Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-07-01
THE ADsl1N7srRA IRON a SUCCESS
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; Gen. Grants career as President is
vehemently pronounced a failure by
such representative of different opinions
and constituencies as Tie Il02Aa and
The SaAz. The one denounces him be
cause, whereas he once seemed to have
few affiliations with professional polIti-
/ clans. he IS now on the best of terms
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, a brilliant President like Pierce
or Buchanan, we supposed, IS not ambi-
/ tious to enforce a 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 SIN IS even
more vehement. but less explicit. 1t de-
nounces him, latter claiming that, but
for its Editor, he would never have been
Commander-in-Chief. or President) be-
cause he takes occasional seasons of re-
Taxation from the cares of Office; because
he does not always select noted politi-
clans for the offices; because he does not
adopt high tone with effete and bank
rupt Spain because he has appointed to
Office men once engaged in rebellion
and in general, because, as it alleges, he
is lazy and incompetent.
With the personal matters which, in
one of these cases, that of Mr. Dana, are
openly discussed in conr ection with this
judgement, we have nothing to do. With
the judgement itself we propose briefly
to deal We do not regard Gen. Grants
administration as a failure. We do re-
gard it as a very safe and substantial
success, and we do not for one moment
doubt that, outside the narrow but noisy
limits Of political disappOintments and
aspirations, the sober, well 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 al
most identical with those now used in
denunciation of Gen. Grant. He was
accused Of want ofbrilIiancy. He was de-
clared to be no politician. He was said to
cling to political nobodies, like Bates and
Usher and Welles; to ignore the live,
powerful men of the party, like Chase
and Cameron 8. Butler. He was without
pluck, allowing the Country, to be bull |
lied by Great Britain with her privatcers,
and by France with her Mexican expedi- |
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cases of Office, and even INDUCED in the
enornity of telling stories, while the Re
public was in the throes of a struggle for
its existence Yet, in spite of enveno- |
med assault on these and many like
scores, he was renominated without i
count. Then was seen how trivial and
inconsequential was all this noisy sur |
face opposition. It was found that, since
Jackson, no man had so reached the |
popular heart. Assailed in Committee
rooms, he was applauded in town-meet-
ings. Disuusted in caucuses, he was
enthusiastically followed by the plain
yeomanry of the country. The men who
cast the votes believed in him to their
hearts core, and his second race for the
was no race at all, but tri-
umphal procession. It is too soon to say
that Gen. Grants popularity will to the
end abide the same tests tit is not too /
soon to say that il now seems Of ike |
character. The plain people believe in
him, as they believed in Lincoln. They /
his administration as they con-
sidered Lincoln S, a success. And they |
are right.