The weekly loyal Georgian., 1868-02-15
From the Washington I'd. C.) Chronicle
THE GRANT AND JOHNSON
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CORRESPONDENCE.

ful life with heroic acts and is singularly
retlcent the other, q loud and constant
talker, whose record is full Of contradic-
tiOns. The General isfa law abiding citi-
zen and soldier; the President political
trickster and lawless demagogue. The first
would attend to his duty and refuse to in
termeddle with tho affairs of others the
second wields his badly acquired powers to
subject all departments Of the Government
and the very nation itself to the imperious
demands of his single will.
The course pursued by Andrew johnson
since he made that lamentable exhibition
of himself on the 4th of March, 1865, has
given the lie to all his patriotic record;
has denied every principle upon which his
popularity was based has caused all those
who supported him in his days of integrity.
with q few exceptions. to fal away from
him as political leper. add gathered
around him the vultures who fed upon the
carcass Of Government they killed under
Buchanan, but which was resurrected
under Lincoln by the strong arm of
Ulysses S. Grant and his boys in blue.
We have only to recall his interviews with.
Governor Morton and the Indian delega*
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of others, to remember with what peri
he acted, and how far he placed hi
beyond the pale of honesty and truth
was not content with doing i'll; he
his i'll deeds worse by promising td
good.
lie intended to make treason odiouss
to punish traitors" and said if there were
but four thousand loyal men in any rebel
State they should reconstruct it, and the
rebels should take back seats in the work
of reconstruction. He pledged himself to
Mr. Sumner as favorable to universal man>
hood suffrage, and to Mr.. Stevens as favor
ing negro suffrage upon named conditions.
Upon every pledge he has ever made he
stands foresworn before the country.
Nor have his more private and personal
pledges been better kept than his public
ones, as thousands of disappointed men in
all parts of the country to- day bear witness
His "questions of UeraciW" have been
frequent and invariably determined
| against him when the truth was known.
| To carry out his purposes he has resorted
to measures hitherto unknown, and such as
it would have shocked any former Presi'
dent to mention. We mean the detailing
to correspondents of newspapers conversa-
tions which took place at Cabinet meetings.
| These matters have SO astounded the coun~
try that the people have long since ceased
| to express surprise at any act he might do,
however lawless or atrocious.
When he wished to avail himself OF Gen
eral Grants popularity to sustain his polit-
cal movements, he tricked him into atti
tudes where his name could be used, and
had him teegraphed all over the country as
supporter of his policy. Who does not
remember his unworthy dodge" upon the
occasion of the visit of the Johnson-Ray-
mond Committee from the Philadelphia
| Paddock Convention, when he sent or
| Grant and his Chief-of staff to come owe .
the White House These officers, sup
posing the President wished to see them on
| businessj obeyed his summons only to be
brought into the presence of a speaking
delegation, "bathed id lears" over the affect
| ing spectacle ct Philadelphia, aud have
their p$mes telegraphed all over the land
as participants in the programme. Then
| followed the revolving and reasonable
''swing around the circle" which Grant in
vain declined to attend, upon written invita-
ton aud repIys ,ssp.-,,,.
| courage up to the point OF removing Mr..
| Stanton, he sent for General Grant, ostensi.
| bly, to consult with him upon the subject :;
| but already the General of the army had
been subject to misrepresentation at the
hands of the President, and he went home
and wrote out his remonstrance against that
act, in the letter marked "PRIyATE" It was
not agreeable to have an eavesdropper taking
down his words in stenographic writing, and
then have them garbled in the daily papers,
as Sheridans New Orleans dispatch was.
The quiet General did not say great deal,
but he did not wish the little he did say to be
misrepresented. 1t was, therefore, only a
wise precaution in him to begin the process
of asking for the relations between him and
the President to be put in writing. Even
his written remonstrance against Stanton's
removal did not prevent the President from
giving out the lie that he advised said re-
moval. So, also, when asked to give his
opinion regarding Sherdan's removal, Gen.
Grant gave it freely, and to the satisfaction
of the country, in an official letter; the Pres
ident having learned by that time that Gen.
Grant meant to have his views on the subiecU
III black and white,
From the frequent recurrence of these
things, and the constant disclosure of pri-
vate letters and conversations by the Presi-
dent, contrary to all official rgcntlemanly
usage, the world at last lost all confidence
in him. The fact that the boat he floats In
has received additional rowers since is no
contradiction of this fact: 1t would have as
many or more without him in it.
The last example of his lawless al / |
tricky disposition is manifested in the cor
respondence between him and Grant upon
the Stanton reinstatement. We consider
the question of veracity as settled. AS
against man who has proven false to
every pledge he has made and every friend
he had on earth, anybody would be be-
lIeved but when man like General Grant
gives him fiat contradiction, 1T is equal to
an avalanche of proof hurting him into the
pit of everlasting lnfamy. Should those of
his time serving Cabinet who have bent
the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift
may follow fawning, choose to add to pub
ic contempt by additional servllity. it will
rot affect the judgment of the world.
Thus much upon the personal phase of
his controversy. Upon the public phase
If it we do not know how properly TO
characterize the moral Nervousness. the
'ase subleifuges, and the lawless triekery
disclosed by the Presidents own state
nents.
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