The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-02-26
The Complete Letter-W ritter.

The habit of soldier is obedience
General Grant dlsobeys. The merit OF a
soldier is his valour General Grant
proves himself Il craven. The honour OF
II soldier is his taithtulness; General Grant
practices triple treachery.
The President places this man in a posi-
ton Which he is to bold against IN adrer-
sary, and to which end his orders are OF
the strictest nature. lie makes an uncondi
tional surrender OF it to tha: adversary be-
fore it is even demanded. If a private
disregarded in so Migrant manner the
order oi' superior, he would be shot upon
his own coffin. In General Grants letter
to the President, bearing date upon the
3Oth OF January, and part OF the CORES
pondence arising from his deserlion of his
post, he gives notice that lie is going to
fight it out upon this line. A true soldier
is subordinate; he is insubordinate.-
a true soldier is respectful; General
Grant is insolent. Were the Pi resident
actuatcd BY one atom of personal orparti-
san feeling, or willing i'll any way to com
plieate ON his own part the present state of
affairs, this inferior of his in the command
of the armies of the nittd States would
be at this moment under arrest in his own
guardhousc.
General Grant had but one thing to do
obey orders. Not he, but his superior,
held the responsibility. Had he oheyed,
Mr.. Stanton must have carried his claims to
the courts; the con>titutionalit, ofthe Ten
ure of Office bill would have been decided;
the country would have been relieved OF
a tremendous imbroglio and an imminent
danger OF revolution. H,re, to man that
loved his country and forgot himself, was
q priceless occasion; circumstances, oppor-
tunities, urged him forward towards the
gap; General Grant was no Curtius: he
vas coward
In General Grants letter of the 3rd of
February, he has the iinpertincnce to an
swer the President that he entered the
Cabinet merely to connteract great prln
ciple on which the government has been
conducted from its foundation, and which
allows the President advisers a'lhering to
his declared policy. He entered the Cabi-
net, then. by a treachery: he abandoned
his place in it by more pcrfidions treachery
yet: it is only by corresponding treachery
that these letters were to be found in Ar.
Stantor's hands at all. The Republican
party are loud in their outcry against
traitors; will they promote spy to the
highest place in theirpower? Manipulated
by tricksters and politicians, selt:strippcd
of all title to veracity, General Gran: al-
pears neither soldier not a man: he has
pricked the bubble Of his own reputation !;
he goes before the people nothi"g but an
empty epaulet.
He who does nor know how to obey
does not know how to rule, is time ho'-
cured maxim; and, as it has already been
said IN an able literary journal he who re-
fuses to yield his power to the hand that
confers it, may one day refuse to yield it
to the people themselves But tor this,
we might well wish that General Grant
should in due time be president himself,
simply that he might cease to be General.
But with the sappers and miners of Chase
beneath him; with Butler, who, whatever
else may he said of him, never forgot a
friend nor forgave a foe, on his rear: with
his own hands weaving his slroud in s'rch
tissue of brow beating falsehrcd md ln
abashed infamv ga hin corresponGence un-