Daily globe., 1879-05-28


The Enquirer man indulged in little
"reminiscences of q bright Sunday morning
four or five years ago, when he drove to the
top of Lookout Mountain and viewed the
ground where the Battle of the Clouds was
fought, and tho spot was pointed out to him
where Gen. Hooker I'D his army. It was
certainly above the clouds that bright Sun
day morning, for the only clouds that he
saw then hung low over Moccasin Bend and
the sun played on the mountain side and
the dark pines far beneath him.
eyes," said the General; ssI think I can
recall the incidents of that battle, and did
recall them in the communication wrote
in answer to the charge that there was no
such battle. And, further than that, ].
notice no reply has been made to what I
said.''
'sMay ask what you think of Grant,"
"Gen. Grant was q great soldier, and it
was to be expected that the country would
look to her foremost soldier and make him
President They did that and gave him two
terms of that exalted Office. He served the
country in many ways faithfully. But I
think the better class Of men in his party
don't want him again. Tom Murphy wants
him, doubtless, as do Belknap and Babcock
and Robeson, and all the fellows he used to
associate with. Jim Fisk would want him
again if he was alive. But the men who
helped to make the party respectable are not
anxious to see him back in the Office. y
els Grant rich? I have heard thst he was
poor.'' &c.
his own money. He had money put in his
hands when speculations were up, and some
times it was lost, but he didn't come out q
great loser. Grant engineered the Black
Friday panic and Jim Fisk carried it out for
him. Fisk had no hesitation in telling Of it
afterward, and Boutwell,, who was secretary
of the treasury, had kilograms in his pos
session establishing the fact. But Boutwell,
won't show those dispatches now. He's too
good politician for that. Besides he is q
Grant man now"
"Who do you consider the lgreatest man
the war produced p
General George n. Thomas. He was
the biggest Drained man, the greatest gem
eral, the n0blest soldier among them all.
There wasn't one who could compare with
him.
"Who was the greatest on the Southern
side 70 M
General Joe Johnston was the best SOL
dier the South had. General Lee was great
because of his nice sense of honor. When
he invaded Pennsylvania Lee paid for every
thing he got. He paid in confederate money,
but that was what he was paid in, and he
had no other. But he paid it out, and even
when he passed through those towns in
Pennsylvania he put guards around their
stores and protected their goods, allowing
nothing to be taken. Even clothes and boots
and shoes, which they needed so much, were
not allowed to be taken. This was not so
much great generalship as it was chivalry,
but it made tho man who did it a great
figure in the contest"
"Do you like Hayes?"
81 thought well of Hayes when he marched
the troops away from the State governments
in the South. 1t was brave and honest act
on his part, and might have made him the
greatest among our Presidents. But now
that he says that the soldiers must be sta
toned at the polls, and the army be required
to supervise the elections, he has forfeited
the regard held for him. Still, I think il
was his weakness that led him to this last
act. He was bulldozed into it by members
of his cabinet. But I had rather he hai
stood firm on the ground he first took"
"Secretary Sherman is rising man in hi.
party I.
eyes he is an able man, and I think al
honest one. think the Democrats com
mitted q great error in trying to defeat re
sumption. 1t should not have extended int
politics. What the people wanted was t
have all the money of the country on al
equality. As it was, the Democrats tried t.
keep that point from being reached. Sher
man wanted to bring it about, and the peo
pie wanted him to do it, but some of the pol
iticians in Congress tried to defeat it. Thi
was unpatriotic. It was doing wrong t
the people," 81