Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-04
General sherman-A Talk on Politics
Saratoga duly Q0) Correspondence OF the New
York Cnmmercial AdYertianr.

York Commercial Advertiser.
GENERAL SHERMAN, all snnburnt aud
dusty, and fresh from the plains, got in un.
announced on the late train to night y
This morning met the General early,
and strolled down TO Congress Spring, and
then around the park He was vivacious
and sparkling as Hathorn water, aud
walked and talked like boy.
"Been killing good many Iniuns out
West, GeneralY ~ asked.
"No; the papers kill more Injuns than
we do. Why, if we killed half as many
. Injupsas the Herdld does, we'd be short
of Injunsp
az see Parker has resigned ~
Eyes we've had so many dishonest In
dian Commissioners that Congress resolved
to stop the frauds, and they corked up the
Indian Bureau 80 tight that poor Parker
had nothing to do but now and then sign
his name, and frank envelopes for the de.
partment.p
"They say he is rich ?"
"Not bit of it," said the General, in
dignantly. "Parker has never made one
cent out of his office. His record Is pure
as snow" 80
"Your friends were little disappointed
when you refused to have your name used
Presidentially," remarked.
I" No, not my friends. They want me to
stay where am. General of the Army
for life is better than President for four
years. Grant regrets that he ever left the
army now, and so do l, except that he has
done good work as President"
Do you think it policy to elect Grant
again ?"
"Of course l do Why notP He knows
the ropes now he has become acquainted
with the dulies-acquainte with thou
sands of public men, and ten thousand
good-for.nothing White House bummers
who would do nothing but harrass new
President for the first year. He has just
got where he can tell "a good mGp at sight,
Humbug men always get the best creden-
tials; every Congressman signs their re-
commentator at sight, and many OF them
deceive a new President. These party
frauds are now pretty much played out,
and Grant is enabled to deal squarely with
true men. Experience and acquaintance
is the stock in trade of good Presi
dent"
"Who will win in 1872"
"There is no question in my mind" said
the General, enthusiastically. "Pll bet on
Grant against the field-twO to one"
Who will run against himP"
"There won't any body run; but, not
being politician, can't guess for mo
ment who will be nominated"
Hancock"
We'll, he may be tempted to run. Han
cock, you know, dislikes Grant personally,
and it would be an immense triumph for
him to get where he could rank him.
Grant never showed any dislike to Han
cock. He went more than half way to
conciliate him a year ago; but there is a
clique in Washington, a social clique,
which manipulates Hancock and keeps up
the feud Women have more to do with
it than men,"
What do you think of the Ku-Klux
bill ~
Good bill, siri 1t has already stopped
a good many outrsges. The fact that the
President has power to send troops into
any State to quell disturbances, in itself,
is enough to frighten the disturbers of the
public peace"
"But John Quincy Adams says the bill
is an absolute surrender of the principle OF
free government-placing in the Presi-
dents hands the power, through that and
the Election bill, to raise himself to the
empire. "
"All stuff How ridiculous to talk
about man raising himself to the en-
pire' in this countryl Such man, after
declaring for the empire, might hold reg
iment of soldiers in the White House yard
for just one day, and then the people would
put him in the Potomac River. Why,
they shut up Napoleon at Strasbourg,
and ducked him in the at Boulorne. for
Just such nonsense"
"But in so he did ride to the top after
allr
eyes, but France was not composed OF
States-sovereign States, as far as each
State controlling its own troops-and
every Governor, Democrat and Republi
can, watching jealously his own State
militia. We are not France. Let some
crazy President declare himself Emperor
and intrench himself in the White House
yard with the whole regular army-about
$4,000 fighting men-around him, and how
long would 1t take Governors Hoffman
Jcwett, Randolph, Geary, and Claflin anC
the rest TO surround and capture thu
whole concernP No, sir" said the Gen
eral, Indignantly; when President de
clares Imperialism, every Governor will
have TO be in the mess, too, and when tina
shall be the case, the country will be to,
rotten to be worth preserving"
adams calls the KuKlux bill Grant
negro policy" remarked,
"All humbug again 1t is simply Law
making it possible to arrest and dispers
unlawful gangs of rascals, black o
white, in any of the Southern States-t
imprison them, and try and punish then
Grant don't have any negro, nor German
nor Irish policy. His policy is to proteC
all citizens; remain at peace, economic
and try and pay the debt. All this stu
and talk about Imperialism in America
and Adams ought to have too IN uch goo
sense to talk such foolishness."
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