A Plain Talk To Grant

Fr.imiüe MU-muri Demoeret (tin oíd RepubUctn oiX'K i 'I'1' StateJ.Kftv. 11. To tuk Pkiwiíbíít ! Yon cliose. ,sir, !o cocvcrt tho vote of M 'is-iouri i;i(n a dfeclsiöo upon yoar mor1I4 as a candidato for re-election. Oöe (f rlio frwro partios turncii from the ToHimifte q'iestions of State campaign, a-d, wt)i langtiagn so sickuniïig 118 to di-gust any nrdinary President, deolarrd your re-u!eution one of llni objfets of iti èampaigtr. You ut oueo procceded tu iimke the party nd iisavowcd object peculiar ly your own. A self-respectino luid diguiffud President of earlíer times would have deemcd il onbecomiDi to seok re-eleetion at ali ; ovcry President oxeept Baobanatl aird Johnson, has oiütTtted 't sbamefol to ase Federal patronage to control State eheotïons n lus own interest. Uut it seernB to be jour wish to make your conduct in civil affiirs as discroditablo as your career in the arm y was gloriom. ïhe author of the resolatiou uoinrnating your re elecHot yon appointed lo a luerative offioe, li iviug removed, to make room for this fhwniny courtier, a gentleman of high character and dis i'iguishcd services to tho public. Otlier worthy meo were deprived of office by yuu, splely because they did not sustain tho faction whiob nouiinuled you. A letter from you, nalf upen ofiiae-holders to support your httle party, wbs published with the sig nificant words, "Show this to Eastou Smith ond Nfcwcomb." Uy your con geut, blackniail was levied upon officoholJers throughout the Sta'e, and ihry were toll that unies they paid the garas dtununded tj sustain your fktterers here thcy should be removed from office. - Some, refusii) to ub:nit to such plunder, were nctually removed for that reason. It h uot possible for any President to identify hiinself more completely with a faotion than yiu, Mr. President, havo iilcntified yourself with the lítth band Utl by Drake, MoClnrg, Fox and Shepard. They forced upou 'he questiona wbether your udmiuis íruiion showld be approved in all its cts, atid you eustained them iu doing r. Tbe resnlt, then, is a verdict of the peoplo upon the issue forced upon us by thcm imd by you. ín 1864, Missouri gave forty thousand majority for Abra j ham Lincoln. It has non given about forty tbousind majority against you, and h'id n it colored volers bsen added, and táaiiily coatr)lled by your followtrs, thc loajority would have been over fi ft y ! thousand VVhat ia it that the people Hisapprove? VVe can iufonn yon, sir They deem it an outrage that you have. tried to control a State eloction by grosg I buse of your power ofrenioval and appointniPnt. 1'hey maintain that it la wrong for a Presiilcut to use that power to forcé himself upon the people for a second term. They de iré you ip future to pay better sttention to your own duties t Washington - the duties wbich your masters, the people, and not to apend your time in meddling wiih State lections. It eeems to the people that you deserve severe rebukc, aliko for neg lecting your legitimare affairs and for abosing the power9 intrusted to you, and being freeraen, neitber awed by your name nor seduced by your offices, they give you that rebuke very plainly. The Srst duty of a President is to keep the pledges made to the people when u candidato. This you have not done. You promised to give the country peace, and pledged yonrself to a platform in which tbe removal of polilioal disabililies was a moHt prominent feature. Soon aftei' you became i'resideat, you meditated comilianoe with thispledge byproclaim ing ainnesty and iigain by recommending to Congaess the removal of dimbili ties, but iu each oase unscrupuloua par tisan', who want still lonucr to bo ible to elect mere tools their cwn frum the Soutiicrn States, turned you from jour purpose. At this day you are íieir tool. Simón Cameron, as unsavory a man as ever a.it in the Scnutc, controls you ns if you were Lis hired man It is disceditable that a Pres:deut ahould le o conirolled by any one ; - doübly discreditable tiiot he ehouid be controlled by sueh a mtin ; trcbly discreditable that he should thus bc led to depart from the so'enin pledget by wbich bis eltction was secured. Other duties you have gn-atly neglt-cted. You bould have aided jtbe country to resumption of specie payuipnts, añil to a thorough reduetinn and reform of tasation, bu', whiie you have done somethinp you have failod to use