Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-29
THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION.

What the Republicans Say of ft-NOne
40 Poor rs go the President Honor.
Grants administration is being sharp~
ly criticised by leading Republican
presses, and politicians. They are forced
to admit the utter weakness Of the Pres
ident, his cabinet, and his appointments.
The New York Sun-a paper which
numbers among its stockholders such
prominent names as Marhall o. Rob-
erts, Roscoe Conklin, Edwin ID. Morgan,
Geo. Opdyke, f. A. Conkling, A. B.
Cornell, Cyrus W. Field, Thomas Muir
ply, ETC., ETC., says:
eve have been told that Gen. Grant
keeps two lists of names always by him,
both Of which he consnlts before making
any important appointment; one is a
list of the contributors TO the purchase
of the several houses presented to him
and the other is list of the stockholders
Of the Sun, taken from the complaint in
the libel suit of John Russell Young,
which, by the way, happens to be incor>
rect. No man, it is said, can receive any
important appointment-blOod and mar
riage relations always excepted-unless
his name is found upon the list of donors
to the President, and is not found on the
list of stockholders Of the Sun. We |
doubt whether the representation is en-
tirely correct; but thers is probably con-.
siderable foundation for it in truth. |
Thus it is proved by some Of the appoint-
ments to the cabinet, and other impor-
tant ofisers, that in making nominations
the President generally, if not invariably,
consults the list Of contributors toward
the purchase of his houses, and makes
selections from it."
The New York Nation, Radical, has
been examining the appointments made
by President Grant, from moral stand
point. Its conclusions are by no means
hattering TO the executive Of the nation.
The following paragraph will suffice as
giving an idea Of what those conclusions
are.
"No shiftless fellow with damaged
ever makes his way into an
office of either much or little value, for
which many have strived, without diff
fusing indifference to character, and with
out Increasing the popular confidence in
luck, and impotence, and CAB. How
many churches should we have to build,
and how many preachers to set agOing,
to neutralize the effect on the rising gen.
Grafton of the choice Of an infamous and
man, SCARED by almost every
vice and crime, for one of the highest
places in the gift of the governments
place in which he represented one great
nation to another, both republics, and
both passing through a crisis which
should, if any thing could, purify, and
Lightly, and ennoble their public lifes'
1t is given out upon reliable authority,
hat Mr.. Seward, before he started out
IN his recent tour, stated very explicitly,
hat within n year there would be a
oreak~up of President Grants sdminis-
ration, which he pronounced the weak
,st administration the country has ever
lad and he assigned as one reason for
,Oing away that he wished to be as far
,fF as possible when the breakup takes
place.
With all of Gen. Grants military re~
,utation he fails to inspire public en-
husiasm as President His recent tour
through the country to Boston, was not
marked by single public display in his
lonor. Never beforo in the history of
he country did q President Of the United
states make so long journey from
Washington without having rendered to
lin the evidences of the public estima-
ion in which the occupant of the high S
flee Of President is held. Upon such
ccasiOns the politics Of the President is
sually ignored. The President may
ersonally be unpopular, but heretofore
he people have not failed to respect the
flee. Verify Grants administration
GEMS to have fallen into contempt before {
has been in existence three months s