The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-15
ANDREW JOHNsON'S VIEWS OF GRANT
AND SHERIDAN.
correspondence New York HERALD

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NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 8, 1875.
1 was Yesterday interrupted in my int
view with ex-President johnson on Louisian
usurpation by large number of visitors poul
ing into his room in consequence of his bein
q candidate for the United States Senatorshit
In the conversation / had with him to-day
said Grant and Sheridan evidently intende
by their outrageous conduct to arouse such
decided spirit of opposition as would provok
some overt acts upon the part OF the Louisi
ana people and then endeavor to make it
Northern question.
These two men, should there have beer
any resistance offered to the soldiers would
have delighted to have heralded it over the
country that there was still in existence the
same old rebellious spirit and the same ami.
mostly entertained for the Government that
there was during the late American war.
Could they have succeeded in their danger
Gus plot to overturn civil rule and perpetuate
military deSpotism, and have got the support
of the Northern people on the ridiculous plea
that Southern people were still impregnated
with the seeds of sedition and rebellion,
Grant might, peradventure, have had his
third term verified at the lamentable sacrifice
of the Great American Republic. The third
term is
HIGH STAKE
overstepped the bounds of all constitutional
law, disregarding all p3tr; otto impulses, aud,
in fact lost sight Of everything except what
would tend to elevate him to position that no
man, nomatter how noble or gifted, has ever vet
dared to life his eyes-that is, to q third term
of the Presidential chair. His sordid and
selfish ambition would attain what is not in
the power OF man to do while there is vet
republic. But the people Of the South, by
the most exemplary conduct and
+@"" SINGULAR OBEDIENCE
to whatever expressions have been put upon
them by Grant aud his creature Sheridan,
have defeated their Vaccinations, knowing
full we'll that if they but let these men 90
their full length and allow them to give full
vent 70 their luminosity, as they had done in
the Louisiana usurpation, their acts would
become r4
oDLoUs IN THE EYES OF THE WHOLE NATION,
and would bring down upon themselves the |
censure and condemnation they endeavored
to put upoo others. With significant -four |
ish Of the hand and nod Of the head, the ex- |
President continued Grant is q little man. |
not only physically, but mentally, and so is
Sheridan a little man, little upstart It
would not require very remarkable pair of |
scales to measure the brains Of either or both
combined. People are just now beginning to
find out their capacity before their short
comings have been snothered under their
military prestige. Sheridan never deserved
the full need Of praise which has been award
ed him.
sHERIDANs SPURIOUS REPUTATION.
His reputation in the Shenandoah Valley
was made for him by daring and consummate
exploits of other generals. Sheridan always
to come in and claim laurels when
I'D - a. /
war is over, when it has ceased to arouse the
,nriosities which it first engendered, when
here is no effort and most ardent desire |
throughout the whole country to dwell in J
,eace and in unity, to cover up and forget the
of the past, an ATTEMPT !
lpon the part Of these two men to resume the /
bloody axe that Grant, by crushing out peo- g
lie, may be fostered into athird term, perhaps t
o declare himself supreme dictator, is simply t
nonstrous, and the American people will not i
ubmit to it.
II is an utter impossibility to defend Grants
louisiana policy. 1t is SO devoid of anything !
Ike statesmanship that even his own parti- Q
AIS must revolt at it when they hear the voice z
f the people come laundering along the {
hole line. One OF the causes which led to v
he attempt made to impeach me, and that, e
10, for maintaining constitutional govern Y
tent, was the controversy which led to an u
pen rupture with Grant men. I appointed s.
rant Secretary Of War ad interim. He made n
pledge to me that should he find it against II
Is wishes to remain in Office until the Stanton II
uestion was settled he would turn the KEYS o
the Office over TO me but he violated his g
edge and placed Stanton in possession. For
man to violate sacred pledge were but to ID
chase and degrade himself and to render him p
nfit for fulfilling any public position. b
Grant. you krow, at one time strongly 10
aned over to the Democracy, and his reports D.
,garding the South when he took his tour n
rough it in 1866 were the best he ever N
ads. It is little singular now that he o.
lould desire to humliate Louisiana that he Is
mself may grow fat upon her walls. Grant IL
und it profitable to himself to 60 with the ei
'minant party, and he now wishes to con- 81
,ue himself in power, not by appealing to d
cir reason. but to their passions and preju- o.
ces, which should have long since died to
II. f7tl #4fa Nv
Here the interview ended. Louisfana's al
urpation has added greatly to the strength W
Johnson as candidate for the United OF
ates Senatorship, being regarded az firm
lherent Of institutional government, and ~
le who would protect the interests Of any Ia
ate SO wrongfully assailed and tremplsd er
,der foot as that OF Louisiana. TO