The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-13
lonaloson6ille Cblef,
Grant Accepts.
from the Chicago Tribune.]

1t has signally pleased a gracious
and benign Providence so to order the
revolutions of the heavenly bodies as
to cause again to recur the quadren-
NAL period at which the nation may
appropriately acknowledge and ratify
my continuance in power. We reJ0lce
to recognize and reward the loyalty
of your party to ourselves and to our
affectionate cousins OF the PresIden-
tial family. You will learn with pride
that not only in this country, but IN
Europe, the Executive rank is appre-
eiated in a novel and gratifying man
ner. The Prince Frederick Dent, our
beir-apparent, is now soJournlng at
the various palaces of sister govern
ments, escorted by the chief officer OF
the army and q numerous retinue;
the presence and gracious reception
of another member of our family by
the British Queen is also well calcula-
ted to facilitate the peaceful settle
ment of the Alabama claims. Should
the continuing appreciation OF the
American people approximate to that
shown by the Republicans of England
two centuries ago toward Oliver Crom-
well, whose training as tanner emf
nently fitted him for suppressing all
opposition to his party, it is possible
that our Republican court may yet
rival, in its possession of all the COM
forts of social life and in it's general
hilarity and good humor, the Court of
Louis XIV of France, sometimes called
the Magnificent.
At present it is our gracious pleas
ure to inform the Convention that,
considering the circumstances, we are
personally doing as well as can be
expected. The unanimous vote of the
"Rump," defeating the payment of
the Chorpenning claim ($43, 000) after
it had been carefully nursed by our
Executive serenity and our Secreta
ries for four years, and after we had
peremptorily ordered it paid, was an
impoveIislling blow to the finances OF
the Administration, and indicates the
ungenerous tendency of certain rest
less and misehievous opponents to the
scanty pittance afforded by our mea-
gre salaries. In this disaster we are
cOnsoled by the complete success of
ono of our most able Secretaries in
extracting from the treasury the sums
of 800, 900 in the Secor claims, and
$300,000 ON the Roach contract, be-
sides other very fair transactions,
known as the Governor claims, etc.
Both these were instances of Execu-
tive prerogative, without the tedious
and unsatisfactory interposition of the
laws delay. They show how rapidly
Constitutions are not made, but
grow" under an Executive which ever
keeps its eye steadily directed to the
main chance. 1t is not impossible
that, by judicious extension of our
Executive prerogatiye, the tax payers
may, mt an early period, be relieved
OF the expense of sustaining Congress
altOgether, and may rest che SOW
ereignty where it can be exercised
with the most unity of counsels, in
the Chief Magistrate alone. The fail
are of the San Domingo Treaty, so
judieiously arranged by our aide-de-
camp, backed up by a reasonable dis
play of force in the Haytian waters,
under three naval officers, also occa-
sions regret to IL choice circle of en-
terprising spirits, who had intended
to realize in profits, on raising sugar,
the thirty millions year or so which
have heretofore gone to the govern
ment in the form of revenue. AS this
step would depopuiate the negro Re-
public OF San Domingo it was oppo-
sed by sundry philantl,ropic gentle
men, who conceived that the interests
OF the blacks of Hayti should prevail
over the pecuniary welfare of loyal
friends of the Executive, who have
served their country nobly in past
transactions in Gotten on both sides
OF the line. / have expelled from the
Republican party these cynical and
dangerous men, who attempt in this
manner to limit the field of private
enterprise, when the government is
trying to keep it from languishinc. OF
course you will pass some resolution
approving the expulsion of these in
cendiaries and maintaining the unity
of the party in the bonds of peace.
1t gives us sincere pleasure to an
nounce that our chief effort has been
to prove that the humblest CAPACITY
in the nation is adequate to the per
Torrance of the highest duties of
craftsmanship. Not many great, not
many mighty, have / called to aid me
in my task, if so it can be called. |
have followed the divine and apostle
example of choosing the weak men OF
this country to confound the men that
are wise. They have done so to my
complete satisfaction. Some members
of my Cabinet had never been heard
of by myself or by the country until
about the period of their appointment.
They are clever fellows and are doing
well.
can not tell what shall do, if re-
elected, because don't know.
Yours, imperially,
U. S. GRANT.
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