General Grant seems to intend a policy towards the South at once politically rigid and socially humane. He has appointed the famous Confederate General Longstreet Surveyor of Customs at New Orleans — an office which will give him no political power, and yet show confidence in the honor and ability of his former foe. The Pall Mall Gazette appears to anticipate that the Republican party will set up a howl at the prospect of any of their foes receiving recognition or kindness from the United States Government at all. There may be some leading members of the Republican party who take this low and vulgar view ; but there is no sign of its being taken by the party as a whole, and the Pall Mall Gazette probably confuses the disgust excited by Mr Johnson's attempt to throw to the winds the political results of the war, with a feeling of vindictiveness which does not really exist. .
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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 526, 1 June 1869, Page 3
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