New-York tribune., 1869-03-05

There can be no doubt as to Gen. Grants
FOREIGN policy. He establishes simple prlnei-
ple of action in his Inaugural Address
We have only to look back upon his record to
see that he is among the most progressive Oh
our American statesmen upon foreign AFFAIRS
So far "a consistent with international honor'
he will be the champion of the principle
established by Adams and Monroe, anu
direct his policy toward the consoi,ua.ion
and extension of Republican msIi'uuohS
upon the North American Continent! Oupa
seems to be falling into our lap "na'
Buchanan would have given $3OO,OOO,OOo LOT
Grant may probably get for noM'ng' ~
is ours in everything but nero ai'
legiance. San Domingo stands at our door,
n colony for which Napoleon wasted o
splendid army, as Carlyle says, " ht 1or
"any of the noblest spices, or products; clasped
"around, and lovingly kissed and laved by the
"beautifuest seas in the world" And with oah
Domingo comes Porto Rico We can walt tor
Canada! The Alaska business was scandal;
but in our American foreign policy it was.what
the ohess PLAYERS call "an advanced pawn"
II can scarcely be our new Presidents purpose,
but we should not be surprised IL IL Decame
his privilege, to add to the United otates
Canada and Cuba, and Jamaica, and even per
haps :" the still-vexed BermOthees," which vexeu
lis so greatly with their Nassau plracles anu
blockade running, and other annoying neu-
"tralitiesn during the war. This ambition Is
not warlike. We shall not have war with any
country about new possessions Public opinion
will never permit it and if the Alabama ques-
ton has no other settlement, as it stands now
il gives to America that supremacy by Whlch
England was enabled to overthrow the power
of the first Bonaparte, and puts mighty COM
mercial Albion under bonds to keep the peace
with every maritime nation in the world
What we hope to receive from Gen. Grant
is n spIendid administration. We have had so
many pcayune Presidents that 1t is refreshing
TO find a man entering into the Chief Magls-
tracy with something more than mere caucus
and political convention record. He takes into
his new place broader renown than
any President since Washington. We doubt
if even Washington, when he entered this
Office. had fame so wOrld-embraclng.
The America whose army he commanded was
then an outlying and far-d distant portion OF the
gl obe. To-day even it's enemies confess that 1t
is one of the first nations in the earth! Jackson
was simply known in his own borders as a sue
cessful fighter in Indian countries, and the
hero of one great victory over the British
troops. Lncoln's fame came to him with
the Presidency. Beautiful in life. but
"more beautiful in death" Gen. Grant
takes into his magstracy reputation as
great as that of Napoleon when he became
Fist Consul, and a power for good or evil
even greater The coming historian will say
that while the pen of Lincoln wrote the
decree of Emancipation, the sword of Grant
secured it! 1t was his generalship that
made that "Bull against the Comet" sue
cessful anathema. In that crOwning glory of
this century Lincoln and Grant stand together!
We fondly hope that when the history OF
the century is written, 1t will be said OF our
new President that he found America verging
upon bankruptcy, and left it solvent; that he
found the currency of paper, and turned 1t
into gold that he found crime in high places,
and drove it into prisons; that he made Ameri-
can faith as much respected as American
prowess; that he found the flag of his country
floating over few coasting vessels, and left
IL carving our commerce into every sea-
and this Republic so respected that the
passport of the State Department was as much
honored and feared as the insignia of Roman
citizenship in the time of Paul; that he did this
without shedding one drop of blood; without the
violation of one vested right siIlply by that
supreme and simple craftsmanship which unites
peace with justice, and honesty with courage.
This century has known two conquerors One
trumphcd at Austerltz, and left his country
glorious. but with the mournful glory of aggres-
sivc war. 1t was merely name and Freedoms
splendid mausoeum. The other tIiumphed at
Richmond, GOV orned his country with wisdom
and patriotism, and left it the mightiest
Republic upon the earth. And probably it may
came TO us to realize what John Bright said
in 1862, in his magnificent speech at Birming-
ham, referring to the purposes of the Rebel
leaders TO spread tho blight of Slavery over
a territory forty times as large "a England:
"I have another, and far brighter vision
"before my gaze. IL may be II vision, but
| will cherish il. ] see ono vast confeder-
"aton stretching from the frozen North in
"unbroken line to the glowing South; and
" from the wild billows of the Atlantic west
"ward To the calmer waters of the Pacific
"main and see one people and one language,
land one law, and one faith and over all
=" that wide continent, the home of freedom
:" and refuge for the oppressed of every race
and of every cline y
The range of public amusements is certainly
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