Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-25
WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM
GRANT?

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The government cannot survive the
corrupt and proaigate appropriation of
the public lands, for the enrichment of
party favorites and members Of Congress.
The Legislative speeulations in articles
included in revenue bills such as are
being practiced, an exposure of which, by
Gov. Church, of New York, we published
yesterday, will soon breed. q rottenncss
that will involve every public depart
ment. The favoritisE to certain sections
and to certain interests in the arrange
mcnt of tariff duties, tends tOthe erection
of monopolies, and the engendering Of
hostilities between classes, and will soon
undermine the public confidence in the
honesty ard justice of the government
The systematic and scarcely concealed
populations in the collection of the pub-
lie revenues, is a general demoraliziug
agency, and a public scandal.
There are those who dare to hope
that the schedule of abuses be-
low enumerated, would, to a degree,
be remedied under the Presidency of
Grant. But has the country any such
assurance? He will maintain the recon
structiOn laws, with all the disgusting Sc
quences here pointed out Of that there
can be no doubt. His candidacy Of the
party was the result of the same species
Ofhuckstering and intrigue that originates
and fosters all the giant corruptions that
flourish so rifely. He has not the tenn
per, nor the will to discourage them. He
is but clay in the hands of the political
| stockholders who shelYed all the
representative men of the Radi-
cal party, and thrust him forward for
their own uses. There is nothing in his
character to induce the belief that under
his administration all these evils would
not continue to flourish. On the con-
trary, his public career proves him to be
one Of that good natured, goOd-for- moth
ing, negative sort of individuals, in whose
possession power is most apt to succumb
to corrupt influences of every kind.
The New York Express gives these
as list of "facts for the people,"
l. That this government has giver
away to corporations half as much Of the
public domain since 1868, as was giver
away during the previous seventy five
| years, and that the amount thus bestowed
is equal to S200,000,000.
3 That the amount taken from the U
| S. Treasury by the present Congress
in the taxes Of which certain manufac
turerS are relieved in their own interest
is equal to S6j,O000O0 direct, and SIS,
100000 in the reduced revenue from
foreign imports.
3. That the controlling Pennsylyani;
and New England manufacturers, as The
price Of their allegiance to Radicalism, de
manded either that there should be ;
new tariff, such as was reported, adding
from ten to fifty per cent. to the duties
on imports, or, in the event Of this failing
that taxes should be thrown from al
manufactures except gas, tobacco, an6
whisky, and the general tax on trades
and business. The loss Of SS0,OOOOOC
to the government is just so much in the
| pockets Of those who demanded the re-
l duction. The effect has been literally tc
make the rich richer, and the poor
poorer.
l. That in three years the secret in.
come put into the Treasury has been
over 100000 a month for three years
or S2S,O00O00 a year for three years
which the Wellses and Atkinsons take
/ very good care to conceal from the peoplt
1 in the way Of expenditure. This IS be
yond all taxes paid by the people.
). The government is to-day living be
| yond its income, and must SO live as Ions
as RadicaliSm reigns in the land.
G. The election Of Gen. Grant mean.
the perpetuation Of Radical power. w,
say this with knowledge Of the man o
! whom we speak.
Gen. Grant will acquieSce in the tenure
Of Office bill-in NEGRO suffrage, in on,
/ kind Of suffrage for States North and an
! other for States South F.; and as this i
! unjust, oppressive and detestable, ther,
4 can be no peace in such a policy as his
/ Besides, it means enforced negro suf
frage by military power; and this IS no
2 | peace, but discOrd, dishonor and deSpOt
ism. Again, the act TO engraft and t
| keep engrafted upon Southern cOnstitu
tons the disability TO hold Office iron
men who took prominent part in the re
7 bellion, embraces all the intelligent PEG
t | pie Of the South. Southern people ar
called upon:
First-TO make negro State Senators
Second-To make negro Assembly
, / men.
L Third-To make negro Justices of tn
q | Peace.
Fourth-To make negro Policemen.
Filth-To make the negro legislator
generally.
G It's not merely the ballot which tn
y 1 North puts into the hands of the South
l crn negro, by the aid Of Federal bayc
4 nets, but OFEICE.
We do not commit this injustice upo
n ourselves. Why should we insist upo
r | the great wrong of degrading great State
and millions Of white people, merely
give these States over to the Radica
power and influence