The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-02
WHAT Is GRANTISM.
4 Trur Definition Of The OdiOus, Corrupt
aud DIsgracciui System,
From speech OF GOV. Cha.. $, May, uD Michigan.
at Cleveland.

aud DisgracciuI System,
| From speech OF GOV. Cha,. $, May, uD Michigan
At Cleveland,
Fellow Citi2ens--What is Grantism-
this new word in our politics? 1t Isl
word Of balcfu impoM--a word q
shame, 4 word of national humiliation
| 1t is word that means under this ad
ministration every department Of on
government has been diagraccd and dis
honorcd, DO ! speak too strongly
Look at the rccord--thc plain but damn
ing record which all men know. said
disgraccd every department.. Was not
right? What one has escaped ? The
state department, the great foreign de-
| partmcnt OF the government, has been
disgraced under this administration by
the displacement Of Charles Sumner and
the elevation Of Simon Cameron; by
the appointment and retention of pub
lie swindlcrS rs the representatives OF
our country at foreign courts; by
wastctul and criminal cNtrayarancc ii
robbing the treasury for the benefit o
the camp followers of the party.
The treasury, that great department
| organized 10y the genius Of Alexander
Hamilton, and once presided over by
statesmen like Albert CaIIatin and that
great son Of Ohio in the war times, 'll
mon j. Chase, has been dishouorcd amc
disgraccd by Boutwell, and Richardson
The navy, first organized by the true
patriot, George Cabot, under Washing
ton, and in more recent times adorned
under the administration of Polk by the
eminent and cultured historian Bancroft
the navy, which carries the flag :
every sea, and which has thundcrcd for
American liberty in all our wars-thi,
great department, under Grant, has been
intnstcd to the dishonest hands Of It
man who is thought 10y a great majority
of his icllow-rit2cns upon good cyi,
dcncc, to be no better than public rob-
Der.
And the war dcpartmcnt-what shall
saw Of that? The great department
which, with the navy, and more than
the navy, holds the honor and safety OF
the country in its hands--thc dcnart-
mcnt organized by Henry Knox, OF rcyo-
lutionarv fame, and since filled by Mar
shall. and Monroe, and CasS, and Marcy,
and Stanton--thi, great department has
at lust come to he held by Il man mean
and base enough to reach out his hand
from his luxurious palace in Washington
and rob the poor common soldiers ON our
bleak western frontier nt their mess tu-
bIcs, rob them Of their ralions, the poor
privatcs whose protection and comfort
ought to have been dear to him, What
more? There is the postmastrr-gcncrah
ship with CrcswclI and his frauds, and
the interior department with DcIano
and his public iutamy, and there is the
attorney gcncralship, that great law Office
Of the government given into the weak
hands of a man like Williams" Lam
daulct Williams rs he is calIcd--thc
man who conniycd at fraud, and rode
about in carriage stolen from the gov
crnment. This was Grants choice Of Il
successor for Pincl;ncy and Writ and
Eyarts, And more than this, he sent
the name Williams to the senate to fill
the exalted and spotIcss office Of Chief
Justice Of the United States To that
had il come at last, under Grant-Wil
liqms rs successor to John Jay and John
Marshall and Salmon =. Chase.
And during all this drcary and dis
graceful chapter in our political history
Gen, Grant has steadily stood by
these rccrcant public officials, giving
them his confidence and protection,
while he has Just as steadily fowncd
upon and turned out honest men Iloar
and Cox, at the beginning, and Bristow
and Jewell in these latter timcs-aIl
these men bad to leave hi, cabinet be.
cause they honestly tried to do their
duty and reform abuses, while he has
cluHp, with all the ytubbornncos Of hi,
nature. 10 such men as DcIano and Rich
ord.on. and ReIknap and Robcson
Whenever the honest wrath of people
has driven base public servant from
powcr because he himself was Shamcd
into RESIGNATION, there Grant has been
with his words of energy and his letters
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