The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-06
President Grant.
received.

And now there i much talk about prc>i
! dent GRANTS attitude and opinions. VIZ
! have always looked upon the President il:
AN enigma. We lave never known him It
do the handsome thing clean and thorough
There is always a hitch. But when liz
comes to q measure OF force and uSurpatior
he has been rs obstinate and ds pertinaciol,s
as he showed himself to be when he SIT
down before Richmond. In the iMstruc
tons aud measures Tor eau honest count. .
and intimidation" and all that sort OF
thing. the real end Of Which was the cap.
ture Of the three disputed States for HATES
| there has been n steady stream OF rumol
about what he says and what he docs. Hopes
OF one day, based upon the idea that he is
rcleuting, are blasted the next, and spccr-
lations that monentarily soften feelings
against General GRANT are soon diSSipatcd
like frost before the sun. Whenever the
gard to him clears ~ there is General
GRANT, like Il rut-tcrricr, still ut his posi-.
holding on to his (ny) "poliey."
That sincere gentleman, Governor Ran
DoLPH, left the White House with increased
respect for President GRANT and the bright
est hopes Tor tic deliycrance OF tie land
from its troubles ana fearful apprehensicns.
Vet, as Governor RANDOLPH left the front
door OF the White House the bulldog
SHERIDAN WAS sent of by the back door.
and arrived at New Orleans most promptly
to inaugurate all the oppression and brti-
tality which Governor RANDOLPH too readily
believed General GEAsT meant to discon-
tenance. ..... ... ~a.g'.. .
AT this time the country is deeplyinter-
ested in Mr.. REwlrT's visit to the President,
and fine stories are made Of What passed be-
tween them. BIZ. HEWITT won't tell what
was said. The extent Of what Mr.. HEWITT
has confessed Is that the President said "it
- was not his province TO decide whether
;. the elections in she States had been fair OF
"not." And yet DOVE not see BIN through
his military force, and Judge Bod, and the
lying agents, sustaining the frauds OF tAe
boards, which were so monstroas
that they could rot have been committed:
without the support CT the President
through his soldiersY s +.
Mr.. HEwmT's telegram am6unss Only to-
this. II that gentleman were to attempt TO
reduce the inflated story OF what took place
at the interview he would have to hcw Il
down immensely. True, lie says that tie
President and halself, upon the assump-
ton that the joint session Of Congress should
throw out the vote Of Louisiana. g discuss
ed the effect Of such actSpu." Very lucid,
indeed! 1t is a. enign.atical as is GRANT
himself. People. 20 on to say that
GRANT l.: grown more civilized. and sides
with Mr.. FISH. But is not TAFT in Collan-
bia, and IS not the South Carolina Demo-
cratic House of Representatives. expelled
from che State-House by the trick devised
by TAFT by the constabulary, with Federal
marshals in their, midst experimenting
and guiding: Was not this trick set afnot
to provoke that conflict which Would jus
tiiy, as was believed, the seizure OF the
government Of the State by Federal mill
tary, and the thorough establishment OF the
Radicals in Columbia What further hui
initiation and tyranny is intended time viii
show. But il GRAsT sides with FISH in
counsel, Isl n Of. TAFT, the pettifoSger and
.trickster, sent to Columbia to do Indirectly
the very thing which FISH had disapproved
Off ANDREW JOHNSON said that GRANT
would not tell the truth, and il SO we cam
not expect him to deal sincerely wirl,,,any
one. Isl 49,, @ .s
Democrats cannot trust to him. They
must take eareof themselves.
. II GRANT; Is inclined TO give predOmi-
nance TO civil authority over the military,
underline wise eounsels OF Mr. Fish, what
would be easicr for him 10 do than 70 recall
TAFTtand Bosp, and to withdraw his SOL
diers, and thus to leave the States to manage