The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-01

of Inc naton Such Is T snm% ns or the St.
here are transgressons Ia every form; open viola,
ton OF the constitution In more than essential
s san S
Asgrant insult to tue black republic, with menace
of war; completely with the wrongful Imprisonment
ritorial sovereignty In Q foreign Jurisdiction;
employment Of the national navy to sustain
by man calling himself aide camp Of Ulysses s
Grant, President OF the United States and stipu-
lating that his chief should play the lobbyt to help
the Continuance through Congress-; then urged by
private appeals to Senators and tie influence Of
Incorporating power tyrannically employed by the
annual Message. where undisguised insult to the
Senate vies with the absurdity In declaring the pros
sna with
the most solemn Judgment Why the grand inquest
bar OF the Senate should have slept on this cg1g0me
rate missiemeanor, every part OF wasonensive
predecessor, while it had background OF nepo-
tism, gBttaking officially compensated, and various
Presidential pretensions beyond all precedent All
ths wiki be one of the riddles of American history
to be explained only blythe extent to which the
one man power had succeeded in sshjugating the
/ government
NDIGN1rY re THE AFRICAN RACE
Let me Confess SIR, that while at each stage
ss thai s p Se ann
ment, my feelings have been most stirred by the
outrage to which, besides being wrong to the
baack republic insult 10 the cOlOred race NOT
only abroad but here at home. How chief magis-
trafe with four millions OF cOlored fellow citizens,
This outrage was followed by an incident In which
the same sentiments were revealed. Frederick
Douglass remarkable or'is intelligence as for his
eloquence, and always agreeable In personal rea-
tOns whose only offence is skin not entirely eau.
seec 81 @ rmea6 as one ye 81 e
his return and almostwithin sight OF the Executive
RErxLLED FROM THE COMMON TABLE
OF the mail steamer on the Potomac where
the other 1CommR sloners were already seated,
their equal rights denied. But the President, whose
commission he had borne, neither did nor safd any
thing to right ibis wrong, and, few days later,
ecutive Mansion actually forgot the coiored orator
whose services he had sought. But this lndignity
Is In unison with the rest After nsultingthe black
republic 1t IS easy to see how natural 1t to treat
with insensbility the representative Of the African
race.
THESE THINGS IN ISSUE Now
Here, I'stay this painful presentment under its
various heads, beginning with nep0tism and gilt
continuance against San Domingo, with indignty
to the African race not because 1t Is complete but
because At Ia enough. With sorrow sunspeakable
have made this exposure Of pretensions, which,
for the sake OF republican Institutions every good
should ws @ from but
insists upon putting them in issue. He will
not allow them to be forgotten. AS candidate for
acting in his behalf make it absolutely necessary
by the brutality OF their assault faithful republi
cans unwilling to see their party, like the Presden-
tal Office, personal perquiste. II his partisans
are exactng, vindictve and unjust they act only
in harmony with his own nature, too truly
represented in them. There is not a
ring, whether military or Senatorial, that
does not derive distinctive character from
himself; therefore what they do and what they say
must be considered as done and said by the chief
! tain they serve. And here is new manifestation
OF that sovereign eg0tism which no taciturnty can
cover up, and new motive for inquiry into its per-
| nicous influence. Any presentment OF the Presi-
| dent should be imperfect which did not show how
this ungovernable personality breaks forth in quar-
! rel, making him
THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL QuARRELLER
OF history AS in nepOtsm gilt taking officially
compensated and Presidential pretensiOns generally
here again he Is foremost having quarreled not only
more than any other President. but more than all
others together, from George Washington to HIM
self. His own Cabinet, the Senate. the
House OF Representatives the diplomatic service
and the civil service generally-all have their
Victims nearly every one OF whom, besides serving
the republican party, had helped to make him Pres
ident. Nor have army officers, his companions in
the field, or even his generous patrons been exempt
to him. quarrel Is not only constant necessity,
| but perquiste Of office. To nurse quarrel, like
tending horse, is in his list OF Presidential duties.
| How idle must he be should the words of Shaks-
peare be fulfilled, .Ths day all quarrels die" To
him may be applied those other words of Shaks-
| peare, "As quarrelsome as the weasel"