The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

The Chicago Times Of Monday has re-
markable article in reference to Gen. Grant,
motives in accompanying the President on his
swinging the circle trip in the summer
| oflSGG. The article is claimed to have been
written by a member of the presidential party.
We give an extract:
The trno reason OF Grants presence with the
presidential party, as well as OF his subseouen.
return TO the interests Of radlcalsm, DO found
IN that characteristic Of indifference stoidity. or
stupidity, which is prominent during hi. whole
career. Whatever his motive for Joining tn.
party may have been, he looked upon it as an ex
cellent occasion Tor Il prolonged and interrupted
drunk lie did not draW n SITTER 6reaM from
tie time The party reached Ndgera until utter Il
had landcd In Chicdgo.
At Niagara Falls he made only one appearance.
in the open air, and that in Carriage supported
by couple of friends On the way to Buffalo,
at Tonawanda, Admiral Farrasut excused Gen.
| eral Grant from making an appearance because
he was played out AT Buffalo and other pla-
ces, Secretary Seward excused Grants non.ap.
pearanoo on account of illness" The truth i.
and 1t is well known to every man who accom-
panied the excursion, that Grant was sent to
Cleveland by another train in order 70 give him
the time and opportunity 10 s05er of This
however, was not the generals pleasure. He
preferred to remain drunk and on the wsy
treIn Cleveland to Detroit, he was in Il stagger.
ing condition Of drunkenness, and only made his
way through the cars with support on each side,
ana ms sppeamnce ON the platform at stations
with the same assistance The reporters of the
New York Tribune and of the Chicago Relntbiic0p,
who were IN attendance, telegraphed to their
respective journals that Grant was in the con-
dtion described
1t is equally true, that Grant, on several occa-
sions during this trip committed himself fully
to the conversation represented by Mr.. johnson
at tho time and denounced by the radical party
AT Detroit, Secretary Seward, speaking to the
people from the balcony of the hotel, said Let
me tell tAose who are trying TO make Il distiuc-
ton between, General Grant and the president,
that nothing III this world could divide him
from the president, me from him and the pres.
ident;" and General Grant aequiesced in his Gus
tomary silence. Mr.. Seward has kept faith, and
General Grant has broken it.
At Battle Creek, Michigan, there was great
crowd and loud calls for General Grant while
Secretary Seward was expoundng the presidents
policy Tor restoring the union. "Gentlenen"
the secretary continued, with Grant by his side,
"if you OK peet to hear any thing different from
General Grant from what the president would
tell you, you are very much mistaken. The gem
eral allows me to do his speaking, and l allow
him to do my fighting, and we have neither of us
yet fought or spoken against the other The
secretary then turned to General Grant, who
bowed in acquescencc amid the cheers of the
crowd, and concluded, That is General Crant's
speech"
There is but one alternative for Grant in re-
gard to his position At that time. Either he
shared the convictions and approved the policy
Of the president, which were fundamentally the