The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-09
Judge Black ArTaigns President Grant Before
the Court Of Popular Opinion.
He Accuses Him Of High Political Crimes and
0xom 0ficial Misconduct announcing tho
Leading Msssures Of His Administration
~ Hot Only Unconstitutional, but
i-Constitutioual, 6ubversive Of
the Rights Of tho states and the
Liberties Of the People.
OFFICE OF TIRE BALTIMORE GAZETTE
nArrunpE Irlv IofO

baltimore Convention certain radical journals have
persistently misrepresented the course Of promi
place them In false position before the country.
Among the number you have been frequently men,
| ana In this way your name has been used BY
political tricksters TO promote the success Of
| the radical cause. Without waiting for C0nsulta-
| ton with you but simply relying on my faith In
| your exalted patriotism and unfinchng democracy,
In times past you .have done the State some
service, and they know it." and on the strength OF
your past record have assumed that IN the present
political crisis yoa win be quite as jealous you
ever were before in defence OF constitutional free
dom and civil reform. / need not ask you II am
assured but take the liberty OF suggesting that
at this time your views and opinions upon the Inn
pending Presidential contest would aiord much
qualification to the democratic and conservative
masses OF the country. Believe me to be, with
Hon. j. s. BLACK WILLIAM H. WELSH.
To WILLIAM H. WELSH, Editor Of the Baltimore
delivered your letter that would answer IL fully
and "a soon 30 could consistently with other en-
gagements am fulfilling that promise II take
more time and space than might be expected you
will please to remember that and great many
other democrats are In position which requires
not avoid INSTRUMENTATION without furnishing q
rather full explanation.
admit that the next President must be Grant or
Greeley The circumstances Of the political situa
ton limit our choice to these two men, strictly
as II nobody else were legally eligible. we must
weigh them against one another and, like practi.
cal men, decide the case before us in favor OF the
best. Even II We find no good In either OF them
bad.
1t is undenable that the leading measures of
this administration are not only Unconstitutional,
but anti-consttutiona showing not merely con.
temptnous indifference to constitutional obga-
tons. but settled hostility to those rights of the
States and those liberties Of the people which the
organic law was made to secure The Presidents
appointment Of officers and his general exercise Of
public authority under the influence OF men who
ptlO MN large sums OF money, SCQndalOuS out
RACES, and the en'ori to defend them has combined
subordinates all respect for those rules Of morality
which used TO be held sacred. When we consider
what these men have done IN the North, and add
south by the retaners Of the President, with his
direct aid and assistance, we are compelled to &C
world Is administered SO entirely for personal
and partisan purposes or in such complete disre-
public This Generalization is not confined to the
executive branch; the tide Of corruption tolls In
e n ee Il has
Even the rank and file Of the Presidents party have
become debauched, let us hope not altogether, but
certainly In fearful degree. Acts which In former
times hardened criminal would hesitate to whis
PER IN the ear of his accomplice can now be openly
safety, but with t0lerable chance OF being sus-
tanned by q sort OF public opinion. That love OF
liberty ana justice which used to pervade the whole
community now "reneges ali teniper,D and Yields
without resistance to the unprincipled demagogues
who would enthrOne fraud.
MAKE 1.-THE the hosr s, IH, sdored place thieves
With Senator'S ON the bench.
II General Grant had been equal In mind and
heart to the exgencles Of the times he could easily
nave made himself agreat public benefactor. He
% aaEs RRfss eS ss aS s P Swh
clean handed devotion to duty. HIS own obedience
to the laws would have restored them to universal
supremacy. All the objects OF the constitution as
rccited in the preamble would have been accom-.
pshed but for the distractions with which he him
certain rings were In conflict with the interests Of
the country, and they, by large presents seduced
give him the salary which his predecessors had
been content with; the rings offered him mOre he
accepted their bounty, fell over to them and took
the government into his hands as "a black repubi
can job"
Now, as to Greeley. 1t cannot be pretended that
ranks of the radical abolitionists for good many
years. That is bad, for such associations would
must not forget that though he was with them he
was not always OF them. He refused to be par
their dlabocal hatred for the constitution he did
not lend his lips to their ribald blasphemies and
his feet were never swift In running to shed limo
cent blood. Before the great conflict began his
opposition TO the designs OF the aboitionsts
against the federal and State governments la PEELED
the Roman father who killed his daughter to save her
from worse fate, he chose to destroy the govern.
lawess force When the war was Migrant he bro.
voked the EXTREMIST rage OF his associates by ex-
tne peope in OF their "S%s e
liberties After the close OF the contest he was the
advocate Of regular and legal as well as honest gov
authority for saying that he never gave his CD.
proval to any form of kidnapping or murder by
JOIN the abolttlonists In their .'devils Dance no
never learned to keep step with his par tners and
1t and denounced it with becoming Indignation
On another point he ought to have credit. The
friends OF religious freedom owe HIM old debt OF
gratitude for the zeal aud ability with which he re-
sisted the church burners when banded together In
the secret lodges Of the Know Nothing order. 1t is
but reasonable to believe that his opposition saved
the country from the great danger It was once In
OF being subjugated by that infamous organization.
He has often been accused Of completely in cheats
triumphanty refuted the charges. For this and
for other reasons conclude that his personal In.
He has many times spoken Of the democratic
party and its most honOred members In harsh and
temper, which, when mended, are ALWAYS par.
doned; We Will not permit our Judgment to be dis
turbed by considerations so tri1ing as this.
tam what he Is now and what he Is likely to be in
the future. am bound to care nothing for his
OF estimating his character. think have found
out with reasonable certainty how far we may con-
fde In him. I devoutly believe that, If chosen
President he win keep his oath, preserve the con-
sttution inviolate. execute the laws faithfully,
tect Individual liberty by jury trial and Ra6eas
corpus, put the military In proper subordination
TO irsra et ap,Sort ,,o use nsher force
clean from corruptlng gifts set his face
like mint against all manner of financial dis.
honesty, purity the administration OF justice
~ much as In him lies, maintain the public credit
by prompt discharge OF all just obligations
economic the revenue and tighten taxation. give
TO capital the right which belongs to It, and at the
sime time see that labor IL not robbed Of its earn
ings. He will certainly hold his power OF appoint
ment as public trust, and not as part OF his per-
sODa possession to be used for the support OF his
family or 70 encourage the private libefaty Of hs
friends. He Will, so far as he can without trans
crossing the llmts Of his legal authority, relieve
the Southern States from the gangs that are now
preying upon their vials in open partnership with
the present administration.
think he Will do all this and my faith Is founded
on the testimony OF his friends and enemies on the
known facts OF his history and on the moral infu-
ence which the democracy will necessarily exert
upon his conduct. The errors OF his past life were
caused by certain evil communications from which