Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-24

dict only between
4 PARTIEs, Policies AND PRINCIPLES.
/ Such a verdict would have rested upon
4 public grounds, personally disparaging
l TO no one In that case General Grant
/ could not complain. The Senator then
referred to the Cincinnati platform,
charaeterizingi il as l1bellous upon Presi-
l dent Grant, and speaking Of the men
who figured at Cincinnati as groups Of
/ disreputables from the political cutters.
/ Their tariff resolution is a mere jungle
! and a shallow evasion; their amnesty
4 resolution amounts tD nothing, because
| a general amnesty bill has already been
passed, while that about Capitalization,
/ If it meant anything, referred to meas
lures Of Congress which Greeley had him
self approved. Where, then, is the
political issue the people are to pass
upon? It cannot be civil service reform,
unless dishonesty Is imputed to the
/ President. He is for civil service reform.
/ He recommended it, inaugurated it, and
the -
l. PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION "a.
specially declared for it. There can be
mo issue Of that kind, except by pre-
tending that Grant is a hypocrite, and
1 that Greeley is not. Neither of these
things would be easy to prove. The
1 coalition presents only assaults upon the
I President, and is nothing more or less
! than a challenge of comparison between
/ the candidates. The issue is, which is
personally the fittest man for the Presi-
dency. The Democracy had surrendered
| its creed, and now, to wipe out the very
memory of Democracy, these vaulting
managers selected as their figurehead a
professed Ultra-Republican, and ask hon.
est Democrats to vote for him against a
man r
BORN AND BRED A DEMOCRAT,
who never acted with the Republican
party till after the war had raised new
issues, which the Democrats had diYid-
ed. The anti-Grant managers are dar-
ing, If they are not silly. They attempt
to crowd down the tbrOats of the Demo-
crats who fought the Maine law, a man
who drowned all other voices in his out
cries for the penal statutes of Sunday
laws, and to stop by force the drinking
even of lager-beer. Upon what grounds,
he asked, were the Democrats expected
to vote the Greeley ticket? There can
be no reason, unless Grant is unworthy
of confidence or respect, and deserves to
be found guilty of the
~. CRIMES AND VICES
alleged against him.
The speaker then referred to the early
education and life Of Grant, reading
from letters written to his parents over
thirty years ago. Sumner, he said, with
ers him by reminding us that he, tanned
hides at Galena for few hundred dol
lars a year. He did net masquerade as
wOOd-chOpper; he did not figure i'm
pictOrials as a farmer; he did not 20
round telling what ne knew about some
thing that he did not understand him
self. His career in the rebellion is known
to the whole world. Subsequently the
Democrats sought to nominate him for
the Presidency, but he declined. His
integrity taught him that when party
chooses a candidate from the other side,
SOMEBODY Is CHEATED,
and By Grants consent no one ever was
or ever will be cheated.
The speaker then recited from the New
York World and Horace Greeley's aHu-
'siOns. complimentary to Grant, made in
1865.
Coming to the question Of
GIFT-TAKING BY GRANT,
he. adverted to English examples 10
show how that country had enriched its
distinguished men by acts of Parliament.
Voluntary subscriptions in America,
too, had been lavish in this regard to
sherman, Sheridan, Farragut and Grant.
Large sums were given TO the Stanton
family, and to Rawlins's widow and
orphans were given more than a hun
dred- thousand dollars each. Were
these things dishOnorable? Was il
wrong for Grant TO accept such gifts?
The charge is an insult to the nation.
Whoever witnessed applauded the pro
ceeding, and it cannot have been dis
honorable or improper for him to accept
the gilt without being dishonOrable and
improper to offer it. Bismarck has re-
Gently received bonded estate as a gift,
and was
MADE A PRINCE.
Thecharge that Grant accepted any gift
after he became President, or after he
was nominated, is wholly false. he has
accepted nothing of value since his first
nomination; not even carriage horses;
although Lincoln, Buchanan, Pierce,
Taylor and other Presidents did
accept carriages and horses after their
election. But il is said the men who
subscribed gifts were appointed to office;
the insinuation is, that thew Were ap-
pointed because they had subscribed the
gifts. The fact that hundreds who
gave have never been appointed to any
thing would Of itself seem to disprove
the charge that official patronage has
been used to repay gifts. Only three, or
at the most four, of the contributors to
the funds raised for Grant have ever
been offered appointments. 1t would
seem far-fetehed TO explain the selee-
ton of three for reasons applying to
more than three hundred who were
never selected at all. A. It. Stewart
subscribed to
THE GRANT FUND,