everything truth
gill permit and Absurdits act stamp
- ia certainly appear. But What is omitted
'is more significant than what Is uttered.
Nobody is handy enough 20
capacity for Grant. Out of
has only been bsnkrupt far "a
tanner and hard drinkSF. % y
abilities were insufhsient e sscuE MIN 8
oOpyisPs stool IN tie Office Of the PrOtho
notary of St. Lopis IN 1854.
His most sxaggstatlnZ Praisera dare rot
aver his instability 70 be less'than his OBJ
tussnsss. II politics be has always taken
up with the minds that mastered him. Dur
ing and after the Mexican war, Gen. Har-
nsy took pity on Lieut.. Grant, then the
butt Of every one's joke, and used to re-
monstraIs with him or his Wild COURSES
Al that time Grant Was q States Right
Democrat, because Harvey was, whose in
fusncs was sufficient to mould the opinions
but could not restrain the appetite of the
duOtlle young man.
When Gen. Harvey WAS finally forced to
shake him of whom he could not reform,
Gen. Dent, into whose family Grant mar
risd, persuaded him easily into Douglas
Democracy, and actually succeeded in get
ting him into a ft condition to vote for the
Little Giant in 1861, at Galena. During
the winter of 1923, when Congressman
Washburns, Of Illinois. and Rice, of Masss-
chusetts, visited Grant after the defeat at
Shiloh, and told him elf he did not then
and there sign the pledge, they would drop
him like hot potatOs," the afrighted man
was cOsrced into temporary temperance
and ad interim RepublicAnism, the last of
which continued till the close of the war.
Then, what with the influence Of President
johnson and Mr.. Seward, Grant lspsed in
to Conservatism and went his "lsvel best''
for ''my policy" This and the dsnunCia
tion he got for It from Sumner, Kelley, and
Others, ars matters of record. His recent
change iuso full blown negro suffrage
RadioaI Isft no more points 10 the political
compass to be boxed by him, and is due to
the influence s1eFtsd On him by stronger
minded associates, Thus it has always
bssn that any man willing TO assume the
guardianship of GrHUs has easily secured
his unrsasoniug acquiessnCS 10 sll political
questions. He has been = L6sDtal copyist
ever since be was rejected "Eor wani Of
capacity" as literal copyist fourteen years
ago.
Again, it has been insisted upon, We be-
Iievs, that Gen. Grant is exactly ''tbs slave
Ofbis word" We lay little stress, to be
sure, upon the repeated assertion of Radi-
cal leaders that he broke his total absti-
hence pledges made to Congressman Rice.
Pledges Of that sort are apt to be lightly
mads, and they can hardly be said to in
volvs the obligations OF contract, howsT-
sr their laCils abandonment may be eonst=u-
ed in governing our estimate Of the moral
force Of him who makes aud breaks them.
But there is one point on which both
Radicals aud Conservative agree in finding
Grant guilty Of more serious in6dslity to
his word. That Pointis his WilfuI decsp-
tion Of the President and the country in
the matter of the War Department. Ga a
Saturday he distinctly promised that he
would not give up without notice to the
President, and that on Monday be would
call on the President to confer. On Mon
day he did not cali on the President to con
fer, and be did give up the War Depart
mspt without notice. No one denies this,
just because nobody can deny it, nor can
the falsehOOd be smothersd IN silence, nor
forgotten in time.
These few things which Grants not, are
too obvious for RECITATION and almost for
statement. Though they m ust be admitted
by friends aud viii be hardly pressed by
his opponsnta. it is we'll to bear them in
miOd. at the beginning of the campaign Of
criticism on which the country is catering.
" T. World