Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-09


secret of this bitter opposition to Cen
Grant is, that the trio of politicians
could not dictate to the President his
course of policy, and make him a mere
tool in their hands to subserve their own
ambitious plans, and have it known. that
although General Grant was President,
he was so in a nominal sense only, while
they were the soul of the government
and the power of the administration.
Had General Grant followed implicitly
the dictation of Charles Sumner in re-
gard to our foreign policy, Sumner
and sung his praises in the Senate upon
the honesty of the President. But Gen.
Grant had mind of his own upon the
questions that were at issue with foreign
nations, and he chose to follow out his
own honest judgment in the decision of
these questions. He was willing to re-
ceive advice, but not willing to submit
to dictatiOn. He we'll knew as President
the people would look to him as the re-
spOnsible person in these questions of so
much interest, involving the honor and
dignity of our government at home and
abroad. But Charles Sumner sought to
dictate to the President what he should
and must do, to merit his (Sumner's)
approval But General Grant would not
yield up his prerogative as the executive
of the nation which had placed him in
that position with full confidence in his
ability and honesty to administer the
affairs of this government. ThereupOn
this same Charles Summer charges Gen
Grant with dishonesty, imbecility and
one unfit to act as President, and Joins
in the senseless howl and cry clown
with Grant. clown with the Admins
tratiOn." From whence arises this bitter
hostility of Carl Schurz to the President
He it is we'll known is one of those rest
less ambitious men who seek to rule any
and every organization he may become
attached to. He Joined the Republican
party evidently designing to show that
his power was necessary for its success.
Great distrust was manifested in him by
the thoughtful portion of the leading
men of the party as he was thought to
be man of rashness and headstrOng in
his tendencies Gas subsequent events
have shown to be true) and that he
would prove a dead weight to the party
by renouncing its principles upon any
occasion where he could not rule in. its
counsels and dictate to the President,
especially in his appointments to office.
The President with his usual sagacity
saw through this German demagogue at
a glance. and utterly refused to be his
tool, preferring to be President of a
nation of thirtv-eight millions of free
men. At this the true nature of Carl
Schurz came out, and disappointed in
not rObbing President Grant of his indie
pendcnce and honesty, he too joins in
with Charles Sumner in personal detrac-
ton of the President maligning his mo-
tiyes. charging him with corruption,
villifying his Cabinet and winding up
with ''uptO Cincinnati" 'dOWn with
Grant. down with the administration"
Next in this trio of personal defamers of
the President. comes Horace Greeley,
the nominated aspirant to the Presidency
by the late Cincinnati convention.
The Republican party has a right to
claim of MIR. Greeley the continued sup
port Of Republican principles, those he
helped to adopt at the Convention in
1868. But, he too, goes back upon the
party that have supported the IIj6une
and made it a power in the land. 1t has
been a wonder to many that with his
naturally violent temper. he kept so long
as he gdid, in the support Of the Repub-
lican party and its principles. But for
myself | freely acknowledge that |
thought him honest. But | have lived
to see that my confidence in his honesty
was misplaced, and that he too is the
creature of unhallOWed ambition. He
battled slavery before the war of the re-
belliOn apparently honest in his denun-
citation Of the accused system, but when
slavery eliminated in open rebellion
then he was willing the South sbould 90
and form a government, as they declar-
ed they would. upon slavery as the chief
corner stone, thereby maki1r the system
Of human oUpressi0n a di<arraccfuI fix
ture within the bonnds of the renublic
Brt tbfs nrnposition of Horace GrnoIrv's
met with = stern reI1ke from the nco-
nlo and he subsidized into silence. He
t,..u - thorn in the side If honest Ahro-
ham Lincoln. and his hatred of Mr.. Lin
calm z,.qs clearly manifested in his ro,,l-
and nnirstifable hostility TO his rp-eIrl-
tion / v.nn ro,npn,hnr tLat Uorono
chi.ft.,ine j., ConaGa />ionor, FaiIsl (1,Ir
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m,ienraila ronnromiso that vronlJ SION
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Gr.rIay's iofanIy was. when the nation
ha1 taken tha 'arr5 traitor Jeff"reon
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na,,o on hnTd and I+ tj,, .,.oIi t.,oitn,
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MEMS nre+ tbr6nrb the aid Of IInrona
Gronlrv 90 free and nnnnnisbad nm nm to ~
his boEr Nav further NJ GroeIo Nv /
wonId restore linn Jefferson Davis to
the enjoyment Of ali his civil riobta ana /.
let him fake a seat in the Tnited States
Senate to AGAIN Law nIots for tbc dos /
trnction Of orr Union the restoration Of
slavery and the navn,o ont Of th t''p rnh VOL
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