Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-22

FoIowlng Is his speech at the Biddle House,
Detroit, August 16, 1865:
q bid you all goodnight"
His speech at Toledo, Ohio, August 20. 1865,
shows how natural it has always been for Grant
| to lean on somebody's shoulder:
"GENTLEMEN 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 a speech,
| very much mixed, in which Grant speaks of a
| thing done and not done in the same breath.
| 1t was delivered at Niagara Falls:
!" My modesty compels me to turn over that
| written speech to Mr.. Hail. who will deliver it
| or me whenever it is written"
In this way Grant shifted the responsibility
of his speeches upon other people, just as he
used to shift the responsibility of a decision in
| time of battle upon his staff officers.
toRn angnst @ & &aiSaes n Company with Seer
| ator Conkling, he made one of the longest ad-
dresses of his life. Mark it
"After absence of more than twenty years
I fail to recognize single one of all the faces
! now see before me as familiar to me then.
| Your city has altered very much indeed since
I last saw it. At that time was Lieutenant
stationed at Sackett's Harbor, which place I
| expect to see before I return"
When President Grant came into office, the
| first thing he did was to appoint Cabinet of
which one member at least Mr.. A. T. Stewart)
| was appointed contrary to law and had to be
withdrawn.
| GRANTS BRoTHER-1N-LAw-A SPECIMEN OF
| CIvII-sERvIcE REFORM"
The President made many unique observa-
| tions 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 a large sum.
/ 1t has always seemed to me as if this system
must, at times, work perHiciously. 1t holds
/ L. =
| such get possession of the offices, to be Ian in
thet, scrutiny of goods to enable them finally to
| make large seizures"
This is precisely what Casey, the Presidents
| brother-in-law-whoh has been retainedi 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 %,
1871), Oh the subject of the Coutourie frauds,
| he says:
| night OF the first day took charge of this
| office april 12, 1859, and in ten days from
that date was fully satisfied of the existence
kept the matter perfectly quiet until after the
| drTiUaL of other suspected cdrgOeS."
| HIS ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS AND BRIBEs.
Gen. Grant was notorious gift-taker, and
President Grant has never refused a present.
1t has been denied that he even accepted a
gift after he elected President, but here is
| one among many proofs to the contrary: Four
months after his election to the Presidency
S105, 600 were transmitted to him in the fol-
lowing cash and securities:
y GFgasS f5onsand saa o States bonds first
series 49, 10 ss7 ~
The receipt was duly acknowledged in the
following letter; let sEiraro, u r Fsb y 1880
| "DEAR GENERAL: Your letter of the 18th,
inclosing me the handsome testimonial of the
citizens of New York, with the names of all
the tco generous contributors to it, is re-
ssThrough you wish to thank the gentle
| men whose names you have inclosed to me, in
dividually and collectively. I have the honor
to be your obedientservant, U: s. GRANT.
| For the purchase of the Presidents cottage
at Long Branch, presented to him after he
became President, there were eight subscrib-
ers. This is the direct personal statement of
| Alexander T. Stewart, who said significantly
; | that she kreao of one gentleman who was in
uited to become subscriber to that fund"
| There were three members of Grants Cabi-
net, as first appointed, who had made him
presents-Stewart, Borie and Hoar. Stewards
i | giyings are well known Borie had contributed
to the Philadelphia house and Hoar to the
library presented the President by citizens oil
2 | Massachusetts. And Daniel Butterfeld, who
. | was appointed to the Sub-Treasury in New
+ York, and driven from Office by the Black Fri
: day exposure, was the man who got up thu
q | New York subscription of $105, 900 for Grant
i | while Grinnell, appointed Collector, was on
= | of the subscribers.
y | NATIONAL PENSIONERS OF THE GRANT FAMILY.
Il6 nopOUlSm WHICH mas CudTdCUSIEeu III
a | Presidents Administration has passed a
n bounds. The following is the latest revise
list of the pensioners:
, | 1. Jesse Root Grant, Presidents father, Posi-
# master at Covington, Ky.
n | 2. Rev. NJ. j. Craner, Presidents brother
70 | in-aw, Minister to Denmark
le 8. Brevet Brig. Gen. F. T. Dent, President
m | brother-in-law, one OF the Illegal mlntar
- - | secretaries of the White House.
~ a. George W. Dent Presidents brother-iI
~ law, Appraiser of Customs at San Francisco.
~ s. John Dent, Presidents brother-in-lav
~ exclusive Indian Trader in New Mexico
6. Judge Louis Dent, Presidents brothe
1v in-law official Office broker.
~ T. Alexander Sharpe, President 8 brother-ll
40 law, Marshal of the District of Columbia.
IS g. James F. Casey, Presidents brother-il
al law, Collector of Customs at New Orleans
re- 9. Silas Hudson, Presidents counsin, Mini
va ter to Guatemala.
se ". 10. Peter Casey, Presidents brother-in-laN
he brother Postmaster of Vicksburg, Miss.
O. II: Alexander Sharpe: Jr, President
nd ~. Orlando H. Ross, Presidents cousl
ita clerk in the Third Auditors Office, Wasbingto
nd 49, Frederick Dent Grant. Presidents so
in | Second Lieutenant Fourth Cavalry.
ss IA A. w. Casey, Presidents brother-i
o. laws brother. Appraiser of Customs, N
Su Orleans.
1ag ng Is. Nat A. Patton, son of Presiden
. mothers second cousin, Collector of the pc
SO | of Galveston, Texas.
ss1,' 49, George B. johnson, Presidents cousil
nix husband. Assessor of Internal Revenue, Thi
no | District of Ohio.
niss II. Benjamin l.. Winans, Presidents COZ
ace in's husband, Postmaster of Newport, KY
zoe IS. F. NJ. Lamper, M. D., Presidents s.
ich ond cousin first q gauger In the Chlca
md Custom-House, next Receiver of the La
,en Office and United States Depository
,en Olympia, W. T.
ent i9. James.E. Mclean, partner with O1ville
Grant, Presidents brother, until recen
Colleotor of the Port of Chicago.
be 20. E. C. David, husband of the third cou
,en of the Presidents wife. special agent of
md Tnxr-o
hat fostonce DeParClnSen1G - ~ lt' S; ~
.1 National Bank Examiner for Missouri, Kans
''ar- Iowa, and portion of Illinois.
of
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