The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-06
The New Administration.

The New administration.
On Thursday last March 4th. General Grant
was indicted into dEee. took the oath and a.
sumcI the duties ami responsibilities Of President
F. % the United States No one viii deny that it
i n POSITION Of a. geat Importance and power
a. any other know. No sovereign Yields a
greater power than rat entrusted 70 the head of
the American Republic. Nor l. there a sovereign
whose policy can hare a greater influence on the
worlds progress and peace during the next four
years than that Of PRESIDENT Grant. Never has
there been a ruler whose lips have been more
intcntly watched, or whose words have been more
eagerly caught up aId spread with the lightning's
fash from continent to continent, than his. Like
the utteranccs Of the Delphian oracle they carry
hope - the listening multitude, who eagerly
watch for the responses from his taciturn lips.
President Grant, whatever may have been his
political preferences or opinions before the war,
has become moulded By the force Of circumstances,
which change men hut not principles, and will
rrOyc himself man whom the people will delight
% honor. Throughout his whole public career
he las exhibited the same integrity and frmness,
which WAS shown when he answered the rebel
Gen. Pcmbcrton before Yicksburg that he had no
terms - offer him but . unconditional surrcn-
der :" which was shown again when he led
his army through the bloody campaign from the
Potomac 10 Richmond, determined E to fight it
out on that line If il took all summer - and
again when. in modestly accepting the nomination
Of tire Chicago Convention, he unconsciously
uttered the wish Of the whole nation, when he
said that all he sought was . peace and universal
pro-Icrity.'' That short response is 50 fresh and
20 Indicative Of the policy of the new admInistra-
ton that We insert it entire
e If elected 20 the Office Of President Of the United
S;ates, IL will be my endeayor 10 administer all the
laws in cool faith, with economy, and with the view
Of giving peace, quiet and protection everywhere.
In jime~ like the present, il i impossible. or at least
eminenily improper, 10 lay down a policy to be adj
hercl to, right or wrong, through an administration
Of four years. New political issues, not foreseen, are
constantly arising the views Of the public on old
ones are constantly changing, and a purely admins
trutiye officer should always be left free to execute the
will Of the people. / always have respected that
will, and always shall. Peace and universal pros
ton, viii tighten the burden Of taxation, while il
constantly reduces the national debt. Let US have
peace"
l. it any wonder that the millions of America
and the hundreds Of millions Of Europe have
looked forward 20 eagerly to the day when the
writer Of the above noble lines should be clothed
with the insignia of Office? There is a feeling of
hope, widespread among all classes and parties
in the Great Republic, shared in by Americans
in every part of the world, that the administra-
ton Of General Grant will be the dawn of better
DAYS than those that have existed for the past
nine years and that there will be a check to that
extravaganza and corruption which have crept
into every department Of the national Government
and have become n curse To the Nation. The
desire for reform Is expressed by President Grant,
participated in by the leading senators and reple-
in Congress and 10y the people gcncr-
ally. That there will be n strong effort made to
cheek abuses Is evident, If fireworks of such men
Mr.. Washburne Of Illinois, who is an intimate
friend Of tie President, il any index. Mr.. W.
recently said in Congress:
The people elected General Grant to the Presidency
only on account Of the great and inestimable sery-
he has rendered the country IN %subduing the rebel
not only GA account Of his devotion TO the great
Of the Republican Party, but because they
believe him 10 be emphaiicllly an honest man, and
statesman, who would faithfully admin
lister the laws without fear, favor, or affection. The
20 take a new departure. Added to other terrible
evils brought upon the country by the war for the
Of the rebellion, i the Generalization
incident 10 all great wars, and 10 the expenditures Of
vast and uuheirI-of amounts Of public money 10
iLc giving out Of immense contracts 10y which sudden
and vast fortunes were mHie, the imitation Of the
va ~ - NHAHEH -eI=@
extravaganza. and corruption, by the intense desire
b. get sudlculy rich out OF the Government and
labor, and the inventions and schemes gen
orally 90 Get money out Of tie Treasury for the bene-
81 Of individuals without regard 10 the interests Of
the Government. While the restless and unpausing
energies of a patriotic and iacorruptible people were
devoted % the salvation Of their Government, and
we're pouring out their blood and treasure in its de
there was the vast army Of the base, the yenal, ,
and uupatriOtic, who rushed in % take advantage Of
The misfOrtunes of the country and 10 plumber its
Treasury. Public land enough 10 make empires has
voted a. private railroad corporations subsi-
lies Of untold millions of bonds, for the same pur-
passes, have become n charge upon the people, while q
lac letters Of vast monopOlics have been fastened still {,
loser and closer upon the public. II j. time that
he representatives IF the people were admonished ,
hat they are the servants Of the people and arc paid
ly the people that their constituents have cOntided
20 them the great trust Of guarding their rights
.ul protecting their interests; that their position and 7
heir power are o. be used for the benefit Of the people !
yhom they represent, and not for their own benefit
ud the benefit cf the lobbyists, the gamblers, and
hc Spectators who have come to Washington to make a
raid upon the Treasury. d
These extracts will show better than anything a
l>e we could introduce. that the people are justi- y
ed in hoping that the new administration will
e t. them "a blessing, and DE the opening of a e.
Cy crI aF e. rrlrr and universal rrlsrcrity " d.