AMERICAN STATESMEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 223, 22 September 1869, Page 2

AMERICAN STATESMEN.

Among many other lessons, says the Pall Mall Gazette, which we might learn with advantage from the Americans, the kindly feeling with which their public men speak of each other ought to be an example to o'ir statemeu at home. The correspondent of the New York Herald lately had an interview with ex-President Johnson, who expressed himself most tenderly with regard to President Grant. "I know Grant thoroughly," said Mr.. Johnson, " [ had ample opportunity to study him when I was President, and I am convince! he is the greatest farce that was ever thrust on a people. Why, the little fellow — excuse me for using the expression but I can't help pitying him —the little fellow has nothing in him. He is mendacious, cunning, and treacherous. He hasn't a single idea. He has no policy, no conceptiou of what the country requires. He lied to me flagrautly. He is nothing more than a bundle of petty spites, jealousies and resentments, an upstart, a mere accident of the war, a creature without the ability to comprehend the philosophy of a single great question, Physically, and mentally, and morally he is a nonentity. His soul is so small that you could put it into the periphery of a hazel nutshell, and it might float about a thousand years without, knocking against the walls of the shell. That's the size of his soul. He is a mean, avaricious, cunning, spitefull man, a complete bundle of petty jealousies, spites, and lies. He has no courage" —and so on through a column and a half of the Herald, which informs us that the ex-President said a great many other things spicy and interesting, which are not reported. It is impossible, on reading this account of a great man in his retirement, not to look with yearning eyes on that land of liberty which has no one to interfere with that freedom of speech, which is the delightful characteristic of her children.