Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-23
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The San DOmingOSWindle-Grant
the Embodiment Of a Most
PerniciOus System
8 His Aids. N 81.
Political Managers and Party Or
thOdOxy-The New Move
ment of the People
Horace Greeley.
The Civil-Service RefOrm-The
Cincinnati Baltimore Platform
and Candidates, and the
Democratic-Republi-
Q B can Party.

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ST. LOUIS. July 22.-At the Liberal
Republican meeting at the Temple to-
night. called for the purpose of eleeting
a County Executive Committee, Sena-
Tor Schurz delivered very lengthy and
elaborate address ---
OUTLINE OF MR.. sCHURZ's SPEECH.
The Senator started out by saying:
Standing before my constitu ents, / deem
il my duty to give an account of my
public conduct, the motives which have
governed it, and the ends it is intended
to subserye. / can do this in no better
way than by expressing fully and
frankly my views on the events which
have produced the present extraOrdina-
/ ~ situation of our public national af-
fairs-events in which took a small
part-and also 70 state what consider
1t my duty as patriotic citizen to do in
order topromote the best interests of the
! Republic. It has been my misfortune
! to displease many with whom l coop
4 Grated on the political field for many
years, and from whom now, with
great regret, find myself separated. To
the attacks with which some of them
| endeavOr to overwhelm me | have hut
] ONE ANSW EH.
! He then reiterated what he has pre-
viOusly said about never considering his
party the supreme arbiter of his sense of
duty. He then said: When was hon
ored with seat in the Senate of the
4 United States, / expected to support the
administration which then came into
power. The tasks it was called to per-
| form were of unusual Importance. The
civil war was over. Its logical results,
/ the
| ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
and the organization of free labor sOcie-
ty in the South, were just being reduced
to political form and imbedded in the
constitution of the republic. The first
great object Of our policy should have
/ been to renatiOnalize the South, to re-
yive among the Southern people feelings
| calculated to attach their hearts again
| to the fortunes of this Union, for let US
not indulge in the delusiOn that the
holding together by force of its compo-
Rent parts is a basis upon which the
public can safely rest or long endure. 1t
requires that bond which binds together
| the hearts of the people, and not their
bodies only; and to create that bond was
for us the highest object of statesman
ship. He then refers in detail to differ
ent acts of the administration party,
going over the ground traversed by him
self and others in the Senate. In regard
to the
SAN DOMINGO MATTER,
he made the following statement: When
the San Domingo scheme was pending,
two gentlemen in intimate relations
with the White House came 10 me, each
tnlNr r,f
the project. They assured me, If / would
give that my support, or abstain from
opposition, all the patronage / desired
wOald be at my disposal, making me,
in that respect, one of the most influen-
tial men IN the land. One of these gen
tlemen subsequently admitted to me in
writing that the offer was made 10 me
with the consent of the President him.
self He stated that he had withheld
this statement long time, in spite of
many provocatiOns, and made Ii now
only because, as the papers have recently
stated, the President himself put forth
the assertion in a published interview
that he (SchurZ) has opposed him be-
cause he had not received as much pat
ronage as he wanted. He then dwelt
upon abuses of patronage and evils of
the
CIVIL SERVICE,
stating that there never was a time
when the latter was more like a
thoroughly drilled, disciplined Organiza-
ton of political agents, or when public
interest was more shamelessly over
ruled by political exigency. Referring
to President Grant, he said: should
prefer not to speak of him, did he not
stand as an embodiment and personi1i-
cation of a pernicious system, which de-
rives from his individuality its peculiar
character. Gratitude for his military
services and respect for his Office, have
long restrained many from expressing
their real opinions concerning him. /
shall be the
LAST MAN TO FORGET
or to carp at the great services he has
rendered in the field of war. The hon.
ors he has won, the laurels be has gath
cred shall not be touched. But now, he
is civil officer, and ne asks us to con-
hnue him at the head of the civil gov
ernment of this Republic and with this
question his laurels have nothing TO do.
When he ascended the Presidential
chair, il may be said that the whole peO-
pie surrounded him with a cordial offer
of their confidence and willing aid in !
all that he might do to give the country !
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
There was not statesman in the Re
public who would not have been ready, |
nay, proud, to serve him at his call. He |
might even have reinforced his sup
porters from the ranks of the opposition. !
Accidental mistakes would have been
readily forgiven. The evidence of pure |
motives and honest efforts would have |
easily silenced faetious elanlor, but his |
career as President warrants the cOHclu- /
sion that he has never been able fully TO /
appreciate the difference between mill |
itary command and the complex duties I
and civil responsibilities of s-te u
3 CIVIL ADMINISTRATION.
I doubt whether it has ever become |
quite clear to his mind what the Presi- 1
dency means in our system of govern |
ment. When the oath Of Office was
presented TO him, he took it as sort of |
national reward, an accommodation, a 4
place in which, after his military ex- 4
ploits, he might make himself comfort |
able. His mind seems TO have been but /
little disturbed by the great duties and /
perplexing problems be was to take in |
hand. Il was soon discovered that for /
his future success he needed organized 1
partisan support. 1t was easily had. |
The alliances formed themselves by nat
ural gravitatiOD. Soon we lind him sur |
rounded by
POLITICAL MANAGERS.
The Canerons, the Chandlers, the /
Mortons, the Conkllngs, the Buffers,
etc, were ready to do his work, If he
would do theirs. 1t was a matter of |
congeniality. The interests Of the Presi-
dent and Of saeh.politieaI chieftains,
Identified themselves without dlfIlculty. |
he was aiding them with the executive |
influence in controlling their States for /
themselves, and they were giving their