The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-08
GRANT AGAIN.

General Grant has requested his
friends who were taking up subscrip-
ton in his behalf to desist, saying that
in behalf of himself and family he de-
clines the professed aid. The letter
should arouse sympathy and respect
for Grant in his deep distress-for his
distress is certainly deep-or it should
excite scorn and contempt. The effect
that his defamation of the aid has on
the minds of the people ought to come
from 3 knowledge of the motive induc-
ing him to write If he revolted against
the position of pauper, II charity
charge upon rich admirers, and pre-
ferred to suffer for his recklessness and
folly as other men would have to suffer
under similar circumstances, we must
all feel degree of sympathy for him in
his misfortunes, and entertain a higher
regard for him than his general conduct
since the war entities him to-. We hope
Grant refuses the money because his
pride will not permit him to accept
further help from men who have done
SO much for him and whose admiration
and benevolence he has abused by
foolishly squandering the wealth they
have showered upon him.
But if Grants motive is the one that
might be attributed to him, if the COM
ments in Cyrus w. Fields New York
organ, the Nail and Express. on his letter |
TO Field can be accepted as authorized or
approved by him, then how contempt
BILE has the great general become. The
Nail and cypress says Congress should
now return Grant to his rank and pay
as the general of the army, and Grant
may have authorized this, and thought
to further it by refusing the relief
which private generosity preferred
This country owes General Grant moth
ing. 1t has paid him over and ever
again in hard cash and great honors,
for all that he ever did 1t was not
content with elevating him to the head
of the army, bat lifted him
notch higher, creating new
Office and providing an extraordinary
salary, and put him in it for life. He
was not satisfied, however, and the
people placed him at the head OF the
nation, and Congress doubled his pay,
this latter being something it would
have done for no other man. He
abused his power and scandalized the
nation, and still the people held him up
az, com f1,i,r, 70, ba :
He might still have been President,
had it not occurred to the people that
the man they were bowling before as a
god'was about to overturn the nation,
and build upon the ruins of the repub-
lie an empire with himself at its head.
This was too much for them to endure,
and they lifted down their idol, though
they did not shatter it. He
was still worshiped, and if he
had been true to himself might have
gone down to the grave honored and
respected as only one other American
has been His course politically and
otherwise late years has not been such
as to command the esteem or conf
denee OF his countrymen, and now in
the time of his distress he can present
no good claim upon the nation
for the relief that others at least are
urging for him.
Grant displayed proper self-respect
the other day when he declined PEN
sion if there is nothing between the
linesin his letter to Field published else
where in The HERALD, he manifests
courage that VIII excite sympathy. Let
us hope that his sole motive in decIin-
ing the aid that has been offered is to
preserve his dignity.