Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-02
s'REBELS'' WHO HAVE GONE OVER
TO GRANT.

"REBELS'' WHO HAVE GONE OVER
TO GRANT.
1t is stated in a Washington dispatch that
Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, announces that
he can not support the Greeley ticket; and
if he is Endorsed at Baltimore he sees no
other course open than to support Grant and
Wilson, and he will take the stump for
them; and it is intimated that the Graut
men in Virginia will probrby put Wise on
their electoral ticket. The following article
from the Kansas City (Mo.) Times will be
ound very readable in this connection:
sit would be strange indeed, yea,
veritable phenomenon in politics, If among
| the great number of Confederates The war
! organized into class, there was not found,
b ere and there, an ardent supporter of Gen.
Grant. Up to this writing, however, the
instances of such utilization have been few
and far between, scarcely enough, as Scion
Single says, ''to swar by" Mosby,
Ewell, Longstreet, Blanton Duncan and
Heury A. Wise about ELL the bill. Beyond
these, there are none others who goto make
up the compliment. As for Mosby, he is a
klnd of Free Lance, foraging where it pays
~, having no very great respect for the civil
administration of the law, and more dispos-
ed than otherwise to fraternize with that
leader who best represents the sover-
eighty of the sword. Brave he unques-
tiOnablY is, and devoted to the South,
but as between the civilian and the soldier,
he is for the soldier. EweIl is a sincere,
educated gentleman, imperialist to the
Sc in pFoiD
ions, and an aristOcrat in his ideas of gov
eminent. He supports Grant because he
believes Grant wilt, sooner than any other
man, destroy the Republic. Longstreet was
needy and greedy, and penniess General
without a commission. About his name
there was the fascination of some splendid
and reckless deeds of courage. OF al
the fighters under Lee, none were more
stubborn and unyielding. He took his pun
ishment like a glutton, and the blows he
gave in return we've as deadly and as crush
ing as any struck during the war. But he
fell when they flattered him. He was hun
CRY, and they offered him customhouse
served mp on silver plate. No wiser nor
better than HerSdias, he would have ac-
cepted, even though it contained the head
of John the Baptist.
Sand now comes Henry A. Wise, much
to the edification of the Journal, and fires
off his rhetorical broadside at point-blaDk
range. Those who know this venerable
gentleman, know him to be one of the most
bitter and unforgiving men alive. he never
forgets anything. What he hates he hates
from the rising of the sun to the going down
thereof, and the oder the hatred the more
tenacious its grasp. Knowing Gree
ley, therefore, longer than Grant,
it would have been impossible for
Henry A. Wise to support Greeley. And
so well known are his peculiarities in Vir-
ginia, that men simply give way to them
VerTmuch as they do to children. They
listen to him respectfully, shrug their
shoulders, pass on, and say: swell, it's the
cid man, and there's no use to reason with
him." As stump speaker, however, Wise
has no living superior. The tornado of his
invectiVe has something terrible about
it. He literally tore to pieces and
burnt up acknowledgment in his
State, and so formidable was he
on the hustings, that his opponent, Will
liam s. FlOurnoy, was afraid to meet him
in Joint debate. But beyond the respect
the people has for his honor and his integ-
rity, ex-Goy. Wise has no other influence.
He has been shelved since 1858. Bis re-
cord as a General was a lamentable failure,
and the death of his son at Roanoke Island
broke his heart. Since then he has cursed
everything within bis reach.
GAS for Blanton Duncan, he is simply g
Bourbon. He was a Captain without a
company, colonel without regiment, a |
eneTad WITH BUT brigade, military usher
Radical party, but now the Democracy have
the ascendancy, Judge l.. T. Gray, former
ly of Tennessee, being Mayor, By the way,