New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

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procession. It is too soon to say that Gen.
Grants popularity will to the end abide the
same tests 1T is not too soon to say that IL
now seems of like character. The plain people
believe in him, as they believed in Lincoln
They consider his administration as they con
sidered Lincoln's, success. And they are
right For
Grants Administration is collecting me rere-
nue.. ecOnomi;ing The expenditures, ana Pog'"y
the debt. When Gen. Grant was Haus,'r"'ou
the National Debt was 81, 3S,0O5'o9S' AV ne oh"
of his first year it was $3.50, 66S,'9o' ana s'noc
then it has been steadily reduced Ill ever
increasing ratio. Yet taxes nave NOT
been increased. On the contrary, specin
taxes have from time to time been largely re-
duced. inposts have been removed, the burden
has been more and more lifted from productive
industry. and at this very moment, III accoro-
ance with Gen. Grants earnest desire, mOdlheu
Tax and Tariff bill is before the Senate, hav-
ing already passed the House, which taxes
off at q single stroke 60 millions more
Yet the revenue increases. what, under
johnson, went into the pockets OF the thieves
goes, under Grant, into the Golfers OF the
Treasury. and its amount is deducted from the
annual taxation.
Grants Administration, though that Of the
most successful and renowned Soldier OF ms age,
is earnestly seeking peace wih an nat'o@S o""
oroidjno entangling alliances. We have not
ALWAYS been able to agree with some details
of his foreign policy but this is its net result
Personally n known devOtee of the doctrine
Of Earliest Destiny Gen. Grant has shown
50 scrupnlous regard for the rights of our
Ill, hat tha MpXIcauS
have ceased to disturb him, and the critical
and unfriendly British Cabinet and press are
forced to accord him reluctant praise. ii he
has not done all things, as to Cuba, as we would
wish them, we are bound at least to recognize the
fact that he has preserved our burdened people
from war; protected our crippled commerce
from depreciation, and made energetic dlplo-
matte efforts for the protection OF American
citizens in insurrectionary regions.
Grants Administration has Kept the peace on
the frontier. We have been threatened with an
Indian war that under former management
would have swallowed up hundreds of millions.
With Soldier at the lead of the Government,
we might have looked for the logic of the
bayonet, in the Interpretation of Indian
treaties protection of the advancing
railroads, and opening up of the Indian
country. Instead we have had an Indian
placed at the head of the Bureau, controlling
the relations of the Government with his people,
! Quakers selected for Indian agents, the wishes
of Sherman and Sheridan held in check, and
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud brought peace
fully to Washington at the moment when
their barbarous hordes seemed ready to
raise the war-whoop and ply the scapng-
knife along hundreds of miles of our exposed
settlements. We reckon the economy of Grants
Quaker policy, not less than the economy
wrought by an honest collection OF our revenue.
Grants administration has secured the triumph
| of Equal Rights. For the passage of the XVIII
Amendment we owe him grateful thanks.
Against him it might possibly have been
carried with his earnest, cordial, and
efficient cooperation it was certainly at
tanned more speedily, and without a
serious struggle. In this and in all
other leading measures, he has been most
true to the principles of the party that elected
him has lent his most faithful and powerful
aid to secure their triumph, and has honestly
administered his great Office in their light
He has utterly disappointed the Democratic
prediction that he would betray the Republic
| cans; ana 0enCe LAC mas hooV
cheerfully co0perated with Congress has never
hesitated to advance opinions of his own
that differed from those Of Congress, and has
never delayed heartily to execute the will of
| the people, when once expressed through Its
| voice. With most decided wishes and policy
of its own, on many points, there never was
an Administration with less pride of opinion,
or more grace in yielding to the popular
verdict, as uttered by the representatives OF
the people.
Grants Administration recognises the whOle
people. 1t is no rule of the army over its con-
quered foe. Every effort is made to obliterate
the bitterness of war; to win back our
late foes to that hearty support of the Govern
ment essential to our National safety and
prosperity,-tO make this again in reality one
people. In this spirit have been many past
acts of the President; in this spirit now is the
wise and timely nomination of Mr.. Alderman
of Georgia for place in the Cabinet.
But we need not continue the recital
How poor and beggarly beside these things
seems the complaint that the President chooses
to take such relaxation as every clerk
or shOp-keeper seeks to secure ; that he
does not nominate for Office politicians with
whose claims noisy iteration has made the pub
lie ear familiar that he does not make rhetor-
ical speeches, and does not seek to establish
some great and brilliant policy of foreign ag-
grandizement or domestic expenditure
in defiance of the will of the people!
We never advocated Gen. Grant as a
great Statesman. We nave presented him to
the people as a sound and safe man. We
point to his record with hearty satisfaction,
and are sure that the Country will unite with
us in pronouncing him sound and safe man