Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-20
FEARFUL.
A Terrific Criticism at the Hands Of
Tnton-The Successful Failure at
Philadelphia.

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st itself in silence to the sober-seeond
70 thought Of the American people, let us
consider what was its duty, and
o. HOW IT LEFT THIS UNDoNE.
~ It ought to have resented and defeated
the Presidents attempt to re-nominate
himself, instead Of which it became the
very instrument for accomplishing this
scheme. It ought to have impeached
% him at the bar0f public opinion for his
numerous violations of law, instead of
which it suffered these outrages to go
uncondemned. It ought to have eX-
g pOsed the frauds perpetrated iRzhis Gus
tOmhouses instead of which it blindly
4shnt It's eyes to these enormities. 1t
fought to have denounced his double
Do dealing with civil service reform, in
stead Of which it made this reform i'm
~ possible By enaeting the twO-term prin-
ciple. 1t ought to have protested against
= his federal intrusions into local affairs,
instead of which il made a high-sound-
e ing declaration In favor both Of State
e rights and their violator. 1t ought TO
Z have denounced the corrupt incumbents
whom the President has retained in Of
e flee, instead of which it became an ac-
; complete for their retention ia power for
another four years. 1t ought to have
cOmmiserated the country on the Al
ministratiOn's i~gnOminiOus surrender to
] England, instead Of which it calls this
& shamelessness an honorable cOmpro-
: mise" It ought to have laid bare the
failure of the Presidents policy with the
Indians, instead of which it took no no.
; tice of the recent bloody massaeres on
: the frontier, or of General Sheridan's
, report of widespread Indian hostllities.
It ought to have febuked the Presidents
attempt, through his partisans in Con-
gress, to stretch martial law over the
4 South, instead of which it silently join
ed in the scheme to carry the next Pres
identiaI election at the point of the bay
onet. It ought to have given q stingingt
rebuke to the Presidents extraordinary
l~avishness Of public offices among his
relatives, instead Of which it sees in the
nepotism Of a ruler
NO CRIME AGAINST THE STATE. .
Three-fourths ofthe Philadelphia del
egates consisted of those Republicans
who once alphabetically aided and
abetted the Impeachment of Andrew
johnson for violating the tenure-ofoffice
law. Bur Grants Offenses against the
Laws have been more numerous than
JohnsenJs. If there was legal ground
for the impeachment of the one, there is
far nor for the Impeachment of the
| ether. We challenge even Mr.. Bout
well, with his celestial rhetoric Dor
roaed from " the hole in the sky" to
prove Grant less guilty than johnson Of
naked violation Of law. 1t was in viO-
Iation of law that the President, with
out the authorization OF Congress, en-
pl0yed the navy in 3 warlike act against
Hayti. 1t was in violation of law that
he sold arms TO one European nation to
be used against another. 1t was in vio-
iafiOnzof law that he disposed Of thet'
Seeor and C~hOrpenning claims. 1t is
now In daily and notorious violation of
law that he surrounds himself with mill
.tary instead of civil secretaries. These !
are types of his violations of the plain
letter Of written statutes. Scores OF
cases can be added wherein he has viO- 1
lated what Montesquieucalle ;
1.-THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS" }
He has violated the spirit of the SUI {
preme law by usurpiRg for himself func- +
tons which that charter reserves TO the /
States alone. He has violated self-gOv- I
eminent by suspending TIE operation of !
local law. He has violated public lib a
erty by intruding into political cOnven-
tons to control them in the interest Of
his administration and denomination. (
He has violated the moral sense of the
people by such arbitrary displacements
from position as that of Mr.. Sumner i
from the Guardianship of the Commit I,
tee On Foreign Relations, and by such u
retentions in Office as that of Leet and C
Stocking and other leeches on the public o
revenue He has violated common mo- p
rality by taking private gifts and re- 81
wardiug the giYers with public emOlu- u
h hos vi,TaraI thn 1aaanf u
1ssges of ~gentlemanly breeding bv en- Ct
bering newspaper offices and demanding ci
the removal Of offensive editors who n
have got into disfavor by criticisms on a
his maladministratiOn. He has violated 81
.he common standard of private charac- az
ier by SC
The shallowest of all answers to these ~
is that he was renOminated "
unanimously. But unanimously by :
whom? Not by the Republican parity.
which he has severed in twain, like a "
house divided against itself. Every M
nan who has partisans-and no public ~
nan is without them-can get a unani- y
vote from his own friends. Three u'
years ago the President had a party; -
he has only a part of one. That =!
noble, royal, invincible party no longer ~
Exists. The President has put an end to -
{. Almost any other man could have "
Inited it; almost 10 other could have y
it. To its chosen chief was re- ~ ~
erved the sad distinction of destroying ~
t. He has wrought more mischief in ~
)ur politics than ten Andrew JohnsOns. e
Nay, mOre-if the House and Senate uHe
had continued in the same sensitive and -
nfiamed temper toward a law-breaking Ge
Twaas14fr-n aa fhav- D,opsEo-Fo1 -, NJ IL
SIS, President Grant would have been q
mpeached at Washington instead Of IA
renOminated at Philadelphia. ~
There are two aspects in which this u
enOmination is especially. ~
A CALAMITY TO THE COUNTRY, 10
me as a blow at official honesty, the ~
,ther as a blow at popular liberty. n
As to public honesty, If an American ",
resident can enrich a whole army Of ~
elatives by bestowing ON them the pub "
ic funds, why may not other public off
do the same? For instance, if the
resident gives lucrative posts to his
ather, his brother, his brothers-in-laW,
lis cousins, his nephews, and his wife's Iu
Onnections, why may not Mr.. Thomas
in like manner call together the
circle of his kith and kin, and
ortiOn out among them the salaried and fr
1T places of the custom-house WHY
nay not Mr.. Patrick Jones do the same tel
nth the clerkships of the pOstoffce2 ou
Why Dot Mr.. Casey the same at New Sh
Why not every other princi- COZ
Officeholder the same everywhere I'm
0 that the fifty thousand offices in the Sh
lift of the Administration shall thus be lnt
onsidered the family property of a few IN
lvored appointees? In other words. an
H. IaHnHA - A.. r-LznA III
e turned at once like the Presidency an
self into a continental gift enterprise? spi
Is to public liberty, if in time of peace tia
be military power is to reign supreme am
yer the civil, then farewell Republican pin
m! Indeed, the Republican party it. bra
III, as n reads its debates in Congress.
as largely lost Tor stihed) its instinct {
" R-epublicauism. Mr.. Summers fear h,
Il indictment of the President, accom- 10
anied a it was with proofs and speci- f1I
was answered how? BY an gt-,
omission of the guilty facts, coupled i'm
it'll the astounding eXteDuation that Of
were frivolous. Is there nepotism? r.
es, but it Is a triiing crime. Is there d.
1T taking2 Yes, but It is a venal Of orr,
nse. Is there law breaking? Yes, but nj
is of no consequence. Like Senator M,
arpenter, the Philadelphia Convention her
,nsidered none of these things worthy ~
notice. How quenched is the wo.
SPIRIT OF SAXON LIBERTY! out
our forefathers, both of Old Eng
nd and New, would have resented ,
ch encroachments by the Government
/ the people! John Hampden, rather u.
pay thirty-one shilings and six mo
nee for ship-mOney, made a revola- coee
IN in England. The BostOnians, an
than pay three pence per pound tni