Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-03
N EMPILTS APPEAL
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE ,, 1872
ruE uREAD.AND.BUTTER BRrGADE.

THE EREAD-AND-BUTTER BRIGADE
On Wednesday next the of1iceholders
meet at Philadelphia for the purpose OF
nominating for the Presidency U. S.
Grant, the great North American Gift
l,aker. IL has been said that the APP
pointing power is an element of weak
ness, upon the presumption that in fill
ing an office the President makes one
migrate and a dozen sore-headed enc
mics. A dispenser of patronage
will strangely miscalculate if he
expects TO escape the malice of disap-
pointed men. 1t has been true that be
who aids in comforting great Official
power upon individuals, instead of max
ing personal Obligation, provokesincen
tive to hostility and hate. But if Grant
has been a failure in everything else, he
has been successful in retaining the con.
fiGence of the Oficeholders. They sticS
TO him with the tenacity Of poor folk:
hanging on to their rich kin. Grant
seems to have cherished but
one ambition during the past
three years-the desire to secure a re-
nomination and a reelection TO the
Presidency. This has been the star
that directed his Eootsteps-the lead
ing feature of bis administration.
Officers have been appointed or re-
moved according as they favor or
.isaavor the Presidents plan OF
po petuating himself in power. The
government is run as 4 mon
strous machine, whose fires are fed
and whose wheels are turned main
~ for the sake Of keeping its
chief engineer in place. What 9TH
er policy has the President pursued
save the grand policy of denomination?
He permits his appOintees to steal and
plumber al l5itt0n, and, insteadO max
ing ingrates, he holds his placemen with
an iron grip. Almost every State in
the Union has appointed delegates to
Philadelphia, who will bow themselves
down ON their knees and salute Grant
with the submissiveness of the obedient
servants they are. Grant has proved
a failure in everything save
an ability to control his placemen and
the use Of corrupt means to securehis re-
nomination. But he is doomed to an
irnominious defeat before the people.
lie has not now even the plea of avail
ability to urge in his behalf. When he
was originally nominated, it was said
that no other man could carry the
country. No such statement can
lie truthfully made now. Many
leading Republicans outside Of
the bread-and-butter brigade would
gladly rid themselves of Grant, believ-
ing an unobjectionable Radical, such as
Sherman, would unite the party. There
are other Radicals who would make a
better run than Grant; but Horace Gree
ley can defeat any candidate the Radi-
Gals place in the field. The people are
tired Of Radicalism, and they are not
going to turn Grant out to put in his
place some n as corrupt as himself.
The movement which placed Greeley in
the field comes directly from the people,
Is made in the interests of the
people, and must succeed by the
Iirect help of the people, if it
succeeds at all. No other issue should
b, permitted to intrude itself. Were il
possible for General Grant to be defeated
ut Philadelphia, the necessity for the
movement would exist just the same,
because it does not wal upon men, but
upon measures; not upon this or that
representative, but upon the Radical
party itself, which ~nurtures, supports
and sends abroad over the country all
these petty despots who corrupt the peo-
pie that they may the more easily rob
and oppress them. Any revolution,
Therefore, which stops short Of the final
and absolute destruction of the Radical
party, is a miserable failure, unworthy
T. be classed in history with any of the
other great uprisings which have, before
now, buried a government and olsen
thralled its citizens.