The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-14
President Grant interviewed by an Old
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Tom gyms, of Milton, n. c., Il well
known newspaper man, had an interview
with President Grant last week, and in TIT
Milton Chronicle reports what was said b.
himself and the President.
Evans began the conversation by saying
81 have long desired to know you, Mr.
President, since reading one day in '64, il
camp at Orange Courthouse, Va, that yot
were ordered from VickSburg to take charge
of the army Of Northern Potomac. Ny
heart sank within me at the news, ant
gone up for thirty days. was the idea thai
struck me. This was about the military i'm
preston you created on most Of our sol
diers."
"'Gonc up for thirty days?' YES, it tool
me q little longer time than that"
"Yes, sir, it did but / believe the saying
was in vogue then that you would fight i
out on that line if it took all of summer"
"You gave me some trouble to Ito it,"
"Mr. President, there are all sorts of idea:
aloat. I have heard it said in Virginia that
your personal sympathies as q soldier were
with the Kemper and Withers ticket in pre-
ference to the black-lag secessionist Hughes
who never struck a lick of fight in the
field"
"It is a mistake" said the President
"My political sympathies are with Hughes
I know him, and believe him to be an able
man, and my sympathies of course are for the
success of the party; thought confess l have
always been personally prejudiced in favor
of the men in the South who fought oui
their principles on the battlefield"
dyes, sir. I believSthat characteristic is
generally conceded you in the South"
= "Withers? I don't know him. But | be-
lieve he has won the reputation of making
pretty much the same style speeches as JEFF
Davis at Lynchbnrg."
"Colonel Withers stated publicly that he
did not endorse Mr.. Davis's speech in full
Withers was a staunch Union man up to the
firing on Sumter, apd some of the men Wht
are truly loyal now were the same who hissec
at him and called him submissionist because
he wasn't for secession. But when the wal
came he went In and fought it out like Jubt
Early"
"Early is as far at the other end now as
he was at the right end then, he answered.
"Who is Wise fort" said the President
81 have lately seen it stated he would
support Hughes"
"Yes; 1 remember l saw it so stated"
The reporter here brought General Mos
by's name up, and in connection admired
Mosby'S independence to the President
but that no true soldier like Mosby coule
support a man like Hughes, and yet still
Mosby was an endorser Of Grant, and would
vote for him again.
,pba President wac m,1m IN. MOSbv. He
shut his lips and said not a word.
"You have some popularity in the South.
Mr.. President, for the third term 7"
(Enpatiently) 80, that is too far of to talk
about.
Coming out I met Major.General Howard
Said Howard: 81 am against the third
term. 1t gives too much chance to a mar
to play the tiger over a free country. shal
oppose such a thing"
Evans says the President is a man, every
inch. He wasn't smoking. When he talks
he talks quiet, moving his lips and nothing
else, and bis words are few.