The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-30
JOHNSON. ON GRANT.
Plain Talk from the En-PresIdent About
the President.

A correspondent OF the Cincinnati CONNER
cial has visited ex-President Johnson at his
home in Greenville, Tenn, and elected from
him the following very candid remarks con-
cerning General Grant:
The intelligent men of the party don't know
what to do with Grant. 1t would crafty them
much If he would resign, but he wont. So far
from resignlng, he's working and intriguing
for second term. He will never get it. He
is no more fit for President than goose.
He has rot 10 abIllty-nothing but little low
cunning. His cunning Is OF poor sort; 1t Is
mean cunning. He never had an original idea
in his life. He is an Insignificant little fellow,
O bundle OF personal piques, petty spltes and
prejudice. Heris rs selfish as the days are
long. He used the highest office in the gin Of
the people to advance his private ends and
those Of his family. and intrigue Tor second
term, He knows little something about
horses, but has not brains enough to make a
frst-class horse jockey If turned out to .the
business, although that Is about oil he is ut
for. If we are 10 have horse Jockey for the
highest Office in the land, we ought to nave
good one. ,
Grants coming to the surface Is the result OIL
an accident; nay, it Is an accident oil an acel-
Foundation Of the world to the present, and
YOU will not find case like hls-a man who
rose solely by the power of accident. In the
boiling cauldron of war. the scum rises To the
ton. In the bubbllng OF he came up from the
bottom, and run of, as scum always Will, or
we should never have heard of him. BY o
series of accidents he rose to the command, OF
the army. He was the creature OIL peculiar
combination circumstances. =,
He rose 10 the top In the general u tnrmon IN
and throwing up The rebellion would have
been suppressed without him. He was an
incident 10 the struggle-likc bag
gage-wagon, for example. A baggage-Wagon
had part to perform, bnt without lhe
war sentiment and patriotism IN the Nortn,
1t could have done nothing. Neither couid
Grant Everything was furnished him thaI
lie wanted His armies largely outnumoered
the rebels Every engine OF war was placed
while he was in command. II anybody else
had been in command at the time. 1t would
have been the same, although the result Wollld
most likely have been brought about with less
loss of lifo.s uieS Wilderness. campaign n-Uaa =
perect massacre His road was paved With
Skulls md washed with blood. His conducc in
regard to the exchange OF prisoners WIS mex
crisable. In his correspondence on the sub
iect, lie let one sentence drop which Illustrates
his character. a roy OF lignt passing through
creyicc will often light Up whole room.
So it Is with the character OF man..
We frequently get cleaf insight lilo us
heart, as it were, BY single sentence that he
may write or speak. He IS utterly remorse-
less. Objecllng to exchanging prisoners WIN
the rebels because our men In their hands were
weak and cmaciated, while the rebel prison.
ers were strong and able to 80 right into lhe
army and fight us. r..,
Grant, sir, is u small man; he is little every
Way YOU take him. He is O bundle OF small,
contemplate prejudices. He does not rise to
the dignity of o man. He lacks courage as
we'll as discrimination. He thinks he Is making
tools OF certain politicians. when, in truth,
they are making tool OF him. But ne ooes
not know 1t; he is to be pitled.
Before l would 60 into Grants Cabinet,
either In 1872 ur any other time, would get
me q situution as assistant hog-drover. or, as
an old man in the country used to say, would
tie rope around my neck and then around
tree, and walk of.