Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-07-09
Grant.


This aspirant for reelection as Pres
ident has now been prominently before
the people in military aud civil ca
pacities, for over ten years, and for
the last four years has held the high
est position in the land has sat whcrc
it should be the endcavor aud anxiety
of every citizen, that not only the
ablest but purcst citizen of this coun-
try should sit, and why has he sat
there Was it because he had dis
played any of the qualities, either
mentally or morally, that President
should possess. No one will claim or
ever did claim with any sincerity that
his training or mental calibre fits him
to successfully handle the many diff
cult and delicate questions that are
constantly coming up in our inter
course with other nations, and in the
management of our national affairs
and the well-known intimacy which he
has kept up before and since his elec-
ton as President with the most de-
solute men in Congress, the capital
and the different watering places 70
which he has resorted, shows plainly
that the inner man is not what the ma
tion ought to expect from and look for
in its chief.
To-day General Grant stands out
before the world, the fgure,head and
representative of this country, and
looking on him, what must the conclu-
sion be If he is true representa-
tiOg = our leading men, this man
syliose only and greatest delight is in
the association Of dogs, horses and fast
men, this habitual lounger at the most
Yicious gathering places for the Amer
lean genius loaSer; this companion
of Morton, of Indiana, who drags his
lower limbs paralized from the effects
of his debauchery and filthy habits
this cndorser of Tom Murphy's char
acter, after committee of the Senate
had pronounced him a thief; this
boon companion and bosom friend of
our own Chandler, whose name has
become a by-word of scorn and loath-
ing from one end Of the world to the
other; this man who has taken back
into favor and influence, Simon Cam.
eren, who was driven from the Cabi-
net by Lincoln for dishonesty, and
whose chosen friends in the House and |
Senate are the leaders of the rings,
who, with his assistance, plumber the
people, and whose private character,
instead of being above reproach, is be-
low degradation. If, we say, this man |
is true representation Of our greatest
and best, then this country has degcn-
Grated very fast in the last four years.
But we do not think that General
Grant is such representative, and we
look on him now, and We judge him
principally by the company he keeps,
as dull and degraded man, without
either moral or mental strength, a tool
in the hands of dishonest rings, bride
taker and a watering place lounger,
who neglects his business for the race,
ring, and other places of amusement.
If he represents the American people |
at all, it is in their lower and meanest |
nature, and the coming campaign will,
We firmly believe, show to the people |
of other nations that this country will |
not tolerate in power a man who en-
couragcs crime, and only cares to graf
ify his own sordd tastes and incli
nations-who has grown rich while
spending more than his salary, and |
with whom tue best men of his own
party can no longer associate without
lowering and disgracing themselves.