The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-06
General Grant. Loss Of Fame.

General Grants Loss Of Fame.
No man who ever occupied the Presi-
DENTAL chair has lost caste and charac-
ter so rapidly as has General GRANT.
lie came in with all the reputation OF
a great soldier flushed with mighty
victories and the restoration of the
Union, and in fifteen months he has
lost the confidence OF even his own
party and inspired the general contempt
OF the country and the world. Even
the New York TcmcS, leading Repub.
lican organ, speaks Of him III the fol-
lowing strain:
1T is certainly not the iault Of his
supporters in the Press that so thorough
want of harmony exists between the
Senate and himself. Matters seem to
be getting in very much the same state
az they ,,ere in the time of Andrew
johnson. Projects in which the Presi-
dent takes deep interest are ignomin-
iously cast out OF the Senate. This OPP
position may partly be due to the. dis
satisfaction with which certain features
of the Presidents policy are regarded,
but it NAV be traced still more clearly
10 the want of tact which General Grant
often displays in his dealings with men.
He seems to have lost the art Of con-
citation. His nominations TO office are
dictated in many instances by caprice,
or by personal preferences which are
founded on motives inexplicable to those
who entertain q high opinion Of his
character. His antagonists, indeed,
lind it easy to interpret his conduct by
the assumption that he is influenced by
all kinds Of unworthy considerations.
We who have patiently stood by him
cannot TRANQUILITY accept that hypothe-
si-. But in the presence of some of his
acts we stand bewildered-it is imposs-
Die 10 defend them; it is impossible
even TO understand them. They are
purely phenomenal in their character,
and cannot in any way be traced to the
ordinary causes Of political action
And then the New York EvsniGg Post
known as one of the most unrelenting
Radical papers in the country, is be-
coming disguised with ULYSSES. On
Friday last it contained leader of
nearly two columns reviewing his adj
ministration, from which the following
paragraphs are taken:
General Grants relations TO the peo-
pie and the Republican party, seem to
have changed very considerably since
he was made President. We propose
TO say few plain, vet not unklndly
words on this subject
IF General Grant, after surveying the
ground before him, az ii had been his
wont in the late war to reconnoitre the
field before an engagement, had put
himself at the head OF the two great
reforms which The country needs so
much-the currency reform and the
revenue reform--he wonld have had
the people enthusiastically with him,
as they were with General Jackson in
hisconflict with the United States Bank.
The people were ready for this;
they had enlisted under him, and
asked nothing better than that he
should lead them in some great
and beneficial amendment of our
public policy Congress would
have readily obeyed the popular
voice it would not have ventured to do
otherwise; the people would have been
released from burdens which they bear
impatiently; the credit Of the govern
ment would have been raised every
where; the spectators would have been
disappointed; the monopolists would
have been obliged to give way as they
have done before, and the record of Gen.
Grants administration would have filled
an illustrious page in our political his
tory.
$50 far as relates to the bestowal of
public employments, the complaint is
that he has not shown the sagacity
which was so much admired in the war
when he committed the most important
expeditions to the ablest officers Many
wanton removals of the best men have
UeeH lIduS, Civ eoult appointments
which are absolutely disgraceful: Offices
have been bestowed as if qualifications
and character were of no consequence. !
General Grants manifest errors in this /
part of his administration have done
much to cool the popular enthusiasm
in his favor but there are other causes
Of its remarkable decline
This has special reference to the
recent change which GRANT has made
in the Federal officers in New York and
the defeat of his pet scheme for the
annexation of San Domingo. But in
no particular whatever, has he ever
displayed ability, tact or dignity, much
less any part of that craftsmanship
which is indispensable TO the success of
L wise President of the United States. !
He is 4 mere automaten in some of his
actions and is ruled by friends who have |
done him some personal and pecu-
niarv favor, and then in other actions !