Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-24
ABOUT THAT HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLAR GIFT.
G II. LOgan's Defence of the President.

H. hsNENh belehtP OF the president.
On Thursday last the Greeley organ of
this city falsely charged that Grant had re-
ceived Sl0j,0O from New York citizens in
eighteen hundred and sir.y-niac, Qttcr he
1oaS elected President and that in consider
alton thereof he had few months afterward
appointed the donors to Office. We brand
ed it as false and proved it so on Friday
Sumner made q speech in the Senate about
the lst of June, bitterly assailing Grant
Gen. Logan replied to him and on this
gift subject spoke rs follows;
"When the Duke of Wellington return
ed to England from his victorious CAM
paigns against Napoleon, not only were
honors of every sort, hcaped upon him by
the Government, but as a substantial tes-
timonial of national gratitude the mansion
and estate of Strathtieldsaye, in Hamp-
shire, were purchased for him, by subscrip-
ton, at cost of G263, 900, Tor 81, ,3l5, ,000, J
and presented to him as the gift of the ma
ton.
After good many years of active and
strenuous agitation, Mr.. Richard Golden,
the founder of the British Anti-Corn Law
League, and one of the ablest aud purest of
British statesmen, whose fame is as broad
rs the world, succeeded in securing the re-
peal of the corn laws. In gratitude for their
HIS tllOIIS, lIDlll llllS
great burden his friends and admirers pre-
sented Mr.. Golden with the sum of $780,
600, raised by subscription, on the receipt of
which he retired from his business of cot
ton printing.
when General George b. Mcclellan
was retired from the command of the ar
my Of the Potomac, after the disasters In
ilicted upon it by his bad generalship, his
wealthy Democratic friends, desrous OF
saving his wounded feelings with sub
stantal evidence of their appreciation of
his inestimable success with the spade,
made him present Of Il furnished house,
! in New York, which cOss $4,000 and q
considerable amount of greenbaclSs besides,
all raised by private subscription, and soon
after made him the Democratic candidate
for President.
If General Mcclellan, who had never
won battle ofany consequence, and who
had led our finest army TO Il succession of
terrible defeats, was thought worthy of so
substantial a recognition of his military
services by his Democratic friends, it could
hardly he expected that Republicans
should show less grateful appreciation of
the services of the most successful of our
generals, who led our armies, east and
west through the long succession of splen-
did and decisive victories. Accordingly,
when General Grant had smitten down
the rebel power, east and west of the Al
leSIlilnleS, ny MS tremendous ana uncr-
ring blows, the sum of 100000 was raised
by subscription, among loyal and wealthy
citizens, and presented TO him as u testi-
mOnial of their and the nations gratitude
and, if remembered rightly, a house was
presented to him by Philadelphians. This
paS IN the summer of 1865, q .feW months
after the surrender of Lee and Johnson,
Uten General Grant had no more thought
0feper being President of the United States
than Of being Emperor Of Russia. He had,
to his honor be it said, returned, from his
conquest of the rebel South, crowned with
the laurels of n hundred victories no reich
er for the war which enriched so many ar
my contractors and commissaries than
when, four years before, he had gone from
his Galena tannery TO offer his services to
Governor Yates ~