Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-20

ne became ffesident. One OF the charges
against the President is that this st.
Louis farm was present to him. The
rest OF the one hundred thousand dollars
referred TO was used in paying off the
mortgage on his house in street, Wash
ington, now owned by Gen. Sherman,
and in purchasing and furnishing his
house at Long Branch, which ne is charg-
ed with receiving as present from Mr..
Murphy-that beiug another of the
numberlcss fabrications set afioat by the
Sun about the President, and repeated
eagerly by journals opposed to him.
Not q dollars worth Of fproperty has been
gtUen TO Gen. Grant since lie became
President.
During the war the President saved
something out of his pay as Major-Gene-
ral-we are half ashamed TO refer to
such matters, but since the EdgIe asks
for the facts, it may as well have them
all-and with the money SO saved be
bought part interest in some Chicago
lots, which have appreciated in value,
but hitherto have yielded no income.
lie also bought a small amount of horse
railroad stock, which he still owns, and
which pays a moderate dividend. lie
was given, while a General in the army,
a house in Philadelphia, which he rents
Tor about two thousand dollars a year.
Another statement of the Edgie is
that "the San has printed repeatedly,
uncontradicted from any quarter, list
OF TIVE nty-five or more relatives whom
Grant has appointed TO Office under him
self" We hope that the day will come
when honorable journalists will be
ashamed TO assert tnat anything is true
of Gen. Grant because the San says it
is true. The list in question has been
contradioted it is false in every par
ticular and we will print it at the close
of this article, with comments which
prove it to be false. The Presid, n 8 +, |.
a.ives wIo do hold office were chiefly
appointed by his predecessors was he
bound to turn them out when he came
into office himself? Is it to be the rule
of public life that when a man accepts a
responsible position be is to begin by
thrusting his kinsfolks ont or any offices
they may happen to hold, and giving up
all the property he may possess ? Do
the people expect this
received twenty-five Thousand dollars
stock in the Seneca Stone Company, as a
gilt, and then appointed Mr.. Cooke, the
President of that Company, "Territorial
Governor in Washington, "thereby ell
hancng the value Of the stock of Messrs
Cooke, Grant & Co." This is a total
misrep esent ,tion Of very simple trans
action. Shortly after the organization
of the Seneca Stove Company in 1867,
nearly year before Gen. Grant was
nominated Pr den', he was invited by
Mr.. Ii. ID. Cooke and others to take
twenty thousand dollars worth of stock
as an Investment. lie thought well of it,
aud surely no one will deny that he was
free to invest his money in any enter
prise be chose. He had as much right
to use his money Az his own discretion
rs any other citizen. He invested ten
thousand dollars in the purchase of the
stock, and it has never paid him cent.
lie has been anxious tor long time to
sell this stock ; perhaps some of the &C
cusers would like 10 buy it Gov.
Cooke was appointed last February
stock bought IN 1867 Cooke appointed
lS7l-and that appointment had about
as much to do with Seneca stone as it
had with the deposits of the post-tertiary
period.
The charge that President Grant quar-
rels with Sumner and is friendly with
Nye 81 Co., and that he absents himself
from Washington during summer, we
leave people to form their own opinions
about. 1 he accusation that somebody
very near to the Presidential person was
engaged in the gold gambling affairs OF
Fisk and Gould, is utterly rctuted by
Jay Gould's own evidence, as published
in the official report Of The investigation,
by the Forty first Congress. The Presi-
dent himself gave The order to sell gold
on the Infamous "Black Friday"-Lhat
order which brought the conspiracy to
an end. The only man who ever at
tempted to drag Gen. Grants name into
the transaction va James Fisk, Jr.- "a
notorious thief aud swindler. Is there
any respectable man or woman iii this
country who would suffer his or her esti
nation of friends character to be low
cred by anything James Fisk, Jr, might
say
AS to the objections to Gen. Grants
course on public affairs, we do not pro-
fess TO answer them now we merely re-
peat our own opinion, that in the main
his policy is a sound, wise, and beneficial
one. A man of purer private life than
Gen. Grant never occupied the Presi
dental chair. Is it just--is it worthy o.
the Presidents position, or of this great
nation-that he should be called to ac
count at any moment by every disapont
ed ofiice-seeker who chooses to invent q
new SANDER against him We have re
piled to these charges because, by con
slant repetition, they might ha, imposed
upon c.edulous minds. The more thor
oughly they are sifted, the more shame
fully false and malicious they will appear
We believe that the majority of the peo
pie look upon these calumnies with in
dignation. They have made thousand,
OF friends tor the President among that
quiet and thoughtful class of the com
munity which rarely busies itself active
ly in politics, but which admires plucl
and silence in publ C men, which hates
to see injustice done, and which despisel
the towards who try to undermine 1
: public reputation by defaming private