The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-21
General Grants Policy.

General Grants Policy.
A Richmond correspondent Of the New
York Herald, under date Of September
10th, makes the following statement OF the
policy General GRANT proposes to pursue II
he is elected President
"To-day I had conversation with an
influential gentleman here, who mas nsa
intimate and frequent intercourse Win
General Grant and his family. tie says
that Grant, IL elected President, whicn nc
considers certain, will be opposed 70 9n.
versal or negro suffrage as 1nln'ica m W
the material interests of the country. ina'
with regard to the States, Grant VIII DC
on;ded Nv iudicial decision as lar as SUI
s,aoe 10 CONCERNED. and that if the supreme
Court decides in favor of the States reguia-
t;no their own suffrage he will act accord
;ngIv On one particular my informant
declared Grant would be positive, and that
wos that Union men should be protected in
the South. That because they were Union
men they should not be outraged and pro-
scribed. He said Grant would be conseTqa-
tive in his administration, and that ne
would effectually check the excuses and
corruption of the Radical party. AS for the
idea Of converting the Republic into an
Empire he entirely secuted it, and SAID
that no man more than Grant had an I'M
plicit confidence in the wisdom and SOUL
loving freedom of the American people,
whose liberty he has determined to protect
and whose interests he would advance.
The negroes he would see justly and fairly
dealt with under the Constitution and laws
of the country"
Upon what authority this statement Is
made we might perhaps guess. If true' II
would probably be more damaging to the
Generals prospects at the South than atthe
North. 1t looks, however, like an attempt
so often made by politicians to ride both
sides of the sapling. The kind word to the
whites and the desire for their domination
in the South is well enough for them. But
the compensation to northern prejudices BY
way of atoning for this liberality is in the
declaration that Union men should be pro-
tected-a point on which General GRANT
would be positive" "They should not be
outraged and prescribed"
This phraseology is well adapted to the
exigency. 1t may mean good deal, ana
may mean nothing. Are negroes the Union
men, And is g refusal to put them into
Office to be considered prescription and out
rage? Are Union men outraged? If they
are not, why speak of the necessity of their
protection /? This is but Radical slang for
keeping up a black guard excitement-an
excitement of degrading nature, based
entirely on falsehood. 1t is good foil for
the General, however.
The important point in this communica-
ton is that "General GRANT aoiu be opposed
"to universal negro suffrage as inimica' to
"the material interests Of the country"
That is plain and positive-incapable OF
being explained away. These are words to
which it would be Of great Importance to
have General GRANTS name signed by him
self. It would be alike instructive TO white
and black.
We do not believe this opinion will injure
the General at the North. The Radicals
have no love for the negro, and are entirely
willing to see him excluded from participa-
ton in Government after they have used
him as far as they can. So General GRANT
or the South may proceed against him as
they like. Radicals, after the election, will
desire to see the country prosper. They
want revenue, if for no other purpose, at
least for phtnder, and as they know reve-
nue. is not much to be expected from Sec
tions where the negro rules they will make
no objection to his exclusion from the right
to vote or hold Office. Already they oppose
negro suffrage at the North, and when the
demands for revenue suggest the necessity
of putting the South under white mems
rule, that its prosperity may be restored
and the Federal revenue increased, they
will make no objection to throwing the
negro overheard.
So the negro must learn in time that the
southern man, his late master, has told him
the truth, and been his best friend.