The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-12
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you and your successors for the next
twenty or thirty years, is considered,
for it will be telling upon the safety,
the property, the rights Of this com
munity. Gen. Grant, in his import
ant selections for Office, has done all
in his power to justify the opinion
entertained of him by those who
placed him in office. He found some
obstacles, and l find one thing in Mr..
Summers speech to which want to
allude. He says that among the
despotic intentions manifested by
Gen. Grant was the fact that at the
beginning of his term of Office he
asked Congress to repeal the tenure
of-offfce act. That act was a war
measure, got up to tie the hands of
Andrew johnson in his departure
from the Republican party and his
princicles, and when it was thought
necessary to save the country. Now
the greatest trouble President Grant
has had, in my Judgment, has been
the inheritance from the johnson ad-
ministration, and the greatest danger
to the institutions of our country and
tne just distribution of the powers of
the Government is in his inheritance
from the johnson administration, and
that is, that the Senate of the United
States for about three years thought
itself to be, and for a good deal of
time practically was, the entire gov
ernment. ILIs not in human nature
to give up power. Then there is an
other thing. There is an understand
ing among all Senators that no per-
son is to be confirmed who is appoin-
ted to public Office without he has
the approval of the Senators of the
State for which he is appointed, who
are of his political party. And Gen.
Grant found that, under that trick
and that custom, office and patronage
were divided up and farmed out
through the country. 1 do not won
der that he found two gentlemen
such as 1 could imagine mot from
the State of Massachusetts,, for Hen
Ty Wilson never sanctioned the trick,
and Charles Sumner had very little
to do with offices }, two jobbing Sen
ators, acting and struggling together
to get an appointment each of them
for an individual man, who was some
tool of his own. | do not wonder
if Gen. Grant was acquainted with
some good honest friend or relation
that he should, under the circum
stances, endeaVor to appoint him in
stead. At any rate, he was reduced
to that alternative frequently. Why
what can you expect of the Presi
dent when the great city of New
York is giving him the alternative
of Senators Conkling and Fenton?
tell you, fellow citizens, Gen. Grant
is honestly in favor of civil service
reform (applause); and if you are in
favor of that reform, if you are op-
posed to this jobbing, take good care
that you don't send Office jobbers to
the Senate or the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Fellow citizens: have detained
you too long. Mr.. Greeley is a cand-
date for the Presidency as well as
General Grant. 1 may say the only
one, for 1 don't suppose Judge Davis
cares if his candidacy is mentioned
nowadays or not, and perhaps Mr..
Groesbeck will not care, too. But
Mr.. Greeley is a candidate, and while
we have often heard of a party in
search Of candidate, this is the first
time, believe, we have ever heard
of candidate in search of a party.
1 do not mean to say that 1 believe
Mr.. Greeley is formidable, but at
present the organization reminds me
q good deal Of the Scotch chieftain
in the ballad, who went out to war
with two and twenty fighting men
and seven and twenty pipers.
! Laughter. 1 think the amount OF
piping is largely disproportioned to
the fighting tOrce. But, fellow citi-
zens, we need not deceive ourselves
This contest is to be with the old
Democratic party. They may come
and hold up with one hand the Gin
cinnati platform, every particle OF
which is taken from the Republican
platform and the Republican party,
and they may assume to hold up and
initiate Greeley, but it is that party
which we have met over and over
again, whose principle, whose ideas,
whose purposes we so well under
stand. If they have abandoned all
their party principles, if they have
to get a discontented Republican
editor as their decoy duck, what is
the necessity of their existencei
Why can't they come over fair and
square, be ridden of this sin, and take
a candidate worth having, and be
manly about it, as some of the man
| liest of them 1 think will be doing
before they get through. But the
practical question which we have to
study, simply comes to this: To whom
are you willing to entrust the carry
ing out Of four years of Republican
principles, the maintenance of Re
publican doctrines, there security of
peace abroad, of safety at home, Of
the public credit, of the public faith
of the protection of the colored racei
To the Democratic party? No
i TApplause.7