Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-02-05
The Times And General Grant.

The Sunday Itpaes repeated and
gloated over Washington srumor
that on a recent occasion General
Grant was beastly drunk and made a
disgracefuI public exhibition Of him
self We have the best Of authority
for saying that tlle story is an infa-
nous lie. without the remotest shad-
ow Of truth. The Times Of today de.
votes a column and half of It's ed
ItoriaI space 10 an article purporting
TO have been written by an eve wit
ness, charging that when General
Grant accompanied johnson on his
Infamous ''swing around the Circle
ne was IN a state OF intoxication.
BY giving editorial sanction to this
assertion, drawn out al nauseu1a. it IN
dorses another lie-falsehood Is too
mild term TO use In this connection.
The writer of this article accom- panied
the party from Detroit to Chicago.
and while it is true that nearly every
member drank freely, it is also true
that General Grant did not touch a
drop Of any kind of liquor. We be-
lelve he was perfectly sober through
out the trIp-we knoa0 he was at De
troit- and from there TO Chicago. To
smell the breath Of Andrew johnson
and his besotted companions would be
enough to intoxicate or sicken most
persons, but Grant stood it all like
brave soldier, intrenched behind his
Havana. The Times has the impu-
dence to say:
" At Buffalo and other places Secretary
Seward excused Grants non-appcarauce on
account of Illness The truth is, and it is
well known 70 every man who accompanied
the excursion that Grant was sent TO CIevc-
land by another train, in order to give the
time and opportunity to so5er of This how
ever, was not the Generals pleasure He
preferred to remain drunk; and on the way
from Cleveland to Detroit, he was in stag
gering condition Of drunkenness, and only
made his way through the cars with support
on each side, and his appearance on the plat
form at stations with the same assistance
The reporters of the New York Tribune and
Of the Chicago Bepgiicqa, who were in at
tendance, telegraphed to their respective
journals that Grant was in the condition
described"
Here we have a combination Of
ISLANDERS that we are able to min to
the wall. Not only were we present
at Cleveland, and know the General
was entirely sober, but we are assured
by the gentleman who was at that
time connected with the Republican,
and through whose hands all tele-
grams passed, that no such report
was ever telegraphed to that journal
The Times Is guilty of manufacturing
a SANDER which IS az groundless and
dIabolical as the author Of it is infa-
nous and the subject Of it is illustri-
Gus. This kind of copperhead war
fare IS no more than we might reason
ably expect from sheet that not on
y always denounced the war as I'M
just. and labored to make 1t a failure,
but Is now trying to secure the election
Of that undlsguised traitor, George II.
Pendleton, to the Presidency. When
papers or men have the baseness to
advocate Pendleton and Pendlctonism
nothing IS too vile and dastardly for
them to stoop to; but it IS to be re
membered that the more the Chicago
Times vilifies General Grant, the more
popular viii the General become
among all respectable men-thc Times
belonging to the class Of whom to
be dispraised is no small praise. =
Chicago Journal