The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-07


He appointed (broters- in-law all) r.
7. Dent, Chief Usher at the Executive
Mansion; Geo. w. Dent, Appraiser of
Customsa at San Francisco; John Dent.
Indian Trader for New Mexico; Alex
ander Sharpe, Mar>hol of the District
of Columbia, and Peter Casey, Post
master at V%icksburg, Mississippi. In
short, lac has brought up the whole
brood of Grants from their obscurity-
they and their kinsfolk remote and
near-and thrust them into places of
honor, responsibility and profit, to the
injury of the public service, and the
prostitution of his exalted station.
He has dishonored the nation and
debauched the national conscience, by
accepting presents from applicants for
office. He accepted a cottage at Long
Branch, from the notorious and profit
gate Tom Murphy, and afterwards.
to the scandal of probity and disgust
of the country, appointed him Col
lector of Customs at New York. And,
d%isregarding the protests of the mer
chants of that great city, and ignoring
repeated information respecting his
frauds and populations, retained him
thoroughly exposed his corruption,
and the clamors of an outraged and
indignant people endangered his re
election. when he accepted his resig
nation in a public letter of regrets
containing fulsome expressions oil
confidence and esteem. He appointed
A. T. Stewart, of New York, a.man
disqualified under the law and wholly
without political education or eXperl
ence, to the exalted office of Secretary
| of the Treasury, for no other reason
than that \. I. Stewart had contributed
with liberality to the cash gift of one
hundred thousand dollars, subscribed
Inv the merchants of New York city.
He rendered WaShburn (whOm the
country knows TO be incompetent, and
who confessed his incompetency by
declining). the Portfolio of State. be
cause Wasburn was his personal friend
and had advocated and advanced his
military and political fortune. He
accepted estates in San Domingo, at a
time when he and a ring Of unscru
, pulous spectators were seeking to
enrich themselves by annexing 1t to
the United States. He accepted and
held stock in the Seneca Stone Com
panv. at a time when it was attempted
to force its introduction into the pub
= lie buildings at Washington city.
= He is a partizan President, regarding
. the success of a faction above the gooo
/! of the people. In matters of State
policy. he is the tool in the hands o.
Morton, Conkling, Cameron, an6
3 Observation-Disclosures and corrupt
commemorative use him TO promote
their personal ends to the peril %
public liberty. He has surroundec
: himself with Dent, Leet Il Co., mill
r tary ond personal favorite~, who, Will
his knowledge if not to his profit, hav'
n turned the executive mansion into
: shop for the sale of Government pat
ronage, Who'll have enriched themSelvet
bv matchmaking incumbents in Office
d and sharing the plumber of stock job
. bers and peculators. He has used Il
= the most unwarranted and despotl
o manner the army of the United States
to elect his partizans in several Stale
1t Of the Union, thus destroying th
v freedom of the ballot. and inaugural
1 ing a practice which persevered
If must speedily end in subvertlng re
] publican institutions. a man thu
Ig destitute of every qualification, an
e guilty OF every folly, not to say CRIME
e. is unworthy to occupy the most e>
:. allied station within the gift OF ireemei
n The California Board of Examine
Nav l. ounte the money in the Sta