Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-02

of such a nation as ours. If every mar
should be found in our Union base
enough to make the attempt to do this
if, like Arnold, they should secretly seek
to sell our national inheritance tor the
mess of pottage of wealth, or power, OF
section-West Point sternly reminds me
of what you, my father, would have
your son do. AS / stand here in this ma
tional fort, a student of arms under our
country's flag, know full well how you
would have me act in such an emergen-
cy. trust my future conduct, in such
an hour, would prove worthy the patri'
otic instructions you have given. Yours
obediently,
ULYSSES SIDNEY GRANT.
Had the boy who wrote those letters a
good and gentle nature? Was he well
grounded or afoat? When did he lose
the moral sense which there speaks out ?
From West Point he went to seek a
subordinate part in the Mexican war.
He acted it bravely, modestly and we'll.
The Mexican war being over, his pay in
the regular army would have gone on,
and he might have lived in peace and
idleness at the public cost, but, unwilling
to be drone he became tanner.
THE PRESIDENT MIsLED BY THE TRIB-
The New York Tribune, and the news
papers which followed it, or chimed in
with it, h d more to do than all else,
with bringing about the nomination of
Mr.. Stewart and Mr.. Borie, and of 9TH
ers unknown in public affairs.
The Tribune had vociferated against
politicians" it had conjured the Pres
ident to avoid politicians" and had
proclaimed again and again, that the
country had right to expect of Gen.
Grant that politicians would not be
put in high places, but that new men
would be brought in. Listening to this
hollow bluster, echoed in many public
journals, the President was misled as to
the popular judgment.
His own wisdom taught him that if
you want lawyer you should select a
man who has proved himself lawyer
that if you want doctor, you had bet
ter take one who hasbeen tried, SO if you
want an agent to manage public affairs,
you had better take man experienced in
such affairs. But Mr.. Greeley insisted that
aCabinet should be chosen upon the prin-
ciple on which he is trying to be President
viz, passing over all the men whom you
know to be fit, and taking man at ven-
ture with no reason to believe him fit In
deed, Mr.. Greeley once told the Presi-
dent that, in his opinion, offices should
never be given to those who could take
care of themselves, but should be kept
for those who couldn't in any other way.
Much has been said about President
Grants choice of his Cabinet, but those
who know its inside history know that
the very men who are now bounding the
President warmly approved of the per-
sons named, especially of Mr.. Stewart.
The provisions of law, making Mr..
Stewart ineligible were as much out of
the minds of others as of the President.
Mr.. Stewart was unanimously confirm
ed by the Senate as were the other Cab
met nominations now said to be so bad ;
and yet there sat Sumner and Upton,
and Schurz and Trum bull, and the other
new-light oracles, and appointed, because
the President without the Senate could
not appoint, A. I. Stewart and the rest.
Several old statutes forbid importers to
hold such places, and upon the Presi-
dents attention being called to this, he
submitted to the Senate suggestion that
the law be so changed as to allow Mr..
Stewart to act as Secretary of the Treas
ury. When he reflected on the subject,
however, the President did what no small
man could have done. He saw the err
ror; he did not say the Senate was as
much to blame as he was, or as ignorant
as be was, or that the Senate, having
confirmed Mr.. Stewart, must reconsider
its action or share the responsibility of
getting out of the predicament; but he
took the whole blame himself He said,
+" This is my mistake; l will correct it."
He Immediately withdrew his message
recommending the laws repeal, and then
he did the disagreeable duty of apprs-
ing Mr.. Stewart that his proffered deed
of trust, pronounced sufficient by certain
Senators, now ranting Reformers,"
would not do, and that nothing would do
except to resign and let another take the
place. The Presidents manliness in
meeting everything, and shirking moth
ing, on this occasion, raised him greatly
in the estimation of all just beholders.
He offended Mr.. Stewart, and impaired
his friendship, and yet the bald pretense
is now made that he used official power
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