The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-04
tsenoral Grant Keeps Talking.

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We were right In consectnring that
Father GoaRIaHT infused some OF his ami
ability into the presidential mind ut the
ssme OF his interview with the President.
The moment o less gentle person-an agenEt,
oi an ultra Radical sheet-gets to interview
fng him he displays his old harshness ana
dogmatisna,. a Washington correspondent,
OF the Philadelphia Press gets out OF Bum 2
4 yery different sort OF talk from that re-
ported by GoBRIoHr. We suspect shas
General GRANT found that no was too good
when talking to COPYRIGHT, and sent Tor the
representative Of one Of the bitteress isaaie
cal papers in the Union to set him rlgns.
He has done 1t.
From the last stinterview we find the
President, as heretofore. arbitrary, obstt-
nateiy and obtrusiyely partisan, and talking
still AZ no President OF the nation has a
right to talk. He still iustities all the ,scoun-
'drelisns OF the returning boards, and de-
clares that in the three disputed States the
Republican ticket, State and national, tri-
umphed, and that the State governments
will remain in the hands OF the Republic
cans. He infers that they have the power
to take care OF themselves, as no call has
been made upon him for troops. He anticl-
pates that the Democratic governments VIII
ssauietly disband." No wonder nc SO an
ticipates, knowing that he means to protect
the Republicans. The troops are in both
South Carolina and Louisiana, guarding the
State capitals OF both, so that neither State
law nor State force can dislodge the fraudu-
lent governments that inhabit both.
The impudent and obtrusive partisan ma
ture of General GRANT is amazing. lie not
only Claims that the Republicans have car
ried the three disputed States, but assumes
that the Republicans should have carried a
number OF southern States that were count
ed for TILDEN, and that he did not believe
there had been a fair election " in any
southern State save Delaware. What a
vindictive partisan indeed is this Presi-
dent.
Out Of all propriety, and most scandal
lousy to the Office he holds, General GRANT
obtrudes his "opinions," which he gives
while not presuming to "iudge." One
would suppose he had q right to "iudge,"
but magnanimo,isly declined. His opinion
is that the president Of the Senate has a
right to open and to count the votes for
President-a grave opinion; which DR..
GRANT ventures to proclaim to the world,
although the opinion OF every great man
whose opinion is worth consideration is
against his !! .........
But General GRANT evidently believes
that this opinion will not be sustained by
the partisans upon whom he had counted for
giving him the opening through which he
would settle matters by installing fraud by
force. So he speaks OF what may happen
in case of hitch by which neither TILDEN
nor HAYES can be proclaimed as President.
In that event lie says Mr.. FERRY should be
President ez o5fcio and pro tempore, and
that Congress should order new election
Mt an early day. Hesuggests the month Of
June for the election, and the 4th Of July
as the day OF Inauguration. ''''s.' -,
This is good sign. 1t is asort OF change
of base favorable to the "Army Of Ohser-
yation," which will soon, we hope, become
ssthe Army of Occupation" We can hardly
imagine result in Congress that will fail in
making President. Yet new election
would be hailed with no great objection by
the Democrats. Indeed, it might be the
happiest event for the Union, because the
people would have the opportunity Of pass
ing upon not only the corruptions OF the
Republican party, but upon the batch OF
usurpations since the elections, and all the
viilainies and vulgar proceedings of the
southern returning boards, and base de-
fences set up for them by the MoRroNs,
SHERMANs, and such characters Of the
Republican party. That special election
would, in political sense, be "the day OF
Judgment" resulting in the grand victory
OF the people.