The New York herald., 1872-07-24
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 ls72wnH SUPPLEMENT-


truth and decency have been driven far away
Every thief and comorant and drOne who has
been put out; every baffed mouser for place or
| plunder; every man with grievance or grudge;
all who have something to make by 4 change, seem
The tS Ss s a
and defend himself the proprleties OF his station
forbid 1t; his chief competitor, managing be-
tends to have retired, is free TO defend and pufr
himself and feels free 10 Ill his paper with base and
scurrilous falsehood In the hope OF blackening q
name which is one OF the treasures of the nation.
and which Will be the pride of posterlty All TINS
IL win not disgrace Grant or the nation because
the nation will spurn and resent it, The disgusting
personalities emptied upon General Jackson Sc.
cured his reelection; an offended people struck
back, and they viii strike back again. The
american anssica people may msjudge political hc,
With the truth beors them they eye'v viii never eve"
be unjust and never untrue upon question OF
upon republics, and Just there is the point where
the angry enemies OF the President have bundered.
selected the issues to be presented they would have
been wise enough to 80 frame them that the people
upon General Grant, and without blasting his name
or doing him wrong. But the democratic
statesmen, the leaders in hundred fights,
have been mere lookers-on; leadership has
''outs;" men SO eaten up with envy, or
so maddened with the loss or refusal OF place and
patronage that nothing would satisfy them short
OF rancor0us, revengelul personal raid When
Vide shroated ultra Sp's repnbcans cIandestiney
trade with the enemy, and then turn open
TRAITORS to their party, they become the meanest
Overseer from New England was always more
brutal than those born In the South when
by ambition and cupidity, went out TO rum
the party which they could not rule madness
drove Them on. They had no Polar Star except
hatred of Grant ana his supporters. THESE lusty
patriots who modestly assumed the name OF IRE,
fOrmers.N would not have an ordinary PRESIDENTIAL
canvass for the fair discussion OF political ques-
tions. Such proceeding would have been TOO
tame and lnslpid for them Their stomachs crayed
stronger, more game'tlavored meat; hard names
must he called; vengeance must be satisfied; the
President must be politically court-martialled or
dragged before n national assile TO be tried IA %
malelactor. In the Senate
THE DEMOCRATS PROPER
kept silent or talked about busiuess: give them
credit for wasting but little time; but hall the last
session, eight months in length was worn out ana
wasted by sanderous electoneer.ng harangues
aimed at the administration AM it's friends, by
men badly in need OF being re elormed themselves.
These sefrighteous and noisy oraces pitched the
key In which the anti-Grant chorus was to be sung
and hence comes the absence of political questions,
and the presence OF personal and scandaous 1s-
sues. The public Journals and newspaper corre-
spOndence from Washington controlled 10y these
''hberas''-liberal in nothing 30 much as
in delamng g honest honest men, and praslng
the heartbnrnngs, dlstempers and ambitions
which set them on. "Anytlng to beat Grant, was
the motto and it gratihed their heat and spite to
assal the President personally and to heap malig
nant charges upon him; thus his character his in
tegrity, his standing as man. have been put in
his guilt or innocence. The case has been put
that the question is not merely whether Grant shall
be President, but whether Grant shall he pro-
nounced 10y the nation fool! knave, an impOstor,
an enemy OF his country. Had Issue been taken
upon public measures, had public questions been
rased-whether new questions or those which
have divided parties heretoOre-a popular verdict
would have been a verdict only between par.
ties and policies and principles Such verdict
would have rested upon public grounds personal
and disparaging to no one. In that case General
| Grant could not complain. II the political views
| a
injustice and no rejection upon any one In SO say
Ing aud so voting. But, when the President is ar
raigned for ignorance, dishonesty and vice. and for
nothing else, the case Is different. What is the
arguments What political position held by the
thing to beat Grant, coalition deny? viii any
one tell mel Read the manifesto put forth
proved words he thought in his letter OF accept
ance. Read the add ess lately published by Mr..
Greeley and his committee, soliciting the votes Of
| they refer to the Administrations, are gross per-
sona libel upon the President, and they are nothing
more. Hear the words OF the sell-constituted crowd
at Cincinnatl-that motley group, made up OF a lew
respectable men who have since repudiated It, and
OF the most piebad, disreputable collection to be
scraped from the cutters and sewers Of politics.
These political lazzaIoni pretending to represent
| states, laid down the platform on which Mr..
Greeley thinks he is running. See how IL reads:-
The President of the United States has openly used the
powers and opportunities OF his high olce for The
He has kent noioTonsy eorrnpt and unworthy men in
places o. power and responsibility TO the derihen OF
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machinery of fcorrupon and personal influence, and has
inerered with yrannical arrogance, in the political
lie ns rewarded with influential and lussatiys offices
thus stimulating demoralizaton political lie
He has Shown himself dSporaby unequal to the tasks
him ~ the OF ~ ne s y i
Mr.. Greeley's personal hackers and trainers
Gently delighted the public with an address, en-
broidered with the rhetoric and signature OF Mr..
John Cochrane. This paper gorgeous in compost
tion speaks OF the Cincinnati ddscO as lone OF the
most stately and brilliant parlaments ever assem-
bled in this country" These rainbOw-dyed words
show on what sky-scraping pinions the 'liberal'
eagle scars. See how this gloomy and peculiar
monarch OF the clouds swoops down on the poor
pigmy and tyrant OF Appomattox. observe the
awful awful obscurity grand even IN parenthesis; with
event for that heather Chinee:''-
The history OF the administration is shadowy record
Of dscredtabe, sometimes dsgraceful acts many OF
HE has T a shown hi ns on the one hand
He haS accepted gs from for which he has
emoluments on the obsequious givera
These are but three OF the seventeen personal
crimes of which the bright particular Cochrane ap-
pears as the avepging angel DO such despicable
assertions and imputations raise any political or
party issue? The tariff resolution at Cincinnati s
mere iuggle--a shallow evasion, by which no
one of common intelligence has a right to
! be cheated. The resolution about Congress and
''centralism," If they mean anything refer to the
exercise or powers by Congress- every one OF which
Mr. Greeley approved and demanded I'm his usual
! violent anu unmeasured language. The amnesty
resoiutlon u spent because general amnesty Dill
was passed weeks ago Every rebel votes and
every rebel may hold oflce nov except jefferson
Davis and less than two hundred others, who still
spurn forgiveness. There Is nothing left OF the am
ncsty question, unless some one wants to mount
dead horse III behalf OF Jefferson Davis aud his
handful OF cronies, who say that their per
jury needs no forgiveness and seeks nOne and that
they have no use Just now In that way for those
they keep 10 sign their pail bonds, and do their
other chores. Where. then, is the political issue
the people are TO pass uponY 1t cannot be "cvl
service reform,n unless dishonesty IL imputed to
rpl he
recommended II and inaugurated IT, and the Phisa-
delphia Convention specially declared for It, There
can he no issue OF that kind. except by pretending
that Grant Is hypocrite and that Greedy Is not:
and neither Of these things would be easy TO prove.
Mr.. Greeley has plainly and repeatedly avowed I'm
public and I'm private that his political action
HIM rtfr md mi OF. ..tvr