The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-03-12
rHE NV AnnIN1srRaa1on.

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All eyes have been turned to the cap
ital Of the country for the past week to
catch some glimpse OF the policy to be
pursued by General Grants AdminSs-
tration. Every item Of telegraphic
news is looked at and weighed from ev-
cry conceivable standpoint, by the AJAX
ious public, In order to ascertain If the
new President Is likely to fulfill the high
expectations Of the people. So far all
looks well. The Inaugural, which we
print in another column, is not the 6ne-
Iy written rhetorical document that we
should look for from some OF onr great
statesmen, but II Is the plain, unassum-
ing, straightforward speech which We
looked for from General Grant There
is no attempt at ffourish-no high sound
ing words and self laudation--no prom
ises which he never expects to fulfill. IL
indicates in plain terms the landmarks
Of the policy to be pursued by him, and
we think meets the appreciation of the
public. Even Wendell Phillips does
not censure the Inaugural, ana the most
conservative Republican can but admire
it for its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., il he can
not endorse.
General Grant takes the Presidential
chair entirely free from obligation to
party cliques or rings, and untrammeled
by undue influences, and from this fact
thousands of Republicans have feared
that his administration would not be
acceptable, or that he would not pursue
policy that would accord with the SEN
timent Of the party which placed him
in power. That he is not under Obliga-
tions to rings in any shape, is one of the
most hopeful features of his administra-
that his action will be in full harmony
with the mass OF the American people.
He has distinctly stated on several oc-
casions that he shall have no policy to
force upon the country contrary to pub
lie opinion and Law. We shall have none
of that one-man, self-conceited arrogance
which has disgraeed the country for the
past four years. We shall have a gov
eminent of lava government of the
people and for tire people.
The public expect that two of the
leading features of the new administra-
ton win be honesty and retrenchment.
These have been promised, and sore dis
appointment will follow if the promis-
es in this respect are not strictly COM
piled with OF course, in the manage
ment of the details of so extensive
an affair as this government now is, no
man on earth can prevent rascality, hut
it is high time that the wholesale and
shameful swindiing of the past should
be brought to an end. We believe Gen.
Grant will do this SO far as lies in his
power. Almost every city, town and
village in the land can furnish men who
have taken offices under the government
at moderate salary, who were poor as
church mice before they entered upon
the discharge of the duties of such Off
ces, and who in four or five years have
come outimmensely wealthy. OF course
everybody knows such men did not get
their money hOnestly-that they are en-
joying the perquisites of the govern
ment. What record could be shown
If the affairs of the thousands of such
thieves and scoundrels could be strictly
and honestly overhauIed, and in how
much better condition our national
treasury would be to-day were it in pos
session of the amounts which justly be-
long to it, but which have gone to line
the pockets of dishonest agents. This
very thing has done more to discourage
the loyal and honest portion of the
American peor lie, and sap the founda-
| tons of the government than all other
causes put together, except, perhaps, the
rebellion. Now this ought to be stopped,
and must be stopped. General Grant has
honestly and determinedly set out to do
it. He has herculean task before him,
and if he succeeds, as we believe he will,
he will deserve and receive the thanks
of the American people.
The people have suffered long. They
now feel that the sunlight has broken
through the cloud that has hung over
| them for four years. Perhaps their ex-
pectations arc too high. They ought
not to demand impossibilities from the
new administration. If we are not mis-
taken, they will have much to rejoice
over for the next four years. We be-
lieve General Grant will pay some atten-
ton to the duties of his Office, and to
the demands of the people, instead of
! spending his time in fighting the peo-
pie through their Congress, and in talk
ing about "my policy" We believe we
shall have Peace. We believe we shall
have restoration of confidence. Pros
perity and National honor will follow
these. Our 'sick man"-the South
will recover. Sheridan, together, with
Yankee ingenuity, Yankee enterprise,
and free ballots, will reconstruct her.
We sincerely hope that the day of po.
litical rings, dishonesty in office, aud Ku
Klux organizations have gone out from