Year: 1868




SON Why Grant Left the Presiden.


Iial Party mt CIeveiand-It was net


Occasioued by the Speeches Of ths
President, bnt because "Iniran," was
DRUNK


In addition to the testimony of Wen
dell Phillips, Anna Dickinson, and
other prominent people, who act with
the Republican party, as to the intem
perance of General Grant: We now have
the letter of MACK" the sprightly cor.
respondent of the Cincirna CONNER.
cial, who recently had another talk with
the President. Abiding to the Presi,
Dental trip, Mack remarks:


"The President said he was perfectly
willing they should investigate his con
dition on that trip. The public had
been led to believe that he was intoxi'
Gated all the way, from the time he left
Washington till he got back. But LEI
them take the trouble to find out, and
they would discover that was great
mistake.


They'll find out, at any rate, that
didn't drink half as much as one or two
others, about whose condition nobody
dares 10 say IL word"


II think | can guess the name Of one
of them,r said |. Didn't he go from
Cleveland to Detroit, and wasn't it an
nounced with a great flourish of trum'
pets that he had left your party in dis
gust ~ "Yes," replied the President,
''he went TO Detroit; but it wasn't be-
cause he was disgusted with my poll
tics at all. In fact he ,cGSnt in a coHdi'
ton to kHoW mach about politics just
then"


"The President seemed to feel quite
vexed over the reflection that he was
the only one accused of hilarity on that
circle trip. 'It's very strange" said he,
that some men will be abused like the
devil for drinking a glass of whisky and
water, while others in equally lmpOr-
tant stations may almost roll in the
cutters, and not word is said about 1t.
1t is so of different men in Congress.
Some of them are abused as drunkards,
if they are seen drunk once, and Others
are drunk all the time; and not word
is said about it. So it is with me. The
people have been told all sorts of lies
about me in this particular; but there
has never been anything proved against
me, though they have tried 1T often
enough. Out of all the witnesses exam-
ined about the trip of 1866, there is not
one who proved that was drunk. But
the people are told it through the Press
and polIticiaus-in the newspapers and
on the stump-and have never taken
the trouble TO deny it. Yet the man to
whom have just now alluded, has been
in this Uery room so drunk that he couldn't
stand straight on his legs. I'd like to know
why I'm abused all the time for what l
don't do, and why never word is said
about him for what he does do. 1t is a
very queer system of morals, think, to
say the least of it. There is no fair play
about it, nor any of that even-handed
Justice that should characterize the
people in their treatment of public men.
If they want to investigate my con-
duct, or any subject connected with it,
they are at perfect liberty to do so; but
| think they owe it to Inc and TO them
selves that they shoHld not abuse me
uniustly at the same time they cover
up tho crimes of others. Fair play is Il
jewel, they say, and | don't think have
forfeited the right to ask it,"


This was said in tone of evident
good hunor, which at the same time
showed that he felt very keenly the in
Justice of the popular notion that he
drinks all the whisky consumed in
Washington City. 1t is perhaps, worth
while to add that it is fact susceptible
of the best proof that his aggregate
consumption of spiritus liquors in the
past year has not amounted to a pint
in excess of the wine he has drank at
State diners. But notwithstanding
this, | doubt if it is possible to persuade
the loyal masses that he ever goes to
bed sober, just as, on the contrary, with
regard to the gentleman who got dis
gusted with his Copperheadism" at
Cleveland, and had such funny way
of showing his disapprobation, it would
be useless for an angel from Heaven to
come down and swear that he ever i'll
dulged in anything stronger than cold
water"