Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-07-06
Miscellany.
The Administration a Success.

Gen Grants career as President is We.
hemently pronounced failure by such
representatives of different opinions and
constituencies as the World and the Sun.
The one denounces him because, whereas
he once seemed to have few affiliations
with professional politicians, he is now on
the best of terms with them; because he
shows capacity to forget personal grudges
in desire to do his duty, and thus opens
cordial relations with old antagonists like
Gen. Butler; because he is not, as it
AYERS, brilliant President (like Pierce
or Buchanan, we suppose), is not amb-
tious to enforce policy of his own, but is
most ready, waving his own opinions,
when necessary, to accept and execute
the will Of the people, as expressed through
Congress. The Sun is even more vehe-
ment, but less explicit. 1t denounces
him, (after claiming that, but for its Edi-
tor, he would never have been Command
erin Chief, or President), because he
takes occasional seasons of relaxation from
the cares of office because he does not
always select noted politicians for the Of
fees; because he does not adopt high
tone with effete and bankrupt Spain; be-
cause he has appointed to Office men once
engaged in rebellion; and in general, be-
cause, as it alleges, he is lazy and in
competent.
With the personal matters which, in
one of these cases, that of Mr.. Dana, are
openly discussed in connection with this
Judgment, we have nothing to do. With
the judgment itself we propose briefly to
deal. We do not regard Gen. Grants
administration as failure. We do re.
gard it as very safe and substantial sue
cess, and we do not for one moment doubt
that, outside the narrow but noisy limits
of political disappointments and aspira-
tions, the SOBER considered judgment
of the Country sincerely and heartily
renders the same verdict We remember
that there was time when Mr. Lincoln
was denounced in terms almost identical
with those now used in denunciation OF
Gen. Grant. He was accused of lack OF
brilliancy. lie was declared to be no
politician. He was said to cling to polit-
ical nobodies, like Bates and Usher and
Welles; to ignore the live, powerful men
of the party, like Chase, Cameron and
Butler. He was without pluck, allowing
the Country to be bullied by Great Brit
ain with her privateers, and by France
with her Mexican expedition. He sought
relaxation from the cares of office, and
even INDUCED in the enormity of telling
stories, while the Republic was in the
throes of struggle for its existence. Yet,
in spite of envcnomed assault on these
and many like scores, he was renominated
without count. Then was seen how
trivial and inconsequential was all this
noisy surface opposition. 1t was found
that, since Jackson, no man so reached
the popular heart. Assailed in commit.
tee-rooms, he was appiauded in town
meetings. Distrusted in caucuses, he was
enthusiastically followed by the plain yeo
many of the country. The men who
cast the votes believed IN him to theil
hearts core, and his second race for tht
Presidency was no race at all, but tri
umphal procession. 1t is too soon to say
that Gen. Grants popularity will to thu
end abide the same tests;--it is not to-
soon to say that il seems of like character
The plain people believe in him. as the.