The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-03
Grants "NepOtisIn."

Strictly "fondness f. r nephews." In
broader sense, undue attachment
to relatives; favoritism shown to
nephews and other relatives" The
term is derived from the practice of
those Medieval Popes, who provided
for their nephews or other near re>
lations by appointing them to useless
offices with large salaries. The
practice was always regarded as an
offense, not so much on account OF
the appointee's relationship to the
Pope, as because the public burdens
were thereby increased without any
equivalent either to the church or
State. In the proper sense OF the
= word then is it true that President
Grant is nepotist? Has he, in a
single Instance, appointed relative
to an office in which there was to be
large pay and no service? No such
appointment has ever been made by
him.
But his defamers do not wish to
be held, nor do We mean 10 hold
them, to the primary significance
and application of the term. The
complaint, on which they are now
ringing The charges through the
country, is that the President has
actually appointed relatives TO office.
From the manner, too, in which this
charge is made, it is to be inferred
that he has more numerous family
than has ever blessed or cursed a
descendant of Adam that the en-
tire progeny is worthless and yet
in spite of their dement's they have
all been snugly slowed away in lu-
crative SiaecureS by their mercenary
and thoughtful kinsman.
That the President has appointed
relatives to Office is true but to
what extent is it truth? The
answer herein given is from the Of
fetal files, and for the satisfaction of
all concerned the list is submitted
Jesse r. Grant, Presidents father,
postmaster at Covington, Kentuck-
ey, appointed by President johnson
Rev. NJ. J. Cramer, Presid .nt's
brother-in-law, appointed by Presi-
dent Johnson consul at Leipsic,
transferred by President Grant to the
post of Minister Resident at the
Court of Denmark.
Orlando Fl. Ross, cousin of the
President, clerk in the third Audi
tors Department of the Treasury, at
Washington, faithful and gallant
soldier in the Union army, appoint |
ed without the Presidents knowl. |
edge upon the special recommended
ton of Senator Logan, of Illinois.
George W. Dent, brother of Mrs.
Grant, appraiser at San Francisco.
JamesF. Casey, brother of broth
er in law of Mrs Grant, collector Of
the port of New Orleans.
Peter Casey, brother of brother
in law of Mrs. Grant, postmaster at
Vicksburg, Mississippi
George B. Johnson, husband of a
third cousin of the President, assess
or of the third district of Ohio.
Alexander Sharp, brother-in>law
of the President, marshal of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
SIas Hudson, cousin of the Pres
dent, Minister Resident to the Re-
public of Guatemala.
In all exactly nine persons who
are in any sense related to the Presi
dent. Of this number one was ap-
pointed by Mr.. johnson. Five
were appointed upon the endorse
ment and solicitation of members of
Congress, within whose districts
they resided, and, as is we'll known,
in conformity with what has been
the established custom for the last
fifty years Three were appointed
by the direct and independent
choice of the President. There are
siGty three thousand Offices at his
disposal. Nine persons related to
him hold appointments. Only three
of the nine were selected by the in
diligence of his immediate prefer
pnce, and but one of the whole list
is a blood relation. In the face OF
these facts, taken from official re-
cords, what becomes Of the charge
of nepotism? What will truth-lov-
ing citizens think of the sweeping al
legation that the vast patronage of
the Presidential Office has been
shamefully converted into a family
heritage, and meanly bestowed upon
undeserviDg relatives Until re
Gently neither friend nor foe of the
President would have believed the
most intense political hate or per-
sonal malice, capable of such a
reach of mendacity.
Some one asked the daughter OF
a New Yorker who was about to
marry his fourth wife, who was
going to perform the ceremony.
She replied: 81 don't know, but
presume that it will be DIR. Spring.
He generally marries father!"
Henry Ward Beecher says the man
who invented the game of croquet, if
alive, ought TO be honored with annual
gifts, and if dead, his name ought to be
cut in gold and put in Westminster Alb
bey, among the benefactors of the race.
, Private letters from the South re-