The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-18


He helped to conquer that splendid do.
main stretching from Louisiana to the Pa.
cific Ocean, which Mr.. Greeley did not
want this Union to acquire lest it should
aggrandize the South.
GENERAL GRANT WAS NO INCENDIARY.
General Grant never lifted his finger to
disturb the peace of the South or to in
augurate war of races, while slavery was
| protected by the Constitution Of his coun-
try. He had no agency in bringing on the
civil war which Mr.. Greeley's teachings
compelled. When it became his duty to
| fight for the Union and the Flag, he did
not remain securely in New York, urging
bave men son to Richmond" He went
himself into the army, and tonight the war
through to victory, in camp and field.
| HE WAS A HUMANE GENERAL.
Our generals and our troops found him
a stern fighter but liberal adversary.
He exacted no humiliating terms of Gen
eral Buckner at Fort Doneson; nor of
General Pemberton at Vicksburg. He con-
fined his warfare to our armies he did not
direct it against our people. Desolation did
not follow in the wake of the armies march
| ing under his command He gave pro-
lection to our people to the full extent of
his discretion as a General. It was Cen
eral Sherman and not General Grant, that
made that awful march to the sea" burn.
ing, destroying, DISCRIMINATING and making
a desolation as he went. 1t was Sheridan
and not Grant, that swept our Virginia Val
ley so completely with fire and sword, as
to realize his own boast, "that a crow
would have to carry its rations along in
passing over the country after him. Gen
eral Grant captured Petersburg, and did
not burn it practising humanity which
our own authorities, who burnt Richmond,
might have initiated with advantage.
He WAS A GENEROUS CoNQUERoR.
AT Appomattox, General Grant refused
to accept the sword of General Lee which
therefore does not now hang as a trophy
among the curiosities of Washington pat.
ent office. When our commander told him
of the restitution of the people, and their
want of horses with which to put in their
crops; he directed that our soldiers should
take home their horses, and little proper
ties and arms After the conquest of the
Confederacy, General Grant did not, like
| General Sherman, celebrate his triumph in
| Richmond and Washing on; but remained
in his quarters busy with the task of lber-
ating our prisoners and returning them to
| the bosoms of their families. With deli
| cate and noble consideration for the feel
| ings of the countrymen whom he had beat.
| en- in honorable warfare, he refused to be
| a party in any OF the pageantries of rejoic-
ing and triumph. The letters of our moth
ers, wives and sisters, written after the sur
render, to Andrew johnson, Edwin Stan
ton and other men in authority, pleading
| for the liberation of prisoners, received no
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to General Grant commanded prompt
response in every instance; no letters, in.
deed, came by return mail, but something
more welcome than letters came in adj.
vance of the mails in the peisons of the
very prisoners whose presence was longed
for at home. ee
- HE is A LIBERAL STATESMAN.
In every public message, and by every
official method at his command, General
Grant has urged upon Congress free
and general amnesty, and a policy of mag.
nanimity to the South. By special mes
sage concerning Virginia, in May, 1869, he
procured the passage of the act allowing
the submission of our Constitution to pop.
ular vote, Invested of its original clauses
of Acknowledgement 1t was by his per-
sonal order that our people were allowed
the privilege of voting down those clauses.
Congress, at the instigation chiefly of Mr..
Greeley and the Tribune, passed the act
designated to suppress the Ku-Klux- Klans,
and giving to the President the power to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus in every
State and County of the South. With
moderation that does him honor, he has
exercised that authority in but one single
State. as
These are but few of the facts that
show the Conservative character of the
great and good man who is so fortunately
the President of our country. The history
Of the world does not afford the example
OF conqueror more generous, o ruler
more free from the spirit of usurpation, or
a statesman more liberal and considerate,
than Gen. Grant.
HE TOO Is THE VICTIM OF INGRATITUDE.
It is the habit of the Conservatives of
Virginia to denounce him as an oppressor.
But they owe to him, more than to any
other man, the very liberty of tongue
which they abuse to the purpose of Willy.
ing him. Like the adder, they drive their
poisonous fangs into the very bosom that
warmed them into life. This is not the
first instance of their shameless ingrati
tude. Gov. Pierpoint came to Richmond /
oyerflowing with generous sentiments to.
wards our people. He too procured the
repeal of DISTINGUISHING provisions as they
were embodied in the Constitution framed
at Alexandria and thus relieved our PEG.
pie of all disabilities. He was active in
securing pardons for the people, and re.
commended the granting of every pardon
that was asked for. How was he treated
by these same Conservatives? We all
know. There was no moderation or mea
sure in the abuse they heaped upon his
head. The very men whom he enfran
chised proved to be his most bitter rev
ers, and good man and generous benefac.
tor of our people was driven from the
State as if he were thief and scoundrel. 4
Gen. Grant, who has been even more lib
eral and more generous, is receiving even
a worse return from party in whose ca
reer for the two years of their power in
this State, no single act of liberality can
be discovered; whose policy is that of a
vindictive prescription of national men,
and whose language gives no utterance
but of hatred and abuse.
THE CONSERVATIVES HATE GRANT BE. u
F CAUSE HE is TRUE, AND LOVE GREELEY 4
FOR HIS TREASON.
Compelled to accept national principles 4