The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-19
Grant and his system.

In the approaching PreSluenCta1 e1ectlon
the citizens of the United States are called
peting candidates, but between two differ
ent and irrecOncilable systems of admins
tering the government. Those who vote
for General @ rant will thereby approve his
system and make themselves responsible for
its continuance, while those who vote for
Horace Greeley will thereby declare their
opposition TO this system and their prefer
ence OF methods of administration totally
opposite to those of Grant.
To vote for Grant will be to vote IN favor
of the following characteristic features of
his system:
/. Appointments to office in return for
presents.
2. Appointment to office OF relations of
the President or of some member OF his
family, without regard TO their qualiHca-
tions or merits.
3. The sale OF appointments to office, as
in the case of William ID Farrand, appoint
ed Consul at Callao by President Grant for
81, 500 paid to Judge Lewis Dent. and $1,000
paid to Gen I. Dent, the Presidents broth
ers-in-laW.
4. The surrender of the Soscol Ranch
military reservation TO the Bank of Califor-
mia for So, 2S2, The valuetof thesproperty be-
Government being essential TO the safety of
Mare Island Navy Yard.
). The payment Of forged bounty claims
out of the Treasury of the United states,
ly and deliberately by Paymaster-General
Brice, and Gen. Grant having supported
Brice in the payment OF such forged claims,
and restored him to office after President
johnson had dismissed him for his connec-
ton with these forgeries.
6. The payment TO fraudulent army con-
tractors of large sums of money, half
million or Whereabouts, withheld from them
by Secretary Edward M. Stanton by reason
of their frauds, detected and proved ut
Alexandria, Va.
z. A deficiency of 81. 100000 in the stamp
account of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
the money having beer received for stamps
furnished, but never paid over or accounted
for to the Treasury,
8. The Chorpenning fraud, by which Post
master General Creswel, with the direct
support and cooperation of General Grant
arranged to pay $443000 out of the Treasu-
ry when the Government owed Chorpening
nothing, Creswell's law partner being the
attorney OF Chorpenning in the case.
o. The various frauds of George Nj. Robe
son, Secretary of the Navy, of which $3lS,-
7l9 % having been proved upon him, these
frauds being merely indications of others
not vet detected.
10. The San Domingo job, with its usur-
patton of the war power of Congress, its in
excusable attack upon the Republic of
Hayti, and it's lawless appropriation of the
public money in payment for the unauthor-
lied lease of the Bay OF SANTANA,
IL. The frauds in the New York Custom
House, and the general order extortiOns
practised by Leet, Grants adjutant, levying
vast sums of money upon the commerce OF
of New York.
II. The cutrages of Brother-in-law Casey.
of New Orleans, in breaking up Republic
can Convention by armed force, and in at
tempting to break up the State Legislature
of Louisiana by the clandestine use of the
power of the Federal Government, all for
the purpose of promoting the recollection of
Grant.
IL. The oppression and robbery of the
Southern States by the carpet-bag govern
ments, adding $250,000,000 to their debt, and
by the laws for the suppression OF the ha-
beas corpus and for military interference at
elections.
IA, Prostituting the influence and power
of the United States to sustain Spanish des-
potism in Cuba and to preserve slavery and
the slave trade there.
Is. Humilating the United States before
the powers of Europe, as in sacrificing
American citizens in Cuba to Spanish ma
Lightly and violence, in settling the Ala |
bama question in the interest of England, |
and in attem pting to compel Russia te pay
the swindling Perkins claim.
Such are some of the more conspicuous |
and general features OF the system with |
which President Grant has identified him |
self. To vote for him is to vote in favor of |
these things and to express desire for their |
and perpetuation.-N. Y. Sun. |