The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-31
He saved the Union.

| fiuential southern journal, the Mobile Register
in its obituary on Grant. "And this triumph
| It adds "time has shown to be triumph for TIT
south as well as the north" There has no
bee n in the last % years so encouraging devel
opment in the broad patriotic view, as the man
| hesitation Of grief all through the south ovel
| Gen Grants death. 1t Is UNIVERSAL. Only enc
dissenting voice has been heard, from single
fire eater IN the Georgia legislature, who op.
posed the resolution Of adjournment, when the
news ofthe great generals death was received
But the vote was unanimous against him, ,and his
exhibition Of sectional spleen in speech was
followed with torrent OF Kisses.
This feeling at the south is undoubtedly due
| in measure to Grants magnanimous conduc'
after Appomattox. When he refused to take
The side arms and horses Of the vanquished
army, but told General Lee that the men would
need them for the corps, 1t was q simple ac'
which would win the heart of less impuisive
people than that Of tie south. And one OF lne
brightest pages of his career is that when ne
resisx the imperious demand of Stanton and
johnson for a vindic:ive policy toward the
southern leader. Judge Underwood organized
kind of court, made up, 1t has been said, OF
camp followers, and procured 81 indictments
again st General Lee and bis officers for treason,
or other alleged crimes growing out of the war.
Gen Lee addressed a letter to Grant saying that
be did not wish TO "avoid any responsibility for
the consequences Of his personal conduct, but
he would be pleased if General Grant would
write him how he understood the terms OF his
surrender" Grant replied promptly, with all a
soldiers honest frankness: 81 have received
your letter. and have sent it to the office Ut the
secretary of war, with this endorsement, i un.
derstood the terms of your surrender, that you
and tho army under your command were not to
he moless,4 py either the civil or military arm
~ ernment while you remained peace
- uaM ps under the laws of the republic,
and mat would not responsible for the yio-
lation of the plghted faitk OF the government
thus made by me-" Stanton issued an order
for their arrest but Gen Grant insisted firmly
and decisively that he had accepted the pa'oie
of those officers and would never permit tto pe
violated. Stanton, who had the basRing OF
President Johnson, in his imperiops way as-
manded submission, reminding the general tna'
he was secretary Of war. "And !" sai0 the
other, sam Gen Grant" Grants position was
so .manifesty that of honor and justice
that he clrried his point, and Stanton finally
revoked the order. Chauncy NJ Dcpew init
mated in his "reminiscences of Grant that the
contest was 50 warm al one. time as to threaten
another outbreak of civil war. He says that
Grant detailed the facts fully to him, and he
shall write them out if no one else does.
Bul beyond even this feeling towards a just
and generous eonqueror, the expressions from
the South which we publish in another column,
are doubtless due to realization that the fail.
ure Of secession was blessing. Hardly
an intelligent man can he foupd in the whole,
SECTOR i not k'sd that sslsssEllis -yonsf
Thought and spstc6< <havs been emancipatedI
and the states have entered upon a career o
prosperity and progress, of vigor and hope, such
as they never could have dreamed OF 70 years
ago and they know it is because they were
forced into the Union.
Our prohibitory friends arc making quie
strong still hunt to overthrow the present law.
A petition signed by clergymen prominent in
the state, calling upon the people to aid with
money and influence in creating sentiment
that will overthrow the licence law has been lS-
sued.