Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-16

named for his Cabinet +. D. Morgan, Geo.
Opdyke jackson s. Schults, William
F.. Dodge, Henry Clews, or any other
leading merchant or banker who sup,
ported him, IL would have turned
out he too was a gift-bearing Greek. The
same thing Is true OF Borie. These Cabinet
Ministers were selected for supposed fitness,
because they were not politicians. Stewards
success In his immense business convinced
| the President that he might render great
service rs Secretary of the Treasury. Borle,
| retired merchant, was believed to have
| large knowledge applicable to the navy.
| The New York Tribune was foremost In urg
| ing the appointment OF men who were not
| politicians, and because Of the bluster in
| public journals the President was misled.
! Greeley insisted that the Cabinet should be
| chosen upon the principle of which he is
| trying TO be President, viz, passing over all
men whom you know to be NJ, and taking
| man at venture with no reasons to believe
him to be fit. Indeed Greeley once told the
| President that, in his opinion, the offices
| should never be given to those who could
! take care of themselves, but should be kept
| for those who couldn't make living in any
| other way. Stewards case was one in which
! the President was first to acknowledge his
mistake The Presidents manliness in meet
| ing everything and shrinking from nothing
on this occasion, raised him greatly in the
estimation of all just beholders.
| Another of the subscribers to the Grant
! IL
| nell, and when Grinnell was removed then
men accused the President of ingratitude for
| the act.
The political scavengers pretend that the
| President has grown rich as President, by
| Illicit gain. They parade his property by
| millions. We have fallen on sorry times
| when the chief of magistrates, with fame so
! great and pure, must give an account Of his
| private property in answer to electoneering
falsehoods. The President would disdaln to
do 1t. have no authority to do it. / don't
! assume to do IL on his behalf, but on the be-
half of the party and the cause he repre-
| sented, venture TO state the facts. The
| house in Galena, ILL.,, Mrs. Grants farm
! in Missouri, a 100000 house in Washington,
| which he sold to Gen Sherman, the cottage
at Long Branch and the house at Philadel-
! phta, rented at $1,000 per annum, completed
| the Presidents property, with one exception.
Some years ago he purchased 100000 in
nominal value of stock in the Seneca Stone
| Company. To this day it has paid nothing,
partly because the President has interfered
| to prevent Seneca stone being adopted as
the building material of the Government on
| plans submitted for the new State Depart
| ment of Seneca stone. Because of his being
| a stoCkholder the President refused TO allow
| the plans to be even considered Other
| stockholders complained of this, saving they
were punished because the President owned
stock. The President replied, expressing
! his regret, and saying he would sell his stock
| or give 1t away but for the imputatiOns cast
! upon him by his political opponents because
of his ownership. He deemed it unsuitable
| even to seem to pay attention to such a cal
umny by parting with his stock. Grant is,
| however, not a money-maker, or, indeed,
| an oflice-seeker The Presidency sought
! him, and he never consented to stand
a second time until assured he was
the only man who conldn't be
! beaten. The Convention at Philadelphia
! turned out to have not more than thirty
! office holders. No National Convention Of
| the party in power ever met before in which
men holding official station were not largely
! present. Perhaps no single precinct in the
| whole country so efiectually gave the lie to
| the pretense that the oiiice-holders controlled
| the people as the Seventh ward of Boston,
| in which Sumner lives. There the Republi-
cans turned ont EN- masse and voted unani-
mously for Grant. Sumner, in his oppos-
/ tion, could not command vote.
! The announced wish of Mr.. Colfax to with
| draw from public life, left the Conyention
| without unity of sentiment as to the second
! place ON the ticket The choice fell upon a
man who Mr.. Wade has well described as
| the incarnation of American citizenship.
| Born child of poverty and toll, the Natick
| cobbler has won place in the respect and
! good will of his country and of men which
| made il fit that the second office in the re-
| public should be held by Henry Wilson.
| Without Il contract between his colleague
and himself the prize might not have fallen
\ to him, but the ineXcusable conduct of Sum
ner led the Convention to prefer Wilson for
| his own great might. Also because his nom
| inatlon was record of national Judgment
| against the pretension that party belongs to
/ any man or is subject to the whim or dicta-
| ton OF any set OF men, however petted in
| the past. Mr.. Wilson has been Senator
many years-during General Grants whole
/ military and civil service. He has at all
| times upheld Republican measures. There
| fore, he is as answerabe as he wishes to be
| for the acts of the party or the policy of the
! Administration. Objections to either can
| didate apply to both, and can be argued to-
| gether. The Administration is on trial.
! Charges are made against it which must be
| met.
! George Washington was abused by his po-
| litical opponents. suppose all that had been
said about Grant were true. He had made a
| good President.
The Senator then took up the San Domin-
| go question, and said:
/ When the Treaty was proposed, Grant
/ asked Sumner, Chairman of the Committee
of Foreign Relations, if he would support it.
| General Babcock and Colonel FOrney were
present at the interview, and all understood
that Mr.. Sumner said he would support it;
| that he could not think of doing otherwise
! than support the Administration in the mat
! ter; further, that there was no objection to
the instrument as n whole, Yet, Sumner
I HAVING taken OUtUet btCdu5t his views anu
wishes in other matters were not deferred to,
became incensed at the President and Secre
| tary Fish, and denounced them, and among
other things the San Domingo Treaty, and
| raising an issue of veracity with the three
| witnesses denied that he ever intimated that
he would give the Treaty his support.
Among the glaring absurdities heaped
| on the San Domingo matter is the allegation
that it was war upon the Republic of Hayti
The foundation for this is that vesse
or two cruised in that part of the ocean dur
ing the negotiations. Not a gun or pocket
pistol, not a percussion cap was fired, and
the only warlike demonstration ever heard Of
was that a sea captain sent up a rocket. The
purpose of this sky rocket or where the stick
came down never has been ascertained.
The Senator then spoke of Mr. Sumner:
! removal from the Craftsmanship of the For
eign Relations Committee, and said it was
not removal at all.
The Senate committees die at the end oi
each session. He was not deDosed because
of his opposition to the San Domingo scheme
sumner did not hold communication with
the State Department, and the Senate was
delayed for weeks for lack of information
The simple, indeed, the only cure for all thi:
was to select another chairman. This was
done, and nothing more, and it turned out
that treaties, six or seven in number, having
long lain buried in committee, after the
change in the chairman were at once brought
up and ratified.
The Senator then took up the charge o.
nepotism against Gen. Grant, and enumerat
ed many instances when public men appoint
ed relatives to Office:
President Johnson's son was his Chic
Private Secretary. Gov. Stewards son wat
Assistant Secretary of State. Edwin NJ
StantOn's son was Clerk in the Washington
Department Gideon Welles' son was Chic
Clerk of the Navy Department, and wher
Gideon Welles promoted relatives at q grea
| tinp 40 Al al KVo mol
that he paid Just sums to relatives, but thai
he paid such sums at all. Reverdy Johnson
Minister to England, made his son Assistant
Secretary of Legation John A. Dix, Minis
ter to France, did the same thing with hi
son. Mr. Schurz pressed his brother-in-lav
| upon the President, and obtained for him {
lucrative place, and when Trumbull caused
his removal upon statements impeaching hi
tltness, Schurz ragged against the Presiden
7 for removing his brother-in-law. Trumbul
seems TO have procured an appointment TO
his brother-iu-law, his son and his nephew
and he broke, ii is said, with the Presiden