The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-09
AFEARFUL INDrCTaENT.
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/ BALTIMORE, July Is, 1872.
| MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of tn,
18th of July Was duly received. Tn
delay in answering it do not now re
gret, as what has since occurred vii
enable me to do SO to moro advantag,
than could have done before. TIL,
question with the people now is
which of the two will they have fol
their next President, U. s. Grant ol
Horace Greeley? The former during
the past three years, in the judgment
of all impartial MEN, has proved hi
utter unfitness for the Office the latter
during a peri.M of more than thirty
years, as the editor of leading Journal
has proved himself, i'm the judgment o
q man of extraordinary ability, perfect
patriotism, and incOrruptible integrity.
Has not Gen. Grant demonstrated
his unfitness for the Presidency? His
elrctiOn to it in '63 was owing to the
confidence the people reposcd in him
for what they believed he possessed
good sensc-and because of their graft
tude for his military service du,ing the
war. In his good sense, with the ex-
perience of the last three year,, il
seems to me impossible that confidence
| can now he placed. His whole career
as President has been full of blunders,
| to use no milder term. A few in
| stances will establish this statement {:
1. His selection of his Cabinet was
made without consultation with any
honest and experienced friend, and
without regard 10 merit. He nomiIia-
| ted as the head of the Treasury high
~ respectable merchant of New York
In ignorance of the fact that by the Slh
section of the act of ID September,
1883, such an appointment is expressly
prohibited, aud this upon grounds of
the clearest policy-thc provisions be-
ing that no person concerned in trade,
directly or indirectly, is eligible to any
office created by that act; aud after
finding his error, he foolishly requested
Congress to modify the provision SO as
to enable him to make the appoint
ment. In this he was properly iOited,
although his friends constituted a large
majority of both Houses. In the APP
pOintment he actually made, he seem,
not 10 have been influenced by any re-
gard To the fitness of his apiOintees,
but, in many instances, by wish 10
show his gratitude for valuable pres
ents received.i
2. His selection of his relatives for
high and important trusts, at home and
abroad, obviously without ascertainiDg
whether they were fit, and his refusal
to remove many of them after their un-
fitness had been painfully exhibited.
8. His negotiation for the annexa-
ton of the Dominican Republic,
through no minister selected with the
approval of the Senate, and hi, undig-
nified lobbying with Senators to pro-
cure its ratification; and his impertincnt
and insulting message to Congress,
after the treaty was rejected, in which
he designated the rejection as an act of
"foly." His usurpation of the war
power in threatening Bayti, having
the means at hand of making good his
threat, if they continued their hOstili-
ties against Dominica, and doing this
not only whilst the treaty was under
considerations by the Senate, but after
they had d1cjected it.
"A. His open and shameless use of his
power of patronage to support bis per-
sonai administration and to secure a
reelection. And with this view, not
content with his first appointments,
removing them and making others,
not because the legal duties of the first
were not properly performed, but be-
cause they had not proved themselves
as able TO serve him as fully as he de-
sired.
j. His compelling Secretary Cox, a
gentleman of ability, who faithfully
served his country during the war as a
general officer, and who was admin
istering the Interior Department to the
satisfaction of the country, to resign,
because he had refused to tolerate the
assessment upon the salaries Of his
clerks for party purposes, thertby coun-
tenancing the legality and prOpriety of
such assessments. No greater violation
of duty could be pcrpelrated. The
official salaries are of course paid out of
the pub ic treasury. To compel the
officer to give a portion of it as fund
for electioneering purposes. is, i'm fact,
using the public funds 10 that end.
And in this instance the object of the
a 81 ssments was, and continues to be,
to secure the reelection of Gen. Grant,
and the el=, ii IN of his party friends 10
Congress s ~
6. His not only permitting, but virtu-
ally ordering, the members of his Cab
met aud the bureau officers 10 canyass
the States where elections have been or
may he depending, in his tehalf-thus
seriously Interfering with the public
business which they alone we've APP
pointed to attend to, and for which
alone they are paid.
Z. In not only not disappearing of
the acts of Congress known as the En-
forccmeut Acts of 1870 ~, but in rcek-
tessly carrying them out by means of
the military. And, although the con-
dition of things alleged rs an excuse
for those laws no longer existed, and
quiet prevailed in the two CaroIinas,
not an arm being raised against the
authority of the General GOvernmen
or of either of the State Governments,
and the like quiet existing in the other
Southern States, his attempt 10 obtain,
through Congress, until after the COM
ing Presidential election, the cOntinu-
ance of those laws. No sensible man can
doubt his motives in this attempt. 1t
was evidently to secure the electoral
votes of those States, either by alarm
ing the voters with the dread of the
military interference, or by resOrting
to such interference, if that should be
found necessary.
s. BY his utter disregard of the
rights of the States and of the people.
BY holding the latter still as enemies,
and under this prctence continuing
the military occupation of some of the
States and not interfering in any de-
gree with the unconstitutional, reckless
and corrupt governments which from
the first to the present time have plum
dered those States, involving Them In
almost hopeless bankruptcy.
:. 9. HIS management Of our Foreign
Relations. He has, it is said, converted
the Russian Government from warm
friend 10 cold one by the manner in
which he treated the eldest son Of the
Emperor, whilst by the order of his
father. as a mark Of the the latter's
esteem and regard, he visited the
President His continuing, as our rep
resentatiye ut Denmark, brOther-in- |
law who read dispatch relative to the |
same Government in the presence Of
its Minister which was SO offensive as
to force that gentleman to leave the
room and his having failed not oily
not to remove our representative, but
not even to reprimand him. His hav-
ing known or having failed to know
that our Government was selling arms
to France during the late war between
that Government aud Prussia, and.