The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-29
Manufacturing Political Thunder.

llCIt ID bOtiIC NlCCiCy lotic titu a.
ment. The President, they say, appoints
relatives to office, therefore he should not
be elected a second term. That's their
logic. Argument consists in deductions
from previous reasoning and the produc-
ton of proof. Here's the proof as brought
forward by that contemplate black mail
sheet, the New York San. From list OF
twenty-five relatives Of the President We
select:
XXI. Alexander Sharpe, Jr-, Presidents ne
pheu cadet ut Annapolis .-
"Xy. Nat. A. Patton, son of Presidents moth
er's second cousin, Collector Of the Port Of Gal
weston, Texas. Was accused of malfeasance in
Office but retained in office by direction of the
xxx. James E. Mclean. partner Of Orvil L.
Grant, Presidents brother, until recently Col.
lector of the Port of Chicago.
XXI. L. @. Davis, husband of the third cous in
of the Presidents wife, Special Agent of the
Postofce Department. in Illinois and Iowa."
A young man studying at Annapolis,
and preparing to enter the navy, to grow
np defender of his country, is made an
argument against General Grants re-elect-
ion. On precisely similar grounds it
might be urged that the patriotic farmer OF
Vermont who sent nine boys to the war,
of whom only two came back, was the
blacklist hearted nepotist and most despi-
cable man in the United States.
Mr.. Patton is discovered to be son of
the presidents mothers second cousin"
1t would be giving long odds to bet count
erfeit three cent shinplaster against the
brains of the man who discovered and the
man who uses that relationship as politi-
cal argument, that President Grant never
saw sthe son ofhis mothers second couss
in.' and that the Presidents mothers
second cousin never had son.
The fourth one, though marked No. XXI,
il a still more frightful stretch-''H Husband
of the "third cousin of the Presidents
wife," Mark you, not third cousin of the
President even. What misfortune it is
for Mrs. Grant to have had cousin, third
remove, who would marry man named
David Just to impose on long-suffering
Greeleyites and renegades by having that
husband appointed to some such penny
ha'-penny" office as special agent of the
Postofice Department.
The President is reprehensible in appoint
ing those near relations to Office, but what
must we say of him when, among his blood
relations we find that Mr.. james e. Nc
Lean, marked No. XIX, is, or was until
recently, Collector of the Port of Chicago.
To be sure the relationship, "p.rtner OF
Oryil L. Grant, is not set down in the list
Of relations whom the Chm Oh forbids one
to marry; but that makes no matter to
these retailers Of petty scandal, these de-
wourers of their own words, these time
serving hypocrties. The Irish in the West
of Ireland carry relationship to the very
ultimate of consequently, and like the dis
er;n;na t;no gentlemen who comnose the
-: ~
mead ana 'front.' OIL tne ureeiey aSitatioii, ae
not hesitate to claim klnShip with remote
oo,naot;one NV marriage hut thev never
H. 80 e L;nd,od H., &,
uo, nus'i 5. nas.nar III, or HE hrotber,, n,
,he;aa ni,nderstood that said mariner is an nc.
'. D;oS au .a,5 ~ sioan;np nartnor We
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