The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-06-13


once with singular solemnity he said :
sEI have somthing to say to you"
When / was seated he proceeded
: without one word of introduction 81
= know General Grant better than any
f other person in the country can know
him. 1t was my duty to know him
when l saw him and when / did not
: see him, and now L tell you what
: know HE CANNOT GOVERN
, THIS COUNTRY" The intensity
of his manner and positiveness of his
judgment surprised me; for though
l was aware that the late Secretary OF
War did not place the President very
! high in general capacity, | was not
, prepared for a judgment so strongly
couched.
II At last after some delay occupied in
meditating on his remarkable state
Fmenf, observed, "what you say is
very broad
at is as true as it is broad" he re-
: piled promptly.
| added, ou are tardy- Why did
. Won wait till this time? Why did
/, you not say it before his nomination p
He answered that he was not con-
suited about the nomination, and had
no opportunity of expressing his
, opinion upon it. Besides being much
occupied at the time with his duties
as Secretary of War and his contest
with the President.
l followed by saying ssbut you took
part in the Presidential election and
made succession ofspeeches for him
in Ohio and Pennsylvania"
81 spoke," said he, ssbut never in
troduced the name of Gen. Grant. l
spoke for the Republican party and
Republican cause"
The above statement of Mr.. Sum-
4 ner having been called in question, by
Grants henchmen, the Senator few
days ago read in the Senate the fol-
4 lowing note from Mr.. Horace White,
editor of the Chicago Tribune, which
serves to settle the question as to the
late Secretary's opinion of the Radical
idol: a5s lol5isg 81. aq - 81
/ "DEAR Mr.. SUMNER The late Sec
retary Stanton, not once merely, but
several times, expressed himself to
me substantially the same opinion of
j General Grant that he did to You,
with the addition that General Grant
had been greatly overrated as mill
tary commander. AS to the latter
point, L recall a long conversation
with him after the fighting at Spott-
4 sylvania Courthouse, in which he
j (Stanten) expressed more sapprehen-
i sion of the results of the campaign
| than J. had ever known him to feel
j ],concerning any campaign. He felt
that he could not continue to fill up
the awful gaps made by Lee in our
/ ranks without a further call on the
: fnp fTsnn Int i
pose you know all about that. During
| a portion of this conversation he kept
Mr.. Chandler cooling his heels in an
ante-room in order to finish what he
had to say to me. A mere Bohemian,
although, / twice suggested it would
be indecorous for me to remain while
a Senator desired an audience" SO
l. .-.t,ssssr /
! +. Mr.. CARPENTER, of Wisconsin, in
his defense of Grant, in reply to Sena-
tor Summers charge of Grant receiv-
ing presents, says that sit was while
he was ali officer OF the army, while
tcommanding General, that these pres
ents were made and received" Now
it SO happens that on the 18th day of
February, 1869, Mr.. Daniel Butter
i field, who subsequently, got a good
Office from Grant, sent him letter, in
which, in behalf of certain parties. he
asks his acceptance of the incIosed tes-
timonial eelge. ~ s,s% - sa.i-
4 y Inclosure,l gfsfff 4. d4a.5- q,
Mortgage and interest $3O.437 so
50, 900 7-2o 2 s, bonds, 547S5 GO
8sashE .rg.r-. - -s;.-s..i-a-r 13,o3f 3V
Total .....- .....sz.s...l. SlO5, 900 90
The reply of Grant was in these
\ words: s..ss.r. ...se5.. ss
pN.s WasHIssgos, p g Ears reb letter. Il a of
/ the 18th, inclosing me the handsome
Testimonial of the citizens of New
| York, with the names of all the too
generous contributors to it, is receiv-
ed. X r.
! ssThrough. you 1 wish to thank the
gentleman whose names You have in,
closed to me individually and collect
! lively. i have the honor to. be, your
obedient servant, q. S. GRANT. ~
General Grant, in about two1weelSs
from acknowledging this letter, took
| the oath of Office as President of the
/ limited States.n This present was,
4 made to him as the President elect by
corrupt and designing parties, who
designed by it to secure fat places for
themselves and friends. They, we're
not tlsdisappointed.3 ALI the leading
,Edonors, including Butterfield, were
Rewarded with officiabpatronage Has
/ jsCarpenter forgot that Tom Murphy.
of New York, gave Grant the cottage
at Long Branch, and was rewarded
for it. by the position OF Collector of
1 New York, an Office worth hundred
thousand dollars year2 Has he for
4 gotten that AT. Stewart and others,
1iof New York, bought his (Grant's)
4 JghouseJ in Washington Y for General
pSherman, 1.-THE price ofseVenty thou
sand dollars, which was twenty-five
thousand more than he had. sold it for.
to Bowen, then Mayor of Washing
ton? !? What was that extra twenty
/ five thousand but gift or bribe ?
: and for it General Grant attempted to
/ make Mr.. Stewart Secretary of the
Treasury in violation of law which
tdlsqualifies him on account of his be-
ling a leading foreign importer, of
4 course interested in the notification
of the tariff laws. The weakest thing
said by Carpenter was his poor apollo
\ gy for Grants nepotism, he remark
ling 81 am not aware that it is any
4 worse for a man to procure his BROTH
1er to be appointed to some place, ifhe
1 is fit for it, than it is to procure a per-
tisonal friend to be appointed to place."
4 New,i Grant had only appointed one,
or two relatives to Office, that might
do, but when he appoints thirty or
forty of his own and his: wife's, con-
ncctions; when they in turn dictate
\ the patronage in numerous other CA
sesi; when his father bestows the pat
rouage in Ohio and Kentucky, and his
brother inc Illinois one brother-in-
lawin New York, and in Lou
isiana; then there is hcwanton pros
titution of the Office forthe benefit of
family, and ties of blood are made
paramount to all other considerations
4 of prOpriety. There is and can be no
excuse for Grant in this matter Ifit
had been any one but his father,
would he have been continued Post
master in Covington after admitting,
as he did, that he offered five hundred