The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-09
General Sherman md tho Indcpeudoue
Press.

Press.
The Independent press of this country HAYS
almost invariably taken the initiative in any
great movement tending to the perpetuation
and the grandeur Of the republic For moro
than quarter Of century this power has
been welded in defence of republican liberty
and in support of progressive ideas, and still
lives, while party journals by scores, have
gone to the wall and never been heard of
afterwards.
In the sensation now pervadng oil over the
Union in regard to the nomination of General
Sherman as candidate for the Presidency,
we find some curious developments. Among
the old party JOURNALISTIC republican
Eoening Journal at Albany, for example-we
find General Sherman compared to the
noblest of European warriors and statesmen;
that 'his words have diamond point" lit
might have said that his sword also has); yet
1t declines to accept him as candidate for
the Presidential chair-and nobody hardly
expected 1t would do otherwise. The metro
politan republican press seems to have been
dumfoupded at the mention of General Sher-
mans name. And well it might for, while it
has been pottering about some local affairs
which will readily settle themselves, the indie
pendent and conservative press of the country
at large have taken up the name of "Old Te-
cumseh," and sounded the tocsn that not only
echoes to the refrain Of ''Sherman's March to
the Sea, but his ''Grand March to the White
House."
Passing over the 'erratic growls" of some
wall-fowers of the political press in regard to
Sherman, we find the Richmond Wing, the
conservative organ in the State of Virginia,
declaring that Sherman's Now Orleans speech
on the Ku Klux business ''has fallen like
bombshell in the republican camp, and pro-
duced panic among Grants friends" So it
has, or why do they flutter and scatter so7
The Indianapolis Sentinel, democratic organ,
Says the declarations 9f General Sherman
nave peculiar significance" and that ''they
will be received by the people as the express
sions Of an honest and sagacious public SER
want" When democratic paper speaks of
public man not precisely identified with its
party as an 'ihonest and sagacious public
servant it is saying good deal
in behalf of his general popularity. The
New Haven Comm Palladium, republican,
thinks the democrats might do worse than
nominate General Sherman. The Palladium
is evidently going back , Grant The Men,
phis Glenn. A00l0ncIe is out for General Sher-
man for President on the platform, Universal
amnesty and universal amity." The Knox
vile (Tenn.) Press says General Sherman's
New Orleans speech (Ku Klux) sis univer-
sally commended by the moderate press"
The Wilmington IN. CO. Journal remarks that
the opinions of q man occupying the position
General Sherman does 'sare not to be lightly
passed by" and adds that without General
Sherman's cooperation President Grant will
find it difficult to carry out his schemes OF OPP
preston and usurpation."
Nearly every prominent paper in the ooun-
try has published the paragraph in his New
Orleans speech regarding the Ku Kluxes as
reproduced to-day in the HERALD. 1t has
created marked sensation everywhere, and
it will require more than "seven-league boots"
to overtake 80 truthful and remarkable q
declaration as that General Sherman lately
made about the situation in the South. The
Independent press all go for Sherman, and as
General Grant was first nominated by those
journals and was elected to the Presidential
chair with grand hurrah in 1868, so will
cold Tecumseh Sherman" be chosen for the
same chair in 1872, the friends of general
amnesty and general amity" sticking together.