The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-05

Borie's successor. jolly fellow introduced Dip
Iona tlcaIly to Grant, in good mood, on snip
board, aud deity carving hls way into the Cab
met with his knife as he dned ut the same To-
BILE. The people needed Introduction, too, 10
the new man. But that was little matter.
The monkey races sonnet mes select their
leaders by the lensth OF their tails. Louis
XVI made Modsieur D'Avaray a duke for
helping him into his carriage. Then Grant
imposes upon US with other pretensions. He
has published to ali extravlgant eccentricity
bis love Of quiet and retirement. No pubic
man Of his station, since the beginning OF the
government has go constantly thrown himself
sion through the country every Six months
since the war has bsen the least OF it. As
President, he ls pushing his social preroga-
dves to the fullest bent. There have passed
fourteen weeks since the adjournment OF Co l.
gress. Grant has passed the balf OF them
here, the rest in social unbendlng elsewhere.
They say he takes gaily to the dance at Long
Branch, sliding through the figures more
glibly than at Annapolis and West Point. fnis
is very we'll; but the country ls asking OF him
and his Cabinet q few serious questions that 1t
would be well 70 have answered from Wash
inston, reception balls at the seashore not
withstanding. What about Cuba. South Amer
lca, Virginia, the South, the Alabama matters,
and political assassinatlons
1t IL credible that the Cabinet and the head
of the nation, properly dige.tng these things.
would not fnd much time to be absent hOm
the capital. Anyhow, the nation is anxious to
see looming above the rosy horizon OF balls,
roats, excursions, baDquets, receptions and
seaside trIvolllies, the executive hand OF
powerful Republican administrator. We are
hardly coptented with this sphinx-llke policy. 1t
may be Delphc, as Shelab abarger said, but Is
less than Republican. The President would do
well to accept hum,iity from the Cabinet tidsco.
aud consult the people hencefortb. msmbar
OF the Grant family is reported to have re-
marked, just after the Domlnation: 1T Was
the Generals desire not 10 10 made President
by party, but by the people" Perhaps here
Is little light. Perhaps Grant believes that
the ''era of good feeling" NAV return again un-
der hIs administration; that be is O Colos suS
under whose legs all the people can walk.
He need not deceive himself; It is not 30.
The nation. just DOW, belongs emphatlcally to
administration is looking very bonest and sat-
isfac,ory in details. But if The President does
MT s,snd out little more clearly in Republl-
can sunlight in December than in July. there
are mat ers brewing for row. There ls no
open accusation yet. save in matters personal,
few signs and omens as If about the edges OF
the administration, broad based upon the
peoples EilI," there 6ickered mp duskily and
distantly the bale fires Of evil, hostile ele.
ments.
Grant will right himself in the larger affairs,
OF course, or the party that sustains him will
shake him off as lion q dewdrop from his
mane. So tar the pettiuesses Of his sdmiuis-
tration have bean the most Objectionable and
now, playing President. he rem,nda you OF the
boy who wished to be king. 'so that be might
ride on the gate-post all day. II he will stop
buying bagateles in New York, and paradiug
bis presidency among the porches of The Stet-
son and keep TO executive business here, he
will look more like a successor OF Washington
his ambition, we arc iaG