Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
PRESIDENT GRANT ON THE SIT
uATlCM.
Wsfat,He Thinks of the Policy of the
Cemocratic PaTtY IN tho South.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.--- Y Yourcorre-
spondcnt had a full, free conversa-
ton with the President on the nation-
al situation. The speech Yesterday
of General Nichols, the one-armed.
one-legged Confederate General, who
claims to be the Governor-clect Of
Louisiana, and who Threatens to en-
force his claim, to the office bv arms,
only confirms tho Presidentin the be- I
lief that the policy of the Demdcratic
party in Louisiana, South Carolina,
land Florida only forcshadows what
may be attempted OH the Presiden-
tias question here. President Grant
mot only believes Hayes il. lawfully
elected, but during the interview sta
ted that Hayes was the only candidate
for President who had ever been
elected in this country during q
period of great financial depression.
by party in control of the national
administration at the time of the cri
sis. The people of the West will bo
glad to learn w hat is the fact, that the
President has ommittcd no precau-
ton for knowing just whattlie srevo-
lutionists are saying and doing, and
that the unbouuded confidence Of all
loyal men in him is most fully de-
served.
The President inquired of your
correspondent the probable chances
for General Logan's reelection to this
Senate in Illinois, and then used the
language, "My old friend, Houghton,
of Galena, suggested my name for
United States Senator from Illinois
as Logan's successor, and the sugges-
ton was copied approvingly into ono
of the Chicago papers. When L saw
this article l Immediately. wrote to
my friends in Illinois that could
not be a candidate for three reasons.
First although / consider myself a
citizen of Illinois and not citizen OF
any other State or Territory, vet do
not consider that | have resided III
the State continuously enough during
the last twenty years to entitic me to
a candidacy for the Office of United
States Senator. 2. / have been SER
want of tho public for the last sixteen
years, and on the 4th of March next
propose to sec how it will seem to
be a sovereign. 3. And more impor-
tant than all, | am
IN FANOk Of THE RE-ELECTI On OF GEN.
LOGAN
as against any other candidate, be-
cause he has proved an able, labori-
ous, influential Senator,and should be
returned; and further than that, i
have reason to know from personal
observation that he was one of the
bravest and most useful officers in the
Union army. The people ought to
remember that when the war broke
out Logan was democratic repre-
sentative in Congress from district
that gave him $4,000 majority. If he
had been q copporhead,a as many of his
political associates became. he could
have thrown distractions iii the way of
raising Union troops in Southern IL
lnois that could hardly be estimated;
instead of which course he was
prompt, fearless, and uniliaehing on
our side from the start.
| said: "Mr. President, am at lib
erty to say this to the people in Illi-
nois ?"
He replied immediately, "You are
not only at liberty to say thai, but
you may say that have written. j.
Russell Jones to the same import, and
thatI have communicated to General
Logan what | had written to my
friends at home. Tn such critical!
times as these it would be national
calamity 10 have him defeated.