Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-18
No Policy to Enforce Against the Will
Of the People.

The world paused to read second
time tina; expressive sentence OF ten
short words. 1t sounded strangely after
the persistent efforts of Andrew johnson
to defeat the will of the people as re.
peadedly expressed by their representa-
tives jn Congress. That sentence took
the nation. as it were, by storm. 1t was
the announcement of a fundamental
principle Of our government in such Ian
guage that it carried the conviction to
the ardent and honest believers in I'epub-
lies, that the man who possessed the mill
.ary genius to crush the shareholders re-
beilion, also understood the true spirit in
which our government is founded. 1t
was the voice of the statemen, and his,
tory go record it along side of truths Ut.
tered by the great men who have strug-
gled to better the condition Of the peo-
pie by the establishment of free govern
ment. .. IL
And while the beauty of the sentence
has given force to the truth that it con-
,ains, and impressed it indellibly on the
minds and in the hearts of the people.
their attention has also been closely
drawn upon i,s author to see how nearly
be followed in the teachings of his pre-
c.pts. And no wonder that his course
should be thus scrutinized, for had not
the Tennessee Moses, Andrew johnson,
time npon time, proclaimed himself
Tribune man of the people. How
far short of his promises he came how
he made the effort to disorganize the
party that elected him Vice President.
by turning out of Office true and staunch
men, who would not accept his policy,
and appointed in their stead. nen who
were bought with price how he hinted
at dictatorship, and the probable end of
of Republican form Of government is
yet fresh in the minds of the people. and
had natural tendency to cause the peo-
pie to scrutinize his course closely -
President Grants course has borne the
scrutiny Of the people as well as it was
possible for it to bear. Not a break has
been discovered in i; His course has
been consistent in all particulars with
,be declaration made in his Inaugural. !
1t is true that when certain phrase of
the Santo Domingo question was reached,
grave apprehensions were felt through !
out the country that the President would
not be equal to the crisis. These ap-
pre- Extensions were lily founded The
President had not asserted himself. Like
at Shilo, like at Vicksburg, like in the
Wilderness and at Richmond, when the
crisis came he was always equal to it
just at the critical junc!ure, when the
Republican party seemed on the verge of
ruin, aud the President appeared to have
drifted from his declared principles, he
asserts himself. We again see the great
General, only in different sphere. He
reiterates that he has no policy to enforce
against the will of the people" The
country is satisfied. The excitement
subsidies, and Santo Domingo is lost to
sight. If man of lesser statesman
ship than President Grant had occupied
the White House, if an Andrew John
son had administered the affairs of the
nation, under the Santo Domingo ex-
citement, the party would have been rent
in twain. and to-day Pennsylvania would
rcsound with the shouts of the Democ.
racy in their jolifcation over the State
carried in favor of their candidates and
principles. Next to Abraham Lincoln,
President Grant occupies the place in
the heart Of great portion of the
American people. aud at the present
time no man in the United States is in
such favor with the people for the Presi.
Gency in 1879 as is the stateman Presi-