The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-10
G 0 L f A X.
An Important Letter from the Vice-President-
He is not Dissatisfied with President Grants
AOnointmenfs.

He Is not Dissatisfied with President Grants
Appointments.
SOUTH BEND, June l, 1862 TO the Editor Of the
Chicago Republican Your Washington correspon-
dent Zeta in his letter printed in your paper OF to-
day, says that "the friends OF Mr. COfaX are re-
ported TO have received letters from him, or from
parties who accompanied him on his last tour,
which complain a good deal Of the growing dissats-
faction with the administration on the part of
large number OF Republicans on account OF many OF
its appointments" and follows this with some insinu
ations as to the supposed benefit TO result TO me
personally by "casting shadow" upon General
Grant
friendness between the President and myself was
confined to Democratic papers, deemed It un-
worthy of notice; but when a Republican cores
pondent Of prominent Republican paper follows
the bad example, and publishes under the thin
guse OF 'repOrted" allegations on which to base it,
| ask this brief space in your columns to expose 1t
the Calumny that 1t is.
" There never has been, and is not now, the shadow
Of a shade OF such unfriendliness on either side.
have written no letter or letters to any one at wash
ngton or elsewhere speaking OF any dissatisfaction
Of any kind with the administration.
Nay, more than this to those who have complained
to me about appointments, have replied that If
General Grant had been inspired and infallible he
could not even then have satisfied 1.-THE OF the
vast number OF applicants because there were
twenty times as many persons VINO desired ana
really deserved appointments as there were offices
to bestow "The parties who accompanied me on
my late tour were my wife and sister only; and
they have written no such letters. The whole story
is a weak invention of some enemy, who has
probably deceived your correspondent with it.
Indeed the very reverse of this charge is proven
papers. At the Pacific Railroad celebration there,
May TO- said quoting only what shows the animus
of my remarks) =
"Who now presdes so faithfully over the
nation which, under Providence he saved, Ulysses
S, Grant"
'With that stern, inheXible, that outspoken main
tenance of our rights, and of our vindicaton from
wrong that has characterized since the 4th OF March
the administration of Ulysses s. Grant"
And in speech at Springfield ILL.,, May 90, "on his
late tour" in response TO public reception, spoke
warmly and cordially of ''the Presidents emphatic
declaration that the Government must be admins
tered with economy that the revenues must be faith
fully collected even if he had to remove officer after
olcer;" OF the respect he commanded for our nation
abroad by his bold frank, outspOken American po-
Icy, and of his determination to conduct rela-
tiOns with foreign nations 10y the inspired principle
of the Golden Rule.
Others have preferred as they have right to do,
to point out what they doom subject to criticism
erroneous or unwse But believing that the Presi-
dent has sriven to do all for the BEST have chosen
rather to direct public attention to what thought
all good citizens had right to rejoice and
mend. Respectfully, yours,
SCHUYLER COLFAX. 3