Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-27
GEN. arsnt-How They Got Him.

We always thought it strange, in q
shrewd aud economical point OF view,
that General Grant (Hiram, Sam, or
ULYSSES, whatever his name may be--a
question yet in dispute) should consent
to give up the command of the army and
his pay of $4,000 year for life, in
order to be President for four years-if
he gets it--at 5000 year. The ST.
Paul Pioneer explains the mystery.
The RAIDS we're obliged to have him, for
their cause, already stencil in the pee
ple's nostris, was not to be relied upon,
and the gunpowder popularity and
bloody butchery Of Grant was the only
hopeful card in their pack. Accordingly
when Ulysses went to figuring up his
losses by becoming their candidate, they
had nothing to do but to buy him up to
head their ticket The St. Paul paper
thus tells the story:
GRANT PAID 100000 AND BOUGHT UP TO
BE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Grant holds life Office, worth SIG 1000
a year at least. When the bondhoiders
and gold sharks frat appealed to him to
be a candidate for Presdest, he repre-
scented the common sense view of the
case, that he could not afford it-ihat it
would be folly for him to throw up life
Office worth $4,000 year, for four
years Office worth $4,000 a year. In
order TO overcome this scruple, the gold
ring entered into an accurate calculation
Of how much he would sacrifice, by taking
the Office of President. He is now say
forty-6ye years of age, and may live till
he is seventy. An Office worth $4,000
annually, would produce in twenty five
years S400, 900. But the Presidency four
years would only produce 100000, or,
in other words, he would lose $500, 900
by throwing up his generalship, even il
be was elected President 1t is matter
Of fact and susceptible Of proof that the
corrupt ring who made Grant the candi.
date, then raised that amount of money
$500, 000-and gave it TO him, in con-
sideration of his consent to become the
Radical Presidential candidate.
Now, suppose Grant should be elected
whose President would he be2 Wouls
he be the President Of the people, or Of
the ring that has already bought him up
1t is impossible that be should accept
this immense gift without placing him
self under irredeemable obligations to tbs
men who contributed il. He has beer
already bought with price. he is M
longer bis own owner, but the property
Of the gold and bond ring. th'
tariff ring, the whisky ring, tn.
thieves, spectators, contractors. shod
dy lords, mill owners, bondholderl
and national bankers generally, who
paid their money for him. He canno
be independent, for in accepting theii
money be has parted with bis indie
pendence. he cannot be honest, for il
selling himself he has parted With hi
honesty. II among the misfortunes tha
q good Providence has in store for US, il
TO be his election 10 the Presidency, ",
should have the mere tool Of TIE bcsd
ocracy, and all the corrupt rings in d,
chez. % he Chief Magistrate.
With this disgraceful state OF facts, ihi
declaration Of Grant that be would hAv'
mo policy" acquires new signifcsnce
he will have no policy, for the men tha
paid him $500, 600 will dictate bis policy
The mouey with which be was bonsh
will be President, and not himself