New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-21

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" investment it was); that in short time
General Buckner found it convenient to
send flag oftruce and offer to surrender on
certain conditions; that General Grant re-
piled 81 demand ar unconditional sur
render, and propose to move Immediately
on your works. And so General Buckner
and all his host did Internationally sur
render. The people will remember that
this was only one of General Grants many
victories achieved by genius, by patience,
by courage; and now that General Buckner
has turned Democratic editor and leader
in the Democratic party, we of the great
Republican party are going under the
leadership OF General Grant to try the
Donelson tactics again, and give notice to
General Buckner and his Democratic bat
teries that we propose to move Immediately
on his works. (Great cheers)
We have another objection to General
Grant upon the part of these able editorial
Democrats. They say he has mo policy
and they are so unhappy, apparently, on
this subject that they can't sleep onights.
Now beg to suggest that if General Grants
views on this point are considered with any
fairness at ALL they ought TO furnish great
cause for thankfulness. We have had
enough of presidents who talk about tiny
policy The country has been kept in CON
fusion for three years by President who
had a pet "policy.n The whole theory of
twisted in the attempts of Mr.. johnson to
force his policy on the United States. Now
in the reasonable aud natural construction
o. General Grants language on this subject
we ought to see matter of great hope and
comfort. He says, and no candid man could
wish him to say anything else: 81 have no
policy in opposition to the will of the PEG.
pie" eff l am elected President it will be
my duty and my delight to execute the will
OF the people, If our opponents soy that
because General Grant declares he has no
policy as against the will of the people he
has therefore no principles, they say what
is absurd, and what they know to be un.
true. He announces as his principles the
doctrines of the Chicago platform; he is
especially in favor of union, of liberty, and
of impartial suffrage. He believes in the
right Of the people of the United States to
govern the United States. He believes that
the people speak through their Representa-
tiYes in Congress, and that when they so
speak it is the duty of the President to
execute their will. That is the true theory
of the American government, and repeat,
therefore, that every good citizen will
applaud General Grant for the simple
and forcible manner in which he has ex.
pressed it.
There is one more matter to which wish
to allude as briefly as possible, and allude
to it because am sorry and ashamed that
our enemies should have so far forgotten
their selfrespect as to indulge in
malignant Islander of our candidate.
refer to the ridiculous and contemplate
story set afoat by the Democratic press that
General Grant is drunkard. There is no
more reason for the rumor than there would
be for the assertion that General Washing
ton was a drunkard. But the story has
been devised by party malignity, and it is
being circulated by Democratic papers.
Now if the matter is to be treat,
ed loosely we might adopt the idea of
the lamented Lincoln, who when during
the war he was told that Grant was too
fond of whisky, said with his singular mix.
ture of wit and wisdom, wish somebody
would give me a barrel of Grants whisky
would like TO send it to some OF my other
generals l think we might express the
same wish. If General Grant be drunk.
| ard, we wish such inebriety might attack
some other people. | would like to get
hold of barrel of his whisky, and have it
| bottled for distribution. / would like to
| send bottle or two to some other headquar.
tiers, and see if under its benign stimulus
little love Of republican doctrines might
| not possibly be excited. / would like to
send dozen to the editors of Camp street,
and see whether it might not inspire them
with little patriotism and a little gram
mar. In short, If whisky is likely in all
cases to prompt the exhibition of so much
genius, patriotism, courage, and prudence
as it seems to have done in the case of
| Grant, We would do well to have the tax
removed, and encourage its habitual use,
especially in this latitude,
But TESTING apart, what's the origin of
this extraordinary charge against General
| Grant, | can not tell, for so often as | have
| seen him never saw a more temperate
| looking man, a man with clearer eye or a
healthier cheek or more steady nerves.
can only account for the charge on one
theory, and think the theory philosoph.
| ical one. We are apt to measure the de
sires of other people by our own. We are
| apt to imagine in other people the same
cravings that we feel in ourselves. Now if
there be anything that Democratic editor
| is fond of it is whisky. To "vote the regu.
lar ticket and take his liquor straight is
his idea of duty; and it does not
enter into his imagination to conceive that
man can occupy position where he gets
a regular salary without spending three
tourths of that salary in drink. Iremem-
Der year ago being at General Sheridan's
/ house one evening and he showed me a
copy he had just received of very filthy
paper called the Memphis AUdtda0be, in
which there was a long article accusing
General Sheridan of being drunkard-and
| am sure Sheridan was never drunk in his
life. And l said to him at the time: 1.-THE
man that wrote that is probably drunkard
himself, and to his diseased fancy it seems
| impossible that you should have salary of
four hundred dollars month and Keep
sober. (Great laughter.)
And tell you these miserable penny-a-
liners who mahgn General Grant in this
way are people of the same style. They
can not imagine a man having fifty
dollars at time without going
| on a spree. They can not conceive of man
with such salary as General Grants re-
naming sober. / can fancy one of these
| aaadv uyritera discoursinp 0nefhp infnmrlnr.
ance of General Grant. can see the scribe
bending over his editorial table, his eyes
red with frequent intoxication; his nose
" Jolly nose the rich jewels that garnish thy tip
Were Dug from the mines in the county Of Bourbon
His hands trembling with continued dissi.
patton; one Of these men who live on free
/ lunches, and will write q halfcolumn in
praise of grogshop that will furnish them
| with free drinks. OF this sort are the ed.
itOrs who inform us that General Grants
habits are not good. And, as / said before,
not conceive of q man having considerable
income without spending the bulk Of 1t in
liquor. They are like the little boy who
said to his sister, Sissy, when / get TO be
/ President am going to swing on gate all
day n That was his idea Of life; and the
ideas of these revilers of General Grant are
said / was sorry ana ashamed that our
opponents should manufacture such Sian.
| ders. am sorry and ashamed for the
i American people, among whom such pc.
| litical tactics are allowed But no one need
be surprised. When General Andrew Jack.
son was nominated for the Presidency the
same style of calumniation was adopted.
The opposition press rang with charges
against his private life. He was murderer,
they said, a drunkard, and rake. A
i pAmDhlet was nI1blished In his own State al