The national Republican., 1869-03-06
Our w..h,.r,op Corre.poudenee.
March 8, 1870.

Jay under circumstances different from
hose that have attended tho inaugu-
ration OF any other American Chief
except Washington That is,
he has the confidence and personal re-
gard OF all mon Of all parties. Jefferson
aud jackson, who were idolizcd by the party
elcctlng them, were hated by their po- |
litloal opponents with hardly loss intensity.
Such was the case to greater or lesser de-
gree with all American Presidents before
Grant, except Washington. The estimate
In which Grant is held personally, without
distinction Of party, secures for his admin
istration rare advantage In the cousum-
nation of his programme for 1t, as laid
down In his brief but terse inaugural.
So, too, will his entire exemption from
entanglement with cliques, factions or par
ticular interests in the party electing him
greatly strengthen his policy. He Is literally
without friends to reward or enemies to
punish In the Republican or any other party,
and can, therefore, afford to administer his
trust, as he proposes, wholly to the end of
best protecting the general public interest.
How wisely he has commenced, his in
augural tells. His brief utterances concern
ing his Administrations public debt policy
will shoot up United States securities and
currency higher than they have yet gone,
and will bring down gold lower than 1t has
been since the first existing United States
loan was authorized by Congress. The fact
that he proclaims rigid prescription of all
who directly or indirectly favor dishonesty
In dealing with the nations creditors, will
change the tone Of Thousands who, wanting
office or requiring more or less Government
favor In their business, are nevertheless dis
posed to aid In shirking full and fair COM
pliance with the Governments financial
obligations.
Under the influence of bad counsels that
sentiment had been growing In the West,
being strengthened by the extremes to which
the prepondoratlng Eastern Republican
party Congressional influences have Of late
been carrying the policy of protection. As
no man who favors direct or indirect rcpu-
diation Is to be recognized as friend Of
Grants Administration, rcpudiation will
have few advocates In the Republican party
Of the West. I doubt not that in brief
season he will make 1t equally clear that his
face is as sternly turned against all who
seek special legislation or special privileges
or favors through action of the Executive
Departments. His programme in this con-
nection would be incomplete and ineffective
without such addition.
Johnson's "dying kick" attracts more at
tention OF public men in Washington to-day
than 1t did yesterday amid the whirl of ex.
element then pcrvading the minds of all.
Il Is voted bid for continuance in public
life by the favor of those who believe that
this Government violated the Constitution in
resorting to arms to preserve the nations
life. Beginning with that unconstitutional
act, Gas they regard it,) everything that was
done in furtherancc of that policy they,
with johnson at their head, hold to have
been nnconstltutionally done. According to
his ard their ideas Of the Constitution the
only thing that would have been constitu-
tional would have been to have permitted
the oligarc by to utterly destroy the Constitu-
tOn ana tne natiou, auu 10 uaNc cIcCtcu n
despotism, pure and simple, over the South,
founded on the extension Of human slavery
and Its power.
Ignorance of the philosophy of free gov.
ernmeut--almost as gross as that alleged
against the negrnes he hates with the in.
tense virucnce of the entirely uneducated
bottom of Johnsonss TRADE against tEss
measures that have alone saved the life of the
nation. Brutality, the sure handmade o
such Ignorance, is the fuel which keeps alive
the fire of hate that consumes him.
The nation is well rid of his presence, aud
may consequently breathe freer. The "scar
let woman" haG received her last special
favor from the White House. The mur
dcrer, the burglar, the counterfeiter, the de
frauding impostor, the whisky thief, til,
office broker, the broker in special favor
from the Executive, may no longer hope Ia
ply their respective callings In foreknowl,
edge that power above outraged law stands
ready to shield them, while mouthing the
the word ''Consttution" until making 1t but
a "stink pot" in the nostrils of the nation.
He (Johnson) is wholly without capacity
to comprehend that the Government, the in.
stitutions, the laws and the people of this
country have approached more swiftly since
1860 the condition to which all learned and
patriotic thinkers have striyen to bring the
affairs of men since any nation has been
sufhciently advanced to embrace reformers,
than any other nation ever before progressed
In half u century. He cannot comprehend
that men on whom are devolyel the duties
Of citizenship must necessarily, for the vel
Ileges Of citizenship, or else there can be
neither pcacr nor general prosperity under
institutions like ours. He Possesses no com.
prehension Of the value to society of the In.
tellectual improvement of all its members
nor does he comprehend that the key to that
is the stimulus resulting from perfect equality
before the law. In truth, Andrew johnson
proves himself representative man rep
rcsentatiyc Of all the venom, Ignorance, pre-
Judice and brutality which slavery has engen-
dered In the minds of the class OF whites In
the South whom 1t held in virtual slavery
before the war.
THE WHITE HOUSE THIS FORENOON.
A large number of persons repaired to the
White House at an early hour this forenoon,
principally strangers, impelled thlther by
curiosity merely. None were admitted cx.
cept those having legitimate business there.
Workmen, house-cleaneS, &c, had posses.
sion Of most of the premises, putting them
in order, and to have admitted such crowd
as sought an entrance would not have left
them standing room in the building.
THE ARRANGEMENTS THERE.
Clerks to the new Executive were fixing
up the room used as an office for the Presi-
dents private secretary up to this time. The
Presidents office, or business reception room,
was occupied by General Badcau, Colonel
Babcock, Colonel Parker, and other men,
bers OF Grants military staff, who received
those having business there. The President
occupied as an Office room in the west por-
ton Of the building, heretofore devoted to
household purposes.
THE CABINET SOMISATIoNs.