The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-14
evening. state Sutrnat.
WEDNESDAY EvEN'G, FEB. ID, 1872.


The Hon. ID. H. Chamberlain, Attorney
General of North Carolina, and one of the
most able and influential members of the
Republican party of that State, has written
apowerful letter upon the Presidential can
vass, from which we take tho following ex-
tracts:
Looking, at first, broadly over the nation,
L think we find in the administration OF
General Grant the constant evidences OF
those practical qualities which should dis
tinguish the head Of our nation. In the
conduct of our relations with foreign ma
tons, always one of the highest tests and
most delicate duties of craftsmanship, / do
not know or recall any period of our hsto-
ry marked by more uniform good sense,
good feeling, self-respect combined with
perfect respect for others, firm assertion
of all our rights, and prompt regard for
all our obligations, than has marked and
dignifed our intercourse with all foreign
States and peoples.
'Peace hath her victories, not less re-
nowned than war;" and in the treaty OF
Washington General Grant has earned a
more enduring title to the gratitude of hui
manity than successful war alone could
give.
To the administration of General Grant
was committed the practical and difficult
task OF reestabllshing, in the face of the
world, the financial credit of the nation, and
of proving to or own people the feasibility
OF so managing our vast debt as to insure
Its gradual and certain payment, and at the
same time not to permit this policy to press
disastrously by taxation upon the industries
and business of the country.
This result has been accomplished con-
currently with great reduction of taxes |;
and while temporary and local hardships
have fallen upon some of our industrial in
terests, it is still undeniable that the whole
country has materially prospcred during
the last three years to a degree not ex-
cecded in any corresponding period of our
history.
The same practical good sense and tho
same practical results, it seems to me,
have distinguished the other features Of
Gen. Grants administration.
But, however high our estimate of the
good results accomplished under the adj
ministration of General Grant in the parti-
culars already named, there remains one
feature which peculiarly appeals to the re-
spect and even gratitude of all Southern
Republicans. / refer to the invarablo
fidelity exhibited by General Grant to the
cause of equal rights and civil liberties in
the Southern States. Every promise ex-
pressed in his inaugural, or implied in his
antecedents, has been faithfully kept. The
fifteenth amendment, which placed the
suffrage of the colored citizen under
the protection of the National gov
eminent, recommended and urged by
General Grant, has become part and
parcel of the constitution. In all ways,
and at all times, the doctrine of equal civil
rights for all men has been enforced and il
Illustrated by the present Administration.
All the interests which are bound up with
the cause of reconstruction in Southern
States have been protected and promoted,
and no individual, venture to affirm, has
ever had occasion to feel that his color or
condition of life barred him from the per-
sonal or official regard of the Chief Execu-
tive.
But in the last great trial which has come
upon Southern Republicans, in the form of
an organized, powerful, and unspeakably
cruel conspiracy to destroy the Republican
party in the South---for such was the real
aim and end of the Ku-Klux conspiracy
General Grant has been constantly-to his
lasting honor be it said--n advance of the
Republican party in Congress and in the
country at large.