The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
+ ON our Regular Correspondent,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 9Th, 1879.
The letter of Secretary Sherman, in which
he eisposes Of the charge that he is and has
been nimcal 10 Gen. Grant, has, attracted
great interest, The Secretary truly says
that he has always been on the best terms
with the General, that he supported him
throughout his public course, has always
spoken highly of him, and is in all respects
one Of his warmest friends. That is the
substance oft, But there is one phase of
the official relationship of Grant and Sher-
man that has not been sufficiently consid-
cred, and this Is very opportune occasion
for presenting it. The independent news
paper readers will not fail 10 have observed
the differences in the standing of the two
men in their party. While Sherman has
been cursed and berated by his former rad
ical friends as one OF the men most guilty
Of the Hayes policy, so called, Gen. Grant
has not only gone scott free but has been
put forward as the representative stalwart,
the man before whom the South would quail
and stand in fear am not alone in saying
that the fact is quite the reverse. Gen.
Grant was the real author of the Hayes pol
icy; Sherman accepted it reluctantly, be-
cause it has been adopted, and made the
best of what he thought was bad cause.
If there was any discredit attaching to that
policy, the greater parts was Grants, not
SheImans; if there was any credit, that al
so was Grants. | am not arguing the right
or wrong IN the matter, but simply endeay-
oring to state facts. Gen. Grant first had
what is now The Hayes policy in mind
with reference TO Mississippi, and the re-
suit was that because he would not take the
stalwart ground, Gov. Ames resigned and
left the State Government in Democratic
hands. There was such an outcry from the
radicals after that that the General did not
push his policy further, but it was noticea-
was possible, until the Louisiana case pre-
scented itself in 1867. Then he renewed
his policy of Withdrawing Federal support
to the Republican State Government, and
left Packard TO take care Of him
self. know it has been said that
he did this at the solicitation Of Hayes, but
10 those who know the facts, that statement
will not do When leading radical Repub-
licans pleaded with him against that cause
he gave as IN excuse that he was going out
Of power and didn't want TO antagonize the
Southern people any further but preferred 10
retire with the good viii Of all. In fact, he
was the greatest conclllationist about
Washington IN those days 1t is astonish-
inc, therefore, that while Sherman is de-
nounced by the stalwarts as Cancellation
ist Grant is put forward as the stalwart
candidate for president The truth is-and
observe that am trying TO write the truth
without regard TO where il hits that Grant
is preferable among Southern Democrats
who understand these facts, to either Of the
other Republican candidates for president
either Blaine Conking, Widom, Sher-
man, or Chandler, because they believe that
he will conciliate them, and think more Of
a peaceable and quiet term than Of any az
gressive policy TO settle the Southern Ques-
) ton according to stalwart ideas l observe,
} by the way, that few Of the radicals are
( beginning to take this view, and to hedge in
! the Grant boom" so called.
9 The exciting problem among Democrats
still is whether Mr. Tilden did utter the
7 sentiments attributed to him touching the
Democratic methods in the South. Game
OF the more hotheaded Democrats from the
Q South denounced him warmly the other
day, but they are beginning to compromise
a little now. The factis, Tilddn is strong
man personally, and it is hard to get up I'm
issue that will stick against him in his own
party.
A SURPRISED PRYslCAN--A dying pa
tent RECEIVERS through the interposition of
: a humble German. Some weeks ago DR..
e c., very reputable and widely known
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