The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-10

Of his past administration. But this
say, there is not an act Of his administra-
ton, which | disapprove, which was
not cordially supported by Mr.. Gree
ley, Charles Sumner, N. P. Banks, and
every Republican now supporting Mr..
Greeley. This should be full and conclu-
sive answer to every supporter of Mr..
Greeley, and satisfactory to the revilers of
General Grant.
Let it not be forgotten or overlooked,
that the military governments. so severely
complained of by the Greeley men, origi-
mated with and were established by Presi-
dent johnson, who is warm supporter of
Mr.. Greeley. Also that this ex-Presiden-
tial advocate of Mr.. Greeley, signed the
death warrant Of Mrs. S'urat, refusing the
privileges of The aorit Of habeas corpus IN
her case, and also opproced o. the sentence
Of death, pronounced against Lambdon Z.
Mihtgan, by a military commission held in
Indiana, and ,Cho aoas only saued The decree
Of the Supreme Court Of the United States.
Also, that Virginia cast in 1868, her first
cote at Ne,o York, for Andreao Johnson, for
President. So MUCH FOR THE HOLY
HORROR OF VIRGINIA FOR MILITARY
GOVERNMENT AND COMMISSIONS. (See
McPherson's History of Reconstruction,
1S65-70, page 200 to 22O).
Nor is this all. This same ex- President
Johnson-Virginia's first choice in 1868
for e-election-insisted on sending troops
into Texas in 1866, while General Grant
refused to do SO, and stated as his reason,
'phile l occupy the position Of General-m
Chief Of the army, hope neoer to see ii
necessary to hare to send troops into a State
an fuUreiatioas Nth the general government
on the eve of an election, TO preserpe the
peace" Mcpherson, same volume, page
297.l And yet Virg MIA voted in conven-
ton for Andre,o johnson to oppose General
Grant
Nor is this all. This same President
Johnson in 1S66-67 insisted ON trying Gen.
Robert E. Lee and his officers as traitors,
and aoas only prevented from doing so by U.
S. Grant. [See same book, from page 200
to 302.l And yet this prosecutor aud re-
euler Of General Lee and his compeerS pas
Vuyinia's first choice for the Presidency in
1868.
| should think, with all reasonable obiec-
tors to General Grant, as to military trials,
&C., these instances should be sufficient.
But 60 further and say, that, after care
full and considerate examination of the pub
lished letters, orders, and messages of Gen.
eral Grant and President Grant, / have
not met with single word Indicating
hostile or personal feelings of dislike
to state or individual of the South while
on the contrary, respectfully challenge
the warmest admirer of Mr.. Greeley to point
out a paragraph written by him, previous
to, during or since the war, that does not
exhibit the bitterest feelings of hatred to
southern states, people and institutions.
The Tribune (Mr. Greeley's paper has been
for the last thirty years the chief source of
vltuperative censures, and unmanly ISLANDERS
upon Virginia and the South.
1t is unnecessary to enumerate various
other citations. They form part of the
records of the times. And yet, Mr..
Greeley is vouched as Virginia's champion
Singular infatuation, strange perversion of
history! .4,
Judas kissed, end betrayed! Mr.. Gree
ley proposes to "clasp hands over the
bloody chasm." And this is the peace
offering Z" which he presents to states
crushed; to peoples impoverished to
homes rendered desolate for all time; to
hearts broken; to families weeping in woe,
and well nigh famished to widows and
orphans, homeless and poverty stricken;
to the fathers and brothers of the heroic
dead all, all. the prolific result Of his
teachings and pompus philosophy.
Will Virginia vote for such man, thus
with blood-stained hands, and unadultera-
ted communism ingrained in his nature,
forced upon her by -" bargain and
intrigue 20 Let us rather take General
Grant. freed from the influence of such
men as Greeley, Sumner. and their cOmpan-
ions, under the assurance, vouchcd by his
acts, that he will rise, equal to the occasion,
and yet save his country and restore the
balances Of the constitution. Mr.. Greeley
is the recognized radical spirit of the age /;
never at ease, unless he can lash into fury
the popular waves of frenzied excitement;
never at peace with himself, unless he can
agonize the civilized world with the con-
tortions of his disturbed spirit; never con-
tented unless the hated lessons of wisdom
inculcated by jefferson, illustrated by
Madison, and canon lied by the great men
of the past, lie as W orthless debris, under
the fell spirit of his revol utionary tenden-
cies. A secessionist from policy, con-
solidationst from specu lative convictions,
a theorist from habtude of thought, lev
eller from instinct, and o libeller from
habit, he stands alone in the isolated mag
nitude of his hatred to the Southern people
and States, equalled only by his betrayal
of the vested rig hts and recognized franchi-
ses of the colored people of America under
the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Respectfully,
JOHN H. GILMER.
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