Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-03
What we may Expect Of General Grant.

First, General Grant will be President
in fact as " ell as in name As we have
/ seen. he is not a man to hesinte about
exercising any amount of p,wer that
IN isht be confided to him. In Jackson
place he might not have sail, Il take
/ the responsibility but he would have
| taken it, nevertheless, and san nothing
! about it. Even one of his associates in
| the Galena leather store understood this
| peculiaritv well enough to giveGovernor
| Yates. OF Illinois, who had confessed his
/ inability to get at the special capacities
! of this Captain Grant, the following
/ good advics: The way to leal with
/ him is to ask him no questions but sim
/ ply order him 70 duty. lie willpromp5ly
/ obey" The people have now summoned
/ this same prompt officer to be PRESIDENT
/ of the United States, and that h, will be
Ifanv individuals high in position or
prone to intrigue indulge the hope #
/ managing or improperly influencing Mr..
! .Johnson's successor, it only remains for
hem. seeing how blind they hive bee7
70 the plaiueSt pages of recent history. to
;. l,n lesson or two in the Sch1ol OF ex-
,,ar,,en &c and pay their tuition.
..,o.,p ilv, it is but a reasonable calcu-
Io.;a,, q, At General Grant, in the discharge
- 10 d,.;es of the Presidency will win
s,,l,s+,,ti, 'Icccss not unsuTed to his
,,or.;,I ranoy n Indeed nine tenths of
$50 who hov- ri sen above the folly of
confonnd;ng the ci.i- Of popular oratory
with executive Ia. 'ent, eoheede ALREADY
that he has all the main requisites ior
administering the affairs 81 tne country
at this time. except, posi- 'iE' tue llIor-
nation derived from Ions c wi expert
ence His generalship reveals governing
ability of the highest order, cIr,'uhs pee
ton only matched by energy, nj an un-
errinr faculty for selecting tie II. N men
for subordinates. As to the possil lie de-
fciencv alluded tO,-and we must ah vs.
bear in mind that there is no spec
training school for the Ppsidencv,--
General Grant is the son of his time, and
though he may not be learned in the
craftsmanship of books, he tomprehends
his own age Starting with that political
tqbu2a rdSa. the mind of anarmy officer,
having really voted but once before the
war (for Buchanan), and having always
regretted that,-he enjoyed the excellent
privilege of having othing to unlearn
The crisis found him without prejudices,
and he took in all : elements dispa6~
sionatelv as comprising the true situation
with which he was to deal Even that
conservative bias. of which a few good
Republican supporters are still absurdlv
suspicious, was in his favor, for while IL
has beeu observed that the descent from
Youthful liberalism has often been as
swift aud extreme as the apostacv of
STAFFORD, the contrary tendency, as illus
trated in the lives Of men ike Peel and
"a f.
uine progress. Hence it hanrened, that,
while anti-slavery men OF many years
standing were Worrying over the '"sure
relations of the inssitutlon they hai 50
long fought and feared, Grant calmly
foresaw and announced its extinction
and, more than that, every stage of the
extinLuIshing process can now be traced
in his military orders, in advance of the
action of Congress and Of the Executive
The same remark may he made respect
ing the reconstruction policy of the gov
eminent; its germs are all ID be found
in the record of his field measures. while
toward the maturing Of that policy he
gave his valued counsels and his pro-
fouuiest svmpachies Of all the great
questions which appear 20 demand settle
/ ment durin- the incoming administration,
F it may be said that none are older than
General Grants public life, while most
+ have already touched him at many points
F in his career, and engaged his earnest at
teution. For the last three yelrs in par
.icular be has reflected upon tie politica
juncture, perhaps with the prescience
+ that he would be called TO deal with it
practically, he has conferred with the
accutest statesmen Of the day and has
mingled with his couutrymer in every
part Of the Union 1t woud not be
strange, therefore. if the Who'll, situation
bearing upon the Presidency, comprising
policies. men and measures, Should be at
this moment as accurately mapped out in
his mind Is We're MS great campaigns
before he fought them IN the field. and
should lie followed by national results
hardly second n valEe-tHAs q. CANE
ia Atomic Monthly for 8qreh
L. CREDIT ABROAD The national
credit OF the United State is steadi be-
coming better in foreign markets, as the
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