General Grant is now the candidate of the Republican party
alone, having bitterly quarrelled with the Democrats and the President on the subject of Mr. Stanton's reinstatement in the War Office. The President charges him with having broken his word of honour to deliver up his keys of office as acting Secretary of War to himself (Mr. Johnson}, and to give him, Mr. Johnson, fair notice of his evacuation of the post, whereas he actually gave it up to Mr. Stanton without any notice to the President. Tho President quotes the attestation's of four Secretaries of State to this honourable understanding, and the correspondence, like almost everything Mr. Johnson touches, has become an indecent scandal, in which strictly private conversations are made the theme of public controversy. General Grant, on his side, avows his sym- pathy with. Congress, and denies positively the truth of the Presi- dent's charge. His friends appear to believe that he answered the President's request evasively,—purposely to avoid committing himself,—and that the President understood him as assenting. The Upshot of the whole is that General Grant is now the Republican nominee, and the target for the most violent abuse from the Democrats and Mr. Johnson's friends.
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