Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-14

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| genee, indeOendent of party almost to fault
| He was addressing the near neighbors of Grant
| in his own home, who knew his habits aud
I character. The vice of drunkenness cannot be
concealed. 1t is like the ointment OF the hand
that bewrayeth itself.
| "Tbey say Grants personal habils incapactatC
him for Office His habits were not very bad as
| general in our armes-he was surely very
successful for man of bad habits. But that
| charge is wholly false. | have seen General
| Grant from day TO day, between the first day OF
December and the eleventh day of June last.
| Daily from 10 A. NJ. TO P. NJ, he was sitting IN
| the presidents room, receiving calls, and attend
| ing TO the business of the government. am
| ashamed before you, some tyOu OLD nelghoors
| of General Grant and Others who served with
him and knew him in the army, TO refer to such
| base calumny. But there are silly old women
| and simple minded men who credulously be-
lieve partisan caricaturcs are true life like pic
| lures.
You might as well make such charge
| against one of your prominent business men in
Polo, who you all see, from day to day, REGULAR
| ly attending to his business affairs. | know
| that General Grant is not drunkard; | never
saw him take a drink of liquor-never met a
man that would say that General Grant was in
the habit of drinking spirituous liquors II is a
preposterous charge and foul SANDER
| He is a simple hearted, plain, honest, noble
man. (CheerS.) He did his duty nobly
as a general. lie uever plotting and
| trying to keep Sherman and his other
| generals down. He was not like Mcclellan,
| plotting TO he president. No. In the
| White house he is the same plain, honest,
earnest man, trying to do his duty faithfully,
| governing forty millions of people, and he is
doing it really better than they thought he
could. (Cheers.) He is stable, firm man,
going plainly forward and dong well all the
time; not like Greeley, vacillating, changing,
to-day shouting "0n to Richmond" tomorrow
slghing and negotiating for peace though it
further dishearten the Responding and leopard
| ize the Union cause. But | cannot contrast
Grant and Greeley; Greeley is the changing
| wind-Grant the enduring rock"
He is charged also with negecting the pnblic
| business and with absence from the seat of gov
| eminent. What branch of the public business
| has ever been neglected? What duty of the
| president has ever been left nnperformed? The
president retires from the scalding heats Of
| Washington to a place by the seaside, eight
| hours distant by rail, and in constant commu-
nication by telegraph. In days when there
| were neither, w ashington spent weeks of his
| administration at Mount Vernon, five or six
days distant from Philadelphia, and took long
| journey through New England John Adams
| spent seven months at one time at Braintree,
| conducting the whole business of the presidency
| by CORES pondence. Jefferson was at home a
considerable, though not an equal, time.
| He is charged also with nepotism, with put
| ting his relations into office.
wife, are all that have held political office under
| Grant. His father is postmaster in Kentucky,
| appointed by Andrew johnson. What would
| have been said by his enemies if Grant, in the
| time of his own prosperity, had turned his
| old father out. OF the Others all but two were
| appointed in the ordinary way on the recon.
| mendaton of the local representatives as being
| the choice of the neighbOrho0d where they be-
| longed. Two only were the presidents person
al choice, the marshal of the District of Co.
umba, and the minister to Guatemala, the
presidents cousin. | think it would have been
better if the president had not made these APP
pointmens. One, however, sustains con6den-
tal relations with him, and the other was high
y recommended.
But the office of vice president is also of vast
Importance. 1t is the second office in the gov
eminent. The vice president has the casting
vote in the senate and determines all great
questions where that body is equally divided.
But, far more important still, he is to succeed
to the presidency in case it become vacant. His
principles and character are the safeguard of
the republic against the hazards of a single
life. OF fourteen presidents, three-more than
q per cent-haye died in office, two natural
death, one by the hand of the assassin That
this may be attempted again is by no means an
impossibiity.
have in my hand newspaper called the
Caucasian, published at Lexington, Mo. 1t is
a paper which has been published several years.
