The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-09
WHAT rs GRdN1ISMf
A True Definition Of the Odious' Corruph IN"
Disqraccful system.

Disgracefui system.
nom a Speech Of Cor; chgs. 5. My OF 1'eh'0d" az
FELLOW CITIZENS: What is GrantismI
this new word In our poitiCsI IL is woIu oi
balefu import-a word of shame, word OF pa,
tional humiliation II Is word that means tnass
under this Administration every depar.nes"s ~, vi
our Government has been disgraced anu us.
honored. Do | speak too sttonrlyf LOON "a.
the record-the plain but damning record wnicu
ment Was not right2 What one has escapedr
The State Department, the great foreign uepar.,
under this Adninistr ition by the displacement
OF Charles Sumner and the elevation OF SIMON
by the appointment ana az our U
country at foreign courts by wastetul anu
criminal extravagance, In robbing tue treasury
for the benefit OF tho camp followers OF the
The Treasury, that great department organ
lied by the genius OF Alexander Hlmilt0n,
and once presided over by statesmen ike
Albert Gallatin and that great son OF Onto
been dshonored and disgraced by Boutwell,
| and Richardson. The navy, first organized by
that pure patriot, Geofge Cabot. under Wasnina-
| the administration Of Polk by the eminent ana
| cultured historian Bancroft-the navy, which
| carries the hap to every sea, and which has
| Numbered for American liberty in all our wars
this great department, under Grant, has been
| intristed to the dishonest hands OF a man who
| is thought by great majority OF his fellow
| citizens. upon good evidence, to De no Detter
| Than a public robberi
And The War Departrn ent-what shall I say Of
| THAR Tue great department which, with the
| navy. and more than the navy, holds the hOnor
partment organized by Henry kuox, OF revOlu,
| tlonary fame. and since nlled by MARSHALL ana
| Monroe, and Cass, and Marcy, and Stanton-tnis
great de apartment has at last come to be held oy
| man mean enough and base enough TO reach
| out his hand from his luxurious palace IN w ssn-
| ingtOn and rob the poor common soldiers on
| our bleak Western frontier at their mees tables,
| rob them OF their rstons,the poor privates whose
| protection and comfort ought to have been dear
| 10 mini What more7 There Ia the Postmaster
| ieneraiship with Creswell and his frauds, ana
the Interior Department with Delano aud his
public infamy, and there Is the Attorney Gene
ralship, that great law once OF the Government
given into the weak hands Of man ike w
Hams" Landaulet Williams, as he Is called
the man who connved at fraud, and rode about
in carriage stolen from the Government. This
and Writ and Evartsi Aud more than this, he
| sent the name OF the same Williams 70 the sen
Justice OF the United states To that had II
come ut last, under Grant-Nillihms as success
cessor to John jay and John Marshall aud sal
And during all this dreary and dlseracefu
chapter In our political history Gen: Grant ha
giving them mis- condden and protection. Will
he has lust az steadily frowned upon ana turne'
min ming. ana Bristow and Jewell In these late
tnes-all these men had to leave his Caoine
. because they honestly tried 10 10 ,nsir ou ,,
and reform abuses, while he has chung, VII
| all the stubbornness Of his nature, 70 such me
as Delano and Richardson, and Beiknap an
| kObeSOu. whenever tHe noHcSt Wluth VI pee
| pie has driven base public servant from powe
l because he himself was shamed into resign
ton, there Grant has been with his words o
energy and his letters Of confidence. You kno'
that tnis has been SO. they call u stanuihs o
his friends. Well, that IS a good trait II ID an
| friends are decent people and nt 10 stand o.
n | Hut how comes II that Grant has never mad
the mistake to stand by AN honest and feaTie'
a public ofhcer in tbs discharge OF MS duty no
o comes II tn at when the people turn out men y
| dishonesty, Grant Immediately rewards them
y We thought In Michigan two years ago tn
= we had al last got I'D Of Zach Chandler. III
II people we're tired OF his political RUE, OF n
. In the country, and with the help OF his Nv
l. | party they rose up and overthrow him-ca
" him out OF the Senate and into private me- AS
:, | useless and dilapdated demagogue: Hut 6e
~ Grant, true to this way of doing business
% which have spoken, reached forth Ms IRE
l. dental hand aud lifted him out OF the polite
:, gutter and put him in his Cabinet TO ornaine
u bis Administration aud give him sober cOun'
Al in regard TO his great dutiesl