Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-13
The Administration - Greeley and
Grant.

The leader Of the New York Trib-
une acknoH lodges the wisdom and
success of the administration, but
opposes the reelection Of President
Grant. After reading his (GreeIey's)
presidential letter, it is evident that
he has an eye on the executive chair
himself. Which is why he don't like
Grant, who is bound to make long
run and strong pull in the presiden-
tial race of 1872. Greeley's recent
trip through the Southern States, in
the capacity Of peacemaker, as be
chooses to call it, is likewise signifi-
can't The Tribune of the I'd inst.
says:
"To support the Administration il
one thing. To advocate the renom-
nation Of its head is another. We
support the Administration.
To us the treatment it has receiv-
ed, even at the hands of many who
helped TO make it, and still belong to
the party of which 1t is the exponent,
has seemed most unfair and the f.
nal success Of one Of its great meas
ures, the adjustment of the difficult
ties between this cIuntry and Great
Britain, now clearly secure, affords
an occasion for considering the sub
stantial success and worth of its gen.
eral policy. Certainly the Admins
tration has not been so brilliant as
many might desire but it has been
better than we had right to expect.
We took man without civil expe-
rience. OF course we expect him to
make blunders in many matters OF
detail but in what great question
has Con. Grant disappointed the just
hopes Of the people
He has made an economical Ad-
ministration. Over two hundred
millions of the National Debt have
been distinguished, and the reduction
still goes on. Over eighty millions
Of taxes have been taken off; and
the payment Of debt relieves us be-
sides of an annual burden of twelve
millions of interest.
He has made q peaceful Admins
tration. The Quaker policy has kept
as out Of serious contests with the
Indians. If we have not done all
that the case Of Cuba seemed to dee
mand, we have at least had no war
about it, when war would have been
easy, and, wi tn the baser sort, would
have been popular. If we have not
had the South thoroughly pacfied,
we have at least avoided the harsh
measures to which soldier, must
have been often provoked by the ex-
cesses in that quarter, but from
which we could only have expected
further postponement Of the day
of perfect peace. We have kept the
peace on the Canadian border, even
whom the temptation TO the cheap
popularity of winking at a Fenian
invasion was the greatest. And now
we have put the Alabama question,
with all its terrible possibilities, be-
hind us forever.
He has made law-abiding Ad-
ministration. He has had no will to
enforce against the will Of the people.
Strongly sympathizing with the
Cubans, he has yet recognized and
respected The popular Discrimination,
especially at the West, to assume
any responsibility for their struggle.
Feryently anxious for the annexation
Of Santo Domingo, he has yet waived
his policy, in Difference to the oppo-
sition of some of our oldest and ablest
Republicans, and has remitted the
whole question to the decision of the
Country.
And yet, this economical and peace
ful and law abiding Administration
is open to such plausible attacks and
liable TO such popular prejudices on
petty but Unlocking points, that it is
not clear that it has added to the
Republican strength with which it
came into power. A few thousand
votes, then, in three States, would
have changed the result lit is by no
means clear that we have any great
or security now. In 1872, as in 1868,
we may still be found dependent on
the follies of the enemy for success.
But if the enemy should abandon
his folly"