New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-06
THE ADMINISTRATOR INDORSED
New York Standard Review.

New York Standard Review.
We copy the following excellent editorial
from the New York Standard:
Republican conventions have been held in
four or five of the States of the Union. and
in every one of them the Administration of
President Grant has been indOrsed. The
last that set its seal of approval was South
Carolina. In that State Governor Scott has
been nominated for reelection and a colored
man placed on the ticket for Lieutenant
Governor There is very little doubt that
these gentlemen will be elected.
The criticism most frequently made on
the administration of President Grant Is.
that it has not fulfilled the expectations of
the people that it is what is called weak
This complaint as a general thing, comes
from some of the weakest men in the
cOuntry-frOm, for the most part, the poll
tician who has always held office, but who
some way. was forgotten in March, 1869, in
the distribution of the Federal patronage.
What is a weak administration. When did
we have strong one! Was it under
Buchanan, whose cabinet was nest of
| traitors, Was it under Lincoln! We re-
member how Mr.. Seward was called weak
| and something worse when he consented to
| the surrender of Mason and Slidell. Mr..
| Chase was bitterly criticised as Secretary of
the Treasury, and yet a large portion OF
l
| Tammany Hall in 1868 thought he was
| strong enough to run for the Presidency
| The cutlery against the late Mr.. Stanton
| as a Cabinet officer never ceased. There
was as much opposition to him within his
own party as there was outside it. Was
| Montgomery Blair a strong Postmaster
General; and, if so, why has he been allowed
to go to sleep in Washington! was MIR;
| JobnsOn's administration a strong one
What did Mr. McCullOch do in the Treas
ury Department! What did Mr.. Randall
do in the postoffice! What did Mr.. Stan
| berry do as Attorney General. Acquit this
chief. Hardly that. for Andrew johnson
was morally convicted if not technically
| Never did Cabinets blunder so much and so
often as the Cabinets of Lincoln and John
son. Never did Cabinet commit so many
crimes as the Cabinet of Buchanan. Lin,
coins Cabinet put an end to the rebellion
Yes. but it was only by the aid OF the genius
of Grant. Mr.. Dana, in his history OF the
great commander bears witness to this.
General Grant. when he was inaugurated.
was called on to solve a difficult problem
He found the public service debauched; a
national debt. the reduction of which seemed
an impossibility. The nation quivered IL
every nerve. The intOXicatiOn OF the wal
was hardly at an end The dclirium Of ex
element in which Mr.. johnson kept the
country was felt in every branch OF bust
ness Gold was bought and sold without
the slightest notice, and Wall street was
again and again convulsed by the unex
pected and unforeseen action of the Treas
ury Department.
President Grant promised peace. and has
kept his word. He promised the faithful
collection of the revenues, and as cOnse
uucnce the national debt is being reduced
at the rate of one hundred millions of dol
lars per annum, at the same time that til,
burden of taxation is reduced to the extern
of eighty millions year. The reconstruc
ton difficulty, which, under johnson, wa
the source of heartburning and discomfort
has passed away, and to-day we are a
peace with ourselves and with all the world
The administration of President Grant is
stronger and better one than we have hat
in fourteen years, and we are not surprised
that it is indOrsed by every Republican con
: vention that passes a resolution.