National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-19
"NEYER SURRENDER GRANT.

Ten years ago the same papers which
are now speaking of General Grant S sur
render TO the clamors of the Independ-
ent press were the loudest in their praises
Of his qualities as q General never known
TO surrender. No sooner did the Herald
get his Louisiana message than it started
the rumoT, based upon ono of its real or
pretended Washington dispatches, that
this was not at all the message he first
composed. Fish, Dristow and Jewell had
browbcaten him into changing both the
tone and matter OF his message. That was
the reason they did not resign. The
Herald had predicted they would, had,
and would continue 10 resign. Every one
here in position 10 know anything Of the
truth in tho matter was fully aware from
the first that there was no rupture In the
Cabinet, and later on that there was no
change In the tone Of the message, and
that the only change In regard TO the
matter at all was as to how little Of the In
formation In the possession OF the Govern.
ment II would do to make public. The
President was dislnclined to make public
details Of massacres and butchcrics TO TN.
necessarily further infame the public mind.
II was deemed polite by the best men
Of both Houses Of Congress to avoid enter.
ing into details Of these matters as far as
possible, and give only what the President
deemed compatible with the public in.
terests."
But the Herald and its followers, includ.
ing the old EceHiag Post, formerly consid.
cred somewhat respectable, but which
now seems 10 delight in nothing more
than repeating Herald TomanCcs at
second hand, insist, by continued misrep-
reservations, that all the horriGying and
sickening evidence which the Department
of Justice contains shall be spread broad
cast over the land to enkindle another civil
war. For we undertake TO say that if the
whole people of the North knew to-day
what is known to the President, in this re-
spect, and what is known to General Sheri-
dan and the Departments Of War and JUS
tice and TO us, that the meetings which
have been held for sympathy for Louisiana
and indignation at the conduct Of the mill
tary at New Orleans in the numerous cities
would be at once transformed into meet
irgs of sympathy for the families of massc-
cred Republicans and indignation at the
preachers, lawyers, and leading men of
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, whose
names are registered here as leaders and
instigators of masked parties of raiders,
intimidators and murderers. The good
name and fame of the country forbids the
publication of these names and the crimes
with which they are connected. But the
brazen effrOntcry Of the lying Independent
Press may compel the exposition. When
it is made, woe be 10 those who provoke it.
The reaction, as we have already said, will
be something fearful to behold. Those
blatant members Of the so called Independ-
ent Press who have been lying to their
readers upon every hand in this matter will
then become the victims of public scorn,
and will reap the reward of the deception
which they have practiced. As 10 the
President, the old soldiers know him too
well to believe that he ever surrendered
position that he thought was right because
the newspapers abused him for holding it.
He is just as much "never surrender" as
he ever was, and the people know that he
is not the man to be influenced upon great
questions of public policy by the barking
of the Herald and its whole pack of yelp-
ing attaches and the second hand organs of
the Associated Press This association can
no longer palm of its " cooked dispatches
as public opinion. The people now know
how they originate and by what means
they are distributed Public opinion -
indeed !