The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-04
EVENING ApELPHA THURSDAY MARCH 4 1859


| Of the ranks OF the party leaders to fad com
petent men to assist him in carrying ON 'ne
Government. Hitherto he has proved nun sen
equal TO any emergency; the war wnion
wrecked 80 many regulations raised him
bsad and shoulders above all his contempo-
raries; and as the people looked
70 him In the darkest hour
Of our national existence 20 lead the
armies Of the Republic and crush the Rsbel-
! lion which threatened its life, SO they now
look TO him to vapquish the corrupt horde
who consider the National Treasury legiti-
mate object for plunder, to break up the
rings which have been formed for the pur.
nose OF defrauding the Government, and TO
institute radical reforms, which the mslsd-
minstration of affairs during the last four
years have rendered necessary.
OF the magnitude of the task before him
President Grant is we'll aware, and he has
clearly indicated thus early that he does not
intend to be ruled or influenced by the pofiti-
cal jobbers who fancy that the people will not
'pulsate" except at their touch, and that the
mere plea of party expediency will not induce
him to swerve from his clear line Of duty.
The politicians like him now less than they
ever did, but he commences his administration
to-day with frmer hold upon the regards of
every honest man in the nation than he had
when he was elected to the highest Office in
the gift of the people last November, aud
--itb public opinion to sustain him, he will
be the strongest President we have had since
Washington.
Tbowo a. L. IA =. A..
the power OF the President to do 30 much for
the veal or woe of the country, that 1t is inn
possible at this time to do more than express
our hearty salts action at the change in the
executive branch of the Government which
has taken place to-day at the capital. We
breathe freer, now that we have President
in whom we have just cause to place conf
dence, and whom we honor and admire no
less for his personal character than for his
eminent services. If we praise the coming
man and expect much from him, it is because
he has shown himself to be worthy of praise
and capable of performing all that he under
takes to do.
The melancholy examples we have had of
Vice Presidents who have been called to the
Presidency, and who have betrayed their
trust, make it matter of the first Importance
that the second Office under the Government
should be filed in proper manner. Vice.
President Colfax, throughout his political
career, has shown himself to be an able, ener-
getic, and patriotic statesman. AS Speaker Of
the House of Representatives he has presided
with dignity and impartiality, and as Presi-
dent of the Senate he will doubtless prove
equally efficient and popular. If by any dis
pensation of Providence he should be called
upon to fill higher position than the one he
al. present occupies, there is every reason to
believe that he will prove himself eminently
worthy of the trust that has been reposed in
him.
By the election of Grant and Cokax last
November, the people of the United States
indicated their desire for reform in the ad-
ministration of the Government which would
give us peace and prosperity at home and
make us respected abroad, and the events OF
to-day are the happy prologues to the con-
SUNNI alton of their desires.