The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-05
The First Year Of Gen. Grants Admins.
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Gen. GRANT has been in office Just one year
What has his Administration accomplished in
these twelve months, and how does he him.
self stand to-day in the estimation of the party
that elected him TO the Presidency
We do not misinterpret the public iudg
mont whom we say that no man ever chosen
10 the Presidential Office stood 80 low at the
close of the first year of his term, in the esti
nation Of the leading minds Of his party,
as Gen. GRANT docs. They perceive that
he has narrow intellect, very good
when backed by rather firm purpose, or
pushed forward by the resoluto will of Others,
10 work doPgedly along upon a plain,
straight line but utterly incapable of tax.
ing broad views of subject, or rising to
heights where one may survey the ground
all around him, and look far ahead into other
fields, some Of which he may soon be required
10 occupy. In a word, his supporters have
learned tat he has not q single statesman
Ike quality for meeting the unprecedented
cxigcncy which has overtaken the Republican
party.
Gen. GRANTS supporters have likewise
found out, after year of painful experience,
that he possesses not the slightest sngacity or
tact MS politician, and has not the faintest
Idea of the method by which parties are 10 be
Kept together and stimulated to vigorous
action. This total absence of skill as n
politician is, however, not surprising in one
who, while in civil life, during the stormy
controversies of the last twenty years, took
80 little interest in public affairs that he
never voted but once, and then for JAMES
BUCHANAN.
The natural result Of this all but unan-
nous verdict of leading Republicans is, that
not one Of them, except he lie recipient
of the Presidential bounty, contemplates
the denomination of Gen. GRANT-a judg.
ment never before entered up against any
regularly elected President az the close Of his
first year in office.
So much for Gen. GRANT personally am
his aspirations and hopes for H." futr~'
And now, how fares it with his Administra-
tion2 Has it met the just expectations OF
the people any better than he himself has
The reconstruction policy was clearly dciin-
ed and nearly consummated before h. a.
sumcd the Executive cha r. With plain
path before it, the Administration has been
vcxatiously dlatory anu sham, ully rcmiss IN
conn letting the work of reconstruction.
Every state the Union voted for President
In 1868 except Virginia, Mis- ssip.i. and
Texas The Republicans swept the Grll 4,
Congress assembled on the fourth OF March,
1869; and yet, after the lapse Of year
Virginia and Mississippi are only just re-
stored to full fellowship, while Grorg has
been partially thrust out of the Union, and
Texas has not been admitted at all, Can
this lie called success, or does it not rather
deserve the Il, me OF Il consp c.ous and ut.
tcrly inexcueallc allure of the Administration
To carry through programme 50 plain that
4 wayfaring man, though a non.poltical
President, need not err therein?
How stands the case in regard 60 our for.
cign relations? The course Of the Admins.
traton has brought the Rcpulc into con.
tempt both in Europe and America.
While the brave the generous, the
sagacious E.SMLISs was alive there
was hope for Cuba; for Ii, hud long
len wont TO exert gre # power over GRANT.
At his death the cause of Cuba fell into the
hands Of the puslanimous FISH anil the
pcmpous SUMMER and since that disastrous
hour we Lave witnessed naught out bos'
bowling of the knee of this great Republic
ut the feet of decrcpt Spain. As 20 the Ala.
bama claims, they arc further from settle
mcnt now thln when ANDREW JOHNSON
left ,hc White House, willie England
views the dullncss of the Almin,s;ra
ton with surprise ana its imhec,ity WITH
contempt As patriotic AMI high soulcd
Americans contemplate the deplorahle con
diton Of our foreign relations, they are fair
to cry out Oh for one hour of MARCY OF o
SEWARD
And what is the policy Of the Admiustra
ton on financial questions, the leading
issues OF the future2 Has it got a policy o
any sort? Ii So do We find it IN the vote
OF the sixty Republicans in Conarcss vii,
went with Mr. MARSHALL for strictly rev
Nuut ANllli VI III lllt Nhttn VI tl4' flELlN ~
ninety Republicans who favored projections
Do we find il in the votes Of the large ma
jorty of tie Republican members who SUI
ported Mr.. LoUGHRIDGE's resolution lo
the issue Of fifty millions moro Of green
backs, or in tie votes of the Republican
minority who resisted his proposiiiony An
what are Gen. GRANTS opinions on thcs
vital questions? Docs he know any NOR
about them tlan the vcrest tyro In politica
economy Has he got q financial creed
If lac has, Tray what is Il? Can SCuCSCR
can EUrILn, can CoRBIN tcllg
But there are loud and reiterated promise
about tue reduction of expenditures. Nj
DAWES informed the people of New Ham,
fhire that Gen. GRANT was in favor Of Gu,
ting the appropriations down to the lowe,
possible figure, and that wherever lie corl
sec a chance to save single dollar it Shout
surely he done and the only result Of Il,
promise which tho country has yet seen, :
liant Ia {.