Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-07-11

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than his obstaseness. In politics he
has always taken up with the minds
that mastered his During and II.
ter The Mexican war General Harney
took pity on Lieutensnt Graut,
then the butt ofevery ones joke, and
used TO demonstrate with him on his
wild courses. AT that tine Grant
was u States-right Democrat because
Harncy was, whose influence was
sufficient to mould tho opinions, but
could not restrain the appetite, of the
ductile young man.
When General Harney was finally
forced to shake him off whom he
could not reform, General Dent, into
whose family Grant married, per.
suaded him easily into Douglas De-
mocracy, and actually succeeded in
getting him into a fit condition to
vote for the Little Giant in 1861, at
Galena. During tho winter of 1862.
1868, when Congressman Wash
burue, of Illinois, aud Rice, of Mas.
sachuetts, visited Grant after the de
feat at Shiloh, and told him "if he
did not then and there sign the
pledge. they would drop him like u
hot potato" the affrighted man was
cocrced into temporary temperance
and an at interim Republicanism, the
last of which confined until the close
Of the war. Then, what with the in.
fluence of President johnson and
Mr.. Seward, Grant lapsed into Con-
servatism aud went his "level best"
for " my policy" This and *he de-
nunciation he got for it from Sumner,
Kelly, aud others, are matters of
record. His recent change into q
full-blown negro suffrage Radical left
no more points in the political com.
pass to be boxed by him, and is due
to the influence exerted on him by
stronger minded associates. Thus
it has always been that any mau
willing to assume the guardianship
of Grant has easily secured his un.
reasoning acquiescence in all political
questions. 'lIe has been mental
copyist ever since be was rejected
for want of capacity" as a literary
copyist fourteen years ago.
Again it has never been insisted
upon, we believe, that General
Grant is exactly the slave of his
word" We lay littlo stress, to be
sure, upon the repeated assertion of
Radical leaders that he broke his TO-
al abstinence pledges made to Con.
gressman Rice. Pledges Of that sort
are apt to be lightly made, aud they
can hardly be said to involve the OBJ
legations Of a contract, however their
facile abandonment may be construed
in governing our estimate of the
moral force Of him who makes and
breaks them.
But there Is one point on which
both Radicals aud Conservatives
agree 10 finding Grant guilty Of .
more serious infidelity TO his word
That point is his willful deception Of
the President and the country 10 the
matter Of the War Department. On
. Saturday be distinctly promised
that be would not give up without
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