The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-31
Datlp Argus.
wednesday Rvsnins, May 81, AN.

TEN years ago Ulysses S. Grant, then in
the full vigoF Of manhood, and having the
rare advantage of the best education which
the wisdom of the State had been able to
devise, was forced to accept clerkship in
u leather store, rendered TO him because OF
the obligations which blood relationship ere.
Atss. We say forced, because the sentiment
Of pride kept him aloof from suoh posi-
tiOn, so long as there was hope of bread in
any other direction.
The war, by the grace Of Cbas. Sumner
and his friends, came to the reliefot this
imbeciie, and to-day he is proving his graf
itude to his creators in the usual way OF
those torpid beings who need warming be-
fore being able to crawl or strike.
What commentary on human folly, is
embraced in the changed relations of the
principal pa1ties to the great contest which
is now going on in the disrupted Republican
party. Grant and Butler loving and sri-
umphGnt-Sumner Trumbull under foot !
Imagine the Hon. Chas. meeting Grant ten
years ago in Galena, and after being made
acquainted with his anteoedents and present
position, informed that this man should, in
less than decade, have il in his power to
break up and crush the vast organization
which himself and militant host of rsdi
Gals had so lAbored and agonized TO create
nuartar If
From the outset Of his administration
Grant has violated every law of decency il
his treatment of the great radical lights
che they have borne their humiliGtions 10 4
spirit when certainly had found wiser ust
had il been eviuced before the commence
nent of the war--whioh had then never
been.
The men of ideas having inGugursted
the era Of violence can not escape the
penalty which Providence awards them
for their treaohery to humanity; and Il
ia some satisfaction 20 see the lash well lAiC
on the shoulders of the great criminals
through our contempt for the executive is
if possible, magni6ed by the manner Of biz
treatment of those who made possible tina
such man as himself should enjoy the chic
place in the gift Of great people.
That Grant is essentially deficient il
those grSoes which shonld sdorn the com.
moneSt life in land where educational snt
other advantages are so nearly universal, i
undeniAble, and the disgrace which at;ache
10 his elevation is greater than any oshe
which marks the hiStory of our country
on par with that which dictated the ohoic
Of Louis Napoleon for President of Franc
Republic. And we are very grateful 70
the fact that our dictator stands L
chance Of being sble to psrpesuAse his leas
of power.
Since the first moment Of his accessio
70 power Grant has betrayed his conscious
mesa OF want Of those qualities which 81
necessary to q wise and strong administer
tion of the executive office, by avoiding, q
much as possible, all contact with the bel
men III the republican party This he he
done under the shallow presenoe that
meant to "cut" the politicians and CO.
cred, or thinking himself covered by tn
thin veil of fslSehood, he has called to h
aid men who have never betrayed al
ApIness for public affairs, and whose So
recommendation TO himself must have bee
one of two things-eisher their ignorsnct
or the fact tina; they had paved the way
office with gifts. The President has shrsn
from the light which thus would have bee
turned upon his character, and whiC
have betrayed his essential and hopeless
poverty both in moral and mental poir
of view.