New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-28
GENERAL sHERMAN's VIEWS.
Characteristic Opinions of the Great Sol
dier-His Ideas on the Presidency and
Other Matters.

Characteristic Opinions of the Great Sol
dier-His Ideas on the Presidency and
Other Matters.
A correspondent of the New York Com
nercial Adrertiser, writing from Saratoga,
gives the following report of an interview
with General Sherman:
This morning l met the General early,
and strolled down to Congress Spring, and
then around the Park. He was vivacious
and sparkling as Hathorn water. and walked
and talked like boy. As George Alfred
Townsend said of Miles O'Riley, "there's
splendid boyishness" always about Sher-
man. He is always ready with pun, a
sarcastic repartee, or strong thought-a
very David with the tongue and pen too.
do you remember how | managed those
Charleston rebels when they wanted to
pray for JEFF Davis in the churches!" asked
the General, as we strolled along.
"NO. Howl"
why said l, Yes pray away-he needs
it" and d-n it, if they didn't get mad and
go away and pray for Lincoln"
Been killing good many Injuns out
West, general ?" | asked.
'No; the papers kill more 1njuns than we
do. Why. if we killed as many Iniuns as
the Herald does, we'd be short of Injunsr ~
II see Parker has resigned ?"
''Yes; we've had so many dishonest In
dian commissioners that Congress resolved
to stop the frauds, and they corked up the
Indian Bureau so tight that poor Parker
had nothing to do but now and then sign
his name and frank envelopes for the de-
partment."
''They say he is rich"
''Not bit of it," said the general, indig-
nantly, parker has never made one cent
out of his Office. His record is pure as
snow"
"YOur friends were little disappointed
when you refused to have your name used
Presidentially," l remarked.
"No, not my friends. They want me to
stay where l 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
a good work as President"
''Do you think it policy to elect Grant
again? ?"
H'Of course 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 bummers, who would
do nothing but harrass new President for
the first year. He has just got where he
can tell good man at sight. Humbug
men always get the best credentials; every
Congressman signs their recommendation
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 President
"WhO will win in '72W
There is no question in my mind" said
the general enthusiastically. IN bet ON
Grant against the field-twO to one"
"Who will run against him ?"
There won't anybody run; but, not being
a politician, l can't guess for moment who
will be nominated"
- Hancock p
"Well. he may be tempted to run. Han
cock, you know, dislikes Grant personally,
and it would be an immense triumph tor
him to get where he could rank him. Grant
never showed aDy dislike to Hancock. He
went more than halfway to conciiate him
a year ago; but there is clique in Wash
ington, 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, sir 1t has already stopped
good many outrages The fact that the
President has power to send troops into any
State to quelI disturbances, in itself, is
enough to frighten the disturbers of the
public peace"
But John Quincy Adams says the bill is
free government-placing in the Presidents
hands the power, through that and the
election bill, to raise himself to the en-
Dire."
''All stuff How ridiculous to talk about
a man raising himself to the empire in this
country Such man, after declaring for
the empire, might hold regiment of sol
diers in the White House yard for just one
day, and then the people would put him in
[hn hry fhny lint
Napoleon at Strasburg, and ducked him in
the sea at Boulogne for just such nonsense"
But in so he did ride to the top after
ALL"
Eyes, but France was not composed of
States-sovereign States. as far as each
State controlling its own troops-and every
Governor, Democratic and Republican,
watching jeaiOusly his own State militia.
We are not France. Let some crazy Pres
ident declare himself emperor, and intrench
himself in the White House yard with the
whole regular army-about 10000 fighting
men-around him, and how long would it
take Governors Hoffman, Jewett. Randolph,
Geary, and Claflin, and the rest, to surround
and capture the whole concern! No, sir"
said the general. Indignantly; when a
President declares Imperialism, every gov
ernOr will have to be in the mess too, and
when that shall be the case, the country will
be too rotten to be worth preserving"
Adams calls the Ku Klux bill Grants
negro policy" | remarked.
''All humbug again. 1t is simply law
making it possible to arrest and disperse
unlawful gangs of rascals, black or white,
in any of the Southern States-to imprison
them, and try and punish them. Grant
don't have any negro, nor German, nor
Irish policy. HIS policy is to protect all
citizens, remain at peace, economize and try
to pay the debt. All this talk about impe- |
rialism in America is a libel on the good
sense of the people. and Adams ought to
have too much good sense to talk such fool
ishness."
We now brought up at Congress Hall, |
and the general went in to an early break |
fast. He was surrounded by charming |
family of children, and looked the picture !
of good quiet, honest sensible citizen, as |
he is. Always radical, but pretty sure to |
be right, the general is hater of humbugs-
a hater of impossible theories-a hater of |
long, empty takers. He puts more sense
into one sentence than some men will get |
into ten. The generals galaxy of children
around him were in a roar of laughter |
during breakfast-the general as funny as
the littlest baby among them. Their names
are Master G. E. Sherman, and Miss Lizzie,
Miss ELY and Miss Rachael, the youngest a
little toddler. He spent most of the forenoon
talking with Mr.. Larz Anderson, brother of
Major Anderson, of Cincinnati.
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