Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-13

ceived whoever has trusted him. ii,
has been false to the Republican party
false to the South, false to the freedmen
false even to the Democrats, and II
would be strange indeed If he had beer
anything but false to Gen, Grant.
From the Philadelphia Press.
General Grant is man who confessed.
ly says little. Every time he has spoken
1T has been only when forced to do so by
no common concurrence ofevents. The
gauntlet which he filings down so boldly
In the concluding paragraph, ~ cannot
| but regard the whole matter as an at
tempt to involve me i'm the resistance to
law and thus destroy my character
before the country" possesses a start
ling significance when viewed in con-
trast with his habitual and constitutions
al reticense. Without question, here, as
on every other occasion, he has left un-
said the bulk of what he knows. The
humiliating detail of the dark scheme
to which Andrew Johnson, President Of
the United States, to our lasting shame
and dishonor, be IL said-has lent him
self to kill off the really dangerous can
didate for the next campaign, are sup
pressed. Propriety and regard for tile
national reputation forbid the publica-
tion of what Is the disgraceful truth.
Grant is not the man to complain or to
become unreasonably alarmed In fact,
he has never spoken for himself, except
when 1t was necessary to vindicate the
credit and honor of the nation. Even
after the splendid assertion of Donel-
son and Shiloh he suffered i'm silence
from defamatory aspersions of the most
unjust and offensive nature. It Is some
thing more than personal grievance
which has called forth the terrible in
dictment of the letter of the Sd instant.
From the New York Tribune.
We do not see how Gen. Grant could
have taken any other course. If he
really made the promise the President
alleges, then he must be a fool or a
knave, for his friends were making his
canvass upon the express understanding
that in this Tenure of-Office law, as in
all other laws, he would obey Congress.
We do not think there Is n well inform
ed bricklayer in New-YorlS who does not
take this view. For the President to
suppose that Grant could follow any
other path is to us incomprehensible
We are no champion of
Gen. Grant. We do not approve of
many things he has done. We think
he has allowed his amiability and de-
sire for quiet to place him too often in n
questionable position, and thus to injure
JllS ChuSc. III ullS litSJ DuSlDesS, HOW
ever, he has shown qualities that add to
his great fame, and justify the confidence
of loyal men. 1t will, of course, bring
upon him the howls and dimprecations of
the Rebel and Coperhead, especially
when incited and suggested by the Pres
ident. Mr.. Johnson has done many
things to greve the heart of the nation.
His last little game is the most humilia-
ting and unenviable of all.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
This is the sum of the whole matter.
Johnson did not dare to come into direct
collision with Congress, and in u spirit
of low cunning he sought to put Grant
in position to do the fghting-to vio-
late the law. Defeated in this, he assail-
ed, through the press, the character of
the General. Next he sought to induce
Grant to disobey the orders of the Sec
l'etary of War, without himself taking
the responsibility ofcountermanding the
authority of the latter. The talk of the
President about the Constitution was
sharply all aptly replied to by General
Grant, when he said that the acts of
Congress were isw to him, Constitution
or not, until overrrlcd by competent au-
thority. In this there is contained u
piece of advice which the President
would do well to heed.