Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-10
The Administration.

lF the most forcible objection that could
he made TO the administration of Coy.
Hoffman were, that lie goes to Saratoga
and dances quadrilles, and ii this APPALLING
fact were repeated day after day in every
form, IL would he tolerahly clear that
nothing serious could he urged against his
conduct of affairs Tho incessant twaddle
in the Democratic Journals about the
Presidents summer excursions shows in
same way tho absence of any serious COM
plant II one such significant and fatal
act could he truly alleged of the President
as the signing of the Eric bill by Governor
Hoffman, he would be allowed, asthc Gov
crnor is, TO dance, If he were so inclined
in peace. by the veto power says Mr.
g. f. Adams, Jr, in the last North dRlcri-
c,ta Rerit7e, Governor Hoffman won and
lost his reputation. II is well said, and
the fact win not be forgotten. He used IL
TO stop drop, aud he refused to use il
against n torrent. hut OF the almnistra.
tion of General Grant no grave accusation
has yet been made by the Opposition.
The key.hole gossip of the papers that
record the hour whenthe President rises
and the number of cigars he smokes, is
the characteristic effort of Jenkins in
politics, He should confine himself to
describing Miss AS ribbons and Mrs BIS
slippers, fEt.f l'.l-
Mr. Wendell Phillips, indeed, holds tho
President responsible for the result of the
Southern elections, and for tho injustice
which is still shown To the colored popu-
lation; and Mr. Phillips so early and so
clearly torcSaw the dernliCtion of Andrew
Johnson that he has earned peculiar
right of speaking upon the subject, The
men whose example he quotes would UNI
qucstionably have carried the elections;
but they would have carried them by the
sword-rand Grant is n constitutional Pres.
idcnL IL he had given every Office in
those States rs Mr. Phillips had advised,
VI he had written the strongest letters
could he have cajoled the votes of those
who hate the negroY Could he give OF
withhold the sutl'Ngey II Mr.. RoutwelI
had been President does Mr.. Phillips
think thai Mr. Stokes would have been
elected in TCnncssceY The system OF
government upon which Mr. Phillips lat
terly insists is the shcercSt CeSarism. lie
is impatient of the necessary friCtions and
delays of u free, popular government. lie
names Richvlicu, Bonapartc Walpole. He
might as wisely name Gheugis Khan aad
Timour the Tartar II, as Mr. Phillips
says Northern property is nowhere
lAsate at the South, IL Texas reeks
with outngts, II Southern loyalists
declare that there must be n
change at Washington, or they must fly,
is ii his duty to tell us what RichellCu
would have done or what President Grant
can dog Mr.. Phillips seems tous To over.
estimate the Executive power In this coun.
try, and to underestimate the element of
time in producing changes of public opin-
ion,
Those who supposed, as certainly Mr..
| Phillips took care To tell as in advance
that he did not suppose, that hNtcraity and
| good Will were instantly to prevail in the
South, the public debt 10 be paid, the West
Indies 10 be annexed, and taxation 10 he
tabOlshed by General Grants election,
have been naturally disappointed. lie he.
] came President when there was a deplora.
| bic social condition in the Southern States
"a heavy debt and taxation, and pcrplexing
foreign questions Toward the end of the
trst half year ofhis administration the debt
Is materially reduced, and national credit
improved the principles of radical Re,
| publican reconstruction and the Fifteenth
Amendment have been formally, if NOT
tirom conviction, approved in the Southern
States that have voted the English Ques.
| lion, II not settled, is not embittered; the
neutrality laws OF the United States have
peen most firmly and success fully enforced
and the rtliqiency and honesty ofthe pub,
lic service have been promoted ~.
The American people see in the conduct
| of the Administration this far steady
| regard TO honesty and economy, a tirni
maintenance OF the honor and best tradi,
tons Of tho country in lis foreign relations,
and strict ddelity 70 the principles which
elected the President. ai ContnSted with
| all the later Democratic administrations A
Is tree both nom crime and rom "bun,
eombe,s while m what condition thecoun,
NY at home and abroad would now have
been Y Horatio Seymour and Francis T..
liialr iaq been elected. Ylh Wade Hampr
ton ana his allies oontrolling affairs ia the
southern s'ates, ls plain enough - every
thinking iaan! The fpolish aliases of th,,
1 president by those who could not find
| words conttnlptuous enough for him when
he was a candidate, Is appropriately ex.
pressed by the pen Of jenkins and the