Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1869 — Insults to General Grant. [ARTICLE]

Insults to General Grant.

Mr. Andrew JohAson, if the report of a "conversation with him be correct —and t.he World publishes the matter as if it were oi importance to —is of opinion that General Grant is “ a farce," and ‘a little fellow," and “treacherous," and that ho “lied flagrantly," and that his presence in the White House is “degrading” to tiie Presidency, lu the words of the Declaration, which are very familiar to us nil at this season, it would seem that - “ a decent respect for the opinions of mankind ” would make Mr. Andrew Johnson cvremely careful of allusions U) treachery and degradation in connection with the -Presidency ot the Ifniteii States. It. is the fate of tbe greatest benefactors of their country to be subject to slander. Tho old Aurora said as foul things of Washington as ever the rebel and Demc- | cratic newspapers said of Lincoln, as Mr. j Andrew Johnson and the World ca.i say of General Grant. But somehow the pe< - rde th ugbt that the Aurora'e ribaldry or tne Copperhead hiss could hardly lessen the lustre ot the inestimable nationaleirviets oi Washington and Lincoln ; and when they read tho feeble insults of Mr. Andrew jolibson and the World upon a man whose career is what General Grant’s has been, in the words of the amusing college song, “ they don’t seem to take no kind of interest in it.’’ —Harper x Weekly