Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-10-03
Greeley's Eulogy on Grant.
What Horace Said of Presi-
dent Grant and His Ad-
ministration Two
Years Ago.

ministratlon Two
Years Ago.
Mr.. Horace Greeley has been trav
cling through the country on an
electioneering tour, as the candi-
date of the Democratic party and the
rival of General Grant for the Presi-
dency. In his speeches at Pitts
burgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, Lousis
vile, Indianapolis, and in Cleveland,
Mr.. Greeley has unsparingly de-
nounced the Republican policy and
administration as cruel, revengeful,
dictatorial and corrupt, and has de-
manded his own election as essen
tial to the reconciliation" of the
South with the North, and to the
apurifcation" of our polit les and
civil service. We now set over
against these denunciations and
claims of Mr.. Greeley, his own opin
ions of President Grant and his ad-
ministration. as expressed by Mr..
Greeley himself in the leading ed
itorial of the New York Tribune of
Friday, July Sth, 1870, only little
more than two years ago, as follows:
THE ADMINISTRATION.
From the New York Tribune, July s, 1901
The President hasl lately made
some appointments, local and natl
onal, that have provoked comment.
He favored policy with reference
to West India annexation which
has not met the approval of Con-
gress. There are rumors of some
impending Cabinet changes.
Thereupon the cheerful prophets
of defeat come out vigorously in
their favorite characters. They are
sure that Grant is becoming very
unpopular. They regard his course
as ruinous to the Republican party.
They feel sure that his Administra-
tion is dropping to peces. The
fact that these prophets are mostly
Democrats, or worse, might with
some prejudiced people, disturb
confidence in the veracity if not in
the sagacity, of their predictions.
Nevertheless they make a certain
noise, and command a certain atten-
ton, which may warrant giving
them little notice. E.
What is to complain about? We
have not favored the San Domingo
movement; but is it strange or a
crime that an American esident
should wish to aggrandize his
country? We have not always been
able to like General Grants appoint
ments; but we do not just now re-
call any President, all of whose ap
pointments wedidlike. What would
gentlemen have? Do they remem-
ber how they felt about Mr.. Lin
coins Alaska project, or later spec
ulation in the Danish West Indies?
Can they recall any particular set Of
nominations for New York City
that was received with consenting
cheers from all parties and faetious?
General Grant made one pledge
at the outset which did almost as
much to endear him to the popular
heart as did his great services in
the field. Il shall have no policy"
he said, "to enforce against the will of
the people. He has kept his word land
we do not doubt that he will keep
it to the end. There never was a
President who subordinated his own
more thoroughly and unreservedly
to that'of the people; there never
was q President who submitted
more cheerfully to the adverse ac-
tion of Congress; there never was
President more unpretending, less
exacting, more sincerely anxious, to
execute the laws, preserve public
tranquility, and discharge fairly
and impartially all the duties of his
office. He thinks, as great many
others think, that it would be wise
to secure foothold in the West
Indies. The Senate disagrees with
him, and the matter is ended at
once. He thinks, as great many
others think, that a certain set of
appointments for New York City
will strengthen the public service
and promote the triumph of sound
political principles. The Senate
may possibly disagree with him
again; and, if it should. the whole
matter will pass out of sight as quiet
ly as the Baez treaty. Thank
Heaven! we have Pre- sident who
has no policy TO enforce against the
will of the people.
We protest against this pic ayune
way of Judging an Administration
by local appointmentment, or an
isolated movement.
GENERAL GRANT HAS A SOL
I'D BASIS OF ACTUAL
ACHIEVEMENTS, ON WHICH
THE COUNTRY MAY BE SAFE
LY TRUSTED TO PRONOUNCE
JUDGEMENT. HE HAS TAKEN
THE MOST PROFLIGATE SYS-
TEN OF CIVIL SERVICE THE
GOVERNMENT EVER KNEW,
AND HAS MADE IT EFFICIENT
HONEST AND ECONOMICAL.
HE HAS STOPPED THE THEFTS
AND HAS EARLY COLLECTED
THE PUBLIC REVENUE. HE
HAS MADE LARGE PAYMENTS
ON THE PUBLIC DEBT, AND
YET so MANAGED THE Fl
NANCES THAT WE ECANLARGE
IIY RED ICE TAXATION HE