The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-30
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WHY GOOD CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY
REPUBLICANS, SHOULD BE HOSTILE
TO GEN GRANT

WHY GOOD CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY
REPUBLICANS, SHOULD BE HOSTILE
TO GEN. GRANT.
ETon, the NJ Y. Sun.
The Times asks why Mr.. Marshall o.
Roberts should be hostile to General Grant.
This implies that he is SO; and as Gen. Grant
has shown himself hostile to Mr.. Roberts, by
having him falsely and slanderously assailed
in the Times if not otherwise, it would not
be astonishing if feeling of resentment had
been aroused in the mind of that gentleman.
However, we have no other evidence of such
o fact than is afforded by the Times itself,
and that is certainly not very good. But
without assuming to know whether the senti-
ment OF Mr.. Roberts is actually hostile to
Gen. Grant or not, there are plenty of rea-
sons, and strong reasons, why it ought to be,
and why every other good Republican, and
every good citizen of every party, should
share the same feeling of hostility. Some of
these reasons we will now give. We say that
every good Republican and every good citi-
zen should be hostile to Gen. Grant as Pre-
sident, and as a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination in 1922
1. Because he has destroyed his own honor
able fame as patriotic and able soldier by
the incapacity, folly, and corruption of his
civil administration.
H. Because he has appointed men like A.
T. Stewart and Hamilton Fish to high Office
when they were not Republicans, without
regard to whether they were capable, or
even legally eligible, because they had given
him presents.
Ill Because he has selected men for Office
with utter contempt of the public interest,
and to the injury of the Republican party
and of the country, giving places to unfit
persons who had made him presents, or had
ingratiated themselves with his military fa-
vorites
~. Because he has appointed crowd of
his own relations to Office, notwithstanding
their notorious incapacity, and the fact that
most of them were Democrats in politics.
V. Because he has retained Bancroft Davis
in power as Assistant Secretary of State for
months after the Legislature of Massachusetts
had published the proof showing that while a
director and counsel of the Erie Railway
Davis had taken bribe from outside specu-
lators to betray and defraud that company.
vi. Because he has violated the law when
ever he has chosen to do so, as in ordering
feet to threaten war against Hayti, and to
interfere in the pending civil contest in San
Domingo without authority of Congress- in
taking the census of New York and Philadel-
phia a second time; in appointing internal
revenue officers, like Augustus Ford, who do
not reside in their districts, as the law re-
quires; and in surrounding himself in the
White House with body guard of generals
of the army as secretaries and ushers, when
an act of Congress expressly prohibits army
officers from performing any civil functions
VII. Because he has basely betrayed the
cause of liberty in Cuba, and used
the authority and influence of the United
States in favor of the perpetuation there of
African slavery and all the woes of Spanish
despotism.
VIII. Because he has done his utmost to
force upon the Republican party and the
people of the United States the annexation
of San Domingo, in defiance of public senti-
ment and the voice of Congress, being stimu-
lated thereto by the expectation that cronies
and military favorites of his would make a
great deal of money out of the transaction;
and because for their benefit he is willing to
destroy the Republican party and engage the
country in civil war in West India island
where both France and Spain have in turn
been defeated.
TX. Because, coming into Office without
political knowledge or experience, he has not
even tried to acquire either, but has proved
himself weak, lazy, and foolish, and, as Mr..
Stanton expressed it, incompetent to govern
this people"
X. Because he has degraded and disgraced
the Government of the United States, and
as far as his example and influence have
availed, has spread and strengthened political
immortality and base ideas of public life anG
public duty among the American people.
Here are reasons enough why not only Mr.
Roberts, but every other good citizen, shoult
be against President Grant. What has hi
mail-clad organ to say to them?