your eflforts for these reformt. It was your duty to reform the civil service, and to raake it no longer t'ie tool oí unscrupulous parlisaos. Starting with that avowed inteut, ond earning public approval by much improvemont in the character ol officials you now have sufferad Hoar and at last Cox, to bedriven from the pubüo serTice, Biniply becaueo of their bonesty nd ipdepcndcnce. It is most paiufu! to see thc wide diflerence betweeo your prolessioní and your performances. Instead of having "no policy to enlorce agair.st the wilt of the people," you have tried to esforcé the Kan Domingo treatv pon the Seuate and McClurg upon Missouri, iu both cases uaing patronage most wrongfully Iuptead iii reloriiiing the public service, you have in one respect degi-aded it. At tbis day, wben any man is sppointed to office, people ak at once, what personal favor has he rendered or eogtiped to render to Gen (jrant? Not even Buuhannn gavo offices to tnen who liüd made him presontf And even J(.hnaon liad for excuse a pub He policy a little broader and Eígber than n me:c desire for reelection. Accept the verdict of the people, Mr Pres ideut ! Learn lrom theui whercin you have failed. Drivo from your presenco the ehamek'ss flattcrers aud corrupt par tisiDS who surrcuLd ycu ; oall back to your advicc such true patiiots au Cox ; remember the pledces which you gave to the peor le, and set. yr.urself honestly "to the tapk of redeeiuing tlicrn. Leave tha people to sy nhether they wish you for a second term, and bear iu miud that the PresideDcy, at least, should seek the maa, and uot the man the office. Give us pcace, nninesty, reform of civil seryice, reform of taxRtion. Your great rianoe a cf piiccless werth to the people of this country uutil stuiued by your own negleot and niseouduet. Do the best, si', during thc rest of your term to remove tliofe stains by faithfur", honest, indeper:dent discharge of duty, so ihat tïUcii men shall pcak of jqij, tliey may Lave sometliii:g bcside your military service to remember with pride and Krat'tude. By thut course, and by no othcr, oao you make it possible for thc Rcpublican party to oled you a secoud tiiuu. Ei.rer loss slsf.-a i i k ■ i:. Uen Ornnt ricsired au indorsement of l,is admitiiitration, and l.o has it PerUaps it s not of a sorfc to CDtirey piense liim. Ur wislied the people to turn trom questions of State policy and to forgot the burdens of taxation, devoiing thfir entire attcnüon to the qaeBtion whetlior TI. S. Graot Bhould be re-eleefed to the Prcfidcncy. It must bo sdmitted that, if the electior.s on Tneday arelo be inlerpicted as a verdict upon that point, they do not givo bim much ment. In New York, fllino!, seo, Ark-ansas and Missouri, the supporters of the adminisUatiou Lave eithcr beeu deieated or hnve lost largcly in mcmbci'8 of Congress. lu New Jersey the Kepublicans gain one me.nber. Iu Minnesota the}' gain one in thu district, whieh was carried by Democra'.s two years ago, in cotisequence e-I peisonal iu:trrk:ld. Bat Ü13 los of Cougressrnen iu tho other States is ai last I wel va - In New York, whcre tho uinj" -rity for Hoffman in 1863 was tvvoiityeiht tbmiêand, and the mnjoriiy Hgainst (.uit only ten tliousand, obtaitud by most no'oiioue and gigantio fraads, tbe administration bas lost ground 80 largelyth)t Hoffman now bas over ihirty tbouand notwitlistanding the reduotion of bis ma jority in the city fully twenty thousand by tüe f revention of cheating. Practi cully, the verdict is a luns, in two years, of twenty-fivc thousand votes to the party whioh supports SnuT. íu lllinoin, a Siate whiob Grant carriadin 1868 by 51,000 niajority, the Kepublicans have dow prevailed by only '2f),000, and wwsM aot tuive retiiined even that ni'ij riiy bad not men, who dissented frem the Preïicient'ei polioy, represented by papers like llie Ohicigo Tribune, Bustained the ticket. In this State, where Grant had twenty-five thonsanJ mijoiity iu 1H(5S he ha.s been tryiu; to forcé througfa a candiiJala for Governor is beaten by thirly or forty thousand niajority. - If these judorsenieuts sntisfy tbe Presi dent b is not hard to please. The moral of these electinns is simply. tbis : The adrainistration of Gen. Grant has so dia satified the people that it is already plnin that any party attempting to rou hiin will be ignominiously beaten u 1872, unless he shall do Bometbiog to recover public favor.