National Republican., 1880-04-28

the same feelings as did the Jewish father
when his child was torn from him by the
Spanish Inquisitors in order that it should
be educated in Jesuit school.
There is not, we believe, full-blood
Indian child now in Government school
with the free consent of its parents. Duress
of some kind has been applied in order to
obtain them, and the discomfort thus en-
gendered has been moving cause of sub
sequeut disaster to more than one tribe
and to the settlers of the West. The truth
is that the mixture Of philanthropy and
force in the administration Of our Indian
policy is about MS judicious and successful
as was the attempt to extend Christianity
and civilization in Africa by mixed cargoes
of missionaries and New England rum.
THE ATTACKS UPON GENERAL GRANT.
The calumnies heaped upon General
GRANT by the New York Tribune at the
present time are simply atrocious, for they
are absolutely malicious and mendacious.
The letter of "E. V. s." which appeared in
Mondays Tribune under date of Washing
ton, assumes that in 1875 General GRANT
was indifferent to the Democratic outrages
in Mississippi where the Republican vote was
literally wiped out by bulldozing and the
shotgun policy. The purpose of this pub
lication at the present time evidently is TO
convey the impression to the public mind
t1,,t ,,-ho
the President for troops they were illegally,
improperly or wickedly withheld. Now,
the facts of the case are historic and so sim
pie that "the wayfaring man. though Il
" fool, need not err therein" The President
was at Long Branch at the time, and the
papers were received by the Attorney-Gen
raj, were carefully examined by him, and
were forwarded to President GRANT with
the accompanying opinion that he did not
think the Constitution and the laws au-
thorized Federal interferencein in such a case
The reply of the President TO the Attorney
General was by telegraph dispatch, from
which the following is an extract:
The whole public is tired of these annual
| autumnal outbreaks in the South and the
| great majority are ready now to condemn any
| interference on the part of the Government.
| heartily wish that peace and good order may
be restored without issuing the proclamation.
| But If 1t Is not, the proclamation must be is.
sued, and If it is / shall instruct tho COM
mander of the forces to have no child's play.
| A copy of this dispatch was forwarded to
! Governor AMEs. In view of this, and the
further fact that the Attorney-General had
| ,Ix lao Of
ernor AMEs was not warranted by the Con-
stitution and the attendant circumstances,
the insinuations of the culumniators OF
General GRANT fall to the ground unsus-
tanned by the facts. Frightened no doubt
by the atrocity of the onslaught, this
correspondent attempts to soften the fire
of the bombardment by the use of the fol-
lowing language subsequently in the same
communication
1t need not be inferred from the above re.
cital that General GRANTS action in the Mis-
sissppi troubles was indeieusble from n Re.
publican point of view. The public was tired
of the annual outbreaks in the South, MS he
said in his dispatch to Mr. PIERREpoNT, and
wanted Federal interference TO cease. A large
proportion of the Republicans of the North
wanted the Government TO take its hands of
the Southern States and leave them to them
selves. GRANT only went with the current oi
the time.
1t is difficult to comprehend the measure
of malice which prompted this vile assault
: upon General GRANT, when we consider
{ the fact that he acted under the advice o.
/, the law officer of the Government as to othC
Constitutional aspect of the question, and
II A. Al ~. Al,
: his course was defensible from q Republi
{ can point of view. These plain and ad
J mitted facts render these attacks upon the
: ex-Presidcnta at this time all the more malig
nant and indefensble. A reference to the
files of the Tribune of the Sd of March, 1877
;, some two years subsequent to the time anC
occasion which are made the basis of thi
assault, will furnish n full and entire excul
patton of the ex-President from the ale
cations and insinuations now made l.
undermine public confidence in him, 70
the simple reason that his friends hay
y deemed it expedient to use his name il
connection with the next Presidency. His
tory furnishes no parallel to this infamou
assault upon an eminent statesman by me-
and papers within his own party lines
They are an atrocity, and nothing short Q
it.
WEST POINT.
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