New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-01

pressed me to Withdraw my opposition to the repeal peal,
not nnderstand how Republican President could con-
semitic weaken the Limitations upon lte Executive ana
SO said s a .a and ask to Save them ed Better
always government of law than OF men.
PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE IN LOCAL POLITICS.
In this tyrannca spirit and In the assumption OF bis
central imperialism. he has interfered with political
questions and party movements in distant States reach
ing into Missouri and then into NewYork to dictate how
the people should vote, then manipulating Louisiana
through brothernlaw appointed Collector. With him
Custom.hOuse seems lessa place for the collection o.
revenue than engine OF political influence through
which his dictatorship may be maintained
Authentic testimony places this tyrannical aPTse De-
Murphy, collector the Presidential lieutenant Nobody
doubts the intimacy between the President anu ne
those Of seaside neighborhood The Collector was De
termned to obtain the control Of the Repubcan 5ate
%RO reped and hat ia his Judgment IL would
delicate matter for Office, holders 70 uhg 9s
districts who should 60 from them to the State
Convention and still delicate TO attempt TO control
meSts as TO the best represent them The brave
Collector lieutenant OF the President said that he shoud
o Cen ne Grant was the head Of the Republican party and
should be authority on this subject NT,o- CnS
GEN. PamerJ Plainly the Republican party was his
perquise, and all Republicans were to do his bidding
President according to the statement OF ms
lieutenant wanted to be- represented d,,o III
ton Of NewYork wanted to have his friends theIe IN
the Convention - and the Presidential lieutenant Deihg
none other than the famous Collector 0nered 10 appoint
four men in the Customhouse f the witness would Sc
the nomination Of certain persons as rom
aey send their names on TO Washington and have them
appointed" Ibid, p. 626 Testimony OF wnam AZ
mnistered Offices in the Custom-house were openly
bartered for votes in the state Convention Here was
Slave market But New-York is not the only Of
this outrage. The Presidential pretenson extends as
corruption the honest indignation that II quckens
into life.
PRESIDENTIAL CoNTRIvANCE AGAINST sASTo DOMINGO.
These Presidential professions all their variety, per-
sonal and military with reckless indifference to law,
naturally ripened in the continuance, nursed In hot
house secrecy against the peace Of the Island of Santo Do
mingo-I say deliberately, against the peace OF that
island for under the guse of annexlng portion there
was menace TO the Black Republic of Hayt. This whole
business absolutely indefesibe from beginning to end,
being wrong at every point, is the special ana most
II infused and projected Itself more than INTO any thg
else. In this multifOTm disohed1ence we behold our
President Already have referred to this cOntryance
marking epoch in Presidential pretensons Itsmy
duty show its true character as warning against
its author.
few weeks only after beginning his career as a
civilian and while occupied with military usuIpatlons
and the perQuises of office, he tempted by over
lures of Dominican potters, headed by the usqrper
Baez and the Speculation Cazneau the nrst an adven-
turer cOnsprat0r and trckster described by one VINO
knows him well as the worst man living OF Whon nc
has any personal knowledge, and the second one OF
as disOyal thrOusho91 the war, anu entneIS IIou
character to Baez Listening TO these prOmpters, ana
without word IN Congress or in the press suggesting
annexation of the island any part Of IT, the Presl-
dent began his continuance, and here see abuse III
every form and at every step absolutely without prece
the agent in THIS transaction was orvie L. Babcoch
one of the unauho rized secretaries at the Executive
Mansion, and also as major OF engineers. His pub
simply TO make inquiries but the plot appears in
unicatiOp Of the same date from the Secretary OF the
Navy, directed 10 the Seminole, war-ship, with an
armament OF one li-lnoh gun anu dor 81 o;
Founders. "to give him the moral support OF
graphic instruction TO Key West for another war-ship
TO proceed without m0ments delay to santo Domingo
say of the President obtained from the usuper Baez
Dominica TO the United States in consideration OF
s5OOOOO which the young officer fresh from the Execu
His Exceency Gen. Ulysses 5. Grant, President of
the United States" as IT,, instead OF CMet
MAGISTRATE OF KPp9 ~. foot the F TIES were r
rounded by a military staff. The Instrument
Gen Grant President OF the United states promises
priodteg 10 use all has influence IN order that the dea OF
may acquire such dsgl.e OF popuiaIIy among tne
members OF Congress as WIZ e necessary Tor ts accom-
come lobbyist to bring about the annexation by Con-
gTess. such was the strange beginning Illegal uneon
stitutOna and offensive In every particular, Dut SNOW
ing the presidential character,
on his return e Washington the young officer, who
had assumed 10 De Alu-Of-Odnp OF MS EAceltncN
Gen. Ulysses s. Grant, aud had bound the President TO
become lobbyist for wretched scheme, instead OF
nsnrper with instructions TO negotiate two reates-one
for the annexion of the half island Of Dominica and
the Constitution of the United States, ''Ambas-
sailors and other public Ministers are appointed
by the President by and with the advice and consent
OF the Senate; but Aidde-Camp had no such com
mission. Presidential prerogatlve empowered him, nor
disposal he entered upon negotiation with Baez and OBJ
tanned the two treaties. Naturally force needed to
naturally such Transaction required Presidential
Aide-de-Camp unknown TO Constitution law, rather
than civilian duly appointed according to both
PRESIDENTIAL VIOLATIONS OF COsTITUTIoNAL AND IN
TERNAIIONAL LAW.
On other occasions has been my solemn duty to ex-
pose the outrages which attended this hateful business
where at each step brought face to face with
presidential pretensOn first in the open seizuIe of the
war powers Of the Government If be were already
Cesar. forcbly intervening in Dominica and menacng
war TO Hayti, all Of which is proved by the official re-
ports OF the state Department and Navy Department,
defiance of that distinctive principle of republican gov
eminent first embodied in Constitution, which places
the war mowers under the safeguard of the legislative
branch making any attempt the President 10 declare
wa" an nndomhe; usurpaon. But President, like
ION ~ the Constitution was naturally followed by
barefaced disregard Of that equality OF nations winch is
the first principle Of international Law as Ihe equay
is the first principle of the Declaration OF In
dependencies and this sacred rule was sci ASIDE IN Srqer
TO insult and menace Haytl, DONG unto the BLACK he
public what would not have that Republic 40 unto
us nor what we would have done 10 any white rover
To these eminent and most painful pretensons the first
adverse the Constitution and the second adverse TO
International Law, add the imprisonment OF an
American citizen in Dominica by the Presidential con
federate Baez fear of his hostility TO the treaty If he
were allowed to reach NewYork all OF which was known
to his subordinaes BaDcock and Cazneau and doubtless
to himself What the liberty OF an American cltlzen
compared with the Presidential prerogative To one
who had defended the Constitution, on which de-
ponds the liberty Of all, and then dehed inter
national law on which depends the peace OF the
world a single citizen immured in distant dungeon
was OF small moment. But this Is only an illustration
Add now the awless occupation OF the Bay OF SANTANA
for many months after the lapse Of the Treaty. keeping
The rational flag nymg there and assuming territorial
sovereignty which did not exist Then add the pro-
sl,rnrf ~ Rnez I'm his nsnrned pOWcr 10 the