New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-14
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

GRANT TO De FEARED AND WATCHED
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: The last Republican National Convention al
Philadelphia shook up glittering generaties in III
platform in remarkably loose and careless way
Whoever wanted crotohet OF notion recognized
if they had few dozen votes behind thom, got the
recognition they sought in tumble of words thai
sounded we'll and made them feel good, but meant
nothing Whatever Among Others who went To INC
Convention 90 be fooled were the men and women
who want women TO vote. And the Phiadeipha
Convention handed over TO them with much sm'rk-
ing the following imitation of current CON- "nicu
has the color of silver but the sound OF pewter IL
was the fourteenth hicoough in the platiorm-thus
The Republican party is mindful Of It's obgat0ns =, =,
The cause of freedom Their ADMISSION TO wider heds OF
usouines received with satisfaction and the h r5s
demands OF any class of citizens Tor addltlOnh "s"
should be treated with respectful confederation
The unsophisticated persons who sought recogn'-
ton thought they had ii in this plank ana "ea'
away with contented smile while the Peter uDhs
who invented 1t winked slowly and impressively at
each other and the Convention, and then nominateu
Henry Wilson for Vice-P President because no was u
"Christian statesman" The restless persons VINO
"took it all for corn" met in Convention mere Vio
other day TO see how the cause was getting aons
and pass some resolutions about it, and find ont IL
possible when the voting is going to begin. they
seemed TO feel little disappointed at not having
been mentioned in President Grants inaugural. ANA
being lust trhe prejudiced on that account they
passed resolution about the President, charging
him with ngratitude. They said he was not only
indebted TO woman for his election but Tor DIS mil
tary successes and reputation. Mrs. Mathilda
Joslyn Gaze offered the preamble aud resolution on
this subject and their precise terms were as
follows:
Whereas Ulysses g. Grant gained his first Iaures IN
tho army during tho Tennessee campaign. wIlcn cam
paign was planned ny woman ana oyeTrnen and
whereas in the taking OF Fort D0nelsoh anu M
Of Vcksburg where he first came into notice. Ulysses %
Grant worked under tho war pau OI u "Unai n en-
timed to send I'm various plans or cahlalSuS' "nCu
were adopted by the Government and under when zen
Grant worked, thus through the brain OF TD si
chair in 1868 and whereas, the influence an9 molh
women placed him again In tho Presidehtia' GUAR III
1879. therefore r,,.-..
Grant In his late inaugural address shows MN 20 W. m
grateful man ~ feared and watched, ana DANGER
Gus Toe to republican institutions.
1t has always been supposed that the plan OF tight
ing il out on that line if it took all Summer was
suggested by Senator Nesmith of OregOn-at least
the quotation was hs-but it seems from this reso-
luton that "this woman" sent in all the plans.
Well no wonder they charge the President with IN
gratitude They ought not TO have stopped with
resolving that he is a man to be feared ana
watched; y they should have appointed committee
to fear and watch him. and attend right to 1t ana
nothing else. A. A.
Nep-Rork Nay 10, 1873.