The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-15

,t,o,, 6tueas TO fll the Offices entrusted TO
them: that whisky rings would be crushed
ont. railway and other jobs cease TO plunder
and sap the energies Of the people; that in
foreiop countries we should no longer bs
represented by men who disgrace US, for
through them we cause other nations to take
ms at the estimate which we place upon our
selves. His economy in the War Office
showed his desire to redu,e the burden of debt
under which the nation Is now sta ggering, and
from which, II uureleved, II will shake itself
free by repudiation. II showed that in every
department Of government 1t was his desire TO
institute that military exactness of admins
tration in public expenditure which is alone
suited 10 country at the moment 1t emerges
from great war covered with its attendant
corruptions. =
In unison with Grant, the people considered
that the reforms and policy here embodied
were a necessity to the future well-bsing of
the nation, and, looking for their best expo
nent, naturally elected as President the man
who had proven himself, above all Others to
be most fitted for the chief executive office OF
the Government.
Through General Grant Congress has imme-
diately felt the strong hand of the people. The
shadow they had been watching constantly
increased in intensity. Congress has usurped
a transient power in the struggle with an i'm
becile President, whom, by the Tenure-of-
Office bill and other restrictions, they wound
up in a web from which, despite all effort. he
could not break. Now, however, Congress
bends TO the irresistible mandate of the people,
and restores the power usurped from the Exc
outive. By this it is proven that Grant, as a
newly elected President, governs ia all great
issues from the day of his election. The forty
seven Representatives who cling to the past
will be buried with it. The men who, headed
by Butler, have the brains to measure the tenn
per Of the nation and accept its wishes as law,
are opening the way to solid and beneficial
legislation. Under the leadership of Grant
and these men we expect a general restoration
of our totteriDg fortunes; for we have great
destiny before us, whose mandate it is folly
to disobey. We want legislation shaped to
the fact that we are making ourselves, by our
railway and telegraph systems, more compact
as a nation than the State of Massachusetts,
was as province in 1880. We want Con-
gress to recognize that we face between six
and seven hundred millions of people in Asia,
and that there are thirty-five millions of pso-
pie south of US calling upon us for com mer-
cial intercourse. On this continent we occupy
the commercial centre of the world, and all
maps now illustrative of the lines of trade
place North America in the centre, with Eu-
rope and Asia on either hand.
With the inauguration of Grant must com.
mepce a new era OF prosperity for the country.
The influence which he, as the representative
of the people, already throws over the times
indicates the temper of the nation. Our civil
war has not yet ended, nor will it end till the
fourth day of next March. Then We may feel
rest from the gigantic struggle of eight years.
Then we shall launch new commerce, stretch
our iron arms towards the Pacific, rapidly
shake off our national debt, and bury the petty
memories of civil strife in the second chapter
of our mighty civilization.