Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-11
AA GRANT ACCEPTS. 2
A statesmanIike Document from
the Patriot Soldier.


party to ourself, and to our affectionatC
cousins OF the Presidential family. You
will learn with pride that not only in
this country, but in Europe, the Execu
tive rank is appreciated in novel and
gratifying manner. The Prince Frederick
Dent our heir-apparent is now sojourn
ing at the various palaces Of sister
governments, escorted by the chief Off
Ger OF the army, and a numerous retinue;
the.presenee and grateful reception Of
another member of our family by the
British Queen is also we'll calculated To
facilitate the peaceful settlement of the
Alabama claims. Should the continu.
ing appreciation of the American peo-
pie approximate to that shown by the
Republicans of England two centuries
ago toward General Cromwell, whose
training aG tanner eminently fitted
him for suppressing all opposition in his
party, it is possible that our Republican
court may yet rival, in its possession Of
tall the comforts of social life and in its
general hilarity and good humor, the
Court of Louis XIV of France, some
times called the Magnificent.
At present it is our gracious pleasure
to inform the convention that, consider
ing the circumstances, we are personally
doing as well as can be expected. The
unanimous vote of the Rump," defeat
ing the payment of the Chorpenning
claim ($433, ,000) after it had been care
fully nursed by our Executive serenity
aud our Secretaries for four years, and
after we had peremtorily ordered it
paid, was an impoverishing blow to the
finances of the administration, and indi-
Gates the ungenerous tendency Of, GER
tain restless and misehievous opponents
of the party to reduce its great expo
nents to the scaHty pittance afforded by
our meager salaries. In this disas.
ter we are consoled by the complete
success Of one of our most able sec
retaries in extracting from the Treas
ury the sums of $4,000 on the Secor
claims, and 100000 on the Roach con-
tract, besides other very fair transactions
known as the Governor claims, etc.
Both these were instances Of Executive
prerogative, without the tedious and
unsatisfactory interposition Of the law s
delay. They show how rapidly "Consti-
tutions are not made, but grow under
an executive which ever keeps its eye
steadily directed to the main chance
1t is not impossible that, by judicious
extension of our Executive prerogative,
the taxpayers may, at an early period,
| be relieved of the expense of sustaining
Congress altogether, and may rest the
sovereignty, where it can be exercised
with the most unity of counsels, in the
Chief Magistrate alone. The failure of
the San Domingo Treaty, so judciously
arranged by our aide.de-camp, General
Babeoek, backed up by reasonable
display of force in the Haytien
waters, under three naval officers,
also occasions regret to a choice circle
of enterprising spirits, who had intended
to realize in profits, on raising, sugar,
the thirty millions a year or so which
have heretofore gone to the Government
in the form of revenue. AS this step
would depopulate the negro Republic Of
San Domingo, It was opposed by sundry
philanthrepie gentlemen, who conceived
that the interests of the blacks of Hayti
should prevail over the pecuniary well
fare OF loyal friends of the. Executive,
who have served their country nobly in
past transactions in cotton on both sides
Of the line. ! have expelled from the
Republican party these cynical and
dangerous men, who attempt in this
manner to limit the field of private en-
terprise, when the Government is trying
to keep it from languishing. Of course,
you will pass some resolution approving
the expulsion of these incendiaries, and
maintaining the unity of the party in
the bonds Of peace. A 2 i44'i
1t gives us sincere pleasure to an
nouuce that our chief effort has been to
prove that the humblest capacity in The
nation is adequate to the performance
of the highest duties Of statesmanship.
Not many great, not many mighty, have
| called to aid me in my task, if SO it
can be called. | have followed the Di-
vine and Apostolic example OF choosing
the weak men of this country to eonfound
the men that are wise. They have done
it to my complete satisfaction. Some
members Of my Cabinet had never been
heard of by myself or by the country
until about the period of their appoint
ment They are clever fellows, and are
doing we'll. f
i cannot tell what shall do if re-
elected, because don't know. gaarn |
} lHU8 &U4Yours, imperially,
, arrrrr7 U. S. GRANT.
This may not be what our excellent
President has written. In such case,
it derives its interest solely from its re-
semblance to what he has done.
How POe's " AnnRbeI Lee" Came
TO be Published.
/" Paul PEBBLES writes in the Home
Journal: ..
A pleasant little story Of Jehn r.
Thompson and Edgar A. Poe appears in
the Gossip corner of Lippincott's
Magazine for May. Probably the read
ers Of the Home Journal-espeeially
those who "dote" upon the author Of |
q" The Raven have already enjoyed
the account Of poor Poe's thirteen ju-
leps " aud the agreeable Utilization of the