File:Grant Blown on by a Cabal of Senators.jpg

DescriptionGrant Blown on by a Cabal of Senators.jpg	English: 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.
Date	16 March 1872
Source	Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1872, p. 201.
Author	Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)      Alternative names Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist Date of birth/death 27 September 1840  7 December 1902  Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador Work location England, Italy, USA Authority file : Q214957 VIAF: 69106390 ISNI: 0000000083916268 ULAN: 500026650 LCCN: n78083448 NLA: 35373399 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q214957

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.

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