Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-07-26
PRESIDENT GRANT.
AN ABLE REVIEW OF HIS LIFE, CHARAC-
TER AND SERVICES.
SIanders Refute ed--sIsnderers
Shamed.
Extracts nom mr. conAIin.'. address.
1SJusriuE nEApED ON the PRESIDENT.

name Of Sydney, for his greatest apd gentlest
| quality is his magnanipty. II there has been
high official ever ready to admit and correct an
errOr-n there has been one who did wisely,
firmly and well the things given him in charge,
that one is the soldier in war, and the quief pa
| triot in peace, VIM has been named again by
| every township in forty-aix States and Terrific
ries for the great trust he nov holds Yet this
man, honest brave and modest, aud proved by
his transcendent deeds to be endowed with geni-
| us. common sense and moral qualities, adequate
| to the greatest affairs this man who saved his
| country, who hnatched our nationality and our
cause from despair, and bore them on his shield
| through the flame Of battle, in which but for
him, they would have persisted this man, under
whose administration our country has tlOluished
rs no one dared predict thiH man to whom 4
nations gratitude and benedictinn are due, il
| made tho mark for rlbald pbcs and UdlUus
giuundless ISLANDERS.
Tue rresidom cannot ehter the Hats Of con
lroyersy and defend himself the prophecies Of
lls station forbid it hls chief competitor man
aging behind the cnrtain, a newspaper from
which he pretends to have retired, is free to de-
| fend aud pun himself and feels free TO fill his
paper with base and Bcurrilous falsehOod, in the
| hope Of blackoning name which il one Of the
| treasures of the nation, and which will be the
pride Of posterity All this pollution will, in the
end, disgrace only its authors il will not dis
grace Grant or the nation because the nation
will spun and resent it, The disgusting perso-
naliies, enptied upon Gen. jackson, secured
his re- election; an offended people struck back
and they will strike back again.
CHANTS EDUCATION AND BoYHooD
Grant cannot be illiterate, or, as Greeley or
ator told an audience the other day, ignorant
of what school boys know
He was educated at West Point and whoever
graduates i'll that eXacing school, must have an
education such as few Americans receive. Mem
tai culture is not all We find IN Grant at West
Point. HIS letters written then stamp him with
a character enough by itself TO refute the worn
and suiled tavern scandal which now offends the
nostris of the nation. The Senator here read
admirable and touching letters, written by Grant
to his parents, while at West Point
Had the boy who wrote those letters good
and gentle nature 2 Was he well grounded or
ahuat When did he lose the moral sense which
there speaks out
From West Point be went to act subord-
nate part in the Mexican war. He acted IL brave
ly, mOdestly we'll. The Mexican war being over
his pay in the regular army would have gone on,
and he might have lived in peace and idleness at
the public cost, but, unwilling TO be drone, he
became an idler.
THE TANNER OF dALENA," WHAT HE TANNED.
Mr.. sumner withers him by reminding us that
" he tanned hides at Galena for few hundred
dollars year." He did not masquerade as a
9Ood-chOpper; he did not figure ia pictOrials as
a farmer lie did not go round telling ''what lie
knew about" any thing that he didn't understand
himself he minded his own business, and lot
other peoples business alone but he worked
with his hands as a newer OF wood which he
sold In the market, and wrought out living for
his family and himself. 7in.
From the breaking out of the rebellion his
career IL a thrice told talo'-the world knows
it by heart.
How stood he then; The nation leaned and
rnposod upon hin, and blessed HIM. Both hem
| irpheres gazed at him, as the prodigy and won
| der Of the age.
The Democrats sought his consent to nomi-
nate him for the Presidency without platform or
| pledge but he declined. His integrity taught
INN that when party chooses candidate from
| the other side, somebody is to be cheated; and
| by Grants consent, no one ever was or ever will
| be cheated.
But the Democratic managers adored him,
/ and saw him only resplendont with greatness
| and with virtues. He was not unit for Presi-
/ dent then he was the htest Of all his country
| men. He did not become unfit until three
| years experience had ripened and enlarged his
knowledge.
| GIFr-TAKINd."
But lot us go back moment, to Grant, be-
fore he seriously thought of being President,
and when lie was only the idol OF the nation.
| RetuI ming from the field, covered with glory,
| but poor IN money, the afiuent, whose fortunes
| he had saved met him with munliicent offer
| ings In this they followed the customs of an
cient and modern times.
Wellington received from his Government
| and his neighburs, more than s3 900 900. Brit
iHh citizens Of Calcutta made him presents, the
officers Of the army gave him $lO,OOO, the
| House Of Commons voted him 81 ,OOOO 600, and
| a mansion and estates were purchased for him
by subscription at cost Of . 800, 900. Besides
this lie was three times ennoDled, twice by Eng
land and once by Spain.
Oliver Cromwell, for deeds done in civil war
recei, ed $32 500 year in gifts. Marlborough
was given stately palace and splendid for
tune. Nelson and his family were ennobled
aud received s75.OOO. Jewels and money were
gwen to Fairfax for services in civil war.
America, younger and poorer, with few war,
to breed heroes, has been less lavish than olde
nations but Americans have not been stingy
General Mcclellan, perhaps, begins the list U
largely.rewArded Generals. His active sefvic,
| ended before the war was over, aud his Demo
| cratic admirers, prior to nominating him for th'
Presidency presented him a costly house and
large purse, amounting in all to bundre'
| Thousand dollars.
10 Sherman, Sheridan, Farragut and Grant
large sums were given To StantOns family
and to Rawlins, were given more than a huudreI
thousand each. We're these things dishonorable
Was it wrong for Gen Grant to accept sucl
| gifts The charge N an insult to the nation VIII
Witnessed and applauded the proceeding it /
} an imputation upon those who gave, as much a
upon him who received. 1t can not have bee
; dshonorable or improper for him to accept
gift without being dishOnorable and imprope
to offer 1t.
The c,arge that Grant accepted any gift afte
I he BECAME President, or after he was nominu
! ted is wholly false. lie has accepted nothin
J Of value since his first nomination : not even
] carriage and horses although Lincoln, an
I Buchanan, and Pierce, and Taylor, and othe
0 Pre- sdents did accept carriages and horses aite
: | their election.
u 'GIFT-HEARING GREEKS"
But it il said that men who subscribed to gifl
| have been appointed to office, and the insinui
| ton is that they were appointed because the
i, subscribed to gifts.
= = The fact that hundreds who gave have new
. been appointed to anything would Of itself see
= to disprove the charge that official patronal
= - has been used to repay gifts. Only three-or
> most four-contIibutUrs to the funds raised f,
u | Gen Grant have ever been offered appoin
= ments, and it would seem far-fetched to eXpla
II the selection of three for reason applying
: | more than three hundred who were never seleC
- !, ed at all. But the facts answer the charge.
le THE PRESIDENTS RICHES.
The Liberal" idea of decency and manly wa
re forces nle to speak of another thing. which W
IL CRATE upon your ears. The political scayenge
ny pretend that the President ii rich by illicit eai
10 and they parade his property by millions.
have fallen on sorry times when the Chief Mag
tTate of the country with fame 80 great al
pure, must give account of his pllvats proper
IN in answer to electiOneering falsehoods. T.
as President would disdain to do il; LaYJ no a
10. thOrity TO do it, l do not assume to do it on
y behalf; but on behalf of the party and I
ed cause he represents venture to state the fac
AtGalena, where he tanned hides. lie own