The Cairo Daily Bulletin

Now that Mr. Greeley has grown so tender-hearted, can he not be prevailed upon to say fewer hard things about General Grant? -Shawneetown Mercury.

The 'Mercury' has not followed the Bulletin in its treatment of Grant. We believe no Liberal paper in the country has dealt more leniently with the President than this journal. We have said as little as possible in condemnation of him, and the 'Mercury' has not denied one of our charges. We have said he has appointed men to office who had given him valuable presents, and seemingly for that reason alone: that his relatives have nearly all been allowed to get to the public teat: that he has manifested a stolid indifference, which looked like ignorance, to his duties and the constitution and the laws: that he has elevated to office red-handed traitors and put out of office loyal men for no good reason, and have made other charges susceptible of as clear proof: but we have not abused Grant-have said he was a very good because a very successful soldier, and that he would be guilty of fewer crimes against the public weal if he were not utterly ignorant of the principles of our government.

How much less would the 'Mercury' have us say than this --how much less could we say and not be guilty of a neglect of our duty as a truthful journalist? The 'Mercury' has not done us justice in this matter, and we ask it to withdraw the charge which by implication it has made in the sentence above quoted.