Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-10
GRANT.

huUlE1LlVA HULL ~
pondent-a gentleman of character, OF
Influence, and Of some experience in
Washington affairs. In social life he
occupies a high position, one that has
opened to him Ways and NEAR for po-
Iiticsl information that do not ordinarily
occur to every a His letter will,
therefore, be read with unusual Interest,
as emsnating from 3 source only less i'm
portsnt than IL Of semi-official origin.
He has lately been in the traces for Vir-
Rinia, and is well up in the tone and
temper Of GRANTS friends. He does
not agree with US as to u conclusions
of what we may expect from GRANTS
administration advises thst we " take
things as we find Them" negro suffrage
and all, and settle down to an aequies-
in what is inevitably to flow to Us
as 9 consequence. Having carefully
weighed cur correspondents points, We
are Is far from coincidiDg with him as
ever. We believe, with the New York
Tribune, that Gen. GRANT is bound in
honor to administer the Government
upon Republican principles, and not IS
the New York Times would have Us be-
lieve, upon principles Of his own, and
which are to be the platform Of a new
party. Nor do we believe with the
New York World that GRANT can, with
a decent self respect, Tylerizs tAe party
that elected him and seeome the patron
Of Democracy by the distribution Of pap
and lsrgesse to the needy and hungry Of
Tammsny Hall, ready to throw up their
hats for any man, Sc be be King and their
friend. Nor do we believe in the med
ley programme for GRANT prepared by
the New York Herald. But we do be-
Heve in " taking facts as We find them,"
and, therefore, are convinced that the
GRANT Administration will be purely
Republican and that the South has as
little to expect from him Of Executive
favor as she could hope for from one who
has foreshadoSed his political career by
endorsing SHERIDAN and SICKLEs, the
" officers who, Of all others, recon-
ulEuOE0 kAElAEC4 ~ AAC NAAAE-LN
Radicals by an Overbearing and insult
ing enforcement Of the reconstruction
laws. GRANT will conform 70 the Re-
publican standard in the exercise OF the
high functions Of the Presidential office.
In proof that he will do SO, he hiss so tsr
taken counsel Of mona who are not lden-
titled with that party. Ex-Gov. FISH
and A. T. STEWART, Of New York, are
among his chief advisers; and it is well
known that Z. B. WAsHBURNE is bis
chief fuglemAn, and WILSON, Of Iowa,
among the first Of his fAvOrites in the
House OF Representative. Gen.
LOGAN, 1t will be r~ecollected,
lately attempted to bully sCHENCK
In his interest, conveying al
impression that he, too, corrupt swag-
geTer that be is, is also in the confidence
OF the man from whom our correspon-
Gent bids US hope a mild and benevolent
management Of public sffAirs. With
such lights before US, it is beyond our
power.
That Gen. GRANT will administer the
Government honestly, so far as it's fnsn-
ciSl affairs are concerned, we will viii
lingly cOncede as probable, because he
has already given an earnest to that ef-
feet In his wholesale reduction Of en-
ployees and expenses in the War Depart
ment, and the Efforts now Oeing made,
under his auspices, to still further curtsil
the expenses Of the army. Economy
will be one OF his maxims, and to the ex-
tent that he conducts public affairs under
that head, and up to the full meaning Of
that word, be will be heartily sustained
by all the people and the more nearly
he conforms to a standard Of justice, g,
far rs we Of the South are concerned, the
less embarrassed will be his Presidential
career and the greater the eclat With
which he may possibly retire from the
highest office in the country. We re-
peat, we have little to hope for, Iudg
Jog By what Gsn. GRANT has done;
little that will De 10 accord with the de-
sires OF the conservative people Of the
South little that will be encouraging TO
the men and women who have so thor
Oughly recupersted this fair land from
the ravsges Of war little that viii be s
reqGita for sgonies endured, for the rob.
berries Of political rights and personal
property, thst have been borne with 8
patience that shames that Of Ireland.
though nearly seven hundred years old.
GRANTS administration will be thor
oughly Republican; be cannot, in honor,
says GREELEY, makeit otherwise. What
that will be, We repsat, let the history Of
the Thirty-ninth and FOrtieth Congress
tell. GRANTS administration VIII be
Republican, because he is a Republican T;
IL in no other way, made 30 by the
united ~opposition Of the National Dem
OcrAile Party.
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