The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1868-11-13
IN GENERAL. GRANT SOUND on THE
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1 Eraielniif, "Aifer GRAFT What
The question Is, what does Grant
think &c the ncgroi There il not .
msn in this house that viii maintain fa1
a moment that before the war, before
/ lsGl. there is the slightest shreasl Of
evidence ,ha, Ulysses Grant ever had
one single iloa on tho negro, right or
wrong. You viii allow that. Then
/ the gun sounded at Sumter. Did he
wheel into line, did he right-about face
as did Shcepley, Dix and Butlcrf Ger
iainly ho did not. Then came the ques-
sions, shall VIC arm the negro Shall
we feed the negro Shall VIC recognize
the citizenship Of the negro 7 You all
know what killed Fremont, and what
cashiered Hunter, and what made the
South hate Batter and Charles Sumner
IL was the negro. Nobody ever felt
/ Grant--nobody ever found faust with
MIN. You will all s!lsw', ! an not ex-
aggerating or misstaiing. You never
heard the first lisp OF word from Gen
eraI Grant during all those years. The
great General marched right up to APP
pomattox took the extended sword of
General Lee, and sheathed it. And
every man in this audience viii allow
that up to that moment the lips of Ulys-
ses Grant never had deopped one single
word, ard his most sanguine friend has
not presumed u hint at one, or invent
one up IL 1865. Is not this sol He
went all through the war with the heav-
ems dark and the land shaking with the
thunders of fifty Enthusiastically
command to the nation to do Justice
and ii did not wrench enc word from his
lips. And he gave no notices. Chat
ham said, 81 rejnice that America resist
cd" and YOU know him by that. An
drew jackson said, "The Union, itmust
be preserved" Butler said, Contra
band" and the people of the loyal States
responded. Applause. What did
Grant say, enthusiastic idolator of
stout soldicrl | go to tho EXTREMIST
limit, and ask you to state one single
watch word uttered by him that a bull
dog might have not grc"led forth, and |
am doing him justice. know all he did,
and viii, to the extent of my ability,
lnctc out to him the lavish praises which
he deserves. But that great conflict
never wrenched from him a single word
in reference TO the negro. How does he
stand to .dayR What do we know about
him England looks up to Disracli
and says he represents this, to Gladstone
and says that he represents that, we will
trust them twenty-four hours, and if
thoy don't prove faithful, out with them.
America, in an hundrcd-fold darker
hour-two thousand million dollars in
debt, with anarchy in half of the repub-
lie, with half million fresh graves, the
most terrific CONFUSION that ever strain
ed the cordage of nationality, the great
gigantic war of ideas = looks up to a
great soldier and say what is his oPin-
ion 7 Mr.. Washburne asserts, Major
Rollins is confident, Schuyler Colfax be-
lieves, Colonel Forney supposes, Henry
Wilson does not doubt, the Evening
Post thinks, the Tribune hopes, and in
the meantime there does not man walk
this continent who is able, in this urgent
exigcncy of national affairs, to quote
one single written word that pledges the
great General to any view on this sub
ject, excepting his reply to the pomina-
ton at Chicago. That says, 81 indorse
the system of Congressional rcconstruc-
ton" Well, Judging by the year 1868,
that is failure. Congressional recon
struction II means the negro in Geor-
gia turned out of the Legislature and
the Jury box--it means every Union
man is afraid to show his head in the
public streets Of South Carolina--it
means Texas is den Of thieves
1t means practical statesnanship.-
Mark you, am fanatic, ! am dream
or, am theorist. If you want prac-
teal craftsmanship 60 up to the Senate.
That is the body that admits seven Of
ten States by bill, and when they have
got in. Georgia puts the negro under her
fect, South Carolina shoots every loyal
ist, and the frightened Daily Advertiser
turns round aHd says, "How this is to
be remedicd nobody can tell"
WHERE IS YOUR BOY AT rsIcaT