1t is on excellent paper, good type, with large
and prosperous circulation. Its publisher is
said to have boosted that he was the first person
to suggest the assassination of Lincoln. Some
of Greeley's recent letters on politics are adj
dressed to him. / find in this paper the follow
ing article:
1t is headed with cut of pistol and these
words;
DERRINGER RESORT.
of after the oppressed people Of this country
shall have done all in their power to prevent the
Fp-nlpRtinn nf u hlnn1pl 70 IN
villain, Ulysses S. Tumblebug, he shall, by the
use of corrupt means, reinstali himself and his
army of hungry, vampiircal egg-Sueking, skillet
licking kin in office;
"Ihen there still remains hope, last but
sure and final resort,-the dernier resort. The
Jewish high priest, Caiaphas, expressed that
last resort eighteen hundred years ago, in these
beautiful and patriotic words: "H is e1pedient
for aus that one man should die for the people,
aud that the whole nation perish not"
This threat is made against Grant, not on ac-
count of the matters which Sumner charges, but
: hose which he claims Mr.. Greeley will do as
well.
Now whom are we asked to take for this high
office of the vice presidency, without vote for
whom you cannot vote for Mr. Greeley?
He is cousin and intimate associate of Frank
Blair one of that famous Blair family whose
characteristics you well know. He is duelist
the hero of a noted duel before the war. But
also the evidence comes to us from his own
friends, in shape that we cannot resist, that he
is a drunkard. Goa forbid that should make
this charge lightly, make it all on my own
responsibility. ] read from the Springfield Re-
publican of the ID of the present month:
The mention of his name calls up the fresh
and therefore still vivid recollection of certain
recent dscreditable performances at Cincinnati
and New Haven; but it calls up little or moth
ing else. 4 Brown is Kentucky gen
tleman. He has deplorable weaknesses; wit
ness Cincinnati and New Haven. He is intensely
sell-conscious, and he is liable TO get drunk. So
are are a great many other Kentucky gentle
men. With regard to the question of
habit, perhaps we have said enough already.
There is every excuse to be made for the man.
He has been brought up in society where to be
abstinent is to be eccentric. He is of high
strung, nervous organization; like lieutenant
Cassie, he has poor and unhappy brains for
drinking. He knows his weakness and strug-
giles with it maulully; his intemperance is not
an habitual, everyday affair like that of certain
pillars of the state whom we might mention,
but exceptional and comparatively infrequent.
During his term of service in the senate we be-
lieVe he did not once give occasion for a breath
of scandal. But there is no excuse to be made
for the candidate. Ii the current stories are
true, he has been wanting to himself, to his
friends, to the cause which lies so near his
heart, TO the high trust reposed in him by two
great conventions of his countrymen. We have
said, and we repeat, that he ought to go
OIL the ticket, and retire from the canvass. 1t is
the least and the only reparation that he can
now make.
Mr.. Sumner, in his noble judgment on the i'm
peachmeut Of Andrew johnson, said: "The
speeches are a revelation of himself not materi-
ally different from well known Incidents; but
they serve to exhibit him in his true character
They were the utterances of drunken man and
yet it does not appear that he was drunk. The
drunkenness of Andrew johnson, when he took
his oath as vice president, was not official but
who will say it was not an Improbable of
ienseP And yet, the leading newspaper which
supports the Greeley ticket expresses the belief
that Mr.. Brown has, while q candidate for your
suffrages, committed this ofIense, which, if
committed after his induction into Office would,
according to Mr.. Sumner, be impeachable.
Here then is your candidate for the Woe presi-
dency, whom you are asked to unite in support
ing with Mr.. Donan, who would recommend the
assassination of President Grant. A member of
the Blair family, chiefly known to the country
by his organization of the bolt in Missouri,
whose "real object, Mr.. Greeley declared, "waS
20 hand over the state to the sham democracy"
and whose fruit was the election of Frank Blair
to the senate whom Mr.. Greeley describes as "a
violent, versatile and able adventurer" a duel
list, and admitted by the Springfield Republican
to be guilty Of what Mr.. Sumner says is an i'm.
peachable offense, if committed while holding
the Office to which he aspires.
"The man who could vote for Gratz Brown,
under these circumstances could vote a second
time for Andrew johnson. Putin your vote for