The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-08-21
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THE COMING STORM.

THE COMING STORM.
a sessA'ns Review lew q 9Th the Present Admin
washington Correspondence sd q 1e cnc'nnA" '0nme'c'
A morning gust sweeps down upon rs daily
from Long Branch. It is disgust Forney con-
tinues to edit Grants cigar stumps and the hours
Of Nrs Grants baths These things are smbro.
stomachs. burn my cigar stumps no shorter
than Grants. Your wife keeps herself as clean
With ablutions as the Mistress President. Why
% much fanfaronade? If details must be told,
tho news comes of the latter lady that she Is
hanging to Grants arm at Long Branch with
every step he takes, like broken sprig OF dog
wood. How else could she be known - the Ia
dy of the president? Certainly. The president
what of him? Grant, turning his administra-
tion into holiday, sends for his stud. The velvet
sands of Long Branch have not felt their mag.
1stie, spanking tread. Grant without horse,
lsses his electricity. The horses without Grant,
lose their airing. The black favorites must be
poosa, at the governments expense
We will wait little. But, giving the best
guess from the present standpoint, the president
has failed us. He is a disappointment. He has
not done one luminous act since coming into
power on the 4th of March, not one that the peo-
pie haye risen up and applauded him for. He is
opaque to-day as in the interregnum forming
his cabinet, and the thing cearest in this capac-
tty is that the light is not in him, no more than
nthe tumble-down cabinet affair. The people
have pinned faith to his mysteriousnsss long
enough, and it is all that they have yet, or per.
haps, will have in the end, to assure them of the
future.
There is kind of pretentious inconsequence
about the administration that is ridiculous, .
TvYVn 70 &c. oe III H.
strap lackeys, buzz of bass drums in the back.
ground, % if there were being spread the net of
some complicate, far-sighted, tremendous policy,
ashimmer and show of ponderousness that ex.
istes only in the expectations of the people. The
doubt once in while grows thick, whether
Grant is not more at home in gig behind his
Havana than in the white house, fronting the
people. Looking him steadily in the face, it oc.
ours to you that the republican party, powerful
a. 1t was, could have taken from its box the first
intelligent hickman on the street. and done as
we'll Grants face has no clearness OF illumina-
ton in it, more than had his military policy for
breaking down the rebellion. The Atlantic
A0nthly lately contained an article upon his Gin.
tellectuall character" It is in doubt whether it
exists Not man, woman, or half-grown child
in the country, but that has constantly put the
riddle these two years: allow is it that Grant,
With this face like stogy boot. is great man ?"
The real query is as to the fact. The whole mat
tor will probably turn out simply enough that
like other men, he is what he appears to be. The
Brutuses who seem feols and turn up wise men
are.few. Grant swung to the head Of military
affairs when the momentum OF the nation was
ready to break down treason. He swung to the
front of civil affairs when the party that gave
supremacy to ideas had become q nation itself,
and he as bubble borne on its surface. In either
case, the people have been of real importance,
and the man of fictitious Importance. We want
ed hero and president and pronounced the
word-GrAnt.
GRANTS PIGMY CABINET.
Grant came, believing in himself, and imposed
upon Us. His oraoular silence at the beginning
made US expect cabinet of giants. When the
roll Of these awaited Colossuses was finally called
in the senate, the half of them too feeble to
answer to their Names Then some of them came
and drifted away again. The cabinet went to
pieces, and then formed again like decimate1
battalion. The ministers stick to it unsteadily
still and "Who are to be Grants secreta-
ries is an open question yet, just as if you ask.
ed what grains of floating sand would 60 into
petrifcstion.
You have heard how Robson was appointed
Borie's ssccessor-a jolly fellow, introduced di.
Dramatically to Grant, in good mood, on ship
board, and deity carving his way into the cabi-
net with his knife as he dined at the same table.
The people needed introduction, too, to the new
man. But this was little matter.
The monkey racers sometimes select their lead.
ers by the length of their tails. Louis XVIII.
made Monsieur DAvaray q duke for helping him
into his carriage.
GRANTS glove OF QUIET AND RETIREMENT"
Then Grant imposes on US with other preten-
sions He has published to an extravagant eccen.
tricity his love of quiet and retirement No pub.
lie man of his station, since the beginning of the
government has so constantly thrown himself in
the way of the people. A triumphal procession
through the country every six months since the
war has been the least of it. As president, he 10
pushing his social prerogatives to the fullest bent
There have passed IA weeks since the adjourn.
ment of congress. Grant has passed half of them
here, the rest in social unbending elsewhere
They say he takes gaily to the dance at Long
Branch, sliding through the figures more glibly
than at Annapolis and West Point. This is very
well, but the country is asking of him and his
cabinet Q few serious questions that it would be
we'll to have answered from Washington, recep-
ton balls at the seashore Notwithstanding. What
about Cuba, South America, the south, the Ala
bama matters, and political assassinations
THE sPHENIx POLICY DON'T FILL THE BILL.
creditable that if the cabinet and the head of
the nation, properly digested these things, would
not find much time to be absent from the capital
Anyhow, the nation is anxious to see looming
above the rosy horizon of balls routs, excursions
banquets, receptions and seaside frivolities, the
executive head of powerful republican admins.
tration. We are hardly satisfied with this
sphenix'lke policy. II may be Delphic, as Shella.
barger said, but is less than republican. The
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