Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-07
DetractiOn of President Grant.

The Liberal press keeps up constant
hue-and-cry about "personal govern
ment." General Grant is called ''the mil
itary President, the Dictator, ," and every
opprobrious epithet is heaped upon him
that could be uttered against a man who
had betrayed his country and his party.
One would suppose, to read the shameless
newspapers that support the Liberal
cause, that President Grant had abolished
Congress; that he had over-rldden the Su-
preme Court; that he ruled the country
without the assistance or advice of a Cab
met, and that he made and executed laws
regardless of the will of the people. OF
course all this loose talk is the merest
balderdash of dishonest politicians, and
more dishonest newspapers, OF course
they know when they utter and write it
that they are grossly misrepresenting the
President; and if they had ordinary good
sense they would be conscious that such
wild Misrepresentation are an insult to
their readers. That there is nothing in
the history of the present Administration
to indicate that its head has ever been a
military man, is as well known to its de-
tractors as it is to the people generally;
and the endless harping upon this one
string is the best evidence in the world of
illC ulICI pONtIiy VI IlC SlOCh-
in-trade of the Liberals.
When Congress placed in the hands of
the President power to declare martial
law in the Southern States he waited long
before enforcing it, and then only did ii
in insignificant portions of two States.
The moral force alone of the Ku-KluX
law proved exceedingly beneficent in
quelling disorders, and no Just critic of
President Grant can fail to admit that his
conduct in its enforcement was character
lied by extreme moderation; was in fact
the act of a cautious and wise civil ruler,
determined to keep within the bonds of
that true conservatism which should con.
troll the clvll aNthority in Republican
FORM OF government. The slanderers of
President Grant caunot point to a single
veto by him of any important measure
during his administration. They cannot
point to single instance of his exercise
OF the executive authority in contraven-
tion of his pledge made in his inaugural
message that he would have "no policy
to enforce against the will of the people. "
They cannot point to a single instance
where. one of his appointees has been
proved guilty of malfeasance or misfeas-
ance in Office that he has not promptly dis.
charged him from the employ of the Gov
ernment They cannot point to single
law of Congress that he has not faithfully
executed, whether it corresponded to his
personal views or otherwise. The charge
that President Grant has made the Gov
ernment a personal one is as unfounded
as the Others. The charge that he has
appointed relatives and friends to office
is trivial, and the conclusive answer to it
is, that in every instance where such ap-
pointees have proved unfaithful or ineffl-
cient they have been promptly removed.
The grand charge which is repeated every
day in almost all the Liberal journals,
that the negotiations for the annexation
of San Domingo constituted an usurpa-
tion of power is not sustained by the
facts; and the remanding of the whole
question to Congress, without making
single effort to influence the action of that
body, was striking evidence of his
fidelity to his original pledge, that
he would have "no policy to en-
force against the will of the peonle."
A careful review of the history of Pres.
ident Grants Administration leaves the
Liberals no ground to stand upon. They
are reduced TO pure personalities, and the
disgraceful feature of their opposition
consists in the fact that what they falsely
charge against the present Administration
is precisely what they want to accomplish
for themselves.
The good men who went TO Cincinnati,
actuated by honest and praiseworthy mo-
tives, are gradually but surely gliding