The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-09
N SENSE PROPOSITION.

following TO the New York Express:
"Alany of the Grant editors. anG
public speakers prominent in the Ad
ministration, publicly intheir speeches
and columns admit and denounce
many of General Grants acts. and vel
advocate his re. election. In nv rec
objection of the history of the sixteen
administrations preceding Grants.
cannot call to mind a sit gle instance
where any prominent public speaker
or editor has denounced an Admins
tratiOn, and at the same time advocated
its continuance. This historical fact
speaks volumes against the powers
that be- and that, too, by its own
strong p~artisans."
And what is there in General Grants
claims, life, character. or services.
which entities him 10 a re election?
Successful as Il soldier in the war. he
was made General for life. at a salary
of some $4,000 a year, Not content
with this life office. he asked for the
higher oneof being placed at the head
of the Government; and the people.
by a large majority, made him Presi-
dent of the United States. Not con
tent with holding this Office for one
term. he now demands q second: and
if a second, why not athird and fourth
term? He declared before his first
election that the one term principle
was the correct one; and having broken
his promise in this respect, who can
trust him hereafter? Men like Sumner,
~Trumhu;i, Schurz, Upton, Banks.
Blair, of Michigan, and all the Repub
liean followers of Greeley. have left
the President because of bis utter
failure as a Chief Magistrate. The
man who appoints SO many relations
to office is not the MAJ to be Presi
dent; nor is the mar fit to be Presi-
dent who connived with Back. of St.
Domingo, to violate the Constitution
of his own country. and who did not
hesitate, in doing this, to break the
covenant with his own country, or TO
attempt the dish0nor of Hayti in order
to win st. Domingo.
But it is not one but a score of fail
ures which compels so many thous-
ands of Republicans to abandon Gen.
Grant. The disgrace which he has
brought upon civil service reform;
his own abandonment of the post OF
duty, with nearly all the leading men
commissioned under him; the misuse
of nearly all the Federal offices; the
double and triple tax put upon men
in office to re elect the President; the
carpet bag governments which he has
tolerated aud protected at the South;
his failure to restore peace; his de-
mauds for more power for the gov ern
ment of the South; the defalcatiOns in
Office incident to bad examples; a e
lect Of duties in high places; his
pretensions in regard to civil service
reform, in practice never so bad as at
the present time; the assumptions of
the war-making powers of Congress
by the one man President-these, and
many things like them, have driven
from the Grant ranks tens ofthOuSands
who voted for him in 1868. And of
intelligent men who intend to vote for
Grant i'll 1872, One-half of them have
! pronounced him as unfit TO be Pres
ident, and a thorough failure in the
Executive office. If unfit, why vote
for him? The debt of gratitude has
been paid, and the highest honors OF
the nation have been conferred upon
the President. There is nothing left
of honorS or rewards which the people
owe to an incapable President. The
sections of the country, the business
prosperity of the people, the cause of
peace and good will, now urge a
change, and the sooner it is made, the
better for the good of the
country. Place a civilian, L friend OF
reform, and an enemy Of Federal cor
ruption, at the helm Of the Ship of
State, aud her voyage will be one i'll
the interests OF honesty-at home and
peace abroad.