The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-08-18

to an extravagant eccentricity his love
of quiet and retirement. No public
man of his station, since the beginning
of the Government, has so constantly
thrown himself in the way of the peo-
pie. A triumphal procession through
the country every six months since
the wal has been the least of it. AS
President he is pushing his social pre-
negatives to the fullest bent. There
have passed fourteen weeks since the
adjournment of Congress Grant has
passed half of them here, the rest in
social unbending elsewhere. They say
he takes gaily to the dance at Long
Branch, sliding through the figures
more glibly than at Annapolis and
West Point. This is very we'll, but
the country is asking him and his Cab
met a few serious questions that ii
would be well to have answered from
Washington, reception balls at the
seashore Notwithstanding. What
about Cuba, South America, Virginia,
the South, the Alabama matters, and
political assassinations :?
THE SPHINX POLICY DON'T FILL THE
BILL.
1t is credible that the cabinet and
the head of. the nation, properly di-
costing these things, would not find
much time to be absent from the cap
itol. Anyhow, the nation is anxious
to see looming above the rosy horizon
of balls, routs, excursions, banquets,
receptions, and seaside frivolities, the
executive head of a powerful Repub-
contented with this sphinx-like policy.
1t may be Delphic, as Shellabarger
said, but is less than Republican.
Tie President would do well to accept
humility from the Cabinet tasco and
consult the people h~enceforth. Amen
Der of the Grant family is reported to
have remarked, just after the nominal
ton cit was the Generals desire
not to be made President by a party,
but by the people," Perhaps here is
Il little light. Perhaps Grant believes
that the "era of good feeling may re-
turn again under his administration
that lie is a Colossus, under whose legs
all the people can walk.
So far the
PETTINEssES OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
have been the most Objectionable, and
now. playing President, he reminds
you of q boy who wished to be'a king,
$50 that he might ride on the gate
post all day" If he will stop buying
bagatelles in New York, and parading
his Presidency along the porches OF
the Stetson, and keep to Executive
business here, he will look more like &
successor of Washington-his ambi-
ton, VIC are told.
TIE DENTS FOR EvEE.
Early after the inauguration, wher
offices and honors we're heaped, like
Attila's bucklers, upon the royal house
of Dent, you might have heard here
amorg certain sagacious Western mer
pertinently suggested the establish
ment of firms "to go into the brother
in-law business" The suggestion haC
dropped from my mind until, arising
from my sick bed, [ hear the buzzing O.
Il fresh swarm of Dents-comc out like
locusts-applying for satrapies in The
Southwest.
One believes almost that there is
somewhere a brokerage of this magic
name, upon whose bearers and Office.
are expected to drop like stars. A
storol Copper of thoLcapitoIof aneioni
Persia went one day to Ibrahim, the
Governor Of his province, to Request
the abatement of the taxes he was un
able to pay to Hasse lbrahim, a chic
magistrate of the city, and the Gov
errors brother.
"You must pay or leave the city,
replied the Governor. "Where shall
L go 7" asked the sllopkeeper. "Tc
Shiraz," was the reply. "Yourneph
CIV rules that city, and your family
err. ''Then go to Caslian." "But you.
uncle is Governor there" either
complain to Shah" Gle is your ED
er brother, and. Prime Minister.
"Then 60 to the lower regions !" ex
| claimed the Governor, in a passion
"Alas ! your pious father is dead" re
torted tue shopkeeper.
History repeats its trying situa
tons, it is said, for every people. TIL,
Dents are our Ibrahims. We NEE
them omniprescnt here, and only by
a virtuous life have the hope of escap
ing them in the hereafter.