Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-02

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z to Office by the administratic
Without taking my advice t
L President and Secretary of Sta
succeeded in giving a constitution
drunkard a good mission and
constitutional thief consulat
q besides crediting Pennsylvan
with Secretary of the Navy wi
has succeeded within six weeks
riding the party of every workin
mans vote. The only minister "
r have Except negro who came
be voter in our State) lisa man s,
down for Russia who ought to
sent to Lobas Islands rice guam
remoUed." Schurz says to and {
the President "Your selection
are unknown men who do nc
represent the party or conduce
its strength in the State of Mis-
souri," And to the Senate: " Ihop
that men who have dared to i'm
peach one President will not fincl
before the face of another"
| Ross, Fowler and Brownlow hav
openly broken with the President
and Sprague says, He is utterly
tied up by the politicians; Ehavt
no hope of him. / have departed
from him"
| The Vermont Senator's gravely
and publicly complain that theil
State has not single appointment
| just because they, on principle, op
| posed and defeated the repeal O
| the tenure of-office law. Mr.. Ed.
munds takes pains to snub the
President on every occasion. He
declared, when the President SEM
in message requesting action in
the case of Virginia and Missis-
sippi: .That the President had
all the power under the existing
laws, ifhe aoaS only acquainted soin
them" Howard, of Michigan, said
the same thing, and always acts
that it may be understood that abe
takes no stock in toadying to
/ Grant"
| Senator Trumbull, failing to be
recognized and appreciated because
of his action in the tenure of Office
matter, openly denounces all Sena-
tors who seek Office of the President
or his Secretaries, and declares his
intention ofoffering a bill to make
it a penal offence for Congressman
| even so much as to put their names
to papers asking appointments.
All the carpet baggers declare
that they have been told to rebate
their claims because, forsooth, the
South before 1860 had a majority
of the offices, and because they
have been informed that enough
men OF intelligence and character
cannot be found in any or all of the
six States, "the aChite vote having
been so small down there" Mr..
Sawyer, of Massachutts, announces
from his place as Senator of South
Carolina, that the administration
has pursued exactly such a policy
as will demoralize and dishearten
the Republican party in the South,
and that Gen. Grant and Mr.. Fish
have verified the taunt of the South
ern whites to the Southern Sena-
tors, "that they represent nobody"
Gen. Grant tells Mr.. Sumner: 81
especially desire favorable report
on and full confirmation of Messrs.
Sanford, j. Russell Jones, and John
S. Carlile," and forthwith all were
killed with indecent haste in a
1 single executive session. Likewise,
William A. Pile, on whom, not sat
isfied with the Venezuelan mission,
Grant thrust the greatness of the
Brazilian mission, is rejected, and
even contumeliously so, On the
published ground of incompe-
tency" --.
Ben. Butler said when Grant
caved on the tenure-of-office ques-
ton: "The President doesn't know
anything more about law than an
old hen, and any one can wind him
around his fingers"
THE PRESIDENT AS A MAN
There is no doubt that President
Grant among men Of sensibility of
both parties is more an object of
sympathy than criticism or blame.
The quotations above given are not
only an exhibit of the estimate in
which the Republican leaders regard
him, but they are evidence of the
sort of war he does encounter, and
is bound to encounter more and
more every day. For instance, to
show how petty and personal is this
war: Last Monday some of Mr.
Washburne's friends reached this
city from New York, where they
had spent Sunday with him. They
brought to the capital the statement,
that on the previous Saturday Gen.
Grantwas grossly under the influence
of liquor they said that parties who
left Washington on Saturday night
came to Washburne in New York on
Sunday and told him that the Presi-
dent (WhOm they had seen that Sat~
urday) was maudlin and drunk, so
much so that the White House was
closed at 2 p. M. by order of the
staff of generals who surrounded
the Executive, and also by order of
Doorkeeper Dent, his poor relation.
Forthwith, Washburne's emissaries
brought the news back to Wash
ington, and told it to more than
one Democratic correspondent here
in hopes they would telegraph it.
They all knew it a lie, because till A
P. NJ. of that day the President re-
ceived calls with perfect propriety,
and then rode out with his wife
and children in an open carriage,
entirely sober and only tired.
This incident shows the ami
mus of the politicians of his own
party towards the President. This
report, too, vas fortified with all the
circumstances calculated to make it
appear true. Men came and said
that they had seen the facts which
they fabricated. What / have
quoted from the leading Republicans
as indicative of their opinion of
Gen. Grants action in appointments
and of the appointment themselves,
and what animus this Incident he