Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-14
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Extremes Meet.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 13.-The Gazette OF
to-day says the following was received by
prominent Republican in this city q few
days ssc.
Washington, D. c., July 80, 1S72.-Dear
Sir: Please send enclosed circular to ac-
tive Democrats in your district who do not
support Mr.. Greeley and will cooperate In
the Louisville Convention. Send me list
Of such men in each county Immediately.
j. M. EDMUNDs, Sec'ry.
The same paper states that Mr.. Edmunds
is Postmaster at Washington, idetiber Of
the Resident Republican Committee at
Washington, and President of the Union
League Association in 1858. The circular
urges the organization of the straight Dem
ocracy and the sending Of delegates to the
Louisville Convention.
Ihe Times ON the Political SituatiOn
-. a We'll Of Terrier.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
NEW YORK, Aug 10.-The Times, to-
day, makes the following significant admls-
sions: "The great battle-ground of the
present campaign is in the three great States
Of Net Yofk, feDhsyiVani4 End Indiana.
However other States may go, the party
which carries two of these three States VIII,
in all probability, elect its candidate. Con-
sidering this fact, we desire to call the par
ticular attention of the Republicans and
Republican managers to the necessities OF
the situation in the State of New York.
While we have reasonable assurance OF
success, it is accompanied with one impera-
tive condition, that of thorough, vigorous
and instant organization, and increasingly
follow the splendid example of Indiana,
where the Republican foi ces have been Or
gauized with military precision and thor
oughness."
1t thus appears the Times has paused
long enough in its vituperation to take ra-
tional survey of the electoral probabilities,
and its note of alarm amounts TO a cry OF
terror. Its demand for military precision
on the Grant side is considered pretty
good.
Gov. Scott Speaking Out I'm Meetin'.
The Worlds correspondent at Charles
ton, S. c., writes that Gov. Scott recently
said to him that he did not care if Greeley
was elected; that be (Scott) was not anxious
about Grants election; that Grant had
spoken of his stealing, but that he would
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that when Grant was elected to the Presi-
dency, he and his family were all poor, and
he (Scott) and his family could have bought
them out ten times over; that now Grant
and his family were all rich and could buy
him out ten times over, and if be had got
his by stealing he would like to know how
Grant got rich.
An Expose of President Grants Con.
duct as Secretary of War.
q NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Sun in the
morning, presents full expose, occupying
nearly dozen columns, of Grants corrupt
conduct while acting as Secretary of War.
The pith of these detailed disclosure is as
follows: He (Grant) by arrangement with
President johnson displaced Stanton and
became Secretary Of War ad interim. En-
tering upon personal control OF the War
Department, he at once gave particular at
tention to three objects, as follows: paying
in full large sums Of money, amounting, in
the aggregate, TO half million or more,
which had been retained by Mr.. Stanton on
account of frauds in mixed grain furnished
for the Army of the Potomac, the frauds
having been detected aud part OF the money |
restored by the immediate agents Of the |
fraudulent contractors, in whose hands it |
was. Mr.. Stanton also withheld further |
snms which would have been due had |
frauds not been found out and proved. |
These sums Grant paid in full.
The second of Grants three objects was |
the transfer to a riOg of spectators in Cali
fornia of tract of land known as Military
Reservation No. Z, commanding Mare Is
land Navy-yard. This property, whose
possession was essential to the military |
safety of the uaVy-yard, was worth seventy
million dollars. Mr. Stanton had sternly
repelled and resisted every overture look
ing toits transfer, but Grant, after he be-
came Secretary of War ad interim, prompt
Iy su: rendered it, the government receiv-
ing between three and four thousand dol
lars only.
The third object to which Gen. Grant es-
pecially devoted himself when he became
Secretary Of War ad interim, was the pro-
lection of his old associate and crOny, Pay
master General Brice, in carrying through
and concealing the payment of a large
amount of public money upon forged
claims. These forged claims had been got
up by claim agent in Washington named
who presented them TO Brice,
from whom he had received various pay
ments, and one of which had been proved
before committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives to the amount of about $4,000.
Grant and the Ku-KIux Law.
Special to the Louisville Courier-JOurnal.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 12-The
statement which the reelection journals are
now circulating aud expanding to the effect
that President Grant took no part in aiding
or procuring the Ku-Klux legislation of the
present Congress, but was simply and sole
Iy an administrative officer executing the
DEGREES of Congress, is not well sustained by
the facts or the records. Grants persistent
demands of Congress for a ku-KIux law
during its first session in the spring of 1871,
are matters of common fame and general |
If there could be a lingering
doubt Of the Presidents position at the
time, it ought to be removed by the follow
ing quotation from a Washington dispatch
Of March %, 1871, to the New York Times,
then, as now, Grants own familiar organ;
"Up ito this morning the President had
not decided to send in any message upon
The condition of affairs at the South. Soon
after twelve he went up to the Senate to
hear Senator Scott speak on the Sherman
resolution. While there he resolved to add
the weight of his official sanction to the eff
forts that were making to provide some
measure of relief, and show that he was
cordially in sympathy with these efforts, as
well as to show, contrary to the repeated
charges of his enemies, that he had no OBJ
ect in desiring the prolongation of this ses-
sion for any other purpose. He therefore
sat down in the Presidents room of the
Senate and wrote bis brief message"
GEORGIA.
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