The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-22
naa SION for General Grant.

The New York Herald has come oue
thoroughly for General GHASr for reelec-
ton to the Presidency for a second TERM
II is a pretty good sign of the defeat OF q
President for the second term when the
Herald comes to his aid. That paper has
PLAYED double game with every Admins
tration. For years its conductor had q
great infrlnity for the mission to Paris and
was conceited enough to believe tina! no
would get IL. He tried both oppos''on
AND support of several Administrators 70
no purpose. He thought IL the herdso
support did not get him that h,gn once
fear of its great power would put tue sue
cessive Presidents seem to have been as
little fascinated by his support as they were
intimidated by his opposition. AS the aged
editor is now, however, past the time, physi-
cally and mentally, for filing any Office, the
Herald cannot now be said to be lab0riDg
to get the French mission for him, and we
suppose is only adhering to, its long-estab-
lished habit of coquetting with every adj
ministration.
Morally, the Herdl1s support is rs objec-
tionable as is the professional services OF the
Count JOHANNES. That rare bumbug ten
dered his services as counsel for Mr.. DAVIS,
and recently he appeared as counsel for a
lady suing for alimony, and the lady en-
tered court and prayed for protection from
her counsel! General GRANT might make
a similar prayer for protection from the
Herald.
That paper plunges into the absurdity of
likening the opponents of Gen. GRANT in
the Senate to the murderers OF CESAR, and
General GRANT to CESAR himself. This
looks so like irony that one might suspect
the Herald of a covert attempt at ridicuie.
But it keeps up the game by making out
CARL ScHURz and others traitors, and eulo-
giving the expunged Missouri Senator as
the "faithful DRAKE!" "Faithful" goose,
rather. Then comes the following sem
tence, which puts the Herald in the light Of
JOBS comforters
Indeed. excepting General Cameron,
General Wilson, and one or two others, we
are not certain that General Grant has any
supporters in the Senate who are honestly
working for his success as the mainstay Of
the Republican party and the national trea-
sury."
Count JOHANNES must have written this
editorial.
If the Herald does nothing better for
General GRANT than expose his weakness
and want of support, it will aid him as
poorly as did BUTLER when bottled up at
Bermuda Hundreds.
The condition Of General GRANTS party
relations are grown quite ridiculous enough
without the ReralTs assistance. He begun
by great show of independence of Con-
gressmen, and became very much restricted
in his intercourse or confidence in his COM
munication with them. Unable to bring
the Senate to terms upon the subject of his
power over offices and appointments, he
and that body became cold friends. And
yet, though General GRANT got on his high
horse and pulled his cigar so detiantly, he
has since relapsed into the ways of parti-
sanry, throwing himself vindictively into
the arms Of the least respectable and most
llliberal and narrow-minded of Radical
politicians, as an insult to the men of real
intellect and integrity who had not bent
readily to his wishes and his prejudices.
No wonder he has lost cast in the Senate
no wonder he has lost dignity in the eyes OF
the whole Union.