The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-19
v,rrish comments on the inaugural.


regard TO the character and abilities OF the
new President. He is as highly complimented
Inv transatlantic journalists as by the organs Of
his own party. The Examiner thinks he has
uiyeu s'preof of moral courage and self-pos
sesa;ou. both of them qualities of great value
to a ruler" The Tins sees in the inaugural
Slopes Of beneficial and honorable career"
and bright prospect that Grants "term of
Office may be the beginning of new period Of
prosperity, SURPRISING even that which came
to an end eight years ago amid the flames of
civil war" The Ddiiy Nevs declares that ''it
is entirely clear that the new President is
man intensely representative of the American
people--of its strength and weakness, its high
principle, and its national prejudices." The
Star thinks the address justifes the belief
that Grants counsels "will be those Of wis
dom and moderation" and that he twill up
hold the greatness of his country by reuniting
divided people, by economizing and wisely
employing the national resources, and by
cultivatipg peace abroad and at home the
civic virtues"
The English journals also unite in COM
mending the emphatic declarations of the in
augural in respect to the maintenance Of the
public credit. They point to their own his
tory as proof that faithful discharge Of
national obligations is not only honorable, but
in the end economical; and the fact that Bri-
tish oonsols, bearing but three per cent. inte-
rest, command higher price in the money
markets of the world than United States bonds,
which yield six per cent, is striking illus
tration Of the practical advantages enjoyed by
Great Britain from the maintenance of her
credit, and of the large reduction in the
annual burden Of our national debt which the
American people can secure if they persist in
frowning down repudiators and schemes for
repudiation. The language of the inaugural
is, II possible, considered even more conclu-
sive in regard to the financial question abroad
than at home. The Times comedies that
it "will have good effect in
maintaining public credit" The NewS pro-
nounces Grants election "the decisive victory
of the party of honesty over that'of repudia-
tion," and views his inaugural as distinct
assurance that "the full discharge of promises
to pay is the fundamental basis on which his
administration rests"
tested in regard to the general character of the
address and the wisdom of its utterances on
financial questions, there is singular diver
sity of sentiment in reference to the signi6-
canoe of Grants brief allusion to his foreign
policy. On this subject great sensitiveness
prevails in England. All parties there under
stand clearly that this nation has just cause
of complaint against Great Britain for the
course of her administration and her fill
clustering merchants during the war, and
they are nervously anxious to learn the
manner and extent of the atonement that
must sooner or later be made for the wrongs
perpetrated In the hour of our Ca
lamity. The varying shades OF opinion
are chiefly on the question whether
the = sentence which announces that
If other nations fail TO deal justly with
the United States 1--WE may be compelled to
follow the precedent" has any bearing upon
the Alabama case. The Times evidently does
not think 1t has. The Nesos is in doubt. The
Star oonfesses that the paragraph in question
''may be fairly interpreted as an allusion to
the Alabama imbroglio;" but it adds that sit
involves no actual menace, and we must be
content to accept the rebuke If we feel, as we
must do, that 1t is not wholly undeserved.'' -
The Post is unwilling to believe that the
enigmatical paragraph "can have any refer
ence to the unfortunate dispute which has
arisen between the United States and Great
Britain in connection with the depreda-
tions committed by the Alabama aud
her sister cruisers, and to convey an
intimation that unless the claims ad-
vanced by the American Government
are satisfied, American privateers will, in the
event of Great Britain being engaged in war
with any European State, commit acts which
would be in the nature of reprisals;" but the
Pos. knows full well that this country has q
thousand times better right and reason tc
adopt the course 1t deprecates, in the contin-
reucy referred to, than Great Britain had to
commit the original ofense. The Pail Nal
Gazette thinks 1t not improbable that the
questionable sentence has "oecult references
20 the Alabama case" but 1t claims that
ssGreat Britain will have no reason for alarm
provided that the reprisals limited at are
strictly limited to the reproduction Of thu
wyongs from which the United States hal
really suffered"
The British journalists may as well make uI
their minds that II the Alabama case is No
houorsbly settled, their eulogistice endorsement
Of the general tenor of the inaugural Will no