Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — Letter from Gen. Grant. [ARTICLE]

Letter from Gen. Grant.

The following letter from ex-President Grant to Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been made public : City or Mexico, April 24,1881. My Dear Senator : I sec by the latest dis patches received here from the capital of our country that the deadlock in organizing the Senate has not been broken, and that nothing has been done by the President to allay the bitterness which must be engendered by his most recent appointment*. When the first batch of nominations for New York was sent in I was delighted. I believed then the President had determined to recognize the Republican party, and not a faction; but his nominations of the next day convinced me that the first act was but a part of a deep-laid scheme by somebody to punish prominent leaders for being openly friendly to me. I cannot believe that Gen. Garfield is the author of this policy-. I give him credit for being too big a man to descend to such means for the punishment of men who gave him a hearty support in his election, and who are disposed to give him the same support now, for the offense of having had a former preference for some one else for the office which he now holds. But Garfield is President, and is responsible for all the acts of the administration. Conkling and Platt are the chosen Senators from the great State of New York, and that too against all the opposi ion of an administration created by the same pnrty that elected them. This should give them all the stronger claim to be consulted in the mutter of appointments in their State. When itcomes to filling the most Influential office in their State without consulting these Senators, it Is a great slight. When he selects the most offensive man to be found, it becomes an insult, and ought to be resented to the bitter end. I sincerely hope the President will see this and correct his mistake himewH, and restore harmony to the party. He owes this to himself and to those without whom he could not have been elected. Nobody believes he could have carried the State of New York without the active support of her present Senators. Their passive support would not have answered. Without the State of New York Gen. Garfield would not now be President. His rewarding Robertson isjiot only offensive to the Now York Senators, but It is offensive to New York Republicans. The change of Badeau and Cramer, the two appointments in which I felt a strong personal interest, was very distasteful to me, the first because of our personal relations and my wish that he should be kept where his office would support him until he finishes - some work he is engaged upon, and which he could do without interfering with his public duties; the second, because it was at the expense of removing the son of my old Secretary of State, who probably never had his superior, certainly never for moral worth, in the department. It is true Fish resigned, but he did this from a sense of honor; supposing it to be the duty of repre- entatives abroad to give a new administration the opportunity of saying whether' they are wanted or not. Very truly yours, U. 8. Gbant. Hon. J. P. Jones, United States Senator, Washington, D. O.