Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
G. s. GRANT. rRE CANplDArE.

June 5, lSl2 FEkI J. LEA.
s.GRAST. TIE CANDIDATE.
The nomination OF [. S. Grant forthe
Presidency, at Philadelphia, yesterday,
by the Radicals, viii take no one by
surprise. The farce Of going through
the formality Of a convention was I'M
necessary, as it was well known that the
President has been busy for the last two
months in packing the convention with
his blatant and obsequious ofice-holders.
1t is usual In conventions for delegates
TO exercise a fair, calm consultation,
and to have a free questioning and al
swering, and every prominent name
canvassed as though everything de-
pended upon the selection. But the
~corrupuonists who met at Philadelphia,
knew that in L. S. Grant they had a
supple tool, ready to encourage their
knayery, and they clamored for his
nomination. Instead Of scanning the
weaknesses Of Grant with critical, ifnot
Jealous eyes, be was proclaimed an i'm
m~aculate political divinity, and any
effort to place IN the field All honest and
~incorruptible man would have been
Missed down. The nomination Of Grant,
however, has its convenience. 1t
will save the American people the
trouble Of inquiry and investigation.
They know what Grant rule means, and
every man is st once enabled TO
understand his duty. The renOmi-
imation of Grant is the signal for a re-
newal of the war upon the South, and a
determination on the part Of the Radi-
Gals to p~erpetuate hate, anarchy, and
despotism instead of ~cultivating that
patriotic craftsmanship which would in
culcate a forgetfulness of the past, and
the blessing of peace and a common
brotherhood. The country has learned
TO its shame and sorrow that Grant is a
very self-absorbed, selfish and grasping
man. He takes everything that is pre-
scented to him, no matter by whom
OF what the supposed considers
ton. Rich men of the national-bank
and b~ondholder stripe have pre-
scented him with houses, bonds, and |
stock; sporting men have presented
him with horses, gamblers have
presented him with billiard-tables, dog
fanciers have presented him with pups,
theater-managers constantly present
him with dead-head tickets, harness.
makers have presented him with saddles
and harness, carriage-makers have
presented him with carriages; even
poor card-writers present him with all
the visiting-cards be uses-for which
they get in return letters of thanks in
very Indifferent English. In fine, "all
is fish that comes to Grants metz
When some wealthy men in New .
York, shortly after President JOhnson's !
accession to office, rendered him a valu-
able carriage, the President declined the
present, because it would be an imprO- /
priety for him to accept private gifts. I
General Grant had no such nice sense of
propriety. He has received presents Of !,
Of an sorts, in every variety Of property, \
and he : them well. Bonds money,
libraries, houses and lots, horses, car n
billiard tables, and many smaller 4
amounting IN their total value to
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars, are Z,
The evidences that he has preserved of d
bis want of delieaey, and ola nice sense C
Of what is becoming in a man high in
with favors to grant and power .
10 exercise. This is not the worst of il. :
These gifts are the actual fruit Of cor
and unlawful practices, or Of h
business speeulations that nearly APP e
proach such things. Tie money with r
they were purchased came from
the contractors and shoddy thieves, the a
thieves, the army and navy n
thieves; the men who furnished the SOL {
liers with modly, hard bread and mag C
beacon to cat, and with paper-sOled
hoes TO wear; the bond thieves, who 7
.ent the government greenhacks when +
gold was two bundled and eighty-three, d
and demanded their pay in gold when a
was one hundred and forty; the tariff,
he iron and the whisky rings, and the =
scoundrels generally, whoAa amassed d
vast wealth by ~plundering the treasury n
IF the people. Grant, for shame, cam q
not choke or the spectators of the treas
Iryi the T0bbers-of the peoples taxes, y
.he corruptors Of public morality, who Il
propitiatal his favors by gifts il
hese plunderers have renominated U
irant, knowing that he cannot, dare not Ii
.hOke them of from the treasury, or
hwart their schemes Of plumber, even h
f he found them up to the elbow in the 81
,ublic vaults. sc