Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-03
CRAMPS LETTER.

Inc OF inc press, rtBalulesl
Of party, fully sustains the LEDGER''
construction of Grants letter, that /
was a disguised bid Tor a third term. W.
give a few extracts:
But the third term still sticks out as
the one wish of his ambition. Mash
rifle Union and American, (Dem,)
The simple meaning Of Grants letter
therefore, seems to be that he is in the
feld.-IndiaapOlis Sentinel Dem.)
Stripped of all ~verbiage, this remark
able eleventh hour document can only
be construed as a politicians bid for q
third term. - Indianapolis Journal
(Rep.)
His assumed respect for the will Of the
people is a thin disguise, designed to
cover up his pettifoggery in favor of his
own denomination to the Presidency
Chicago Times, (Neutral.
The country now has a fresh assurance
hat this mar who saved the country
from destruction is IS honest and
patriotic and trustworthy as he ever vas.
Philadelphia Bqlietinr Rep.
After more than a year oflabor on the
part of the Republican party to secure a
denial of Grants candidacy for a third
term, the silent mar has 30 far departed
from his customary r%eticeuce as TO an.
nounee himself as a candidate for a
thirdterm.- Cincinnati Enquirer, DEM
In short without the knowledge or
consent of the President, the third
termites, intending q large number Of
Southern Republican leaders, together
With others ia the North, hail this letter
as an assurance Of the success of their
plaps. -SpecidI to 50. Louis Globe.
Democrat tRep. organ.
The questions Of wages and personal
ease are uppermost with him, and he
groans over his cares during the last four
years, as if be thought the burdens which
be has borne at Long Branch, and along
all the Northern railroads, in his prodig-
ieus travels, were almost too much for
mortal sinews.- GHcinnGf Commercial,
(Rep0 a3
The contingencies under which polite
clans offer themselves as a sacrifice on
the altar Of Office, arise generally, if not
exclusively, in their own minds, and
since President Grant has declared that
be has no more desire for a third term
than he had for a first, it is the most
likelythin in the world for his"unlikely"
contingency to arise. -PittsbUrg Post,
(Dem.)
The acceptance of so Insignificant a
station as that Of President of these
United States was a sacrifice on the part
Of an obscure ex.clerk of o Western tan
yard, only made because "the public
good required it. Decent precedent
has no weight with an insatiate Office
holder, who thinks there should be no
limit to the terms he might hold the Office
short of a constitutional Amendment,
after he has had his fill, Apres moi le
delugel-NdshriM Banner Demo
craft.
he breaks his silence to silence the
arrogant pretensions Of the convention.
It's Importance decides that be should
now speak" to prove that its deliver
anee is entirely unimpoftant, and then
helectures the politicians for undertake
ing to do impossible things in their zeal
10 stop him from getting what he don't
want and never did want, but may take
again, "if it should come under such cir
cumstances as to make it an imperative
duty. Honestly Analysed, the letter Of
President Grant is a bold v~indicatiOn Of
his third term ambition, q holder bid for
its advancement and q still holder de-
ianee Of the deliverances Of party con-
ventions and the unwritten law Of sacred
usage; and he may now be considered
as fairly in the field for 1876. Office
holders to the front; conventions to the
rearl Let the band playl-PhiIadel
pkia Times DEM.