Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-27
SHERMAN AT SARATOGA.
A Talk With the General of the United
States Army.

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ker had nothing to do but now and then
sign his name, and frank envelopes for the
department. )" '"- ~
"They say he is rich?p
mot bit of it, said the general indig-
| nantly. Parker has never made one cent
| outOf his office. His records pure as snow.
| Your friends were little disappointed
when you refused to have your name used
presidentially,n [ remarked.
"No, 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 /, except that he has
done good work as president"
! ''Do you think it policy to elect Grant
again 2"
0"Of course 1 do. Whynot? He knows
the ropes now-he has become acquainted
with the duties-acquainted 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 ut sight.
Humbug men always get the best creden-
ltials; every congressman signs their re-
con1mendation 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 a good president"
"Who will win in 1922"
There is no question III my mind, " said
the general, enthusiastically, "Ill bet on
Grant against the field-twO to one"
WHO will run against him ?h
- There won't anybody run; but, not be-
ing a politician, can'tguess fora moment
who will be nominated:
tHancock 7" n --r r--r---as-- +
bWell, 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 ReUer showed any dislike to Han
cock. He went more than half way to
conciliate him year ago; but there is a
clique in Washington, a social clique, which
nlanipulates Hancock and keeps up the
feud. Women have more to do with it
than men, ,- v.ar 81 --
"What do you think ofthe kuklux bill?n
"Good BILL sir! 1t has already stopped
a good many eutrages. The fact that the
president has power to send troops into
any state to quell disturbances, in Itself, is
enough to frighten the disturbers of the
public peace.n
Butt ohm 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
theiieleotiop bill! % to raise himself to the
empire"
FsoFrAll stuff! How ridiculous to talk about
imam raising himself to the empire in
this country! Such man, after declaring
forthe empire, might hold a regiment of
sDIdiersiR 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 '52 he did ride to the top, after
all?"
"Yes, but France was not composed of
states-sOyereign states, as far as each state
controlling its own troops-and every gov
,ernor, democratic and republican, watch
ing jealously his own state militia. We
are not France. Let some crazy president
declare himself emperor, and intrench
himselfin the white house yard with the
whole regular army-about Is, 900 fighting
men--around him, and how long would it
take Governors Hoffman, Jewell, Ran
dolph, Geary and Clafiin and the rest, to
surround and capture the whole concern
No, sir" said the general Indignantly,
'swhen a president declares imperialism,
every governor viii have to be in the mess
too, and when that shall be the case, the
country will be too rotten to be worth pre-
serving.n
"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.
mo. How?"
"Why, said [ Yes pray away-he needs
it !,e441and dTn it, if they didn't get mad
and go away and pray for Lincoln"
'Been killing good many Injuns out
West, General ?' i asked.
Ii Tp;1,
we do Why, if We killed half as many
Inj uns as the Herald does, we'd be short
Of Iajnns :"
adams calls the kuklux bill Grants
negro policy" l remarked.
.%AIl humbug again 1t is simply law
making it impossible to arrest and dis
perse 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 Ger
man, nor Irish policy. His policy is to
protect adj citizens; remain at peace,
economize and try and pay the debt. Ali
this stuff and talk about imperialism in
America is libel on the good sense of the
people, and Adams oughtto have too much
good sense to talk such foolishness."
We now0broughU1 up at Congress hall,
and the General went into an early break
fast. He was surrounded by a charming
family OF children, and looked the picture
of a good quiet, honest, sensible citizen,
as he is. Always radical, but pretty sure
to be right, the general is a hater of hum
bugs-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
ofschildren about him were in 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
Rachel, the youngest, little toddler. He
spent most of the forenoon talking with
Mr., Larz Anderson, brother of Major An
derson, Of Cincinnati. General Sherman
left at p. m., to-day for lake George and
the White mountains 81 0 e.
The Atlanta Sun says 1.-THE true. De
mocracy-rank and file everywhere-have
no idea of abandoning their principles, or
of; mi,