The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-02-20
GEN. Grant as q Gay DeceIver.


another interview with the President, and
writes as follows concerning the Johnson
Grant affair:
Mr. johnson referred 10 that part of
General Grants correspondence in which
the General asks him to reduce TO writing
the order given to nim verbally, TO disre-
gard any order received from Stanton, un-
less he knew II to emanate from the
Executive "Here," said he, General
Grant asserts that had given him such
a verbal order. never did anything OF
the kind. It was ne himself who first
suggested that could take such course
as TO reduce Stanton to mere clerk, and
it was this suggestion from him, and not
any verbal order from me, that first
brought the subject up in that light.
At this point the President produced a
letter from General Sherman, dated Sat
urday evening, January Is. Sherman
says that it was the intention of himself
| and Grant to call On Stanton, on the fol-
lowing Monday, TO request him, for the
god Of the country, TO resign the office of
Secretary of War but that he learns that
| Grant must go to Richmond, and he to
Annapolis, SO that they can't call on
Stanton on Monday, but will do so at
some other time, and insist that he shall
resign. Then Gen. Sherman goes on to
say that if Stanton won't resign it will
| be time enough 10 look to ''ulterior con-
siderations.
'tNow," said the President, "these 'ul-
terror considera tions' were nothing else
than the suggestions of Grant himself that
Stanton should be treated as a mere clerk,
and confined strictly to the execution Of
the duties imposed upon him by the letter
Of the law. And yet, having suggested
this and urged it upon me, he writes me
letter asking me to reduce my verbal
order to writing, 1t was his own verbal
order not mine. Yet he makes it appear
! from his letter that the first intimation
| came from me, and that he never said
word about it URi! / spoke of it. That's
a fair specimen Of the way he has been
acting all along. This whole matter is
not the first or the only time he has play
ed that part. It's only one of a great
many instances in which he has grossly
deceived me. | got a dispatch one day
from Georgia, telling me that Meade and
jenkins had been in consultation, and that
it was probable that Meade would remove
Jenkins / sent for General Grant, and
be come over. l showed him the dis
patch and told him would not like Jen-
kins to be removed until | could hear
something more about the matter. He
assured me that he would see to it that
Jenkins was not removed. | thought
this was enough but judge of my SUR
prise when the next day | learned ;hat
Jenkins ,cGS removed. 1 don't believe
Grant iEterfered at all, though he dis
tinctly promised me he would. That's
the kind of game he has been playing all
aIUlg.
GENERAL GRANT o. ''1rIrTE MANS GOV
ERSn ut"
just here a little question % veraciy
occurred to my mind, which thought it
we'll enough TO settle Il was this:
Some time in the early part of the winter
a paragraph appeared in the Commercials
Washington correspondence to the effect
that Colonel Hillyer, formerly of General
Grants staff, had told member of the
Judiciary Committee that he once was
present at a conversation between General
Grant and the President, in which the
former took strong ground in favor of a
white mans government and against ne
gro suffrage, saying that this Government
was made for white men, and none other
should have voice III it-and striking
his fist on an adjacent table to show that
he meant what he said. When this para
graph appeared il was extensively copied,
and about as extensively denied, especially
by that large class of newspapers and
''Grant men, who, having no means of
ascertaining whether it was tue CT.
false, felt all the more sure ii was false,
and denounced it as one Of "Mack's"
malicious fabrications
l called the Presidents attention to this
subject-asked him if he remembered any
such conversation with Grant, and if so
whether he remembered Grants remark
that this is white mans government
He promptly replied that he did He
couldn't repeat Grants words exactly,
but the substance of them was what | had
stated, and they were strongly against ne
gro suffrage, which, about that time. ii
was proposed 10 introduce into the District
Of Columbia Among other things Grant
said was that the regroes didn't know
enough TO vote, and that they would vote
just as their employers wanted them to. He
illustrated by saying that he had number
Of negro servants in his house, and that
TO let them vote would be simply to give
him (Grant) so many additional votes, for
they would vote just as he told them. He
was quite vehement at the time in his
denunciations of the Radical policy of ne
gro suffrage.
The above, 1 think, settles the question
of veracity as to Grant being white
mans government man. 1t is pretty well
authenticated now.