The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-08-03

gave the secret of Mr.. Greo!ey's disaifec
tion in the following:
"NEw YORK, April 8, 1871.
"DEAR SIR: 1t gives me no plea,
to advise you, and the Commi,te ,,i
which, you are the head. that | aul
obliged to decline tho part assigned me by
the State Committee in the proposed
reorganization of the Republican party
OF our city. Had a little forbearance
and conciliaiion becn evinced by the
appointing power at Washington, |
think this might have been different.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY"
Turning aside moment from Senator
Conklng's speech, it is proper to insert
here what the President says was the
reason he could not conciliatc Mr.
Greeley, by appointing his friends to
office. Here it is, as reported by a
Herald correspondent
''The truth about Greeley is. he has
been always surrounding himself with
men OF disreputablc character and want
ing to put them into important Offices
l could not provide for ali of them. and
most Of them | could not aiIord-tbc
country itself could not affurd-to nut
in any decent place. had aftcrward
to remove, for incompetency, or miscon
duct OF some Kind or other, almost every
man to whom l gave an appointment on
his recomm ndation, such persons as
Camp and Lamont ana these people
One man (Fergrson) the Senate very
| believe, refused to confirm.
air. Greelel.Moala have Glled the Gaysl
Service with all the worthless men in
the country, if / had let him but
would not let him. That is the trouble" /"
Tie President realized his duty to
the country to be paramount to the per.
sonal consideration of conciliating Mr..
Greeley
Senator Conkling dwclt at length up
on the charges of eift-taking and nepo.
tism, so industriously and maliciously
hurled against Grant.
OF the continual howl about his
spending few days at time at Long
Branch he said:
at is eight hours from the White
House to the cottage, with two mails n
day and telegraph every instant.
Nothing can occur, however Suddenly.
demanding his attention, without his
being wiihin immediate call yet this is
the occasion of constant hullabaloo.
Gov. Hoffman leaves his State and
resides at Newport, II. L., for the Sum.
mer. MIR. James Brooks, though mem
hcr of Congress, goes to China and
Japan, not returning even when Con-
eress meets. Gen. Jackson used to
spen d weeks at the Rip Raps, in Hump-
ton Roads, where no Intelligence could
reach him fFom Washington in days,
aud then only by special messenger, and
whence he could not return for days, if
sent for. No telegraph, railroad. daily
nail, or even steamboat, piled there
then. President Adams, separated from
Massachusetts, by stage coach ride of
many days, used to spend weeks at his
homo. Washington passed much time
at Mount Vernon, and even that was
further removed in communicating with
tnc capltal ,..au i-,..- i...a..... :. go.
"Rulcrs in all countries have felt at
liberty to tarry distance from their
Cttielal residence during portion of tie
year, but no examples, experience, or
common Scrse stand in the way of the
crucilicrs of Grant.
"Thc public, however, will be salts
fed with one TACT, viz that no instance
has yet been discovered or pretended, in
which anything, however small, was
neglected or left undonc because the
IresidcDt was absent. This one fact
answers burricaac of abuse"
He showed that the true aud fina'
test Of ar administration was it's fnan.
cial results, and here Grant has becu
pre-eminently successful.
In cnhrging upon the civil service
reforms which have been recommended
and introduced by Grant, he said tina,
no man had been retained an hour in
the service of the United States after il
was known that lie was defnnllcr.
We shall give more of this anon.
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