Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-26

cratic friends is to be found. Gen. Grant
is, as the French would say, a political
child of the war. He naturally takes the
view of the situation that logically results
from the war. The man is certainly very
foolish who doubts that Gen. Grants ad-
ministration will pursue the fundamental
Republican policy. 1t will defend the
equality of civil and political rights under
the law 1t will maintain the public faith
toward every body, freedmen and creditors
1t will aid the most vigorous possible re-
duction of the public expenses. Its spirit
will be that of charity toward all, of malice
toward none. In doing this it will be
simply carrying out the principles pro
claimed by the Convention that nominated
the President, and in doing it, also, Gen.
Grants administration will be in the
truest sense Republican administration.
Such being, as every body will admit,
the undoubted policy of the new admin
istration, is its chief likely to ask the as
sistance of Horatio Seymour or Fernando
Wood, of Wade Hampton or Frank Blair !?
In the conduct of an administration based
upon the principles of equal rights and
good faith, is the President likely to look
to a party which has always asserted and
maintained those principles, or to one that
has always derided and opposed them !?
Is there any conceivable reason why Gen.
Grant should undertake to gather figs of
thistles by depending upon the Democrat
ic party for policy of national justice
and honor? Are duplicity and intrigue
characteristic of him? Is he Unfortunately
ambitious? Yet, if he sympathized with
the Democratic theory Of the situation, he
might undoubtedly have had the Demo
cratic nomination. Has any thing hap
pened within the year that should give him
greater respect for the policy or the pat
riotism of that party? Has anything &C.
Cured, upon the other hand, which should
give him susl icion of the Republican
party? In the highest view, Gen. Grants
political comprehension of the situation
is that of the Republicans. In the lowest
view, he has nothing to gain by going
over to the Democrats.
On the other had, that the new Presi-
dent will wear no mans collar we most
gladly and wholly believe. That he will
smile at any attempted dictation from
those who call themselves the "leaders
of the party we have no doubt whatever.
| That some other credential for office than
mere party service will be demanded by
L m we most sincerely hope. Party re-
lations will not, of course, be disregarded
by him; for he is pre-eminently man OF
sagacity, and he knows that in our politi-
cal situation the results at which he aims
can be achieved only with party support.
But that regard to party alone can secure
those results he is doubtless wholesomely
skeptical. Capacity, knowledge, integrity,
experience, prudence, sagacity, are quite
as essential in all the Offices of admin
stration as I" claims" founded upon " do
ing all the dirty work of the party"
Cliques and rings and factions in the Re
publican party, as in all other parties
under the same circumstances, will doubt
less be disappointed and disguised by the
conduct and the appointments of the new
administration. But there is not the
slightest reason to doubt that the great
mass of the party, its intelligence and
character, will most heartily sustain the
new President, and that his administration
will unite and strengthen it. Our Demo
cractic friends have been mistaken in him
before AS a soldier, they denounced him
as blunderer and a butcher; as 8 Presi-
Dental candidate, they sneered at him as
brainless. Now, when they hopefully
praise him as second hand Andrew John
son, they will find themselves as deeply in
error.-Harper's Weekly.