The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-04

discussed or considered except with
single reference to the public interest.
Applause. l never heard personal
suggestion in regard to his influence
upon one man or another man, but
the consideration simply was what
would be the best for the country.
And when 1 remember the simple,
clear-headed, practical, modest man
who sat at the head of the table there,
and then hear him talked of by Mr..
Sumner, think Mr.. Sumner must be
referring to somebody else. (Applausel
1t has been said that Gen. Grant
has accepted presents. Well, fellow
citizens, 1 don't think making pres
ents to men IN public life ought to be
countenanced. The English nation
in Parliament gave to this conquerer
of Waterloo grant of twenty-five
hundred thousand dollars, an estate
in the country, and palace in Lon
don. 1t is not the custom of our peO-
pie to give pecuniary rewards to pdb.
lie benefactOrs, but when two men
like Grant and Sherman have render
ed such services to the country as no
men in this generation had done,
who gave up all prospects to it, there
were many of our best men in the
country who thought that some testi-
monial, a public record of their graft.
tude, would be becoming the citizens
of the republic. It was all done when
they were holding Office, and, fellow
citizens / never expect, above the
ranks of penny-2-liner contributor
to a Democratic newspaper, to find a
man in the country mean enough to
cast it up to them. Applause. l do
not propose to go over the personal
charges made against President Grant,
and his tithing; mint and anise and
cumin, is not to my taste, nor to your
taste, I am sure. We look at the
weightier matters of the law. What
has Gen. Grant done? l do not say
as the commander and leader of our
armies, and the cOnquerOr of our re-
bellion, but as President? Why in
the one thing that Mr.. Sumner most
| feels and cares for on the great issues
before tie country, of peace and pub
/ lie safety, and the protection of a
lately oppressed race, Gen. Grant has
been his most steadfast ally; upon
| the question of maintaining the pub
lie credit, of paying the national debt,
/ he has faithfully represented the
honesty of the Republican party, or
of the nation, for 1 won't exclude any
party from it. He has been ahead of
his party IN mis- steady and constant
| recommendation to remove the
scheme of an irredeemable currency ;
| every message of his has contained a
| recommendation to Congress for ac-
/ ton on the subject, and his policy in
dealing with the Indian tribes, his
magnanimity toward the South, his
combining with a firm determination
to maintain the laws the desire to
cOnciliate and restore to their natural
and Just relations to the Union the
Southern States, entitle him to your
confidence and 10 the confidence OF all
the people of the nation.
But there is one thing on which
| I wish expressly to say something,
President Grants appointment to of
flee are criticized, and they say that
he has appointed some relations. We'll
! [ suppose General Grant likes hi:
friends and relations as well as othel
people, and I rather guess if you
should look over the Senate at Wash
ington you would find that the mem
had some friends and relations too
Gen. Grant is a friendly man; hC
likes his friends; he is a good hus
band and good father, and, in hi:
Il experience when he first came int
Office that the good qualities of the
persons he knew may have unduiy
impressed him in some cases, L thinl
very likely. But when you come tt
matters of importance, does Gen
Grant look after friends, or consul
his personal considerations Who die
. he appoint as our arbitrator to Gene
va? Do you find that our eminen
! fellow-citizen, Mr.. Adams, is eve
mentioned in the newspapers as ;
very strong supporter and friend o
Gen. Grant Mr.. Adams himself toll
me he never saw Gen. Grant unit
after his appointment. Inseiecting tn
counsel to represent US there he chOSi
, Judge Curtis, Mr.. Caleb Cushing, ant
| Mr.. Eyarts, to be sure a firm and hon
/ ored member of the Republican party
: but in no way connected or related T.
| Grant or his administration. He hai
| the duty of appointing more high ju
, dicial officers at once throughout tn
: country than have ever been appoint
) ed by any President, and he has sal
[ to nee that until the time came 70
e making the appointments of new cir
cult Judges, he would hear every ma
= that had anything to say-men i
/ pabic life, private citizens, the Judg
e es of the country, the lawyers VIII
5 might make their representations an
4 that when they had all ben heard an
o the proper time came he would max
], the very best appointments for tn
e ! places in his power from the materi;
: from which he had selected. Gel
Butler entered the hall at this pOin
: and was received with warm applas
n It'was some time before Judge HOi
8 was allowed to proceed with his az
v dress, but when at length order ha
If been restored he resumed his speech
t And, fellow citizens, he did 1t, an
% those men are now holding their hig
}, judicial offices throughout the cOul
= try; and when the question come u
Ie who shall superintend the excise, WI
" shall collect your revenues, or wi
I shall be postmaster in this town
II that, the question of the character
~ these men who are administering ju
j. tice, and who will be to you and yOl
s. SuccGSoUL5 lOI lL4C nCAS NnGASg
le thirty years, is considered, for it W
b be telling upon the safety, the pro
n. erty, the rights of this cOmmunit
IN Gen. Grant, in his important sele
tions for Office, has done all in
u power to justify the opinion entertai
ne ed of him by those who placed him
OF Office. He found some obstacles, al
ne 1 find one thing in Mr.. Sumnel
ne speech to which L want to allude.
n saws that among the despOtic inte
l tions manifested by Gen. Grant W
he the fact that at the beginning of |
to term Of Office he asked Congress
e. repeal the tenure-Of-Office act L
its act was q war measure, got up to
or the hands of Andrew Johnson in
of departure from the Republican pal
lat and his principles, and when it v
Ird thought necessary to save the cot
.ry try. The greatest trouble Preside
81 Grant has had, in my Judgment
If. been the inheritance from the Jof
les son administration, and the great
of danger to the institutions of the col
en- try and a Just distribution Of the pc
ut, ers of the government Is i'll the lnh
on itanee from the Johnson administ
lad tion, and that is, that the Senate
at the United States for about tn
10 ? years thought itself to be, and fol
tn, good deal of the time was, the enl
Sc government. It is not IN human
lis ture to give up power. Then ther