Middletown transcript., 1868-02-15
Fss sosason.essas cesss.peslsnss. 81. 3, 3 .

say in regard to the last Of this corres-
pondence. and II must be said that gener-
ally they 40 not hold thai. Grant has the
bet of 4, The following are specimens
Of their opinions:
5tsm he PAiladslplia POst, radical.
General Grants letter viii disappoint its
readsrs u Misa reply 70 ene of tie least
pafts Of the Presidents srgu-
ment--the charge of insubordination. The
question in which the people are espez
cially interested, is whether Mr.. johnson
u At an correct in his ssstAteineht Of Grants
position while acting as Secretary of War.
General Grant himself challenged Mr..
johnson to make good his word, when he
accused him Of many and gross misrepfe.
sentations. Mr.. johnson accepted this
challenge, and undertakes to prove that
General Grant did make certain promises,
which he afterwards violated He brings
forward his witnessesL they are five mem
bers of the cabinet they all sustain the
Presidents assertions.aGA s-Ssar4si & Rfi
We think, therefore, shat il Twill be gen
orally regretted that Grant does not make
some positive reply 10 these plain charges,
that after giving the lie, not only 70 the
President, but to the gentlemen who have
been his official companions for six months
in the Cabinet, he should coolly reply:
81 promise to notice only that portion
of your communication wherein ain
charged with insubordination. /" y y 49,
We do not like this sudden termination Of
the controversy. rs s9,of 1fa"'a t''a .e'@d
From The Nae FORK Bor,d, dsmocrpat., Il. .''
President Jphnson's last letter, is doc
ument which General Grant, reputation
can i'll afford to have passed into history.
1t has the dignity which 30 WELL beftsl
conscious superiority, and the studied der,
corum of ts manner makes the releatless
logic Of the President all the more over
whelming. u Nothing could be more con-
elusive than the reasoning by which the
President proves, from General Grants
own letters, that he acted q double and
insincere part, from the time that he ac-
cepted the War Department for the pur-
pose Of circumycnting the President, until
he consumated his purpose by frustrating
the Presidents known intentions in itN.
final surrender. Nothing could be more
neatly sarcastic than the reply to General
Grants pretense that he could not have
complied with the Presidents wish with
out violating the law. ~ know of no
statute" says the President, g that would
have been violated had you, carrying out
your promises in good faith, rendered your
resignation when you concluded not to be
made q party in any legal proceeding"
There is no escape for General Grant from
this well directed thrust. 4, ;ad gn;-, Il
Eton The Mey FORK 7S~ss, ,rspublioan. %
1t is by no means pleasant feading for
any one who would cherish respect for our
highest public officials, or proper regard
for thsldignity and responsibility of their
positions. The question at issue can
scarcely be styled question of veracity,
since it cannot be supposed that such
question could arise between two gentle
mon holding their respective positions.
Neither of them can be supposed to make
an Intentionally false statement. Their
recollections of particular conversation
are certainly quite different, and the Pres
ident is substantially sustained in his view
Of the case by the testimony of four others
who heard all that passed. is,e., i (,
From Me Baltia,ers' Sun, Of z'Aarsday last.
The correspondence between the Pres
ident and General Grant in regard to the
Grant-Stanton affair seems to have come
to q close in the additional letters published
yesterday in reference to the promise
which the President holds General Grant
had made in the conversation between them
to retain the war office, and abide any
legal proceedings that might follow the
nonconcurrence by the Senate In Mr.. STAN
toms suspension, or else to resign in time
for the President % anticipate such action.
The Presidentireplies to the various points
made in General Grants letter OF the Sd
instant, and gives the statements Of five
members of the Cabinetin regard to the
conversation at the interview between them
ON the 14th ult., bat General Grant, in
answering, confines himself to that portion
Of the Presidents Communication wherein
be is charged with insubordination. This
reply Of General Grant, received by the
President after be had transmitted to Con-
gress his own letter with the accompanying
documen.t was at once sent by the Pres
ident in an additional message to Congress,
evincing thereby in the readiness To lay
both sides before Congress, an honorable
contrast TO the haste exhibited in the
House toll get Grants letter Of the 3d be-
fore the country without awaiting the re-
ception of the Presidents answer. ~
1t is not TO be regretted that this pain
full conflict, involving an apparent ques-
tion Of veracity between the most promi-
nent official dignitarics of the country, and
forced upon the parties to it by sinister
partisan iAuences, has been brought to a
conclusion. Therejoinder which the Pres.
ident has felt constrained to make to Gen.
eral Grants letter of the Sd is q most
thorough and n,asterly analysis of the po.
sitions Of Grant, while the President't
version of the interview between himself
and General Grant is generally sustained
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