Year: 1872

Campaign Sf0nufTs'


The systematic personal abuse and
slander of President Grant by the prom.
inent Greeley organs and advocates has
reached the very sublimlty of impudence
Because these miserable inventions of
his enemies are not publicly refuted by
the President himself they affect to be.
leive that their truth is admitted, and
boldly parade them before the public as
reasons why he should not be re elected
There are a few of these Greeley organs
which are combined together in the dirty
work of inventing and circulating these
false and scandalous stories, they have
reduced the business to regular system
In the first place, one Of them manufac-
lures defamatory statement of some
conduct or transaction of General Grant,
which the writer prefaces with an 4" it is
said or " it is alleged" in order to
screen himself from all responsibility.
Then the Confederates catch up the false
story and repeat it in their columns as
an actual positive statement of fact,
without the qualifying reservation, and
thus it is scattered broadcast through
the country to be copied by the press
and repeated by partisand1.s Speakers. 1t
is also part of the system never to con-
tradct story once started however
clear and direct refutation may be
made; but simply to drop it and manu-.
facture another to take its place.


In this way miserable falsehood was
manufactured and circulated through the
country that President Grants cottage
at Long Branch was given to him as a
bribe to secure the appointment Of Mr..
Murphy as collector of the customs at
New York. But the fact existed, and
was susceptible of proof, that the prop
er:y was bought by the President and
paid for with his own money. When
this was made to appear, the slanderers
never took back their false charge but
quietly let it drop and started in its place
the equally scandalous and disgraceful
allegation that the President accepted a
free gift of large tract of laud in Hi
nois as a consideration for appointing j.
r. Jones as Minister to Belgium. The
libellous invention has had the same wide
circulation that the Long Branch story
had Land the miserable authors and vend-
ers of this political garbage have hypo-
critically professed their pain and an
guish at being obliged to make public
such an imputation upon the Chief Mag
istrate of the nation. If their senti-
ments were not those of JOY rather than
pain and anguish, why did they not in
vestigatc the facts upon which the cal
umny was founded before they uttered
the shameful invention? Governor
jewell, Of Connecticut, has taken the
pains to follow the slanderers along
their shiny track, and he has detected
and exposed the vile calumny, and
shown to the world that in the Illinois
case as in the Long Branch purchase
the President bought the property in
question, and paid for it with his own
money, paying large advance in price
above that at which Sir. Jones acquired
his own interest in the same property.
This matter is fully treated by MIR.
Jewell in his speech at the Cooper In
stitute in y. Y. city last night.


1t is against the policy Of these pro.
fcssional stabblers of reputation to re-
tract their falsehoods, and in the matter
of this Illinois land SANDER, they will
merely let it drop now that their wick
edness is exposed, and start something
else to take its place. Of the same
character was the trumpery story told
by General Fitzpatrick, that the Presl-
dent appointed Judge Hoar as Attor-
ney General in compensation for "a IL
brary worth s25,O0O," given him by the
Judge The Judge, though not now in
office, Voluntarily coutradicted this
falsehood by published letter over his
own signature, denying that he ever
gave the President any library whatever
or had any part IN such gift. And so
of the petty SANDERS as to intemperance
brought forward by contemplate time.
server by the name of Dennison and
paraded at large in the Greeley organs.
These statements have been completely
refuted by Gen. Wilson, Col. Webster,
Of the army, and other responsible men.
And yet not one of these false and abu-
slve allegations as to the Presidents s
business transactions or personal habits,
though all of them shown to be maic.
iously false, has been or will be retract,
ed by their authors and circulators No;
they were invented as contribution to
political capital; their disavowal would
diminish tAat capital, and so they will
be preslsted in or dropped in silence


What the people think of this personal
abuse and SANDER of the President is
shown by the late elections in Vermont
and Maine, which speak the honest New


England voice Of censure and condem.
nation against the wauton libelers of a
gallant and faithful public servant. We
do not wonder that the results exhibited
IN those two States should prompt the
Greeley advocates to exclaim that their
cause Is lost unless they can enlist some
new element of opnoe;,;on "a Gouorol