Nebraska advertiser., 1869-03-04
what we may Expect OF gen.
.trr f Grant.
BY cHARIEs q. CAME.

First, Gen. Grant will be President
in fact as well as in name. AS we
have seen, he never was q man to hes
itate about exercising any amount of
power that might be confided to him.
In JacksOn's place, he might have
said, II take the responsibilities but
he would have taken it, nevertheless,
and said nothing about it. Even one
of his associates in the Gelena leather
store understood this popularity well
enough to give Governor Yates of ILL.,,
who had confessed his inability to get
at the special capacities of ''this Capt.
Grant," the following good advice:
1.-THE way to deal with him is to ask
him no questions, but simply order
him to duty. He will obey promptly
The people have now summoned this
same prompt officer to be President of
the United States, and that he will be.
If any individuals high in position or
prone to intrigue indulge the hope of
managing or improperly influencing
Mr.. JOhnsOn's successor, it only re-
mains for them, seeing how blind they
have been to the plainest pages of re-
cent history, to take lesson or two
in the school of experience and pay
their tuition. 1all nf
Secondly, it is but a reasonable eal-
culation that Gen. Grant, in. the dis
charge of the duties of the Presidency,
will win a substantial success not un-
suited to his marital renOWn. Indeed
nine tenths of those who have risen
above the folly of cOnfOunding the gift
of popular OratOry with executive tai
ent cOneede already that he has all the
main requisites for administering the
affairs of the country at this time, ex-
cept, possibly, the information de-
rived from long civil experience. His
generalship reveals governing ability
of the highest order, cireumspectiOn
only matched by energy, and an un-
erring faculty for selecting the right
men for subOrdinates. AS to the
possible deficiency alluded to-
and we must always bear in
mind that there is no special
training school for the Presidency,
Gen. Grant is the son of his
time, and, though be may not be
learned in the craftsmanship of books,
he cOmpFehends his own age. Start
ing with that political tdbtIn rasG, the
mind of an army cer,-having real
ly voted but once before the war (for
Buchanan), and having always re-
GREETED that,-he enjoyed the excel
lent privilege of having nothing to un-
learn. The crisis found him without
and he took in all its ele-
ments dispasiOnately as comprising
the true situation with which he was
to deal. Even that conservative bias,
of which a few good Republican sup
porters are still absurdly suspicious,
was in his favor, for which it has been
observed that the descent from youth
ful liberalism has often been as swift
and extreme as the apostasy of a Straf-
ford, the contrary tendency, as illus
trated in the lives of men like Peel
and Gladstone, gives the finest fruits
of genuine progress. Hence it hap
pened, that, while anti-slavery men of
many years standing were worrying
over the future relations Of the institu-
ton they had so long fought and
feared, Grant calmly foresaw and an
nOunced and, more than that, every
stage of the eXtinguishing process can
now be traced in his military orders,
in advance of the action of Congress
and of the executive. The same re-
mar II MAY NC Aitl4C Vic AC-
policy of the govern
ment :. its germs are all to be found in
the record of his field measures, while
toward the maturing of that policy he
gave his valued counsels and his pro-
foundest sympathies. OF all the great
questions which appear to demand
settlement during the incoming ad-
ministration, it may be truly said that
none are older than Gen. Grants pub
lie life, while Most have already
touched him at many points in his
career, and engaged his earnest atten-
tion. For the last three years in par
ticular he has reflected upon the po-
litical junCture, perhaps with the
prescience that he would be called to
deal with it practically: he has con-
ferred with the acutest statesmen of
the day, and has mingled with his
in every partOf the Union.
1t would not be strange, therefore, if
the whole situation bearing upon the
comprising policies, men,
and measures, should be at this mo-
ment.as accurately mapped out in his
mind as were his great campaigns be-
fore he fought them in the field, and
should be followed by national results
hardly second in value. - atlantic
fo.