Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-06

hsr Grant selects his oflicersYith great dis
,rrfnpsnation as 20 business capacities. n UNI
erous instances of corruption OF this kind
might be cited, but it would consume too
| much of your time.
Fidelity to Grant is one qualification for
| Office and relationship Is another BE has
appointed obscure men to Office who have
no other qualification than their relation
ship 20 the President. Senator Sumner,
the founder and father of the Republican
party, in his speech in the Senate said that
he had appointed sat least bakers dozens"
thirteen Of these appointments being DELI
nitely known, and each Of these thirteen a
center of numerous cousins, brothers-in-
law, ell id Onaae 0eIalts. he would not only
centralize the powers of the governments IN
himself, but he would centralize the wealth
Of the nation in his own family. he has
aFnassed an immense fortune on salary OF
So, 900 year, and spends annually more
than the amount of his salary. he has In
terfered ia the local affairs Of the States,
and to day the. Secretary of the Treasury is
in North Carolina, backed by aquarter OF
million of the peoples money, whlcn Is 10
be spent in the interest of the Adminlstra-
ton party. He has suspended tne
writ Of habeas corpus and dragged
citizens Cff TO prison without giving
them an opportunity to be he Ard ana ire
qdently in ignorance of the cause OF their
arrest. He has upheld the carpet-bag State
governments in the South while they OPP
pressed TIE neonle and robbed them of their
property. lie has repeatedly protested to
favor universal amnesty and as often de-
feated IL through his friends in the Senate;
and but for the Liberal Republican move
meut there would have been no amnesty
for political offenses to day. He has violat-
ed the laws of nations with friendly pow
er while pledging the faith of the Govern
ment TO neutrality. He has brought dis
grace upon the American IGovernment by
his weak and vacillating policy upon the
claims against England for indirect damages.
He has sanctioned the enactment of laws
which ill the country with Revenue spies
and informers, and under these laws your
citizens are arrested for pretended offences
and carried to distant points to be tried.
You have enjoyed too Dday privileges I'M
der the Revenue laws heretofore enacted, and
Congress has passed new and most odious
Revenue law, which has but recently gone
into effect, and from this time forward you
are denied the right to sell your neighbor a
pound of tobacco unless he pays privilege
tax of $500, for the privilege of dealing in
tobacco. The object of this law seems TO
be to harrass the people in their business af
fairs and to deprive them of their liberties
in their every day transactions. The ped
Ter who has heretofore brought tobacco to
your doors in any quantities to suit the pur-
chaser, is by this law deprived Of the right
10 sell less than a keg; so that you see the
business is to be concentrated ia the hands
of few individuals. This law has not
been explained and circulated through the
country so as to protect the people from the
consequences of violation of the law, but
you are leftin ignorance of its existence so as
to give employment TO the spies and inform |
ers of the Government. You are to be ar |
rested for violating law without notice Of
its provisions, and carried to Memphis and |
there relieved of your money. 1t has been !
but short time since some Of the citizens |
of this county were arrested for trivial |
offence and required to appear before the |
Federal Court in Memphis on a certain day. |
The law had been violated and the govern |
ment must be satisfied, and the transgres- |
sors appeared TO pay the penalty on the APP /
pointed day, but when they reached Mem |
phis, behold the Federal Court was not in |
session. What could they do they were |
some distance from home on expenses and |
did not wish to make another trip. Why, |
said some Of the conscientious government |
officials, we will compromise with you. You |
sir pay us Sl60, and you sir pay us $14S, |
and go home and the government shall |
never know anything about il. They paid |
it, returned home, and if theyldont vote for |
Greeley, their confidence in the honesty of |
the present administration passeth all |
human understanding. They rob you of |
your liberty in order that they may rob ysu |
of your money. The great American Gov |
eminent through its agents, plumbers and
rob the -hsrdw0rking citizens. Great |
Heavens! will any free-born people submit |
to such exactions-such a system of espiOn-
age-blackmail and robbery? The honesty, |
Intelligence and free spirit of the American |
people will rePudiate the pretensions ofany
ran who sanctions such enormities as are
daily perpetrated in the name Of the gov
Upon one side stands Grant, the repre-
sentative of Grantism, military despotism, |
incompetence, corruption, oppres-
sion, and prescription, supported by the
and carpet-baggers; and upon |
the otEer stands Greeley, the representative
Of republican government, civil law,
merit, ability, honesty, liberty, and mag
nsnimity, supported by the people who are
always the friends Of liberty and equality
before the law.
After the 4th of March next you will see
a great and agreeable change in this country.
The revenue spies and informers and thieV-
ing carpet baggers, will like birds ofpassage,
take their fight to some more genial cline.
The Grant hireling press will cease to
forth the anathemas of the Presi-
dent.
The soldiers bayonet will no longer be
thrust in the face of citizens at the polls.
Horace Greeley will be elected President
and 'peaee and good WHIP will reign in the
land.