The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-06-05

Wen rally again, and shat Gag Of ths frss''
Shall stay whszs our heroes have PLACED II.
And ns'sr shall tfsy govern, On land OF On ees
Whose treason hath spurnod and dilgraeed If.
CHORUS.
Then rally again, then rally again,
With the soldier, and sailor, and blpnleR.
Aud Wen fight It cut here, on the old Cnion iin..
Nc odds il Il takes rs al summer.
Wen rally again and our motto shall b,
Whatever hs nation that bore us,
God bless that old banner. '.ths Gag Of ths frse"
And all who would die with it o'ef us.
oHRous
Then rally again, thso rally again.
With the soldier, and sailor, and bummH,
And ws'll 6ght it out hero, on tho old Unior EuS
No odds II It takes US all summer.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
Gen. Grant rs an Executive
Officer.
What the country needs at this i'm
portant period of its history is not a
great legislator; we have had Iegisls-
ton enough for all practical purposes.
What the country needs now is not q
great jurist, who has devoted his life to
the study of the law, and is able to
point out ninety-nine modes Of defeat
ing law without violating il. It needs
a man who as President will know that
his duty is to execute, and not TO make
laws; who will accept the law as made
by the Legislature as his guide, and not
as a means to make case for the
courts. The country wants President
who will take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, and will not assume
power 10 set them aside, amend, al
ter or ignore them. The country wants
President who will be al executive.
with the frmness TO execute the nation
al will regardless Of any clamor or
threats man who will take the Law
as he finds it, aud hold every person in
Office under him, from the highest to
the lowest to the same unquestionipg
obedience to the law.
The country can dispense with dipIo-
matte, Legislative, judicial and scientific
eminence in the President, IA man
might have ali these and be eypher ss
an Executiye3 but the man whose life
has been one of rigid accountability 10
his own superiors; whose duty from
first to last has been obedience to law
and requirement of the same implicit
obedience from all under him-Whose
experience as an executive has included
the actual management and control of
immense armies in hostile States en-
barrassed by countless adversities Incl.
dent to long and previously proftless
war, and who never failed because Of
any oversight or inattention on his part
in having all the executive duties OF all
these armies promptly and faithfully
performed--such a man is the one de-
manded by the present exigenciss ofthe
country, and such man is to be found
at this time in General U. S. Grant
The country not only needs Presi-
dent who will bring to the office practi-
cal executive ability, but it wants q
Chief Magistrate who, accustomed to
strict integrity and prompt accountable
ity in all bis own official relations, will
enforce the same upon all his subordin-
ates. We want no President aud Sec
rstary of the Treasury to declare that
the reason they do not collect the pub
lie revenue is the utter corruption and
dishonesty of their subordinstes. The
country wants an Executive who will
brook no delinquency, who will pslIiate
no omission 10 perform official duty, and
who will regulate the execution Of pub
lie duties with the precision and fidelity
required by military discipline.
The brief administration Of General
Grant as Acting Secretary of War af-
forded an indication of his mode of per-
forming executive duties. Within
ninety days he had dismissed useless
officers, abolished sineeures, discon-
tinued expenditures, and stopped use.
less contracts, to an amount equslliDg
fifteen millions of dollars per annum.
Placed in the office of Chief Execu.
tive, with all the departments under bis
control, and the vast machinery of the
government at his command, the saw
ing of millions in the War Office viii be
doubled and quadrupled. A vast
amount of public moaey supposed TO be
expended is literally wasted under the
loose system of accountability in public
offices; but with an experienced Execu-
tive like Grant, this waste will be ar
rested.
As in the dark hour Of 1854, Grant
was raised up as if by special Provi-
dence to terminate the war by a sup
preston of the rebellion, so the present
occasion, when the country is imperil-
led by faithless officers, he seems 10
have been endowed with all those Pc
culisr qualities which makes him so pre-
eminently the man for the Presidency.
With Grant for President who is
there that can doubt that Reconstruc-
ton will be completed: tie freedom of
the Southern people maintained; the
peace and union of the country pre-
served; and the financial honor and
credit of the nation protected from all
assaultsi To accomplish these vital
ends, the country needs an honest Ex-
ecutive, and such an officer is to be
found in the soldier and patriot U. 5.
Grant.
As, in 1884, he succeeded to conf
mand where iueompetency, inezperi-
ence, treachery, and egregious vanity
had so long wrought disaster, defeat
and calamity 10 the country, and by his
military skill, his indomitable persever-
snce and energy, his inhexible candor
and honesty, and his unfinchiDg pa
triotism, reversed the disastrous record
of the past and delivered disarmed
rebels into the hands of the American
people, so in 1868, backed by the same
American people whom be had so nobly
served, he will deliver unto them, dis
armed, Andrew johnson and his DEM
ocratic confederates, who are now seek
ing the destruction ofthe national credit
and who are stealing the public revenue
through their agents in Office. These
men he will strip of their places, aud
their plunder, and, as he disbanded
Lees traitors, SO he will parole the
hordes of Johnson's Office holders who
are plundering the nation.
PENDLEToN EscoRT.-This new name
may be seen in the windows Of an upper
room on Vine street. We supposed it
some new effort to yitalize the Pendleton
Club. We learn BY the Enquirer that