Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-14
GRANT ACCEPTS.
A StatesmamIike Document from the
Patriot Soldier.
Ernm the Ghicaun Trihnnn.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
June ., 1S72.-Gentlemen of My Conven-
ton 1t has signally pleased 4 gracious and
benign Providence so to order the reYolu-
tons Of the heavenly bodies as to cause
again to recur the quadriennial period at
which the nation may appropriately ac-
knowledge and ratify my continuance In
power. We rejoice to recognize and re-
ward the loyalty of your party to ourselves,
and to our atfectiOnate cousins Of the Pres
idential family. You will learn with pride
that, not only in this country, but in Buz
rope, the Executive rank is appreciated in
novel and gratifying manner. The Prince
Frederick Dent, our heir-apparent, is
now sojourniDg at the various palaces
of sister governments, escorted by the chief
officer Of the army and numerous retinue;
the presence and grateful reception Of an
other member Of our family by the British
Queen is also well calculated to facilitate
the peaceful settlement of the Alabama
Claims. Should the continuing apprecia-
ton of the American people approximate
to that shown by the Republicans of Eng
land two centuries ago toward Gen. Crom
well, whose training as a tanner etninently
fitted him for suppressing all opposition
in his party, it is possible that our RepublI-
can court may yet fival; in its possession
of all the comforts of social life and in its
general hilarity and good humor, the Court
of Louis XIV, Of France, sometimes called
the Magniti, 1t.
At present it is our gracious pleasure 10
inform the convention that, considering the
circumstances, we are personally doing as
well as can be expected. The unanimous
vote Of the trump defeating the payment
of the Chorpenning claim (S433, 00O} after
it had been carefully nursed by our Exec
utive serenity and our Secretaries for four
years, and after we had peremptorily order
ed it paid, was an impoverishing blow to
the finances of the Administration, and in
dicates the uDgenerOus tendency of certain
restless and mischieVOus opponents of the
party to reduce its great opponents TO the
scanty pttance afforded by our meager sal
aries. In this disaster We are COn5Uled by
the complete success Of one OF our most
able Secretaries in extracting from the
Treasury the sums of 500, 900 in the SecOr
claims, and 100000 on the Roach contract,
besides other very fair transactions, known
as the Governor claims, etc. Both these
were instances of Executive prerOgatiVe,
without the tedious and unsatisfactory in4
terposition Of the laws delay. They show
rapidly constitutions were 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 cur Executive pre-
rogative, the tax payers may at an early
period, be relieved Of the expense
of sustaining congress al;Os ether,
and may vest Jne sovereignty, where
it can be exercised " .th the most unity of
counsels, in the Chief Magistrate alone.
The failure of the San Domingo treaty 60
judiciously arranged by our aide-de-camr,
Gen. Babcock, backed up by a reasonable
display of force in the Haytian
waters, under three naval officers
spirits who had intended to re-
alize in profits, on raising sugar, the thirty
millions years or so which have hereto
fore 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 philanthropic gentlemen |
who conceived that the interests of the |
blacks of Hayti should prevail over the |
pecuniary welfare 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 danger
Gus men, who attempt in this manner to |
limit the field of private enterprise, when |
the Government is trying to keep it from |
Of course, youwill pass some !
resolution approving the expulsion of ,hese
and maintaining the unity of |
the party in the bonds Of peace.
1t gives US sincere pleasure to announce |
that our chief effort has been TO prove that |
the humblest capacity in the nation is ade-
quate to the performance of the highest du- !
ties of craftsmanship. Not many great, not
many mighty, have called to aid me in my
task, if so it can be called. l have followed
the Divine and Apostolic example of choos-
ing the weak men of this country to con-
found the men that are wise. They have
done it to my complete satisfaction. Some |
of my Cabinet had never been
heard of by myself or by the country until |
about the period of their appointment. /
They are clever fellows, and are doing well |
| can not tell what l shall do, if re-elect- I
ed, because don't know.
Yours, imperially, U. S. GRANT.
This may not be what our excellent Presi-
ledt has written. In such case, it derives
is interest solely from its resemblance to d
what he has done.