Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-22


try at the feet of this one man, who is
in go few things great or even a capa-
BILE man. Yet it is simply astounding
to see thousands of selfstyled Republi-
cans sustaining every blunder, and
brazenly denying every act of turpitude,
that can be nailed to the door of Grant,
or charged to the account of office
holders for whom he is responsible.
The evasive style in which these wor-
shippers of Grant defend him shows that
no argument penetrates Their under
standings. They may be capable of
reasoning on other points, but on this
thew do not pretend to be. Expose,
specifically, the illegal acts, frauds, or
blunders of each Department; the pay
ment by Boutwell, of $1,900,000 more
than an act of Congress authorized, to
the Syndicate the payment by Bout
we'll of $4,000 without any authority
by Cong for Rebel archives" to use
for campsign purposes; the payment
by Boutwell, of $230,0O in one year to
run single court in North Carolina
which has usually been run for SIS 1000,
the difference being for campaign ex-
| penses the sale by Secretaries Robeson
and Belknap of Government arms to
| agents of the French Government,
| knowing them to be such, for which
Gen. Sherman was recently rebutfed by
| the Emperor of Germany, whose Aid
| informed him that the Emperor could
| grant no courtesies to the highest mill
| tary representative of our Government
| because of those sales; the payment by
Seer. taIy Robson of $93, 900 out of the
! Treasury to the Secors five years after
Congress had settled and paid their
| claims in full the attempted corrupt
payment OF the Chorpenning claim by
| Postmaster General Creswell to one of
| Chorpenning's attorneys, which Re-
publican Congress unanimously con-
| demned as corrupt, and forbade its pay
| mept; the indecent appointment of
various persons, mostly incompetent, to
Office after Grant had received from
| these pei sons valuable presents; the re-
tention of Leet and Stocking in the
] General Order business in New York
after one hundred New York merchants
had denounced them as extortionists
and petitioned for their removal the
retention of Casey after he had been
expos d and condemned by a Repub-
lican Committee of Congress; and a
score of other instances of misgovern-
ment, many of them rank with the
manifest odor of corruption,-andt the
reply of these selfstyled Republicans is
a ieering guffaw of laughter, with the
high toned comment that The only
| parties who are dissatisfied with the
r rruntions of the Administration are
+ ,ose who could not get their share of
| the plunder," and that, "If there are
! any fools who would not take presents,
they " ould like to know who they are" ="
He who provideth not for his own
household is worse than an infdel
When pointed to TIE attempts made by
Grant to coerce the Senate into sus-
tanning the San Domingo policy, these
pseudo Renublicans find it as impossible
10 comprehend how Senators can have
the right to differ from Grant, as the
French peasantry find it to conceive
why any portion of the people should
vote against the Emperor.
If the whole people of America were
of such pusillanimo1s race, and could
elect REPRESENTATIVES of their type, it
would require no amendment of the
Constitution, nor even the repeal OF the
law. nor SO much as the issue of 6
proclamation, to convert our Republic
J into a consolidated despotism more au
tocratic than that of Imperial Rome ol
} modern Russia. The Senate and HOUSE
of Representatives might still meet
) but their meeting or dissolving woulo
, be of no more consequence than tn
e gathering or departure of so man.
Government clerks. This was actuall.
a the case in Rome for several centurie
Il after the Caesars had abolished the Re
d public The forms OF the RnpuDil
were kept up, the Senate met, but tn
theory of Csesarism or Grantism para
: lived their usefulness, and the ute
absence of virtue in the State, or mani
Is Independence among the people, rer
y de1ed the Senate as powerless to chec
the Caesar as if there had been n
Senate.
v, Grant. Cameron, Morton & Co. hav
a system of government by patronag
+ which is neither Republican nor DEM
n cratic, and is wholly unknown to til
Constitution. Sixty thousand offic
n holders, paid by the taxes of the who
people, stand up for this system, an
b labor in every way TO debauch the pu
"a lie conscience and demoralize voters
the degree that they may see nothlr
is wron in thai which is more subversl'
;, of Republicanism than the rebelhc
~ itself. That, had it succeeded, cou
~ but have made two Republics. GraI
ism. fully carried out, would leave non
IN 1t may be that a large portion OF Il
ew Republican party cannot see that
&c CONGRESS whose votes are purchased al
,rt Maid for with Presidential patronage
not the Congress contemplated by /
n's Constitution, and that in voting
rd Grantism they Intentionally vote
u.s. sustain and create such a Congress.
so, the safety of the country can
&C. longer be trusted to the Republic
go party, and the quicker its power
nd o4 broken up and destroyed the better.
1t is for Republicans themselves
L. demonstrate their ability to throw
tly this nightmare of Grantism, and sh
s;, themselves as jealous of the preser
thh sm tion of their own liberties as they hs
been jealous for comforting freedom
sin, the black man. We have helped tn
as, in the first crusade, and will help tn
in the second. But we will never h
build up a theory which makes u
Personal Government, controlled
Federal patronage and subsidi
!, press, tempered by qaadrennlal el
ton,