Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-16
Grants Letter Of Acceptance.

Grants Letter OF Acceptance.
The letter of Gen. Grant, accepting
the nomination of the Chicago negro
supremacy despotism, is bringing forth
far more and severe structures of the press
than his nomination has produced Of en-
thusiasm in any part of the country.
The hurraL is not on his side, and it is
impossible to create it there. His decla-
rstion that ain times like the present it
is impossible, or at least eminently i'm
proper, to lay down policy to be ad-
hered to, right or wrong" and that "a
purely administrative officer should
always be left free to execute the will of
the people," instead of producing the
impression which he evidently intended,
is resulting in stronger suspicious that
he has designs on the public liberty.
The first and second Napoleon, Crom.
we'll and Caesar all professed profound
respect for and professed to be executing
the will of the people when they were
paving the way to empire, as Grant as an
imitator is now doing. We append the
following, from the Baltimore People s
Weekly:
We conversed not long since with one
of General Grants old messmates, and
enthusiastic admirers. If his estimate
of Grants abilities and purposes are
correct, we have been greatly mistaken.
To our suggestion that Grant owed bis
position partly to the political influence
of Wsshburn and other personal friends
from Illinois, and partly to Jealousy OF
Mcclellan on the part of the politicians
at Washington, and that he had sue
ceeded against Lee, not by military sa-
gacity, but by the mere sacrifice OF num-
bers and the exhaustion OF the Conted-
eracy; he replied that he knew Grant
we'll; that he has all the genius and ten
times the ambition of Julius Caesar; that
it was neither political influence, nor
jealousy of Mcclellan, but his own long
headed sagacity, which had raised him
to the first place in the army, from which
he had been forced to resign Under
charges; that Grant of all men knew
how and when tn wait for. or seize. op-
nortun;t;es and turn them to his own
advantage. that the Radical leaders
thonght thew were usinp Grant. but that
Grant was ns;no them: that he was too
c;rcumsneot himself 10 disclose his ulti-
mate purposes; but that, knowing HIM
as he did, he understood what was meant
by Dent and Rawlings, when they said
Tho head of the army. which mas for life,
for the sake of he;ng President onlv four
yoors. 10 that Grant was ouietly encour-
sg;ng Congress in attacks upon the Ex-
aent;ve and the Judiciarv. because all
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