The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-30

the Astor House, June 2, 1865, was rs fol-
lows:
"GEsrLEMEs: l know you will excuse me
from attempting to reply to your very hatter-
ing remarks"
At Kalamazoo. Michigan, August 10, 1865,
he said:
Al am not going to reply to the address,
gentlemen. I could not do no IL should
try"
After long and nattering address from the
chief orator at the Union League rooms, JAN
uarv z. 1865, Grant said:
''GENrLExEs: bid you goodnight. am
much obliged to you for this reception"
Following IL his speech at tie Bddle House,
Detroit, August 16, 1865:
II bid you all goodnight"
His speech at Toledo, Ohio, August 20. 1855,
shows how natural il has always been for Grant
to lean on somebody's shoulder:
"GkNrLEMES AND FELLOW CITIZENS: Rev.
Mr.. Vincent. who has come out on the train
from Chicago, has kindly consented to return
my thanks for the hearty welcome which you
have given me-"
The following is an example Of . speech.
very much mixed, in which Grant speaks OF
thing done and not done in the same breath.
II was delivered at Niagara Falls:
my modesty compels me to tum over that
written speech to Mr. Hall. who will deliver it
for me whenever il is written"
OF his speeches upon other people, just az he
used to shift the responsibility Of . decision in
time of battle upon his stan officers.
Recently. on his passage through Water
town, \. Y. august q, in company with SEN
ator Copkling, he made one of the longest adj
dresses Of his life. Mark it:
AFTER an absencs Of more than twenty years
fail to recognize a single one OF all the faces
now sec before me as familiar to me then.
Your city has altered very much indeed since
last saw it. At that time was a Lieutenant
stationed at Sackett's Harbcr, which place
expect TO see before return"
When President Grant came into Office the
first thing he did was to appoint Cabinet OF
which one member at least (sIr. A. 7. Stewart)
was appointed contrary to law, and had to be
withdrawn.
GRANTS BRoTHER-IS-LAw-A SPECIMEN OF
''cIvIL-sERvIcE REFORM"
The President made many unique observa-
tons and suggestions In his annual messages,
of which pitying or contemptuous Congress
took no heed. In his last annual message he
said:
The present laws for collecting the revenue
pay Collectors OF Custom small salaries, but
provide for moieties (shares in all seizures),
which. at principal ports of entry, raise the
compensation of those officials to large sum.
1t has always seeme1 to me as il this system
must, at times. work perniciously. 1t holds
out an luuucefutut 10 ulruOuest utcii, suOuiu
such get possession of the Offices, 10 De lar in
their scrutiny Of goods TO enable them finally to
make large seizures"
This Is precisely what Casey, the Presidents
brother-n-law-who has been retained IN Office
as Collector of the Port Of New Orleans in
spite OF his proven dereliction and incapacity
admits that he did. In his letter to the
Secretary of the Treasury (November %,
ls7l). OH the subject of the Coutourie frauds.
he says:
II commenced this investigation on the
night of the first day / took charge Of this
Office april ~. 1859, and in ten days from
that date was fully satisfied Of the existence
of the Coutourie frauds, but, as before stated,
kept the matter perfectly quiet until after the
arrirdl Of other suspected cdrgoes."
HIS ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS AND BRIBEs-
Gen. Grant was a notorious gift-taker, and
President Grant has never refused a present.
1t has been denied that he even accepted a
gift after he was elected President, but here is
one among many proofs to the contrary. Four
months after his election to the Presidency
sIO5. 900 we're transmitted to him in the fol.
lowing cash and securities:
Fifty thousand 30 United States bonds. hrst
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