Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-02
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SIBERIAN At SARATOGA.
A Talk with the General of the United
States Army.

Saratoga correspondence Of the n. Advertiser, 18th
"I see Parker has resigned
ayes we've had so many dishonest In
dian commissioners that Congress resolved
to stop the fraunds, and they corked up
the Indian bureau so tight that poor Par
ker had nothing to do but now and then
sign his name, and frank envelopes for the
department"
fThey say he is rch?"
mot bit of it, said the general indig-
nantly. Parker has never made one cent
out of his office. His records pure as snow.
"Your friends were little disappointed
when YOU refused to have your name used
presidentially,n l remarked.
mo, 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."
the ropes now-he has become acquainted
with the duties-acq uainted with thous-
ands of public men, and ten thousand good
for-nothing white house bummers, who
would do nothing but harrass new presi-
dent for the first year. He has just got
where he can tell good man at sight.
1umDuH lnen always get luS DSSt ClSuSh-
tials; every congressman signs their re-
commentator at sight, and many OF them
deceive q new president. These party
frauds are now pretty much played out,
and Grant is enabled 10 deal squarely with
true men. Experience and acquaintance
is the stock in trade of good president"
"Who will win in 1922"
"There is no question in my mind, said
the general, enthusiastically, I'm bet on
Grant against the field-two to one"
"WhO will run against him ?"
"There won't anybody run but not be-
ing politician, | can'tguess fora moment
who will be nominated"
Hancock ?'
"Well, 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 nerer 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, soc al clique, which
manipulates Hancock and keeps up the
feud. Women have more to do with it
than men,
"What do you think ofthe kukluX bill?"
"Good bill, sir! 1t has already stopped
good many outrages. The fact that the
president has power to send troops into
any state to quell disturbances, IA ITSELF is
enough to frighten the disturbeis of the
public peace"
But John Quincy Adams says the bill
lis an absolute surrender of the principles
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
imam raising himself to the empire in
- this country! Such a. man, after declaring
for the empire, might hold a regiment 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 duck
ed him in the sea at Boulogne, for just
such nonsense" -..
but in 50 he did ride to the top, after
all?" -
"Yes, but France was not composed Of
states-sOvereign states, as far as each state
controlling its own trOops-and every gov
ernor, democratic and republican, watch
ing iealously his own state militia. We
are not France. Let some crazy president
declare himself emperor, and intrencf
himselfin the white house yard with the
whole regular army--abOut Is, 900 fighting
men-around him, and how long would i
take Governors Hoffman, Jewell, Ran
dolph, Geary and Claflin and the rest, t.
surround and capture the whole concern
No, sir,n said the general Indignantly
when a president declares Importation
every governor will have to be in the mes!
too, and when that shall be the case, thu
country will be too rotten to be worth pre-
serving"
"Do YOU remember how I managed thos
Charleston rebels when they wanted to pra.
for jeff Davis in the churches ?' asked tn
General, as we strolled along
mo. How?'
"Why, said Yes pray away-he need
itu-and d-n it, if they didn't get ma
and go away and pray for Lincoln
Been killing a good many Iniuns on
West, General Pr j asked.
mo, the papers kill more lnjuus thar
we do. Why, il we killed half as man.
Injuns as the Herald does we'd be 'ShO1
Of Lajues"
adams calls the kulslux bill Grant
negro policy" l remarked.
'All humbug again! 1t is simply a lay
making il impossible 10 arrest and dis
perse unlawful gangs of rasCas, black G
white in any of the Southern States-t
imprison them, and try AMI punish them
Grant don't have any negro, nor GeI
man, nor Irish policy. His policy is 3
protect all either remain at peace
economic and try and pay the debt. AL
this stuff and talk about imperialism il
America is u libel on the good sense of tn
people, and Adams ought to have too muc
good euse TO talk such foolishness."
We how brought up at Congress hal
and the General went into an early breal
fast lie was surrounded by a eharmin
family Of children, and looked the LictuI
of q & ID, quiet, honest sensible either
as he -. Always radical, but pretty SUI
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