Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-11
Grant and GrantiSnN.

Grants character, administrative policy
and good intentions" by the New YorI
Post, we give from. Senator Thurman
speech at Newark, Ohio, his bold anC
scathing arraignment of Grant and Grant
ism. There is no ADLER member of tn
Senate of the United States than Judg
Thurman no man of purer morals; nom
less disposed than he to color or eXagger
ate the statements that he makes. Hi
Judicial training makes him cautious. Hi
strong sense Of what is due, not only tt
the people whom he represents, but to hi
own sense of selfrespect, stamps his opin
ions as those of an observant statesman
and gives weight to what he says In ad
dressing his fellow-citizens of Licking
county, he reminded them that thirty-twc
years ago, when very young man, he made
his first speech before the Democracy o.
that county. He spoke tofchingly of those
who had then listened to him, but had
since passed away, and tenderly ofthe men
who, in the prime of their manhood, had
listened to him kindly, and who still sur
vived, with whitened locks, to welcome
him. He spoke also of the new generation
that had sprung into life since he first
spoke to their fathers, and he claimd from
all of them, as knowing him we'll for so
many years, the credit, at least, of sinceri-
ty. He was speaking to his own people,
and he told them with an earnestness the
more impressive from the associations he
had recalled, that while Providence had
cast their lot in pleasant places, the bless
ings they enjoyed imposed upon them cor
responding duties; that they could not
long prosper if they assisted in crushing
the prosperity of others; that they could
not long remain free if they allied them
selves with tyranny and misrule, and that
they could not preserve self-government
if they renowned their right and let others
choose their rulers. 1t twas in such mood,
and surrounded by such influences that
Judge Thurman, in speaking of the OPP
position to Grants reelection, addressed
himself to certain Radicals who were pres
ent, and in answer to the question whether
the popular discomfort was reasonable
and whether Grant and his official supper
tiers in the Government had done ANYTHING
to warrant it said:
Yes, my friend, they have, Or it would
not exist. Listen:
and the South.
They have failed to bring about a good
understanding between the black and white
races; and, on the contrary, have arrayed
the former in fearful antagonism against
the latter
They have upheld the most Infamous
rulers in the South that ever afflicted
community, and thus enabled them to har-
ass and plumber their constituents as no
people ever were harassed and plundered
before
They have abjured the persuasive modes
of peace, and, instead of them, have en-
ployed the bayonet and the dungeon.
They have authorized Federal interfer-
ence in State elections, and sought to car
ry them under the guns of the army and
navy.
They have employed the army to overawe
a State Convention, and dictate its plat
form and its nominations.
They have employed an armed vessel of
the United States to carry away members
of State Legislature, in order to deprive
it of a quorum.
They have carried elections by prosecut-
ing their opponents for pretended offenses,
and threatening them with fines and i'm
prisonment if they did not support the
administration.
They have, for the same purpose, made
the most corrupt use of the public patron
age ever known in any country.
They have descended SO low as to turn
laborers out of employment in navy yards
and arsenals, because they voted accord
ing to the dictates Of their honest judg-
ment.
They have marched other such laborers
to the polls in military array, and COM
PEELED them to vote marked tickets under
the eyes and inspection of Government a
gents.
They have placed the liberty of every
human being in the republic at the mercy
VI GuC IColoCIe, Wy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
authorizing suspension ofthe habeas cor
pus
They have bent all their energies to de-
prive the people of local selfgovernment,
and to concentrate all power in the hands
of the President and Congress.
They have brought our Treasury accounts
into such inextricable confusion that no
man can tell what is the true amount of
our public debt or the exact sum of our
annual expenditure.
In the conduct ofour foreign affairs they
have reversed the policy of our Government
from its very foundation-a policy that
favored the extension and not the restric-
ton of the rights of all neutral nations.
In like manner they have violated our
traditional policy and instincts by frown-
ing down, instead of encouraging, Cuban
independence.
They have disregarded the plainest pro-
visions of statute law in the sales of arms
for the use Of the French against the Ger
mans.
To obtain from the tyrant Baez, sale
of San Domingo in direct violation of her
constitution, the President, violating our
own constitution, has assumed the war
making power, and employed our naval
forces to uphold the would-be vender of
his country, and to menace the friendly
of Hayti.
Then see the farce that was enacted by
the Administration and its Congressional
on the subject of Civil Ser
vice Reform-the apparently solemn re-