The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-09
For General Grant


clam for General GRANT" say some gen.
tlemen who appear to have taken up posi-
ton In a house on a mountain side, from
which they look down upon the negroes.
carpet-baggers, and scalawags. They hold
their noses when they come down, and In
wardly wish that General GRANT had bette
smelling and more decent friends In Virg,'
nis. They can't think Of associatipg win
" SIGH Indeed they can't "abear" them !;
but, nevertheless, if these cattle will vote 10
put any Of them in the Governors chair. OF
in any other respectable office with good
salary, why they will allow them to DO so -!
"But mind" says the gentleman, famed
by the sweet breeze in his elevated home,
&c Won mustn't come anear me. don't want
your company, not that don't like it, but
don't want to seem to be soliciting anything
at your hands; you should act like inde-
pendent citizens and give it to me without
being asked. That would be so truly Re-
publican, you know"
Whether it is the possibility that negroes,
scalawags, and strangers will give such a
proof Of /" Republican " independence othe
"GRAST men" that has induced them to
take up position overlooking the Republi-
can army or not we cannot say. But GER
tainly there is room for the inquiry, "Why
are you for General GRANT," He has done
| nothing that shows the slightest concession
| to State rights or to personal independence
and security. He has now and then talked
fairly; but when was it that question was
raised that he did not give decision that
lett the intelligent and patriotic friends OF
the true theory Of Republicanism in despair
His decisions are fearful. Even between
factions of his own party when was it that
he did not side with the least meritorious
faction: With NO prejudice in the matter
we have not seen an exceptional case.
General GRANT sustains every encroach
ment upon States rights, every usurpatior
of Federal authority, and in the case Of
Georgia he urged Congress to apply the
"tcst-oatll" to the GeoTgians, recommcn'
dation so severe that even Congress, as ruth
less as it was, did not have the heart to re-
spect it. IS. o.. ..4.s.
Then, what are so-called southern men
men who went as far as he who went furth'
est in the Confederate cause and in. the
cause Of States rights spousing the cause
of General GRANT for? We cannot for the
life of us see. He certainly does not pdn
their help. He is in no need, and he has
shown no disposition to relent towards their
countrymen. Even now he proposes to III
terfere in our State elections to the end Of
silencing the. known voice of the people
We shall soon see the signs about Norfolk
and the navy-yard. ..u. #,.,.... *. .'.
Then, what does GRANT want from the
Old Virginia States-rights men that they
should declare themselves for him, or what
do they gain by publishing their adhesion
to his power? 1t is u perplexins question
We see nothing gained on either side. Some
thing may be expected. 1t is hard to know
what that is. But this we can say with
truth, that if anything has been expected il
has not been realized! ....a
| General GRANT is no doubt laughing in
his sleeve, and as he said when EARLY went
towards Washington he no doubt says in
this case-yiz., that it is mere " Fiasco.'
If he has malice in his heart it is gratitied
He has some persons humbled whom he
wanted to see humbled.
"What, will the aspiring blood Of Lancaster
Sink into The ground thought it would have
mounted"