The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-20
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The Policy of the New Administration.

The Policy OF the New Administration.
From me Washington Nanonat Intetagencer.
Two weeks have elapsed since the election,
and already the excited discussions which
characterized the canvass, both in the press
and on the hustings, are hushed, and the
whole country is speculaung over what is to
be the future course and policy of ''the coming
man." in his conduct OF the civil affairs OF
the Republic.
This is a subject OF deep and solemn in
terest TO the people of this country. To fad
out and safely conjecture that course and
policy by the lights OF his past life and actions
is by no means an easy undertaking. The
talents, experience, and knowledge necessary
in the conduct Of varied concerns of great
Government like that Of the United States are
so entirely different from those required in
the management OF single and distinct
branch of the public service, that we can form
no adequate conjecture OF what the success Of
General Grant is likely to be.
We wish to do the President elect justice,
and we mean to give him earnest and gene
rous support in all measures which he may
project for the restoration of peace to our dis
tracted country; the restoration of the rule
and reign of the Constitution in this land; the
lifting off the burdens OF taxation from the
labor of the people; the introduction Of eco
nomy and honesty into the administration of
of the financial diff iulties which now atllict
the Government and the psople alike; the
payment of the public debt in as honest and
speedy manner as possible, with justice
to all classes alike, exclusive privi-
leges to none; the remanding of the
State governments of the Southern States to
the centrol and management of their own
people, and the States of the Union to as per-
feet an equality in every respect as they en-
ioyed before the breaking out of the unfortu-
nate hOstilities which have 30 sorely afflicted
the whole country. Ii he will turn his ener-
gies in this direction, and realize the sublime
fact that "peace has it's triumphs as we'll as
war;" and that he is the President of the
whole people, and not of party, he may
make himself a name and renewn which may
yet give him a claim to stand on the same
pinnacle of fame with Washington aud jack
son, as he is about to take his seat in the
same chair which they occupied at two im-
portant epochs in our history, when diff
oulties no less formidable than those which
now encompass him threatened the cause of lib
erty and constitutional rig ht in this land Dis
tinguished as he is now, when reflected in the
CLEAN of his sword he must seek to be great
by protecting the constitutional liberties of the
country in the Cabinet. As great as the mill
tary glory of Washington and Jackson was,
the civic renown which encircles their memory
and history is far more resplendent. They
never forgot the sublime injunction which was
imposed upon them by their oaths, to reve-
renee and protect the Constitution as the
anchor of all the hopes of their country. They
had a party to obey, but never forgot that
they had a country to serve. Thus thought
and thus acted the heroes of the first and
second War of Independence.
With General Grant himself is then the
issue. He now holds his own destiny aud the
destinies of his country in his own hands.
Without the civic experience of either Wash
ington or Jackson, he may yet emulate their
renewn, and may make their lives and con-
duct models for his own. Their teachings,
with those of all the great sages and states
men who have rendered the administration
of our Government illustrious, are before
him. Aided by that common sense with
which God has endowed him, and his know
ledge of men acquired in his intercourse
with them, he ought to be able to call TO
his coupsels the best men in his party.
If he.will do this he will start fairly, and
win the confidence of his countrymen in
advance. He will need the conservative msn
of his party. He has said, "Let us have
peace" and thousands upon thousands of his
countrymen took him at his word, and voted
for him; because they believed that he meant
the peace which an observance of the Consti-
tuition and the law brings, and not the
turmoil, disorder, and bloodshed which
force, the bayonet, and the bullet
produce. If he seeks to be great, as
he is now distinguished, he must put
his foot down upon vindictiveness and revenge,
and come back to the feelings of honesty aud
fairness which burst from his own heart when
he met General Lee aud the remnant of his
gallant army at Appomattox Court House, aud
when he made his report to President Johnson
of the condition of the South and the bear
ing and temper of it's people towards tn,
Government. With all of his reticence, al
ef his apparent coldness of nature, here was
a CLEAN of relief to it-generosity in the hou
of triumph. 1t awoke a response in tn,
heart of the country and excited the alaru
and fear of the JacObips in the Capitol. Nov
another and greater hour of triumph is here
Can he be as magnapimous now as he wa
generous then? We shall zee.