Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-15
Something for the Relatives Of the
Dead Soldiers TO Read Carefully
and Reflect upon.
Patriotic People, How do you Like This
Picture Of the Man who Sells the
Country to Ofiice-HOlders!
Can This Article be Answered I'VE
Doubt it-A Painting that
Cannot be Amended.

be Horace ATrGeleN VI u. OlAaAANs LA4C
two men arenot by any means strangers
. to the American people. The public
! have had full opportunity to test the
honesty. intellect, personal and moral
fitness Of both, and can hardly fail in
distinguishing the marked differences
between the two men.
Both men spent their early life III
comparative poverty. Young Greeley
learned typesetting, paying for his edu-
cation and his board by his labor; Grant
was sent to West Point, and boarded
and educated at the public cost. Gree
lev graduated as a mechanic, and to a
life Of personal toll; Grant graduated to
an appointment in the army, with a
salary paid from the Treasury. Greeley
worked from shop TO shop, growing
stronger and wiser, and doing more and
more for the benefit of his race. Grant
fingered in the army. Greeley paid his
wsy by his earnings and owed no man
ANYTHING. Grant lost all his vouchers
as an army officer, and it required, as
late as 1866 or '67, a special act OF Con-
gress to release him from default. Gree
lev, exposed to the temptations of a
great city, progressed in knowledge, and
having lived q sober life, was at last able
to start business for himself; Grant, eX-
posed 10 the temptations of frontier
posts, after a few years, followed the
timely advice to resign the service.
Greeley at once took leading position
as a Journalist. Grant became, as Sen !
ator Wilson saws, "a clerk in a tanneTy
at a few hundred dollars a year" In
1861, Greeley had become one Of the
foremost public men of the United States,
the head of leading jOurnal-a recog- |
nized exponent Of national sentiment. |
In 1861, war having broken out, the
graduate Of West Point quit civil life, for
which he was unfit, and Joined the
army. During that war Greeley and
Grant-the one with the pen, the other
with the sword-each did his part to the
best Of his ability. When success had
closed the war, the army was disbanded, |
and the country restored, as far as could
be, to a government of peace. During !
that war, Greeley made patriots and en-
listed troops; Grant led them to death ]
or victory. Greeley, with his pen, call
ed volunteers from the hillside and the
vale; Grant planted them in the Will
derness, ON the James, and before Pc
tersburg.
These two men are now candidates
for President. The one is not a soldier, !
but is an educated civilian. The other
is a soldier, and is not an educated civ !
iIian. One has been a student of states |
manship, and is profoundly ignorant of
military art. The other has been a mil |
itary student, and is profoundly ignorant |
of statesmanship. Greeley holds that
this is government of peace, where
the civil law is supreme, and military
force but the agent, in the last eXtremi-
ty, to enforce the law. Grant holds
that the military power is the real gov
! eminent; that the civil law and civil
officers are mere concession to popular
prejudice. Greeley holds that the fewer
| bayonets and the absence Of military
| force exhibit the strength of a govern
ment Of law and of popular choice;
! Grant holds that the true strength of a
government is shown in the Adjutant-
! Generals morning report Of the number
| of bayonets at the command Of the Pres
! idept. Greeley's idea of a government
! is, President surrounded by a cabinet
Of statesmen; Grants idea Of a govern
ment is, a President surrounded by a
staff Of military subOrdinates, with some
civilians TO do the drudgeTy of clerical
work. Greeley would have civil es-
/ tablishment; Grant military one. Mr..
| Greeley believes, with Jefferson and
Madison, and all the Presidents we have
| had except the present, thatthe military
authority should be subordinate to the
civil. Grant holds that the only consti-
] tutional use there is for a civil branch
Of the government is to appropriate
money to be expended by the President.
With Greeley, reverence for law, pre-
cedent, and the theory of civil liberty is
ineradicable; Grant has no such rever-
1 ence; on the contrary, he regards the
Union as a camp, in which the Presi-
dents word is the only law. Greeley
holds that the officers of the government
are public servants, responsible to the
people. Grant holds them to be the
I servants Of the President, and response
! bic only to him. Greeley holds ours to
/ be a government of written law. Grant
holds il to be q government Of executive
will. Greeley holds that the people Of
each Of the thirty-seven States have an
exclusive right Of local self-gOvernment.
/ Grant holds that all government pro-
ceeds from, and is subject to, the EXecu-
! tive, who, at his discretion, may estab-
! lish his supreme authority by the bayO-
net. Mr.. Greeley agrees with Washing
/ ton and Jefferson, that the President has
no legal or moral right to farm out the
public service among his relatives. Grant
asserts that appointments to office are
personal perquisite of the President, and
/ part of the allowance made by the ma
| ton for the support Of himself and fam
| ily. Mr.. Greeley agrees with all the
| Presidents, from Washington to John
son, that il is as personally dishOnOrable
| for President to accept presents of
money or property from applicants FOR
Office as 1t would be for judge to accept
them from litigants. General Grant
/ has no such scruples. He considers ii
no more improper than for military
commander to accept presents for passes
/ to trade with the enemy, which was the
rule in the1rmy. Mr.. Greeley agrees with
| Washington, that the acceptance Of a
loan or gift by cabinet officer in con-
| alteration of an official service should
he followed by the dismissal OF the Of
6eer. Grant considers such an act cred
| itable TO the cabinet officer, as showing
his capacity to profit by circumstances.
! Greeley thinks Washington did right in
disnaissing his Secretary. Grant thinks
he Is encouraging virtue by leaving Rob-
eson TO ply his vocation.
Mr.. Greeley would think himself dis
honored were he TO trade with an ad-
venturer and an usurper for the purchase
of a foreign people and land; and still
more disgraced If he used the American
navy TO compel the people Of that section
to submit TO that usurper pending the
4 traffic. General Grant claims that ms
4 dealings with the traitor BaeZ are a
credit to himself and to tn eAmeFican
government.
Mr.. Greeley has been all his life q man
Of clear head aud mind, never tempo
rarily or permanently beclouded by per-
sOnal excesses of any kind. General
Grant has never considered that the
military or civil duties devOlved upon
him have required a REIMBURSEMENT of
the habits Of the mess-room; or that as
President, he and his companions are
not entitled 10 that exemption from crit
icism which is enjoyed by those who
share the hospitality of headquarters
Mr.. Greeley would Danish from the
Presidents mansion the sword and bay
onet of the trooper; dispatch the Gener-
ais and Majors TO their commands;
break up the customs Of their barracks,
and dissolve the mess supplieii in whole
/ or in part from general orders, Mr..
Grant considers these the appropriate
signs Of Republican President.
i Dir, Greeley has never been President; (;
General Grant has been. Mr.. Greeley
NAV fail: General Grant has failed. Mr..
4 Greeley falling or not, wiz have an hon
est government; General Grant, failing
In ali other things. has had the most