Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-04
From the N. '. Times. THE pREalpEMT AND HIS Accus. FRS. l8sta

eHGaEOnS agalnst dGn. Gfant Wn1cn bne Sun, the World, and other papers bitterly opposed to the President, arc constantly repeating. The Presidents defamers- and it may save misconstruction to say here that in the remarks we have to make about them we do not refer to the Eagle, which simply repeats charges with ont inyenting them have echoed their complaints so often that at last they prob ably almost believe in their justice. To prevent others falling into the same error, We undertook to reply to the Eagles arti- ole as soon as we hnd time to inquire into the facts. We nov proceed to do so:
 The Eagle says: Grant went into office poor. and is notoziously 8 millionaire al- ready; and he cannot have made his mil lion out of his official salary, or his legiti- rfate receipts in public service" If one part of the duty of the President of the United States was to answer every ques- ton addressed to him about his private circumstances, and empty his pocket book to every visitor to show how much money he had about him, the dignity of the office would not be mnch incEeased-and. per- haps, the people would not consult their own interests by subjecting their chief of ficer to such ill-usage. The President con- siders his own self-respect, and we believe he also considers the wishes of the people, by never replying to any attack made up on him. We have no authority to speak for him but careful inquiries have assur- ed us that outside of his official salary, his income does not exceed six thousand dollars year. His principal property is his farm of six or seven hundred acres, assu ps Ra ol iSs Selea Mas 9as bought by Gen. Grant from the other heirs, out of the one hundred thousand dollars given to him by the citizens oi New York 6efOre he became President. One of the charges against the President is that this St. Louis farm was present to him. The rest of the one hundred thousand dollars referred to was used in paying of the mortgage on his house in 1-street, Washington, now owned by Gen. sherman, and in purchasing and furnish ing his house at Long Branch, which he is charged with receiving as present from Mir. Murphy-that being another oi the niamberless fabrications set afioat by the Sun about the President, and repeat ed eagerly by journals opposed to him. Not c dottGs's sc0yfb of properly has been gsvea to Gen. Grant since he becane President.
 During the WET the President saved something out of his pay as Maior-G Gener- d, we are half ashamed to refer to such matters. but since the Eagle asks for the factss It may as woA have them au.-and with the money so saved he bougi.b a part interest in some Chicago lots, which have appreciated in value, but hitherto have yielded no income. He also bought a small amount of horse-railroad stock, which he still owns, and which pays 6 moderate dividend. He was given, while . General in the Army, house in Phila. delphia, which he rents for about two thousand dollars year.
 Another statement of the Eagle is that ssthe Sun has printed repeatedly, uncon. tradicted from any quarter, list of twen- appointed to office under himself" We hope that the day will come when honor. able journalists will be ashamed to assert that anything is true of Gen. Grant be. cause the Sun says 1t Is true. The list ir question hGs been contradicted; it is false in every particular; and we will print it al the close of this article, with comments which prove it to be false. The Presi. dents relatives who do hold office were chiefly appointed by his predecessors; was he bound to turn them out when he came into office himself? Is it to be the rule oi public life that when 8 man accepts a re- sponsible position he is to begin by thrust. ing his kinsfolks out of any offices they may happen to hold, and giving up all the property he may possess Do the people expect this? -"
 A third statement is that Gen. Grant received twenty-five thousand dollars stock in the Seneca Stone Company, as g gift, and then appointed MT. Cooke, the President of that Company, Territorial Governor in Washington, ''thereby en, hancing the value of the stock of Messrs. Cooke, Grant < Co.," This is a total mis- representation of a very simple transac. tion. Shortly after the organization oi the Seneca Stone Company in 1867, near, ly a year before Gen. Grant was nominat. ed President, he was invited by MT. H. D. Cooke and others to take twenty thou. sand dollars worth of stock as an inyest naent. He thought we'll of it, and surely no one will deny that he was free to invest his money in any enterprise he chose He had as much right to use his money Up xA4D OW4 0ASCAOc2OA no UA1y OtECI C1b1ECu He invested ten thousand dollars in the purchase of the stock, and tt has saeUey p0id him cent He has been anxious for Q long time to sell this stock; perhaps some of the accusers would like to buy iti Gov. Cooke was appointed last February -stock bought in 1867; Cooke appointed 1071-and that appointment had about al much Go do with Seneca stone as it ha6 with the deposits of the post-tertiary pc riod.
 f The charge that President Grant quar
 tels with Sumner and is friendly with Nye
 E Co., and that he absents himself from
 Washington during we leave peo
 ple to form their own opinions about
 The accusation that somebody very neal
 10 the Presidential person was engaged il
 the s'gold gambling" affairs of Fisk anl
 Gould, is utterly refuted by Jay Gouldi
 swn evidence, as published in the oficia
 eport of the investigation, by the Forty
 first Congress, The President himsel
 fave the order to sell gold on the infa
 nous Black Friday" that order whicl
 drought the conspiracy to an end. Th' only man who ever attempted to drag Gen Grants name into the transaction wal
 James Fisk, Jr.--a notorious thief ana
 swindler. Is there any respectable maI G woman in this country who would sui hr his or her estimation of "a friends char
 cter to be lowered by anything James Fisk, IT,, might say :? And yet the Presi dent of the United States is to be con
 demned by party papers, on the evidenc. df a man. who has committed the wors Kind of offenses against the law, and who
 h the eternal disgrace of the Judges whe administer that law, is still reyeling in hi. Solen wealth, instead of breaking stonei1 Sing Sing.
 As to the objections to Gen. Grant, cSurse on public affairs, we do not profess t answer them now; we merely repeat oui own opinion, that in the main his polio, n sound, wise, and beneficial one. nan of purer private life than Gen. Gran nsver occupied the Presidential chair. | itjust-t is worthy of the Presidents DO sfion. or of this great nation-that h, siouId be called to account at any mo
 nent by every disappointed ofice-seeke yho chooses to invent 6 new slande akainst him? We have replied to thes clarges because, by constant repetition 4far, xn;orhf have inv3Oaed 41rpon erndu10n