New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-12

A'o oAOho III PaSciHS ONCE tHC COuHbIy
after him." General Grant captured Peters.
burg, and did not burn it; practising hu.
mainly which our own authorities, who burut
Richmond, might hsvc initiated with ad.
vantage.
HE WAS GENEROUS CONQUEgoR.
AtAppomattox, General Grant refused to
accept the sword of General Lee which
therefore does not now hang as a trophy
among the curiosities of the 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 properties and
arms. After the conquest of the Confederacy,
General Grant did not, like General Sher
man, celebrate his triumph in Richmond
and Washington but remained in his quar-.
tiers busy with the task of liberating our
prisoners and returning them to the bosoms
oftheir families. With delicate and no
BILE consideration for the feelings of the
countrymen whom he had beaten in hon.
orable warfare, he refused to be a party in
any of the pageantries of rejoicing and tri.
umph. The letters of our mothers, wives.
and sisters, written after the surrender. to
Andrew johnson, Edwin Stanton. and other
$3.50 80 piCduIuS lOT tue
OF prisoners, received no attention. Those
which were addressed to General Grant com
manded prompt responsein every instance
no letters, indeed, came by return mail,
but something more welcome than letters
came in advance of the mails; in the per.
sons OF the very prisoners whose presence
was longed for at home.
He is A LIBERAL STATESMAN.
In every public message, and by every Off
cial method at his command. General Grant
has urged upon Congress- free and general
amnesty. and policy of magnanimity to
the South. By special message concern.
ing Virginia, in May, 1869, he procured the
passage of the act allowing the submission
of our Constitution to popular vote, Invested
Of its original clauses of Acknowledgement.
1t was by his personal 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.
These are but few of the facts that show
the Conservative character of the great and
good man who is so fortunately the Presi
dent of our country. The history of the
world does not afford the example of con.
queror more generous, ruler more free
from the spirit OF usurpation, or states.
man more liberal and considerate than Gen.
eral Grant.
1t is the habit of the Conservatives of Vir.
tn dapnu h, ~
they owe to him. more than to any other
man, the very liberty Of tongue which they
abuse to the purpose of vilifying him. Like
the adder, they drive their poisonous fangs
into the very bosom that warmed them into
life.
THE CONSERVATIVES HATE GRANT BECAUSE HE
Is TRUE, AND LOVE GREELEY FOR HIS Urea
SON.
Compelled to accept national principles,
and to drop for time their sectional poll
ties, they embrace Horace Greeley solely
because of his treason to his party and its
principles. They assail Gen. Grant, not be-
cause of the illiberality which they impute to
him, but because he represents the party
which rules this country, which has con
quered internal peace, which has established
our Government upon the endearing princi.
pies of liberty and equality for all; which
means more and more to exalt, ennoble. en-
rich, and strengthen the American Union,
and because he represents it faithfully. They
accept Horace Greeley, not for any liberal
ity of sentiment which he pretends to enter.
tain for the South, but because they expect,
through his influence, to divide the Repubii-
can party and thereby secure its overthrow
Anything, anybody. to beat Gen. Grant,"
is their motto. 1t fully and aptly expresses
their policy of hate, of revolution, of de
sstruction: But the good and benignant Be
ing who has so greatly exalted our country
against the Vaccinations of these same men,
and who intends that it shall be land o.
sectional affections, not of sectional hatreds.
will confound their counsels and defeat their
contrivances.