The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-30

that if such course were pointed out they
would pursue it in good faith. 1t is to be
regretted that there cannot be greater
commingling at this time between the citi-
zens Of the two sections, and particularly
those entrusted with the law-making pow
en-"
Here the supremacy Of the law" as pro-
lection to the citizen; fraternal relations
between the people of the two sections !;
lawlessness only feeling the power of the
law, etc., are the cardinal ideas running
through General Grant mind, evincing an
order of craftsmanship of rare quality in
S,e mind Of a purely military man. Was
not this policy right? and who will venture
to show that General Grant as President
has deviated from it one iota? sr ..te
But what was Horace Greeley's attitude
towards the people of the South at the
same time? Let him answer, not from
the Ii1b,me-for he tries to disown respon-
sibilty in that quarter-but from speech
delivered by word of mouth in March,
1896: sa. ~
| "Now, say, if we allowed the people al
the South who felt and fought with us to
be cast, bound hand and foot, into the
power of the people who fought against US
we can have NO TRUE PROSPERITY
NORTH OR SOUTH. IF the laterebel
are allo,oed 10 spork their acin on the blacl
population, they aciU necer be satisfied mati
THAT POPULATION is EITHER Elk
lied OR DESTROYED, driren out o.
the cot7itry, or out Of the ,eorld. Now then
it becomes us the loyal people Of the North
= to see to it that these blacl
Union men do not fall into the hands o
their enemies"
Who is shown to have been the effectiv
pacifcator in those days-General Gran
breathing conciliatory words, or Creole.
with his exasperating expressions
General Grant cordially recognized tn
law-abiding disposition of the southern
people, as truely observing Statesman
might have done, and as he no doubt justl
did, at the time. The great mistake Q
southern craftsmanship was that it did no
meet General Grant halfway after his elect
ion to the Presidency, and make his mag
nanimity and patriotism the basis of soci'
order and good government in the Soutl
Had this been done the more obnoxior
measures demanded by the chief calumn
ator of the South and shrieker for severit
would never have been heard of.
In his letter accepting the Republca
nomination in 1868, General Grant brief
summarizes his record, both in peace an
war, and indicates his policy in the follow
ing golden sentences: q
"If elected TO the office of President of q
! United States, it will be my endeavor to az
minister all the laws in good faith, wi,
economy, and WITH the view of GlVlN
PEACE, QUIET and PROTECTION EN
ERYWHERE. Peace and unive
sal proSperity--its sequence--with econ
5 my of administration, will tighten the blu
6 den Of taxation, while it constantly reduc
the national debt. Let US have peace"
With this record, and General Grant
endeayor since his election to entwine Il
olive branch with the laurel wreath, his p
4 ltical friends may well go before the cou
q try with confidence, amounting to ass
I rance doubly sure, that the American pc
8 pie will not elevate the calumniator of |
countrymen over the renowned warric
! pacifcator and peace-maker of this countr
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