The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-08-03
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
Opinions of Gen. Sherman
The Prospect.

The Prospect.
From tho New York Herald of July 2l. +,
Reporter-Do you think it policy
to elect Grant again?
Gen. sherman-Of course 1 do
Why not? He knows the ropes now
he has become acquainted with the
duties-acquainted with thousands
of public men, and ten thousand
good-for-nothing White House bum
mers, who would do nothing but
harass a new President for the first
year. He has got just where he can
tell q good man at sight. Humbug
men always get the best credentials;
every Congressman signs their rec
ommendation at sight, and many OF
them deceivea a new President. These
party frauds are now pretty much
played out, and Grant is enabled to
deal squarely with true men. Expe-
rienee and acquaintance is the stock
in trade of a good President.
Reporter-Who will win in '72?
/ Gen. Sherman--(E Enthusiastically
There is no question in my mind.
III bet on Grant against the field
two to onel '
Reporter-Who will run against
him? @
| Gen. S.-There won't anybody
run; but not being a politician, 1
can't guess for a moment who will
be nominated. at a.af as
These are the latest views of Gen
/ eral Sherman on the Presidential
question. They are furnished by a
: writer to the Commercial Adverti-
ser, whO"knew the Geneial in Mem
phis in the war time,P and who was
lucky enough to catch him on the
wing the other day at Saratoga
Springs. En- pGssaiat, We are glad
| to hear that the General has not been
killing as many 'sIpjuns' out West
as we had supposed; for, referring to
the army, he says, "the papers kill
more Iniuns than we do" and that
elf we killed half as many Injuns
as the Herald does, we'd he short Of
Injuns!" But it is on the main ques-
tion-the next Presidency = that
IGen. Sherman's views are most to
the point and the purpose.
Some time ago, when the erratie
philosopher of the Trombone was
elected President of the anti-Murphy
/ Republican Central Committee Of
this city, he made a speech in favor
Iof Gen. Grant for 1872, and mainly
upon the ground that with all his
strong, practical common sense, Gen,
Grant, from his experience in all the
| Iins and outs of the Presidential Of
| fee, would be much better qualified
| to fill it in 1872 than he was in '68,
Gen. Sherman, more emphatically
and pungently, because he is in earn
est, expresses this opinion. What a
voIumeo matter is there in his sim.
pie words upon this point:-"He
CGen. G.) knows the ropes n0w-he
has become acquainted with the du-
ties-acquainted with thousands ot
public men and ten thousand good
| for-nothing White House bummers
who would do nothing but harass q
new President the first year. He has
got where he can tell good man by
sight" These are the views of an
honest soldier, the right-hand man Of
Gen. Grant in the war, from Shiloh
to Appomattox Court House, and
Sherman clinches his opinion in the
emphatic Western style by the dec
laration, "I'I bet on Grant against
the feld-two to onev
It appears, too, that since his wide
circuit of travel and observations
from New Orleans, through LOuisi'
ana, Arkansas and Texas, to the Co,
manche Reservation, and thence
lnorthwardly to Missouri, and thence
eastwardly to Saratoga, Gen. Sher'
man has become convinced that the
Ku.klux bill "is good bilI;" thai
"it has already stopped a good many
coutrages;" and that Gin the simple
fact that the President has power tc
send troops into any State to quelI
disturbances, is enough in itself tC
frighten the disturbers of the public
peace" He thinks, moreover, that
what Mr.. John @. Adams says of this
Ku-klux bill, as a bill of despotism,
is sail stuff" and "humbug," for that
the bill sis simply a law making il
possible to arrest and disperse unIaw.
| full gangs of rascals, black and white
in any of the Southern States, to i'm.
prison them and try to punish them;'
that "Grant don't have any negro
or German or Irish policy" that his
policy sis to protect all citizens, re.
main at peace, ecOnomize and try to
pay the debt"
Such are General Sherman's ideas
about Gen. Grant, his administra
ton, his claims, and his prospects
for another term; and in few words
he covers all the ground of Senator
Sherman's exhaustive opening cam
paign speech in Ohio. We thought,
from the very decisive tone of Gen.
Sherman's letter to the Herald from
the Comanche Reservation, declin.
ing to be candidate of any party,
on any terms, for the Presidency,
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