The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-05-14
PITY POOR GIANT!
Radical Sianders- Tho President {
ENTIRELY sober, and Only Tired" /"

bh htifciy CoUcF, ana Cnty EIrcu.'
Last Monday some Of Mr.. Washburne's
friends reached this city from New Y ok
where they had spent Sunday with him
They brought to the Capital the state
mont that on tho previous Saturday Gen.
Grant was grossly under The influence oi
Iliquor; they said that parties who left
Washington on Saturday night came TO
Waslb,rne IN New York on Sunday
and told him that The President (whon
they lad seen that Saturday, was maud
lin and drunk, so much so that the White
House was closed al two p. m., by order
of the staff Of Generals who surround
the Executive, end also by order Of door,
keeper Dent, his poor relation.
Forthwith, Mr.. Washburne's emissa-
ries brought tie news back TO Washing
ton, and told it to more than one Demo-
cratic correspondent here i'll hopes they
would telegraph it. They all knew it a
lie, because till 4 p. m. Of that day The
President received callers with perfect
propriety, and then rode out with his
wife and children in an open carriage,
entirely sober and only tired. This in
,cident shows the animus of the poiti-
clans of bis own party toward the Pres
ident. This report, too, was fortified
with all the circumstances calculated to
make it appear true. Men came and
said that they had seen the facts which
they fabricated.
This incident betokens have reason
to believe it was invented by Washburne
himself out of his knowledge Of its pos
sibiliiy in the case of Grant-the inten-
sitysnd unscrupulousness Of the war to
be waged on the President by his own
party. The most trustworthy advices
are to the effect that these attacks on the
Executive arc telling Oh the man. He is
becoming crusty. suspicious, morose and
chronically unhappy. His body and
mind are both suffering. He finds the
Presidency too large for him. That is
the whole matter. His health is not
good. He has had to shut up shop six
times already in as many weeks. He is
losing flesh. Visitors complain of his
brusqueness, and many of them of his
temper.
Every day at four o'clock he runs off
for a ride and smoke. and he has who'll
ly stopped receiving visitors nights
These he spends with his household in
the private family rooms of the Execu-
tive Mansion. The few admitted there
speak of him as giving the appearance of
being thoroughly tagged out by each
days round of work. He smokes in
ccssantly. and sits for hours with his lit
tie girls hand in his own. not saving a.
word, and never rallying except his wife
makes ii point that he shall.
And now for four years the President
is faced by the distrusts, the iealousies
and the hates which his mingled policy
of nepotism and neglect in regard TO ap-
pOlntments has soNn. Will he stand il n
That is question which every one asks
here and nobody answers.
There is no question, however that no
one hearing the abuse and seeing thel
work which are heaped upon him cam
fail 10 pity and not envy bis lot. He isl
credited with gigantic policy OF annex
alton and agGrrs sion, and, at least. al
couple OF foreign wars are laid To his in
tentions. have reason to believe thatl
there are people officially near 10 himl
who entertain these designs. and that he
is fond of them. toe. and would nj once
consider them, If his entire lack Of civil
courage. and his daily crushing cross ofl
civil labor allowed him time. But it is
certain that he iinds ihe toll and trouble
Df affairs, rs they now stand, and as they
hourly compilcatc, too much for him.
Congress gone end nominations over.
ne may be less hampcrcd or at least less
exposed 10 the literal war of remon-
STRANGE and solicitation which has been
wagcd upon him. Put this is mere con-
lecture. and is not borne out by the last
President. Andrew Johnson found that
! recess of Congress gave him Just as
much TO do and TO bear as its session,
banded against him rs il was. And. too.
5on. Grant is evidently not man of af-
airs. For the ramiied duties. the va
lied, diiiusc, and often conflicting con-
'ideiations Of the Presidency. he betrays
ieither aptitude nor capacity. Indeed, |,
ne is known TO be bored by every appli-
,ation or request which relates specific
My to any one of the departments.
He refers such applicants curtly and
ito Mr.. Fish," "AIr. Creswcll,"
or any other Mr.. Secretary, frequently /
laively adding: II know nothing of
.hese things; You must go to the Depart
nent." Far from finding The President
man of purpose the Cabinet know him
o be one of the most plastic Of men. He
seems to have exercised his own unaided
Judgment exclusively in the selection of
lis Cabinet at first. That went to pieces
% fast that he has always ever since
caned OIL others. "His Cabinet run
him" is the common saying here, and
hey might hatch a conspiracy under his
very nose and he would be none the Z
wiser till he had rcod IL In tho no,rono