The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-08-03
rrespondence Of the Commercial Adve
GEN. snERMiN Talks.
His Opinions on Parker, Grant, Han
cock, and the Ku-KIuX Billie
Backs Grant for President Against
the FIeId-BOttles Up John Quincy
Adams

: cock, and the ku-hiuX Blll-He
Backs Grant for President Against
p the FIeId-BOttles Up John Quincy
I Adams.
! CONGRESS HALL, SARATOGA, July
, l20.-General Sherman, all sunburnt
: and dusty, and fresh from the Plains,
got in unannOunced on the late train
tonight. As he came up to the Con-
, gress Hall office to register he did look
! like the hOmeliest except Gen. Spin
nerj man in America. His struggling
red beard radiated in 4 thousand di-
: rections, his soiled duster was button
ed to his neck, and his old slOuched
army hat looked too seedy for any
thing. Marching straight to the Of
flee, carrying his own caTpet-bag, he
seized = pen and scrawled, ''W. T..
Sherman, wife, and family"
"Any room sir?' he asked Of South
gate, who, with the rest in the Office,
didn't recognize the General of the
United States Army.
"GOt a fOurth-stOry rear,n replied
Southgate
"AIl right" said the General, smil-
ing and dropping his bags, when Fred.
Anderson, your humble servant, and
several others who had recognized the
General, stepped up 10 shake Hands.
"What, Gen. Sherman :" exclaimed
the clerk. "Here-here, General,
we've got n ground floor frOnt-Van-
derbilt's rOOm;" and Southgate hus-
tied up a half dozen pOrters, who be-
sieged the General with brush-brOOms
and negro pOliteness until he reached
| his room. 4
knew the General in Memphis in
war time, and, as he started for his
room, asked for a conversation with
him. "All right" said he; "we'll
have talk in the morning." Z
But before / see the General in the
morning, I'll tell one story, at the risk
of spelling forthcoming article i'm
( the September GdinrH. But Church |
has no right to keep good thing 50 |
long.
sHERMAN's STORY.
Once, while dining with the Gen
eral at little Italian woman's restau-
rant on Front street, in Memphis, in .
1864, after Gen. Neatch and Gen. 4
Chetlain-nOw our Consul at Brussels /
had told several army stories, Sher-
mans chief of staff, told the chicken
story. Said he: "While at Bowling
to death. 1t was always the same old
cOmplaint-'the soldiers have milked
our COWS, or stolen our chickens, or
busted into the smOke-house.' AL
ways the same story all through Ken
lucky and Tennessee, too. At Chat
tanOOga We We're bored to death with
these women. One morning they be-
sieged the Generals headquarters,
Narnn fa.aFn i'm 1o.If
to the most solemn posture, and adj
dressing the foremost woman, re-
marked: MADAM, the integrity of
the Republic and the sOlidity of the
Constitution must be maintained, if it
takes every chicken in Tennessee ~
This morning l met the General
early, and we strOlIed down to Con-
gress Spring, and then around the
park. He was vivacious and spark
ling as Hathorn water, and walked I,
and talked like boy. As George Al
fred Townsend said af Miles O'Reilly,
"Hhere's a splendid bOyishness" al
ways abOnt Sherman. He is always
ready with a pun, q sarcastic repartee,
or a strong thought very David
with the tongue and pen too.
"DO yOu remember how | managed
those Charleston rebels when they
wanted To pray for JEFF. Davis i'm the
churches~ asked the general, as we
strOlled along.
"NO. How?'
"Why," said /, ayes pray away !
he needs itl-and d-n il, if they
didn't get mad and go away and pray :
for Lincoln"
"Been killing n good many Injuns i,
out West, General?" l asked.
''NO; tie papers kill more Injuns
than we do. Why, if we killed half
as many Injuns as the Herald does,
we'd be short Of HljIms ~
al see Parker has resigned.n
ttYes, we have had so many dishOn- J
est Indian Commissioners that Con- S
gress resolved to stop the frauds, and !
they cOrked up the Indian Bureau so s
tight that poor Parker had nothing to {
do but now and then to sign his name,
and frank envelopes for the Depart ;
ment." ID
f"rhey say he is rich =" s
'fNot bit of it," said the General, I
Indignantly. Parker has never {
made one cent out of his Office. His /
record is as pure as snOw.n
"YOur friends were little disap-
pointed when you refused to have !
your name used Presidentially," I re-
marked. .a.# ...5 II
qNo, not my friends. They want
me to stay where / am. General of
the army for life is better than Presi-
dent for four years. Grant regrets (
that he ever left the army now, and
so DO I, except that he has done 4 /;
good work as President"
20 you think it policy to elect
Grant againw o., sa..
"Of course l do. Why not? He /:
knows the ropes now-he has become +;
acquainted with thousands of public
men, and ten thousand good-for-noth
ing White House bummers who would
do nothing but harass a new Presi-
dent 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 well played out, and
Grant is enabled to deal squarely with
trne men. Experience and aequain-
tauce is the stock i'm trade OF good
President"
"WhO will W i'm in '72?"
"Hhere is no question i'm my mind"
said the General, enthusiastically,
''I'll bet on Grant against the field
two to one.p ...-.---.fs
,'Who viii run against him ?P-
"There won't any body run, but,
not being a politician, ! can't guess
for a moment who will be nOminat-
ed.n
"Hancock?"
"Well, he may be tempted to rum
Hancock, you know, dislikes Grant
personally, and, it would be a great
Triumph for him to getwhere he could
rank him. Grant never showed any
dislike to Hancock. He went more
than half way to cOnciliate year ago; \
but there is a clique i'm WashingtOn-a
social clique-which manipulates
Hancock and keeps up that feud.-
Women nave more To do with il than
men,"
"What do you think Of the Ku-
KluX bill.
"GOOd bill, sir 1t has already stop
ped good many Outrages. The fact
that the President has power to send
troops into any State to quell disturb
ances, i'm itself, is enough to frighten
the distuTbers of the public peace"
"But John Quincy Adams says the |
bill 'is an absolute surrender of the 4
principles of free egOvernment-plac 4
in the Presidents hands the power 4
through that and the Election bill' /
to raise himself to the Empire
"All stuff! How ridiculous to talk |
about man raising himself 10 the |
Empire in this country Such a man /.
after declaring for the Empire, might 1
hold 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
ducked him in the sea ut BOulogne, I.
| for just such nonsense"
'tBut in 1852 he did ride to the top, |
after all g'i .tt-
"Yes, but France was not composed
of States s-sovereign States, rs far as
each State controlling its own troops
and every Governor, Democratic
and Republican, watching jealously
/ his own State militia. We are not
France. Let some crazy President de-