The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-01-05
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From the New York Times.I
GEN, GRANT AND HIS ACCUSERS

GEN. GRANT AND HIS ACCUSERS
A few days ago the Brooklyn
Eogle brought together into on,
:. article the accusations against Gen
Grant which the San, The World, an(
. other rspeIs bitterly opposed to tht
: President, are constantly repeating
: The Presidents defarmeis-snd il
may save misconstructiOn TO cay
here that in the remarks we have to
make about them, We do not in any
way refer to the Eagle, which simply
repeats charges without inventing
them-have echoed their complaints
so often that at last they probably
almost believe in their justice. To
prevent others falling into the same
error, We undertook to reply 10 the
EaQle's article as econ as we had
time 10 inquire into the facts We
no W proceed TO ,lo SO.
The Eagle says, "Grant went INTO
Office poor, and is notoriously mil
lionaire already and he cannot have
made his million out iof his official
salary, or his legitimate receipts in
public service" II one part of the
duty OF the President oil the United
States was to answer every question
addressed to him about his private
circumstances, and empty his pocket
book to every visitor to show how
much money he had about him, the
dignity of the office would not be
much increase d-snd, perhaps, the
people would not consult their own
interests by suhjec,ing their chief
officer TO such i'll usage. The Presi-
dent considers bis own sel.-respect,
and we believe he also considers the
wishes of the people, by never reply
ing to any attack made upon him
We have no authority to speak for
him-but careful inquirirles have
assured US that outside of his official
salary, his income does NOS exceed
six thousand dollars year. His
principal property is his farm of six
or seven hundred acres, near st.
Louis, part of which was inherited
by Mrs. Grant. The remainder was
bought by Gen. Grant from the other
heirs, out of the one hundred thous-
and dollars given to him by the citi-
zens of New York before he became
President. One of the charges
against the President is that this st
Louis farm was a present to him.
The rest OF the ore hundred thousand
dollars referred to was used in pay
ing off the mortgage on his house In
I-street, Washington, now owned by
Gen. Sherman, and in purchasing and
furnishing his house at Long Branch,
which he is charged with receiving
as a present from Mr.. Murphy-that
being another of the numberless fab
relations set afoat by the San about
the President, and repeated eagerly
by journals opposed TO him. Not a
dollars north of property has been
giyen to Gen Grant since he became
President
During the war the President
saved something out of his pay as
Major-General, we are half ashamed
to refer TO such matters, but since
the Eagle asks for the facts, il may
as well have them all, land with the
money so saved he bought q part |
interest in some Chicago lots, which |
have appreciated in value, but hith-
erto have yielded no income. He
also bought small amount of horse
railroad stock, which he still owns,
and which pays a moderate dividend.
He was given, while General in the
Army, house in Philadelphia, which
he rents for about two Thousand dol
lars year.
Another statement OF the Eagle is
that "the Sua has printed repeatedly,
uncontradicted from any quarter, a
list o! twenty-five or more relatives
whom Grant has appointed to office
under himself" We hope that the
day will come when honorable jour
nalists will be ashamed TO assert that
anything is true of Gen. Grant be-
cause the Sun says it is true. The
list in question has been contra
dicted it is false in every par.lcnlar;
and we will print it at the close of
this article, with comments (which
prove it to be false The Pres dents
relatives who do hold office were
chiefly appointed by his predecessors.
Was he bound to turn them out when
he came into off ,e him self? Is it to
be the rule of public life that when
man accepts responsible posiii N he
is to begin by thrusting his kinsfolk
out of any offices they may happen to
hold, and giving up all the property
he NAV possess2 Do the people ex-
pect thisP
A third ststtmeht is that Gen.
Grant received twenty-five thousand
dollars stock in the Seneca Stone
| Company, as a gilt, and then appoint
cd MIR. Cooke, the President of that
Company, Territorial Governor in
Washington, thereby enhancing the
value of the stock of Messrs. Cooke,
Grant & Coz This is total mis-
renresent alton of avery simple trans
action. Shortly after this organiza-
lion of the Seneca Stone Company in
1867, nearly year before Gen.
Grant was nominated President, he
was invited by Mr.. II. d. Cooke and
! others 10 take tweIty thousand dol
, lars worth of stock as an inpestment.
He thought well of it, and surely no
one will deny that he was free TO in
vest his money in any enterprise be
!. choose; he had as much right to use
2 !, his money a. his own discretion as
E any other citizen. He invested ten
!, thousand dollars in the purchase Of
the stock, and it has never paidhi,n a
5 cent He has been anxious for long
time to sell this stock perhaps some
of the accusers would like to buy it
Gov. Cooke was appointed last Feb
ruary-stock bought in 1867; Cooke
appointed 1S7l-and that appoint.
|. ment had about as much TO do with
Seneca Stone as it had with the ce'
+ posits of the post-tertiary period.
4 The charge that President Grant
quarrels with Sumner and is friendly
,T with Nve. &c. and that he absents