Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-13

Mrs fcTyE IId he not pardon l92 dis
franchised deserters and restore TO them
$4,000 of forfeited pay, as bride to Sc
cure their votes at an election in Pennsyl-
vania? Has not his whole Official career,
when compared with the platform and
pledges, express and Implied, under which
he was elected to office, been a continual
four years lie, unredeemed by single
element Of truth or fidelity? And this is
the man whose sublime impudence induces
him TO believe he can shake the veracity
of Ulysses S. Grant in the judgment Of The
American people!
What does he bring forward to sustain
so precautions position? He shows
clearly that he demanded that General
Grant should unite with him in disobeying
and defying the Tenure of Office law; that
when General Grant argued that this
would be criminal act, involving fine and
imprisonment, the President, with that au-
.lacious moral ignorance and blunted sense
of honor which rendered him blind TO the
moral turpitude of disobedience of law,
dared to tempt the second military officer
of the republic TO violate the law, by cum
ningly offering to sustain the penalty in his
stead. Secretary Stanton was an officer
whom the President confessedIy had tried
to remove and could not. He had no
more legal power TO remove him than TO
Dust Judge of the Supreme Court. He
tries to tempt General Grant TO keep him
ousted by physical force, in disobedience
of law, and as an inducement offers TO in
cur In his stead the fine aSSd imnrisonment
due TO criminal. Generous offer, indeed.
1t lacks even the magnificence of the prop
osition with which the devil tempted
Christ.
The President does not claim that Gen
eral Grant promised expressly 10 comply
with his crimina; wishes, bu, claims that
he expected and understood that General
Grant would do so. General Grant denies
that the President could properly have
expected or understood anything of the
kind II is evident that Grant, with his
keener sense ofthe inviolability of law,
deemed it sufficient to state his views of
what the law required, and waited for the |
President to convince him that the law did |
not so require. Instead of attempting to |
DO so the President confessed that what he
asked was Illegal, by offering to stand the
punishment due TO the disobedience of the |
law. Such an offer confirmed instead of |
shaking Grants view of the case, and |
hence confirmed bis resolution to obey the |
law rather than the President. The Presi !
dent, looking at the General from :he low
standpoint of voluntary criminal thought
he had answered Grants objection, when
in reality be had strengthened 1t. Thus
they parted, and hence this correspon-
dencc. Grant charges the President with
,cilfi Misrepresentation, which is the
octosyllabic expression Tor lying =
Andrew johnson has committed no act
in his perverse and perfdious Presidential
career which will SO call down upon him |
the righteous wrath, the overwhelming
Indignation of the American people, as |
this vile and scurrillous attempt, 10 attack |
the honor of one whose fair fame had pre-
viously been held sacred from the pollu- |
ting breath of SANDER by both friends and |
enemies The people viii rcnae-i... ono |
The man who could accuse |
General GRAFT of Misrepresentation must |
be himself liar. Let him beware how he |
imposes 100 audaciously upon the patience |
and equanimity Of the American people |
They have borne with his political often
ces. but they do not propose to allow, one
after another, erery prominent soldier of
the war, who does not bow the knee To |
Baal johnson, to be beIeaded. Stanton.
the greatest war Secretary Of the aye, the |
very viii of the government during IFS
darkest hours, carries the Presidents poi
soned Arrows in his person.. Sheridan, be-
loved of the people and of his General in
Chief, was struck down by refined NAL
ice which compelled the hand of his
warrncst friend TO transmit the blow.
Sickles and Pope were punished for no
other crime than fidelity 10 The laws of
Congress. Now the President seeks to
bring the same batteries to bear on Gener-
al Grant, the first hero of this age, and the
highest in the hearts of The American peo-
pie Thus far the General has shown
himself the better marksman even in this
war of words, which he so heartily despis-
es- He has got and kept the range of his
enemy, has dsmounted his guns and
silenced his fire. But we The people do
not intend that General Grant shall crown
bis long services to the republic by being
compelled to submit to any assault with
camouf1ets from Andrew johnson. The
President is brave at throwing filth, though
he covered and ran when the guns Of
Nashville. But war of SANDER and lies,
a veritab.e siege of pole cats, is no equal
contest for General Grant. The injury
which he susiains in it disgraces not merely
the President who inf1icts, but the nation
which suffers it. 1t is safe to say that
without Stanton OF Grant, the rebellion
would have triumphed. To the, combin-
ed characters and efforts the country owes
Iis very existence. To Andrew Johnson
il owes nothing but the lesson that our
country survives though a scoundrel be
President.
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