Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-06-11

| the president surrounded himself
with officers of the army, and sub
stituted military forms for civil life,
detailing for his service members of
his late military staff, the Senator
from Massachusetts, revised, correct
ed, printed, published and sent to the
world deliberate truth or deliber-
ate falsehood. Which? Was there
no precedent for being served by a
few clerks who were willing to serve
him without pay, for mere personal
affection ? Had not Andrew John
son had work for army officers de-
tailed for service in the White House?
Had not Andrew johnson been SUR
rounded with sentinels, and the
whole thing put in position almost
OF a fort or fertilization =? Aud ia all
the complaints that were made
against Andrew Johnson, did any
man charge him with violating the
law in having his house protected by
sentinels at night? Was there any
complaint made on.the ground that
three or four army officers were serv.
ing him in the capac ;ty of clerks in
the White House? If there was, l
never heard oft.
But again, this is q charge that
the Executive had assumed the char
acter Of military head, that he has
substituted military forms for those
of civil life. | take it to be the du-
ty of this Senate; l take it TO be the
duty of the members of the other
House, take it to be the duty of all
the courts of justice who reside for q
portion of the year in Washington
and know the facts, to bear testimo.
ny to the American people whether
this argument against the Presidents
merits is truth or a falsehood.-
Senators, how has the White House
been made TO assume the character
OF military headquarters Do you
encounter any sentinels at the doors?
Do you see any orderly on the stairs2
Do you see a gun, or musket, or a
shoulder-strap, in the White House
from top to bottom ? Not one. The
whole charge is baseless, or dream.
The next serious arraignment of
the President is the great war be has
prosecuted in Hayti. don't propose
to go extensively through the San
Domingo performance again. In
July, before the Senate, in secret
session and in open session, the Sena-
tor labored to show that the Presi.
dent had for long time been levy
ing war on the Republic of Hayti.
Now is that really so, or is there
little exaggeration about it, too? Is
that subject to the same deduction
and discount you have made in re-
gard to the White House having been
turned into a fort Not a soldier
marched, not gun was fired, not d
pocket pistol was drawn from its
socket-only the sky-rocket:discharg-
ed from man-of-war. Laughter I
But, sir, what was left of the great
war upon Hayti when it was finally
ciphered out on the investigation.
and the ultimate facts became known?
The only acts ever done by a naval
officer which could be tortured into
the prosecution Of war, was the fir
ing from the deck of a man-of war in
the waters near the Haytian Island.
What is the charge against the Presi-
dent ? Why, that he usurped the
war power Of this nation when he
fired that sky-rocket. Laughter. I
You cannot fire sky-rocket from
man-of-war in the Indian Ocean, nor
Liverpool, nor anywhere on the
globe, without q previous act of Con-
gress specifying just where the rock
ct shall be fired, how much material
shall be in it, and what shall be the
design Of firing and if you do not so
provide, and if any naval officer
somewhere shall, no matser for what
purpose, send up into the blue space
one sky rocket, the President of the
United States, who never even saw
the sky-rocket, is chargeable with
having usurped the war power of
the nation, and levied war for sew
eral months. There are a great
many things that might be said, but
such subject is best dropped with
out saying anything more about it.
| do not believe that the people of
this country will quite think that
General Grant made war for several
months that nobody ever heard of !;
and in which not even q pistol was
discharged.
But the most remarkable part of
the Senator's speech remains to be
considered. think the people, as
they take this malicious arraignment
and read it, may lose their patience,
but they will probably mold their
gravity until they come down to the
place where the Senator from Mas
sachusetts arraigns the President of
appointing friends TO place. This
would include good many of as in
its first application. | am not aware
that it is worse for man to procure
his brother to be appointed to some
place if be is Fl for it, than it is to
procure particular friend of his to
be appointed TO place because he is
friend. In principle there is no
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1t may be that if we were exercis-
ing that romantic Spartan simplicity
OF manner which will come after the
millennium, when the Senator from
Massachusetts and the Senator from
Missouri will be installed at the
White House, some such thing might
be attempted but really, in truth
aud in the practical course of busi-
ness in this country, this thing is o
little too fine to desire or deserve Sc.
rious attention. Receiving gifts
What is there in that? Simply this :
The subject is the spontaneous testi-
mony OF the American people to the
niggardly compensation paid by our
Government for public services
Our people felt when the war closed,
when their hearts were warm and
their gratitude was bubbling up to-
ward those men who had saved the