Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-01-19
The President and His cnlumniators,


trouble to obtain the facts and reply to
the oft-repeaied slanders against the
President about his gift-taking, his ap.
pontment of relatives to office, his sand
stone speculations, and his fabulous accu-
mutation of wealth. Wecopy as follows;
A few days ago the Brooklyn Eagle
brought together into one article the ac.
cusations against General Grant, which
the SIN, the World, and other papers bit
terly opposed to the President, are con.
stantly repeating. The Presidents de
famers-and II may save macunstruction
to say here that in the remarks we have to
make abbut them we do not in anyway
refer to the Edgie, which simply repeats
charges without inventing them-havc
echoed their complaints so often that at
last they probably almost believe in their
| justice. TO prevent others falling into
the same error we Undertook to reply to
the H,Vie's hrtitle as soon ms we had time
to inquire into the facts We shall neces-
| sarily have to give condensed account of
the Edgle's statements here, but lest any
body should think that we have misrepre-
sented them, we print the entire article on
another page
| This EIgle says: "Grant went into Office
/ poor, and is VIGOROUSLY q millionaire al
u
hon out of his official salary, or his legiti-
mate receipts in public service" If one
{ part Of the duty of the President of the
/ United States was to answer every ques-
| ton addressed to him about his private
circumstances, and empty his pockct-book
to every visitor to slow how much money
1 he had about hint, the dignity of his of
iict would not be much inCreased-and,
l perhaps, the people would not consult
their own interests by suhiecting their
chief officer 20 such iil-usage The Presi.
dent considers his own selfrespcct, and
we believe he also considers the wishes of
/ the people, by never replying to any
attack made upon him We have no
| authority To- speak for him-but careful
inquiries have assured us that outside of
his official salary, his income does not eX-
coed six thousand dollars year His
/ principal property Is his farm of six or
seven hundred acres, near st. Louis, part
! of which was inherited by Mrs. Grant.
/ The remainder was bought by Gen, Grant
| from other heirs. out pf the one hundred
! thousand dollars given him by the citizens
/ of New York Jctore he became President.
/ One of the charges against the President is
that this st. Louis farm was q present Ia
him. The rcst of the one hundred thou
ing off the mortgage on his house on
street, Washington, now owned by Gen
eral Sherman, and in purchasing and fur
nishing his hCust at iohg Branch, which
he is charged with receiving as present
from Mr.. Mhrplly-that being another oI
the numherlcss tabricatiOhs set afloat by
the Sun about the President, and repeated
by journals opposed TO him. Not Il d0i
kiI'S irOfM Of property has BEEN gireH 4
GeHerd Gr'"i si1'r Re t,Cdme PreadeHt
During the war the President saved
something out of his pay rs Major Gencr
alive are half ashamed to refer To sucl
matters, but since the E,ngis asks for Tia,
facts, it may NJ well have them all--ant
with the money SO saved he bought par
interest in some Chicago lots, which hav
appreciated in value, but hitherto hav
Welded no income. He also bought
small amount OF horse railroad stool
which he still owns, and which pays
moderate dividend. He was given Will
a General in the army, a house in Phila
delphia, which he rents for about tw
thousand dollars year
Another statement of the Edge is tina
"the Sun has printed repeatedly, uncOr
, tradicted from any quarter, a list of twer
/ ty-tive or more relatives whom Grant ha
appointed to office under himself" w
, hope that the day will come when honor
, able journalists will be ashamed to assel
that anything is true of General Gran
! because the .SUh says it is true. The Ii,
! in question has been cohtradicted it
false in every particular and we wi
print it at the close of this article, wit
comments which prove it to be falls
The Presidents relatives who do hol
Office were chiefly appointed by his pr
, decessors was he bound to turn thel
; out when he came into office himself
; Is it to be the rule of public life tn;
when man accepts n responsible pos
I tion he is to begin by thrusting his kin
folk out of any offices they may happt
r to hold, and giving up ali the propert
he may possess? ? DO the people eXpe
+ this
:. A third statement is that General Graz
: received twenty-five thousand dolia
: stock in the Seneca Stone Company, rs
Gift, and then appointed Mr.. Cooke, Il
. President of the Company, Territori
/ Governor i'm Washington, Thereby e
= hansing the value of the stock
+, Messrs. Cooke, Grant & Co." Th
: is total Misrepresentation of
: very simple transaction. Short
} after the organization of the Sene
|. Stone Company, in 1861 nearly year i
" fore Grant was nominated President,
was invited by Mr. II. ID. Cooke and Vt
;, ers to take twenty thousand dollars wor
of stock as an Investment. lie thOug
well of it, and surely no one will dcl
y that he was free to invest his money
!, any enterprise he chose. He had
: much right to use his own money at
- - own discretion as any other citizen.
u invested ten thousand dollars in the PIT
chase of the stock, and IL hNS HereP {f
g him It cent. lie has been anxious for
L long time to sell this stock; perhaps sol
n of the accuserS would buy it? Govern
e Cooke was appointed last February-sto
bought in 1867; Cooke appointed in Is
y and that appointment had about
"a much to do with Seneca stone rs il j.
II with the deposits of the post.tertia
II period.
sc The charge that President Grant qu
rels with Sumner and is friendly wi
II Nyc, etc, and that he absents hin.s
. from Washington during summer, '
leave people to form their opinion abo
9 The accusation that somebody very ne
TO the Presidential person was engaged
rs the gold gambling affair of Fisk Il
h. Gould, is utterly rcfuted by Jay GOul
IN own evidence, as puhHShcu IN lhe ONO
report of the investigation, by the For
s. first Congress. The President hims
at gave the order to sell gold ON the infamC
ol "Black Friday that order viii
IS brought the conspiracy to an end. T
only man who ever attempted to dI
y, Grants name into the transactisn y
le James Fisk, Jr.--a notorious thief a
swindler. Is there any respectable m
he or woman in this country who wol
or suffer his or her estimation Of frien
It, character to he lowered by anythi
James Fisk, Jr., might say? And
le the President Of the United States is
Ut be condemned by party papers on
I'd evidence of a man who has commit
to the worst kind of oilenses against /
of law, and who, to the eternal disgrace
he the Judges who administer that law,
fc still reveling in his stolen wealth, inslt
nj ! ,f hpaal ino ctpua in Sintr &ipr