The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-30
MIR. GRANT TAKEN TO TASK.

Plain TalIs TO Him from Two Leading
Rcpublfcnn nPapcrs-Ncpotism and APP
potntn;cnts to Office OF Friends to be
stoppcd-strong Opposition IIintcd at.
From Cincinnati Commercial, October 2al
General Grant seemed TO be necessity to tho
Republican party when he was unanimously
nominated by the representatives Of that party
In convention assembled for the Presidency.
lic could have got along very well rs General
Commanding of the Armies, but the party
could not get along we'll without him In tile
Presidential campaign. Upon becoming Presl-
dent, the General seems TO have had q full and
clear appreciation oil the independence of his
position. So he made up the Cabinet, not of
distinguished Republican politicians, but of
his personal friends. They were ali rather Re-
publicnns than otherwise, but the Cabinet was
iearfuliy and wonderfully made The charge
has been made that Cabinet appoint
| menis occurred because the gentlemen APP
We do not believe ,sc presents had any
influence with tho j. ,ident They ought to
! have had an iu1ucnc md 1t should have pre-
vented the appointments. 1t happened that
| several among the valued personal friends OF
The President gave him money, and that he,
careless and Indifferent as to that, plnced them
high in Office. Not only in regard 10 his Cabi-
net, but throughout the country, the President
displayed the viyldncss ofhis remembrance and
the kecnness of his gratitude to his personal
friends When we come to count up the rcla-
very numerous. But lie has appointed person.
al friends and the friends OF friends and the
| iuvoritcs Of relatives TO u degree that Is not
credlolc to his sagncity as q man of the people.
In his announcement thnt he did not intend
10 have policy In conflict with the will of the
people he seems TO have been entirely sincere
HIS conduct In Office has given testimony 10
Tie strongest kind TO TINT effect. Whatever
| may have been his shortcomings lie has not
been burdcned with policy. So easy is lie OH
the duties OF his Office that he has abundant
leisure, which he spends Mt the seashore and ON
the mountains.
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Some matters, however, seem TO demand the
| serious attention Of the President. He nus
Just received n loud warning of the pcrlls by
iriends-thc dangers Of family Influences
the exceeding great hazard OF familiarity with
New York sharpers.
In this part OF the country the Influence OF
the Presidents filther has been absurd aud t."
furious. In New York we find II Mr.. Corbln,
known long ago in the Washington lobby and
ip Wall street MS n shrewd anu unscrupulous
operator, who, q few months since. assumed
the position of broiher-in-law of the President,
and began presently 10 speculate In that rcla-
tionship. 1t was Ills stock In trade. It gave
him familiarity with Gould anu Fisk, the most
| notorious of the Wall street gambler. He as
snmcd TO be able TO control appointments in
New York: There is too much reason TO he
licvc that he did control some of thcm-pcr.
iiaps that of General l'uttered among others
when the President passed through New
excursions, lie was the guest of his brothcr-in-
law; and this was entirely natural and proper.
for Mrs. Corbin IL his sister, who IL most ike
him, and who hns more Influence over him
than any other member OF his family. This
was Covington gossip before she was married.
ana her Influence WAS felt here in important
appointments previous TO that event.
rI.oUGiIiNG WITH A HELPER
! Failing tOget Ibis brOthcr-in-law committed
| in Wall street speculation, Corbin's next pro-
cecting would, OF course, be 10 influence Mrs.
Grant To allow him to make II little money tor
her. IL the President and his wife dabbicd n,
llttie in stocks and gold ut the suggestion and
under The direction Of their brother-in-luw
with Il brown stone front residence, evidently
| they were presently apprisetl that tic trunsacv
lion was not so distinguished by innocence as
| II had been represented TO them by their bril-
liant and persuasive relative.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
Messengers to Washington, Pcnnsvlva,iia,
and arguments by Jay Gould, and inquiries by
Jim FISK, meant something more than any as
ISOLATION OF the President and his family In
wall street SpccuatiOns, and was a simple ordi-
nary business affair. If the President was i'm,
he took care TO get out, and IT. Is quite possible
mat the consciousness That there hal been an
| elaborate effort TO use him had its influence in
causing the pcrcmpory order That he rave.
| us he says In The Bonner letter, for the sale OF
gold.
AND BOUTWELL, TOO.
While the bulls were ut work with the prcsi-
N>S'1et
tary ofthc Treasury in hand, und gave him n
fne dinner with the view Of plying him with
overwhelming arguments why he should sell
gold and crush ont the rascals. These were re-
formers in the same sense that the late re-
formers In Hamilton County were SO. They
were quite as wicked rs Fisk and Gould, Cor
bin or l'utterileld. They were In another ring,
that was oil. The game was to steal as bears
Instead OF as bulls.
THE MORAL.
Now we hope TINT in al this the President Will
learn one useful lesson. 1t is in brief: that not
only Is personal government played out in
monarchics, but that family influence will not
serve any good purpose with Chief Magls-
tratc; thnt In this position all families of hon
est people must be on the same footing; that
the Grants are not in the least better than
other folks because he Is President, but are
rather to be Disseminated against; that his
personal friends must be Judged by their ht-
ness rather than their friendship. If he can
learn this lesson speedily, aud give evidence
OF his Increase of knowledge, the people will
be swift TO forgive the errors already commit
ted; but II he remains I'm this particular dull
scholar, the degree of popular impaticnco that
lie must encounter may at least surprise him
good deal.
The Cnsc OF General Blu uttcrfic ficld-Grant's
Reputation Involved In the nIntter-