The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-23

all this, and IL may be q reason for rejoicing
for once at the silly delay which is interposed
between the election Of General Grant aud his
entrance on office. In the meantime, the
President who does not represent the Ameri-
can nation may have settled his differences
with us, and General Grant be glad to accept
a solution of which be would not have taken
the responsibility. But whether it be 80 or
not General Grant, though be may be fully
conscious OF the enormous power which a
President who is also great General wields,
when commanding resources so great "a those
OF the American people, is, above all things,
moderate man, with all the iinmoderate mode
ration of the Yankee genius; and, If not
above all things, at least above most things,
a very disinterested man, who seeks no fame
for himself so long as he can be useful to his
country. No one who has read the history of
his first years service in the civil war can
doubt this. When unjustly censured and
superseded on untrue charges secretly made,
which were not even explained to him by
General IIalecl1, he acquiesced without q
nuTmer, and only did his best to aid the man
promoted over his head, remarking dryly
that so long as the object of the war was
gained personal considerations were Of small
account. There was one great secret of his
success and his great popularity with his sub
ordinates throughout his arduOus campaigns.
And that Is characteristic which
cannot but moderate his foreign
policy, however strongly he may feel the
injustice Of which, in his estimation foreign
States have been guilty towards the Union.
No man of his musipg disposition and disin-
teTested love of country will plunge the Union
into needless war. However great his iguo-
rance of foreign politics., General Grant is one
who will never act in region in which he
knows that he is ignorant, without deIerring
much to the wisest counsel no can obtain.
We partly believe in his hostile feeling to-.
wards England, and in his not very cosmo-
politan view of the motives aud actions of
foreign States. But we do not think that any
one less likely to act hastily on such feelings
could have been chosen. General Grant is
Just the man to be sobered, instead of excited
by the great power he will wieId. 1t will be
no misfortune to us to realize that with Gene
raj Grant at the head of the Union, friendli-
ness, frankness, and ample justice will be as
much our interest as our duty.
Finally, we may fairly look to this election
to put the final stroke to the work of enamel
pation-not The less that the man who is now
made President was never known as an en-
thusiast for that cause. Hs has accepted the
task of enforcing the laws of Congress as we'll
as the principles laid down in the Chicago
platform. BY the laws of Congress the negro
is a citizen, entitled to full civil rights; and
by the principles of the Chicago platform, no
less lhan Dy several formal &cJsj Ihose rlgnI5
are TO be secured by giving him political
power where he needs it most. General Grant
will carry out this programme with military
precision, and he will do it with all the more
ease because no one suspects him OF wishing
to overstep the law in the interest of the
negro. He will represent not the philau-
thTopists whom the Southern planters loatbe,
but simply the law and the army-the law
first, and the Amy behind the lava very
necessary stiffening for the law at the present
moment.