Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-15
HOAR AND THE PRESI.
DENT.


and an original Republican by the pro.
foundest conviction The retirement of
Judge Hoar from the cabinet figures
among the ofenses of the President
He forces his best officers, we are told.
to resign. That there was no forcing
process in this case is evident. for Judge
Hoar is man of much too lofty self
respect to support an Administration if
he had such reason to know that it was
unworthy of support.
He is to-day one of the most trusted
of Republicans, one of the men who
would honor any position to which he
might be called. He is Massachusetts
leader; perfectly well known and re-
spected in his State; man who has
had the most intimate personal relations
with the President and therefore he is
the man, of all men in the country. who,
standing in Faneuil Hall, should answer
the speech of Senator Sumner. which
describes the President, as Judge Hoar
truly remarked, as a common enemy of
mankind. There is such steady driz-
zle of petty and vulgar calumny against
the President that a great many persons
hearing necessarily that he is base,
corrupt, low, sordid man, may uncon-
sciously conceive him to be so. For
such persons this cool, clear, north wind
truth will be most serviceable and re-
freshing. Judge Hoar's testimony may
perhaps tend to persuade them that Gen.
Grant is neither dull fool. nor crazy
despot, nor nose of wax in knavish
hands but an earnest, sagacious, hon.
orable man, whose administration is to
be judged, like every administration,
upon the whole, and by its general char
acter and results.
During the whole period that he was
in the cabinet, Judge Hoar says that he
never heard any measure of administra-
ton discussed except with sole reference
to the public good; ''And when | re-
member he says, ''the simple, direct,
modest man who sat at the head of the
table there, and then take up Mr.. Sum-
ner's speech, can but think that he is
talking of some one else When there
was some kissing, intended for Mr.. Sum-
ner's name, Judge Hoar, who is upon
the most friendly personal relations with
the Senator, instantly checked it. "No,
no. let no sound of kissing or sound of
censure be raised against that honored
name. He has stood up here as the
friend of the oppressed, the advocate of
emancipation. | honor him for what he
has done, and the more regret that at
his advanced age he could have indulg-
ed in such a speech at such time 1t
is sad for General Grant, sad for the
Republican party, and saddest of all
for him" Then, alluding to Mr.. Wen
dell Phillips attack upon the Chief JUS
tice of Massachusetts, and the president
of Harvard College for defying the laws
of the State by being present at din
ner to Paul Morphy at which wine was
served in a hotel where it was illegal to
sell wine, he said that people may have
thought the judge and the president
might have made some mistakes; but
one died and the other lives in spotless
honor and undimmed fame. Why 4?
Because the people of Massachusetts,
knew them, and there is strength in
character and public service which no
dagger can pierce. So with the Presi-
dent of the United States. He NAV
have made some mistakes, but upon all
the great subjects to which Mr.. Sumner
is devoted the President has been his
steadfast ally, and the ferocity of CEN
sure to which he is subjected is wholly
without reason or excuse.
Such, we believe, will be the serious
judgment of the American people Long
before the election the utter injustice OF
the charges against the President will
be so apparent that many an honest man
who now thinks him one of the most
dangerous and unworthy Of men will be
ashamed of his hostility to one of the
most modest and patriotic Of Americans,
whose incalculable service to his country
so many seem angrily impatient to for
get. But the deep sense of his honesty
and the grateful recognition of his SER
vices which the great mass of Americans
feel are the earnest of the result of the
canvass. Those who worked with him
for the salvation of the country by stern
, and steady war, not with Greeley by of
fers of money to buy peace, and BY
contemplate and futile negotiations
with the very canaiHe of rebellion, have
no intention of surendering this gov
eminent to Mr.. Greeley and his fellow
negotiators at Niagara. They mus
thrust their poisoned blades at the fan
fame of General Grant, but ''there is a
;, strength in character and public servic,
which no dagger can pierce. ''-Hmper
!, Weekty.
Mr.. GREELEY HANDWRITING Post
: master Jones of New York tells goot
campaign story for Horace Greeley