Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-31
GRANT AID his PARTY.

evidence OF In6 ldCJ LldJ LL6IO Is d ulSh5Osl-
ton on the part Of the Grant Radicals to
convert Congress into mere debating So
ciety this session, with the deliberate inten-
ton Of obstructing the public business.
Correspondents Of influential anti-Grant
Radical papers call attention to the fact,
and are free in their comments concerning
it. The cause Of this policy Of noisy sin
activity is apparent. Among the many
important measures which require immedi-
ate attention at the hands of Congress, are
some on which the public are
very considerably divided irrespec-
tive of party affiliations. Such are
Civil Service Reform and the Tariff. On
the former tax payers who look for no office
from the government, and the entire Demo
cratic party are ranged on one side, and the
vast array of Ofice-holders and office-seek-
ers are aIrayed on the other. The tariff
question is no less embarrassing. To make
a material reduction in the protective tariff
would be TO incur the opposition Of wealthy
manufacturers and the monOpOlists in
whose interest the protective policy was
inaugurated. To have the tariff untouched
would be little better. The free-tTade
Radicals, who are in the majority in the
northwestern States, would join with the
opponents Of Grant. Under the cucum-
stances, therefore, the best thing to do is to
nd &
is Just the policy which the Grant party are
carrying out at present. Important bills
are introduced with flourish that sounds
like business, but in reality means nothing.
Days are consumed in speech-making over
the bactlings, and then, wrapped in heavy
swaddling-clothes Of Congressional Globes
they are referredto committees, quietlystran-
gled and buried in the pigeon-hole limbo Of
committee rooms. Complaints are made,
Of course, at this 'heathen Chinee' policy,
but the reelection Of Grant depends on it,
and the work of strangulation goes on. \
show Of work is made however. A few of
the Compromised reforms viii 10 partially
effected, and sufficient legislation to satisfy
the masses Of the Radical party viii be had,
but if any one expects more from
the Congress now assembled at Wash
ington, he is cgregriously deceived.
The free-traders will be pacified
BY the removal of duties from articles
which are neither manufactured in thiscom-
Try nor imported from abroad to any extent.
Civil service refOrmers will be csjoled with
equally satisfactory legislation, and other
important, but delicate measures will be
treated in a similar manner. Then, let any
Discontinued Radical ask formore ifhe dares. !
Grant, Morton and the Radical magnates,
with political candle-bOok and bell will read |
him out Of the party, aud consign him to !
that cold and barren region where the sun
shine of Presidential favor never warns. |
and the mama Of officer never nouriShes.
Such is the policy by which Grant and |
his party hope to carry the next election.
Such is the record with which they expect
to cover up the trail of corruption which
has marked their course since the day the
unholy combination was first effected.
Dazzled by the splendor Of the court of
Ulysses, the triumphal tour Of Prince
Freddy in Europe, the diplomacy Of Cramer,
and the shining qualities of ali the Dents,
the public are expected to forget or
overlook the long line of Radical
defalcators who form the vanguard
of Grants party, the despotic man
ner in which the ISouth has been ruled,
the gigantic frauds in the New York Gus
the stUpendous swindling opera
lions of Radical carpet-baggers in the South
ern States, the imperial usurpation Of the
President in the st. Domingo matter and
he thousand and one other offences of the
party in power. The innocent and confd2
ng public are expected to seize with CRATE
ul joy the opportunity afforded by the ap-
preaching election to reinvest Ulysses
With the purple, and crown
he leader of the party Of plunderers as the
uler of this republic. We have too much
aith in the soundness of public opinion :
md the power of Democratic principles to S
'elieve that the man who has usurped and '
xercised the prerogatives of car, and Y
ermitted if not cOnnived at the groSsest p
can ever be trusted a second | v
inc in the presidential chair. c