Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-12-28
From the NV York Weekly Times.
The President and his Accuser,

lcasaiions against Gen. Grant which th,
Sun. the World, and other papers bitterly
opposed to the President, are constantl,
repeating. The Presidents defamers-
and it may save misconstruction to say
here that i'll the remarks wehave to make
about them we do not in any way refer tc
the Eagle, which simply repeats charges
without inventing them-hare e ;hoed
ftheir complaints So often that at least they
probably almost believe in their justice
TO prevent Others falling into the same
error, we undertook to reply to the Eagle,
article as soon as we had time to inquire
into the facts. We now proceed to do 50
The Edgte says, Grant went into Of
ice poor, and is notoriously millionaire
already and he cannot have made his
million out OF his official salary, or his
legitimate receipts in public service" II
one part of the duty OF the President OF
the United States WAS to answer
every qus. ton addre. sei to him ABOUT
| his private circum stances, and emp
ty his pocket book to every visitor To
show how mach money he had ABOUT
him, the dignity of the uttice would nor
be niuch Increased and, perhaps, the
people would not consult lheIr own in
teiests BY suDjeciing theif ciIi,f officer To
such Iii usage. lie PRESIDENT considers
his Own self respect, anu Nc believe he al
so Considers the wishes of The people. hy
never reply ing to any attack ma'ie upon
him. have no duthosi y 10 speak toi
hini-out ca.ei,.! lnI,I-le nave assdie,.
us ina; oa.slde oi III, Official s,ila.s, Ills
incouIo u,-eo not e-,cecd oiA tnutIs;tnu u;i
i''ih IN Vi Ola or seven nuhuied aci Is ncai
st. Louis, part of which was inherited o,
lfs. Grant. L he ,enidinder was puuun,
by Gen. Grant from the other he is, oat
oi the one hundred 'housanu dollars given
to him by The Citizens uI New io.k 0o
Jcfo Lie Drcanse I'ieoidrnt One Of the
Charges a-iinst the r.esiacn, il that thi.,
81 Louis iarn was p.eoent to him. / Ia,
rest OF the one nuIuIru tnodsalli doIi;.. d,
reie1ied to was useu i'll pa, Ing oil The
mortgage on his nuase i'll A-street. Wash
lnSton, no" owned uy zen. ohei nl;,n, anu
IN purchasing ami furnishing his house IL.
Long biancn, which he is c.iargeu win
fecei' ing d. prcocIIi from Mr murphy
that being allJtner of lie namucrless iap-
flcstsione sci ai1oat Dy the Sun ao0ut The
i feoldcnf, and repeated cagc.i, by jour
aals opposed 10 Lln- 4Sot Il doAlr's ,oort;.
Of property hls ossn y.cen to zen. Gr,sat
Ss1sce he Oocstnc PreSe!sst
During the war Tie President save,,
something out OF lis pay as Aajor-Gen
eraI, I've are hail ashamed To refer 10 such
matters, but since tle E-taks asks ior The
facts, 1t may It's we'll have tncn allan;
with the money - saved he bought part
interest IN sJlnc Chicago lots. which have
appreciated III valac, but hitherto have
yielded no income lie also bought :,
small ainodnt oi horse railroad stock.
winch he still owns, and Which PAYS !.
moderate dividend. lie WAS given, nilc
a General in the Army, house i'll i 'hila-
delpiiia, which he ren;s for ab,,ut TWO
thousand dollars Il year.
Another statement OF the Etgls is that
"the San has printed repeatedly, uncon
1.adlc'ed from any quarter, list If
twenty ave or more relatives whom Grant
has appointed to office under himself
We hope that the day will come when
honorable Journals "ill be ashamed to as
sert that an, thing is true of Gen. Grant
because the Sun says it is true The list
in question has been contradicted it l.,
false III every particular and We vii prini
IL at the close of this article, with COM
ments which prove il to be false The
Presidents relatives who do hold office
We're chiefly appointed by his predcces-
sors; was he bound to turn them out
when he Came into office himself. Is it
to be the Iuie of public lite that when a
man accepts responsible position he is
TO begin uy ths,s,ing his kinsfolk out OF
any Offices they may happen to hold, and
giving up all the pfopert, he may possess ::
Do the people eXpeci this.
A third statement is that Gen. Gran,
received twenty-five thousand dollars
stock In the Seneca stone Company, as d.
gilt. and then appointed Nr. Cooke, the
President OF that CompanJ, Territorial
l i'm hi .k,I,
hancing he value of Tie stock nf Aiessrs.
Cooke, Grant d Co" This is a total mi..-
representation of a very simple trans;lc-
ton. shortly after The organization o.
the Seneca stone Cumpan in o67, nea.-
ly year before Gen. Grant was nomina
ted President, he was invi ed bv MIR. III.
ID. Cooke and others To take twenty
thousand dollars worth of stock as am in
yestment. He thought we'll of it, and
surely no one will deny that he was fee
to invest his money in any ente prise he
chose He had as much sight to use hiS
money at his own discretion as any othe,
citizen. !. He invested ten thousand dol
lars in the purchase of the stock, and it ha.
never paid him cent. He has been anx-
ious for long time to sell this stock
perhaps some of the accasers would like
to buy it? Gov. Cooke was appointed
last February-stock bought in 1861
Cooke appointed island that appoint
ment had about as much to do with Sene-
ca stone as it had with the deposits OF The
post-tortiary period.
| The charge that President Grant quar-
rels with Summer and is friendly with
Nye, &C., and that he absents himself
from Washington during Summer, VIZ
leave people to torn their own opinions
about. The accusation that some one
very near the Presidential person was en-
gagged in the gold gambling" affair o.
Iisk and Gould is utterly refilted nv la,