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| Keywords: Grant Blown on by a Cabal of Senators.jpg en U S Senators left to right Reuben Fenton Lyman Trumbull Thomas W Tipton above Carl Schurz below and Charles Sumner vigorously but fruitlessly try to blow over President Grant who is unconcernedly sitting in his chair smoking a cigar There is an elaborate inscription on a pedestal below grant containing words from one of his speeches Harper's Weekly March 16 1872 p 201 Creator Thomas Nast 1872-03-16 Caption WHAT THE SENATORIAL CABAL CAN NOT BLOW OVER The text on the pedestal reads Success has generally attended the effort to execute all laws found upon the statute-books The policy has been not to inquire into the wisdom of the laws already enacted but to learn their spirit and intent and to enforce them accordingly The national debt has been reduced to the extent of 86 057 126 80 during the year The interest account is nearly 17 000 000 less than the 1st of March 1869 I therefore recommend a modification of both the tariff and internal tax laws It has been the aim of the administration to enforce honesty and efficiency in all public offices Every public servant who has violated the trust placed in him has been proceeded against with all the rigor of the law A salutory lesson has been taught the careless and the dishonest public servant in the great number of prosecutions and convictions of the last two years It is gratifying to notice the favorable change which is taking place throughout the country in bringing to punishment those who have proved recreant to the trust confided to them and in elevating to public office none but those who possess the confidence of the honest and virtuous who it will always be found comprise the majority of the community in which they live Signed U S GRANT Executive Mansion December 4 1871 PD-old-100 Caricatures of Carl Schurz Thomas Nast Caricatures of Ulysses S Grant Charles Sumner Thomas W Tipton Lyman Trumbull Reuben Fenton 1872 cartoons 1870s political cartoons of the United States Civil Service Reform | ||||
