The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
Grants Broken WGrd ;e the Pres.


Grants Broken Nerd ;c :lle Pres
iGGnt
The correspondent OF the World, who
has recently had several interviews with
the president, says that Mr.. Johnson, See
retary McCulloch and Welles, and post
master general Randall, are ready to testi-
fy to the following allegations:
Ffrst-That General Grant himself ac-
knowledged in their united presence, the
day after he quilted the war department,
that he had promised on the previous
Saturday either to retain the Office or to
tender his resignation in time to enable
president to appoint his successor.
SecoBd-That General Grant had ad-
mitted that he had assured the president
| Saturday that he would see him on Mon
day and fulfill the aforesaid promise.
ghfrd-That Grant tried to excuse
himself for the non-fulfllment of these
obligations by saying that he had been
looking over the law that he was very
much engaged with General Sherman and
many little matters
I'ourth-That the president instantly
reminded Grant that the law had been
sufficiently discussed between them on
Saturday when General Grant made his
promise; and
FVih-That Grants other excuses were
much confused and had in them no intel
lisibi!ity
General Grant is in fact described as
having, after these essays on Tuesday, the
14th, to explain away his tergiversation,
retired from the apartment where Mr.
johnson aud his ministers were sitting,
in an embarrassed aud undignfed man
Eer, which revealed mis- keen appreciation
Of the strait in which he had put himself.
1t is with good deal of reluctance that
your correspondent enforces the power Of
all this evidence by adding that one cab;-
net officer is reported to have branded the
general as a liar and sneak.
Your correspondent takes it that the
above is a perfectly impregnablo showing
of the first evasion, to use mild term, By
General Grant. But there is now equally
impregnable evidence to show that the
general of the union armies has since been
guilty of another evasion. have said in
previons despatch, by official authority,
that Lieutenant General Sherman and
General Grant subsequently called upon
President johnson and promised that they
would Jointly go to Stanton and request
him to resign.
They were to make this request last
Monday, but, after that call on the presi-
dent Gen. Sherman wrote a letter to the
president advising HIM that as General
Graut had previously agreed to so to
Richmond on Monday, and as he (Sher-
man had also agreed to go to Annapolis.
the visit to Stanton would be deferred until
their return. General Sherman reiterated
in this letter that this was General Grants
owa proposition, that the general would
advise Stanton to resign for the good OF
the service and Of the country" that If the
advice should be Intellectual some u!terior
measures might have to be resorted to-
and concluded by saying that at this time
there happily existed no necessity for pre-
cipitation. General Grant was also to
have seen the president at once after his
return from Richmond but notwithstand-
ing all these promises. and the fact that
he reached Washington last Thurs day, he
has not seen the president, nor is there
anything to prove that he has given Mr..
Stanton the advice alluded to. He ap-
pears to have stayed away from both par
ties, aud there is excellent reason to sup
pose at last that the general Of the armies,
FAR more ductile in the hands Of politicians
than it used to be thought such military
bulldog could be, has himself accepted ad-
vice from the oycrbearing member from
Illinois, who boasts of being the generals
keeper. and that he now tarries until con-
gress has decided upon the new reconstruc-
ton bill before venturing another step in
any direction.
Sooth to say, Cen Grant does not dare
to open his mouth upon any subject, and
the authorized denials that have been or
may be made to the statements in regard
to his turpitude in this affair may be
taken for absolutely naught, except what
Washburne's snaopish phrases can be val
ued at.
A this, Of which there is no authorltive
contradiction shows Gen. Grant up in no
enviablc light. That he broke faith with
the president there can no longer be a
reasonable doubt. Alas that such man
should surrender himself to lot of gam
bling, conscicnceess politicians, such as
are the radical leaders in congress.
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