Why He Opposed Grant

Judgl Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, late Chief Justice of tliat State, and one of the ablest Republicana in it, is very explicit as to the cause of his opposition to the renumination and election of Orant. It is of a character which should induce every man in the country who desiros an honest administration of tho government, and tho maintcnanco of tho dignity and purity of the oxecutivo head of the nation, to act as Judge Urinkerhoff has decided to act. That President Grant has utterly failed to appreciate the moral forcé of the position U) which ho was called by tho votes of the people, is too palpabl to flatter our nutional pride. He haslooked upon it as a means of shielding wrong doinff, rather as an important and rosponsible position, into the discharge of the duties of which no considerations, except those of right and honor, o.ould bo allowed to enter. He has converted it into a means of money-gr.tting and of aiding family friends. In a letter to J. B. Stallo, Mr. Briukerhoff says : " As to the personal administnition of Grant, I do not liko his acceptance, prior to his inauguration, of munificent presents trom men distinguishcd for nothing but their wealth, and then appohiting those samo men to office. I do not like his shameful and shameless nepotism ; his apparently intímate and continuous association witli stock-jobbers ; his project for the purchase of San Domingo ; his ostracism of such men as Sumner, Hoar and Cox, and the substitution, as hisconfidential advisors, of men in whose ability and political purity a disoriminating public bas far less confidenee. I do not like his official profossions in favor of civil service reform when contrastod with the fact that he made the places of the only members of his Cabinet who sc.emed to bo heartily and practically in favor of such reform too hot for them ; nor do I like tho revelations recently made throngh the raedium of a reluctant committee, as to the character of the admiiiistration of the New York Custom House, nor his fulsome endorsement of its late chief. " Nor is the legislative policy of those who assumo to be tho especial friends of the President more iieeeptable to me. I do not like a tariff of duties on importa which, while it takes money frjin one man's pocket and puts it into the pocket of another, bringrs little or no revenuo into the public treasury ; and which while it ostonsibly adds to tho wages of somo manufacturing laborers, takes moro than that inenmse ïrom all laborers by means of the increased cost of living. Ñor do I like the apparont effort and disposition toward the assumption by tho general govemment of powersand functions properly appertaining to tho States."