The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-15
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT on GEN. SHERMAN.

From the Greenvle Is. CO. Enterprise May 10.
GENERAL SHERMAN NEXT PRESIDENT.
The NEW YORK HERALD dominates General Sher.
man for the next President, and urges with great
force that he is the proper candidate for the demo-
Gratis and the liberal republicans. The HERALD main.
tans that he IS superior to General Grant in states
manship and his equal as military man. General
Sherman lately made speech before a radical club
In New Orleans In which ne took grounds in favor
OF liberal and generous policy toward the South
and removal OF all political disabilities. Our readers
most independent and able papers on the
continent, Of vast circulation, and when
great measure, exerts widespread influence. We
should not be surprised II Its views concerning Gen.
era sherman and the Presidency strike root in the
public mind. No impartial man Will deny its Opn-
Ion OF superior enlightenment and craftsmanship OF
General sherman over General Grant. The latter IS
not respected by some OF the strongest men OF his
own party. They regard him as destitute OF those
abilities which ought to belong TO the President of
great nation. He has, unfortunately shown HIM
self the tool OF the extremists or hts party; and,
after procialming "iet us nave peace" makes new
declaration OF war against South In his Ku Klux
bill and by literally Withholding any recommends
ton OF measures of peace and cancellation. lie is
even behind his own party in magnanimity.
General Sherman has been consistent since The sur
render or the Southern armies. General Grant has
gone back to bitterness.
From the Selma lAla.) Times and Messenger,
May 10.
SO far as the candidates are concerned who are to
bear the standard OF democracy in 1879, we Of the
South nothing US regards personal preference,
and If the assembled wisdom OF the democracy see
tit to act upon the suggestion which the HERALD
has given, and General sherman accepts the noml.
nation upon democratic platform, the people OF
the South will sustain him with their votes. True,
they VIII never forget his "march to the sea" and
the utter desoation that marked his line OF march,
still they Will remember, to counerbalance IT, that
when the war over he gave TO those who
had fought ninl terms that were alike magnanimOus
TO the men OF the Confederate armies and honor
able TO himself: and even recently while his
brother, occupying the position OF United States
South, General Sherman, surrounded by radical
sycophants, and In response to repeated calls for
speech made one and, whether intended or not gave
the lie TO the statements made by senator Sherman,
Senator from OHIO. well as TO the President OF the
United States
The peculiar existing ''ude In our affairs'' VIII
brook no builrush IN the Presidential chair. We
the people against the inimical influences OF the
'fools and thieves in powers around him. He
must be both an iron mask and an iron heart,
with the Will and the ability 10 turn back
the tide that now sets strongly towards imperial
ism. But the great argument in favor of Snerman's
nomination by the democratic party Is his avaia.
bliity. We fear that since the passage OF the Ku
Klux bill ne is the only man IN the United States
test with General Grant, Generai Sherman COM
mands United States forces In the field ana the
dictator win md some diiiculty IN making MIN EN-.
poy those forces against himself; While TO set him
aside either by arrest or otherwise would be such q
transparent viiany that Sherman would be in ten
days stronger In his arrest than he was at the
head OF his armies.
From the New orleans Commercial Bulletin. May o.
We are warned by the course OF General Grant
after he became a subject OF exploitation for the
Presidency that we should not trust implicitly 10
such language, on the part OF high military officers,
that which has commended General Sherman to
the HERALD as the most available and most accepta-
bic candidate for the next Presidency. AS with
General Sherman, General Grants political associ-
atoms before the war had been democratic, and at
the close OF the war his expressed views regarding
the South were concllatory and conservative. Sent
on mission to Inquire into the condition OF
things at the South, his official report was
quite emphatic In attesting the loyal, peaceable
aud practicable disposition Of the Confederates as
General Sherman's unofficial language now Is.
Yet no sooner was Johnson discounted in
his struggle with the radical majority OF Congress
than he tGrant tacity recanted the whole tenor OF
the report. made common cause with those who
had denounced him rs an official falslfler, and gave
his adhesion 10 policy based on the theory OF an
lmplacabe "rebe elenenp' at the South which only
military coercion could efrectuay deal with. We
will not say that General Sherman Is capable Of
similar recantation and similar political cOalton.
But so distinguished precedent as the career OF
General Grant presents Is well calculated 10 suggest
repetition OF II by other general OF distinction
and IN request among Pre>dcnt-making politicians.