The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-10


Grant vs.. Hancock.
Axpxxw Johnson once said that General
sssAxr was fslsisers let US say. though III
vas : morn emphatic word. CHARLES srN.
xrn expressed the same Idea Ia more geo.
teel and becomise way. He said that GRANT
Wa notoriousT unreliable. We suppose
that both the Senator and The President
spoke the trath. General GRAMS habits OF
life and his associations previous to his enter
Ing the army in 1861 had not been such as
60 cause him to have cay uoduc respect Tor
tho fruth, or any extraordinary dislike TO
mendncFy. He was for pears very :" hard
csse.n 20 use the milacst Of phrases, and
MIA stsxements were cntiiled TO no credence
not accorded to those Of any otber man In
iiSc circumstances
We forget how JeHxseN succe~ded In bis
ebert 10 prove General GRANT faisiferS
bat we think that be made OH pretty
strong presumptiye case against the Gene
r.l. Nor do we recollect bow Mr.. SUkxER
satisfied his Republican associates that he
hsd not slandered General GRANT; but we
suppose that he dtd so satisfy them. Row.
ever those th;nes NAV have been, the case
made out against che General by the Phiia-
deiphia Traces Is one that cannot be ex-
planned away. That journal quotes what
he said TO JOIN RUSSELL You've when be
was making his Journey around the world,
and was free from the exactioDs OF jealous y,
ambition, and party. In the second volume
Of Mr.. YouSo's book, page 800, the Times
fnds GRANT expressing himself about HAM
COCK as follows:
Hancock is also fine soldier. AT the
time he was named mdor-geMeral we were
not very good friends, and my personal
preferences were for Scbofield, but felt
Hancock had earned the promotion and
gave his name to Stanton. He wrote me
beautiful letter on the subject, ana our re-
lations have always remained on the most
cordial footing. l have great respect for
Hancock as man and soldier"
There Is what NAV be presumed to be
General GRANTS real opinion OF General
HANCOCK. The outrageous and iDexcusable
attack which he made upon HANCOCK IN MS
conversation with that miserable PAUL PRY
snd retailer Of private conversations the
Rev, DR.. FOWLER, once editor OF the New
York Christian Advocate and LAFFERTr's
piece de resistance, but now nobody so FAR
as we know, was due TO envy, malice, and
uucbartableness. GRANT has come to re-
gard himself as the savior OF this country.
His vanity has been fattered until, as The
famous HENRY CLAY DEAN once said OF
the Rev. Moses TICnNELL, he regards COM
plment TO any other general as reflection
upon himself, or to use the illustrative lam
guage Of that distinguished military charac-
ter Field Marshal HALsTEAD, OF the Cinen-
natl Commercial, when speaking OF GRANT
himself, he thinks that he is holding up this
country by the tail. and that IL be lets 60
his hold the country will go to everlasting
smash. General HANCOCK Is about to try
TO hold the country up by the tail himself,
and GRANT Is fearful that the hero OF Apo
mattox will sink into the insignifcancc
which his civic dement's have so Justly
earned for him. He cannot bear the
thought that HANCOCK should be honored
as he has been honored by the Ameri-
can people. He is HAMAN. MoRDECAI
the Jew sitting in the Kings gate is spec
tac,e which he cannot with patience wit
ness. GRANT would like to be the one
hero OF the war between the States. He
wishes to monopoliZe the honors which
have been awarded heretofore and are TO be
awarded hereafter TO the heroes Of that
greatest OF conflicts. He showed this clear
~ when he rebuked HANCOCK for bis ambi-
ton and his anxiety to be President for one
term, $50 far as the present election can
show,) in forgetfulness OF the fact that he
(GRANT) had been President eight years al
ready, and in the same conversation av0wed
his desire TO be President again, or for
life, as he might have been II he bad
been nominated at Chicago. His prurient
vanity has disqualified him for expressing
or forming an impartial opinion AS TO the
merits OF HANCOCK. When ne thought that
HANCOCK was entirely out Of bis way as en-
aspirant to the presidency, he lauded him
as above reported. But the moment the
came az revengeiul as an Indian. The pub |
lie witt hke with many grains OF allowance
what he says OF a man who at least as
civilian, and as respecter OF law and u
student OF history and OF the Constitution
OF bis country, Is his superior.
Day after tomorrow Indiana will rebuke
GRANT or do injustice to HANCOCK. II she
does her duty, us We expect her to do it, the
hero statesman will In effect be on that day
elected to the Office which GRANT would