The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-07-27
Grant as a CabInet-Maker.
From the Hon. Bayless W. Hsnnas Law

CFrom the Hon. Bayless W Hsnna's Law
Fencebnrg speech
Let US see how he himself regarded
the functions of the high office which be
is now hlllng, and to which his friends
propose 10 re elect him. Among his first
acts was to send into Congress the name
of Wasnourne, of Illinois, to be Secre
tary OF State, an Office of the highest re-
sponsibiii'y and the gravest Importance.
tie did not send 10 his name, however,
intending that he should continue to fill
that place, but with private understand.
ing that ne should resign the position,
aud aiterward be appointed Minister to
the Court of France-scheming with
the othee, trifiug with the dignity of the
highest once in the country next to the
President OF the United States, in order
to give sufficient dignity to his ap
pointee t enable him to come forward
and hil q place at Que OF the most i'm
portant Courts in the civilized world.
Then Wat next? About the next
thing ne e was to seog il the nanlsot
A. I. art, ulefcbant Of New York
city, Z - Of great Prosperity in has
sssessSzsfe y fisessrs<s.s His nams was sess
ia as proper person to Fill the Office OF
Secretary of the Treasury. 1t was as
certained soon afterward that Stewart, By
"a law then existing upon our statue books,
was incapacitated from holding that of
fee. Then what did General Grant do I
Why, he had been so long in the habit
of writing military orders that be sent
forth the next thing to his command to
the Congress of the United States to re-
peal the law aud render A T. Stewart
eligible to fill that office. l believe the
lower house of Congress did repeal it.
and it went to the Senate. There sat a
grave, digniied, thoughtful old states
man. Charles Sumner, of Massach usetts
1applsusel who at once resolved that
this this thing should not be, and having
once resolved, be carried out his purpose
by lis arguments, and induced the Sem
ate of the United States to recede from
so shameful u measure. Soon afterward
it trauspired that 4. I. Stewart had been
a subscriber to fund Of one hundred
aud thirty thousand dollars in money
that had been given to General Grant as
present. l don't know that that had
any thing to do with Grants action, but
it did not look we'll to the people of this
country, or to the civilized world.
Then turns up a man by the name ol
Borie, who was recommended for Secre-
tary Of the Navy. Who ever had
heard of Borie west of the Allegheny
Moun.aius? Soon after he went into
Office Borie proved to be inefficient, and
had to leave his post. II was ascertain
ed that he too bad subscribed So, 600 tC
this nunifcent fund raised for the Presi
dent Of the United States.
After awhile, another name was sen
in-this time for the Attorney General
ship, an office that had been filed b,
your William Wirts and your Jeremial
Blacks, and by the best minds of th
couutry. President Grant sends IN 70
this Office the name of Hoar, second
rate Massachusetts, lawyer 1t was after
ward sscsrtained that he had preseute
General Grant with a library which
have hssrd valued at twenty or twenty
FIVE thousand dollars. What Gener,
Grant wanted with law library, l d
not know but it seems that he did re
ceive one for a present, and he has i
for all know, to day.