The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-01
GRANT THE FATHER, AND GRANT
THE SON.


rusaI Of our readers to an article and pro.
ceedings of the Superior Court Of the city OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, headed "A Case Of Cotton
Speculation-Grant the Father. and Grant
the Son-An Ugly Affair." to be found on
our first page. On the 18th ult we charged
on the only reasonable hypothesis, and from
information obt aimed from an Illinois officer.
who bad served under Grant in the Vicks'
burg campaign, that Grants inbuman class
order, promulgated (recolect) in December,
1862, requiring all Jews" men. women and
children, to be "expeled" from bis lines
within twenty four hours from the time Of
it's reception by post commanders, that this
order grew out Of tbeving speculatious Of
Grant and his favorites, but we confess at
that time we we're not prepared to believe
that Jesse r Grant, General Grants father,
was at the Generals headquarters obtaining
illegal and unlawful permits, TO engage in
this illicit and contrsband trade. from his
sou, anc selling 'ham on condition that be
should become partners and share one-fourth
the net profits. Worthy son, worthy sire
Like father, like son. Well might Judge
Storer proclaim as he did in Court, " The
whole Of this trade, as disclosed in this pro-
ceediug, is not only disgraceful, but tends
directly to disgrace the country. 1t IS the
price of blood" But to the case. " The
p aintff General Grants fathsr), AYERS that
in December, 1862, (he same month and
year Of the jew order y be entered into
partnership with defendants Mack Brothers)
fbr the purchase Of cotton in the military
department of u. s Grant, the condition OF
said agreement was, that defendants were 10
furnish the capital, and the men to purchase
the cotton, and the plaintiff Jesse r. Gran')
to procure at the headquarters Of General
Grant a permit, to purchase it," &c
RscolIec. the Jew order" was issued on
the 18th day Of December, 1862, and on the
18th the Jews were all expelled and in til.
sans mouth General Grant issued permits
(as soon as his depar' ment was cleared of
all other traders) to Grant d Mack Brothers,
which authorizes them to purchase, secure
transportation, (army 10 doubD and Other
facilities" &c. So far SO good. Mack
Brothers furnished the men and capital to
purchase, and old Grant got the permits from
his son Ulysses. 1.-The transportation, and
other facilities were all on hand, free IN
gress and egress into and out OF Grants lines,
into and out Of the rebel lines, a stavng
business was done, lots OF cotton bought for
u mere song, transported free, and sold for
$4OO per BALE But 10 ! au important thing
was lacking. viz honor among thieves. "
: Mack Brothers sold the cotton. got the
money, put i, in their pockets, and refused
to divide with Ulysses and his "pap.' In
this awk ward state Of affairs we suppose the
two Grants. Father and son, Ulysses and
Pap, had a consultation as to how they
should recover the price OF the blood sold for
this cotton. aud that Samuel, Wy ssss said:
Sue EN- Pap, sue EN-" jesse Pap went
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Tense set up that old Grant contributed
nothing lawful to the firm, in other words,
that the permits, transportation and ott or
facilities were forbidden, illegal, and void,
that General Grant had no such legal power,
that this whole power WAS by law gwen TO
the Secretary of the Treasury, and that the
Grants deserved nothing but a leprimand
for the father, and a court martial for the
son The Court, in substances, 80 held md
the Grants were glad to settle the whole
matter for a few dollars and hush it up.
Who Gan contsmp plate, lot him be Rspubli-
can or Democrat, this sckening, disgusting,
thisvug expose, with the fact before his eyes,
tba, the prime mover. instigator, and con-
summstor, through illegal and tyrannica'
army orders, Ulysses S. Grant, is a candidate
,, for President Of the United States, without
; feeling an utter disgust for the party tnal
pu. him before the American peoples The
son who would corrupt, and prostitute bis
poor old father, whose soul is trembling upon
the very brink OF an awful and unknown ster
nifty, to 90 base, sinful, shameless and wick
> cd q purpose, is beneath the coDteDpt OF the
vest Of mankind When so venerable able
and pure Judge as Judge Storsr. dsuounces
these acts as the "prics Of blood" what will
the American people say to Ulysses Gran,
on the Ord day Of November usxt' Oh
! shame where is thy blush!
LINCOLN Mass MEETINo.-The Democracy
in the western portion Of Placer are going