Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-24


and so did every leading man in the
city Of New York who then supported
the Republican party. No man on Man
haitian Island, who would have been
thought Of for the Cabinet, refused to
subscribe when General Grant became
President. Had he named for his cabi-
net E. ID. Morgan, George Opdyke,
Jackson S. Schultz, William T.. Dodge,
Henry Clews, or any other leading mer-
chant or banker, who supported him, it
would have turned out that he, too, was
a gift-bearing greed. The same thing is
true of BoriG, late Secretary Of the Navy.
/ These
CABINET MINISTERS ~
were selected for their supposed fitness
because they were not politicians. Stew
arts success in an immense business
convinced the President that he might
render great service as Secretary of the
Treasury. BOrie, retired merchant,
was believed to have large knowledge
applicable to the navy. The New York
Tri5at5se was foremost in urging the ap-
pOintment of men who were not politi-
clans, and because Of the buster In the
public journals the President was misled.
Greeley insisted that the Cabinet should
be chosen upon the principle on which
he IS trying to be President-passing by
the men you know 70 be fitand taking .
man at a venture with no reason, be fit
-indeed, Greeley once told the Presi-
dent that, in his opinion, Offices should
never be given to those who could take
care Of themselves, but should be kept
Tor those who could not make living
in any other way. MA
STEWARDS CASE
was one in which the President was first
to Acknowledge his mistake. The Pres
ident's manliness in meeting everything,
and sbirking nothing on this occasion,
raised him greatly in the estimation of
all lust behOlders. He offended Stew
art and impaired his friendship; yet the
bold pTetense is now made that he used
his official power to reeompense a gift. |
Another Of the subscribers to the Grant
fund appointed 10 Office, was Moses II. !
Grinnell; and when Grinnell was re-
moved, these men accused Grant of In
gratitude for the act. The political scav-
engaFs pretend the
PRESIDENT Has GROwN RICH,
as President, by illicit gain. They parade |
his property by millions. We have
fallen on sorry times, when the Chief |
Magistrate, with a fame SO great and !
pure, must give an account OF his priva'e |
property in answer TO electiOneeTing /
falsehoOds The President would dis
dain to do il. have no authority to do |
il. assume to do it, not on his behalf |
but on the behalf Of the party cause he /
Represents. / venture 10 state facts.
The Senator then said the house int
Galena, alrs. Grants Missouri farm,
hundred dfh0usand-dollar h0usein Wash
ington, which
HE SOLD 10 GENERAL sHERylAk,
the ecttaQe at i Long Branch, and house at
Philadelphia, which rented at two thou |
sand dollars per annum, completed the |
Presidents property, with one exeep-
ton. Some years ago be purchased ten |
thousand dollars IA nominal value of
Stock of the Seneca Stone Company. !
To this day it has paid nothing, partly
because the President has interlered 70
prevent Seneca stone being adopted as
the building material OF the government, /
Que of the plans submitted for the state
Department. required the use of Seneca
stone. Because of his being
STOCKHOLDERS, THIS PREsIDENr =
refused to allow the plan to be eonsid-