The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-14
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT.

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the honors due to the high office he
holds. While there is but little in
the to xcltepopulare enthusiasm
there Is a certain amount of respect
due to the position. and the Presi.
dent will find the Democratic oppo-
sltlon on this coast ready to receive
him with a very different kind OF
courtesy from that which came from
the Radical opposition when Presi-
dent Johnson made his famous
"swing around the circle" The
contrast between the two receptions
Is not likely to be complimentary to
the bowling Radical mobs that well
coined Johnson, nor to that intense
intolerance in the higher political
circles which sanctioned by silence
where it did not openly applaud that
shameless series of Outrages, whose
very remembrance is enough to Grim
son the American cheek.
If Gen. Grants actually possessed
of that amount of patriotism which
those he has placed in Office would
have the American people believe,
1t Is to be regretted that instead of
coming Westward he has not turned
his steps toward the South. Con-
gress has conferred some very extra
ordinary powers upon him on the
preteXt of a hostile Southern society.
Not satisfied with wasting two-thirds
Of the late session with fraudulent
statistics. and meretricious rhetoric
Il Il vain attempt to justify the con-
ferrln@ of the same powers upon an
American President that brought
ruin to France in the person of the
Emperor Napoleon. it continues to
hold a permanent session in the
shape of a so-called Investigation
Committee. whose real business is
10 hunt up and invent matter for
campaign pamphlets next Summer.
It's ostensible business is to inyesti-
gate Southern outrages, and report
on the actual condition OF society in
the South. Grants use of the die
t%atorial powers conferred bv the ku
hluX bill viii be largely influenced
by the color OF that report. Would
1t not have been better for the Presi-
dent to have gone into that section
and witnessed with his own eyes.
and heard with his own ears. rather
than through the iEstrumentality of
Il stocked committee: Would not
this information have been more re-
liable than that obtained through
uncertain politicians?
Such a visit would not have
been entirely new to him. Four
years ago when President john
son desired to I've informed of
the true condition of the South,
he sent Gen. Grant through that re-
giOn to ascertain the facts and re-
port. Although the South was then
but lust emerging from the disasters
and bitterness Of the war, Gen.
Grant found no such revolutionary
spirit existing then as his followers
profess to believe exists now. His
report was Il complete vindication of
the Southern people from the SLAM
derOus charges which extreme party
leaders were constantly disseminate
Gen. Grant reported that tran
guilty and good order prevailed
the Ohio to the Rio Grande.
and that an earnest disposition Uni
versally prevailed to accept the fate
a with the best grace possible.
aud q desire to recuperate their
broken fortunes in the security OF
peace and order. Ii Gen. Grant
old the truth then, there was no
justification for those rigorous re-
construction measures which Con-
5ress soon after adopted, If the
We're told now. it would be!