The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Said President Lincoln Of Ulysses S.
During the Perilous Days Of the Civi

with the sings and arrows Of enemy
friends. AS he put it: II suffer the
mortification OF seeing myself abused
right and left by people at home pro-
Tossing patriotism and love OF country.
who never heard the whistle of hos
tile bullet. / pity them and nation
dependent upon suck for its existence,
I am thankful. however. although
such people make a great noise, the
masses are not like them He was
also one Of the first apostles OF what
we now call characterization" In
1870 he asked Congress Ito take all
the means within its Constitutional
power to promote and encourage popu-.
lar education throughout the country.
and upon the people everywhere to
see to it that all who possess and ex-
ercise political rights shall have the
opportunity to acquire the knowledge
which will make their share in the
Government a blessing and not a
danger
| Took a Deep Interest in
Welfare of the Negro
The great questions of emancipation.
equal citizenship and negro suffrage,
as embodied in the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments, had
already been accepted or submitted to
the States for ratification. President
Grant found even the suffrage a closed
issue. The North had been permeated
by the abolitionist's belief that the
negro was black white man, who
needed only to be let alone for few
years to reach the full stature OF an
American citizen The suffrage had
educated the foreign immigrants, why
not the home grown black people?
Grant accepted all these measures as
the law of the land.
AS for the white people of the
South, it was Grant who gave to Lee
at Appomattox those humane terms.
which are still remembered In the
South. 1t was Grant also who, when
Stanton gave orders for the arrest OF
Lee and other military leaders, served
informal notice that he would not per-
nit those who had surrendered as
prisoners OF war and been paroled to
be tried before civil court. 1t was
Grant who appointed Confederate
General to a Federal Office In hope
Of encouraging former enemies to sup
port tie Administration. He did not
enter his office with the purpose of
humiliating defeated enemies. The
eventual exclusions from public office
because of connection with the Con-
! federacy came down to about three
hundred among whom unfortunately
Robert e. Lee was allowed to remain.
Grant, however. was stirred to his
roots by the determined effort to
nullify directly or indirectly all the
amendments and particularly the suf-
| frage provision. AS early as 1870
lawless bands began to appear in the
South, which called themselves the
Ku Klux Klan. They were revival
Of the old fashioned volunteer patrols
used in slavery times. and their OBJ
ject was to terrorize negro and wEite
Republican voters Some recent
writer's and makers Of incendiary
| movie pictures, particularly the So
called Birth Of Nation" have tried
to make this generation believe that
Gen. Grant winked at the looting and
burning of towns by negro soldiers
/ under the command of white officers.
That is gratuitous insult to the army
| of which Grant lad been military
chief and was then legal Commander
in Chief. There never was such An in
cident in the whole history. OF recon-
struction. Lootings and burnings
there were, but by the mysterious
Eooded cohorts that were ghosts to
the timid and rifles to the resisters.
To Grants mind the whole Ku Klux
movement was not only an attack on
civilization but on the Government OF
the United States.
He therefore urged and cooperated
IN the so-called Force Act of 1870 the
act for Federal control of elections OF
1871, and the Ku klux Act Of the same
year. Under these acts he suspended
the habeas corpus in certain Southern
counties and used troops to protect
the polls. Perhaps without such meas
ures the Southern vote would have
been so diminished in the South as to