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September 5, 1868
The Carson Daily Appeal
Carson City, Ormsby County, Carson City County, Nevada
What is this article about?
The New York Tribune praises General Grant's magnanimous recommendation to the President for remitting penalties and releasing all persons imprisoned by Military Commissions under Reconstruction acts, highlighting his practical sympathy for Southern rebels over insincere Democratic professions.
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GRANT'S MANLY CLEMENCY TOWARD REBELS.—Says the New York Tribune:
Although General Grant has recommended to the President the remission of the penalties and the release from imprisonment of all persons now in confinement under sentence by Military Commissions organized under the Reconstruction acts, we do not find a single Democratic paper applauding his course. The professions made by these Copperhead journals of sympathy with the Southern people are false, and merely intended to gain votes. General Grant has shown more practical sympathy, and given more evidences of kindness toward the rebels, than all the Copperhead writers and politicians combined. His course has been singularly magnanimous, and yet he is denounced as seeking their murder or banishment, and the confiscation of their property.
Although General Grant has recommended to the President the remission of the penalties and the release from imprisonment of all persons now in confinement under sentence by Military Commissions organized under the Reconstruction acts, we do not find a single Democratic paper applauding his course. The professions made by these Copperhead journals of sympathy with the Southern people are false, and merely intended to gain votes. General Grant has shown more practical sympathy, and given more evidences of kindness toward the rebels, than all the Copperhead writers and politicians combined. His course has been singularly magnanimous, and yet he is denounced as seeking their murder or banishment, and the confiscation of their property.
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Historical Event
Heroic Act
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Grant Clemency
Rebels Release
Reconstruction Acts
Democratic Criticism
Copperhead Journals
What entities or persons were involved?
General Grant
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General Grant
Story Details
General Grant recommends to the President the remission of penalties and release of imprisoned persons under Reconstruction acts; the New York Tribune contrasts this magnanimity with Democratic papers' false sympathies and denunciations.