The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
GRANTS INAUGURAL.
What the Papers Say About 1t.

What the Papers Say About 1t.
or the newspapers on our exchange list
scarcely any two seem to agree in views Of the
inaugural address of President Grant. We
make some extracts from their comments:
From the Baltimore SUM-
The inaugural address is marked by the SIM
plicity. couciseness and directness OF the man
of action, and of one who is more accustomed
to express himself through the medium OF
deeds than of words. Its utterances are calm,
frank and decided. It is encouraging to hear
him declare at the outset that he commences
the duties of his Office untra mmelled.
[F.on the Baltimore Gazettel
To undertake to pass any decisive judSm eut
upon the incoming President, or to venture to
forecast the character OF his ADMINISTRATION upon
the sole basis of the address IN question: would
be premature, If not unfair. Ills language will
probably be differently interpreted by those
who merely read it as it runs, and by those who
consider 1T IN connection with M ms previously
recorded acts and opinions. limo will soon
show conclusively whether General Grant is to
be the CHIEF of party or the hope OF nation.
From the Richmond Dispatch.]
The inaugural is a very plain and unpretend-
ing document. Its propositions are general
and national, affording little room for objection
or criticism. With reference to the South
there is only one passage which has an cspec-
lal bearing, and that is what he says about suf-
frage, viz "The question OF suffrage is one
which is likely to agitate the public 80 long as
portion of the citlzsns OF the nation are @ ex'
cluded IRON its privileges IN any State" This
may be fairly understood to include disfran-
chised whites; but General Grant couples it
with a sentence recommending the adoption by
the States Of the Fifteenth constitutional amend
ment, which is o nero 'negBo" amendment.
While we have no doubt that General urant
meant to include white men lin the passage
nnoted % above. we think it unfortunate that BE
aid not separate it more completely from that
which followed about the amendment" as it
will give "color" to construction which will
be placed upon it by some.
[Fror: the Richmond Enquirer
IF the Senate refraiued from repeating the
Tehure-of-ofice net iu order to see President
Grants hand, We do not think they have made
much out of him. There is in general O stu
died retcence about the inaugural that be-
trays good deal of thinking on tho part of the
President, while it avoids any committal upon
which the Senate can lay hold in the way OF
apology for refusing still longer to remove the
sscarb.bit" from the mouth OF the Executive.
From the Richmond whis.l
The inaugural will be read by the people of
Virginia with unalloyed satisfaction. Que has
only to consider what sort of munifcsto
there would have been, in it's stead, if some
real representative Of the Radical party had
been elected President--some genuine expo
nent OF the fierce and malign spirit that has
swayed the two last Congre5ses-some Sum-
ner or Wado, or Butler-to appreciate propel-
ly the anlmus of the new President, rs Illus
trated not moro in what no says than in what
he 30 significantly forbears to say. For how
long time has it been that VIC have had
President either from The North or the South,
before this onc, who. in formal avcwal OF his
sentiments and programme OF action, has ig-
pored the negro as q political issue. and avoid
ed sectional illusions altogether And how
strange it seems TO have the elect OF a party
whose split towards the South has seemed
little less than Satanic, presenting hls views OF
tho national situation without making one Of
feDslve rcferenc, to the recent past, or apply
ing one insulting epithet to those OF whom it
has been the custom of tho favorIto leaders OF
that party to speak only as ''rebels." "trai-
tors and "felons." It was by NJ inadver-
tcncc that those pregnant omss ons occurred.
From Tie Macon Journal]
President Grants inaugural will disappoint
speaks with no uncertain voice. we have no.
thing to hone for from tho new administration.
Tho affairs of the government are to be admin
lstered, not. perhaps, in :. way to please the
extremists of the Radical party, but certainly
with no reference to the wishes or interests OF
tho Southern States Of the Union. Under
show % of brave words, and an assumption Of in
dependence, there plainly runs . current Of
sut.seryiency to party behests, and an assur.
ance 10 it's leaders that their wishes and coun-
sells will not be disrcgarded. Grant Is Radl-
Cal, and slave Of the bondholders at that.
From the National Intelligencer,l
On Yesterday President Grant announced in
q brief. concise and energetic speech to tho
American people the general. principles which
would guide his administration. We were not
among those who expected or desired to lind
in this address great minutencss and elabora-
ting of views; and though his statements are
in general and somewhat guarded terms We
fiud no occasion In this either for criticism or
regret. There is very general disposition
among the people, in which we fully sympa.
tb1ze. to give the new President tair trial as
he cutters upon his difficult duties, to respect
his intentions, and second every Just and we'll
meant endeavor he may make for the public
good. And thus, though this paper may in
somes particulars fall short of, and in others run
counter to our wishes. we shall feel bound to
await afuller development OF bis policy, aris-
ing from specific acts Of administration, hoping
that these may pc such as all patriotic citi-
zans can freely support.
[Erom the New York World.1
The only respect in which this empty and
self-contdent address il Of any Importance, is
in the evidence it furnishes that General
Grant does not intend to have any serious
differences with tho Republican party. With
all It's self-assertlon. the inaugural ls really
very servlle. It endorses all .he iavorite meas
ures and dogmas of the Republican party, ex-
cept the Tenure-of-ofice act and on that the
party is known to be about equally divided.
all his independence is exhausted in the mere
empty proclamation of it; he has not had the
real independence to differ from his party In
any particular. Aside from is tone Of i!l-be-
seeming self-confdcnce, General Grants inau-
eural is mere echo of the tritest common
places of the Republican newspapers. We
challenge his admirers to polnt out single
idea which he has contributed to the thread
bare stock from which he drew the materials of
his address.
AN EXPENSIVE BREAKF .sr.-There seems to
be diversity of opinion about one OF Cleo
natra's breakfasts It was the most costly