Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
WHATCONSTITUTES A GOOD PRES
GInENT

Among the nations of the worl
there is no one in which the persona
qualities of the man enter so largel,
into the consideration of his fitnes
.Or Office as in the United States. Ii
mOnarchial countries the pOpularit.
of the King depends more upon hi
genial and social qualities than upOI
his intellectual ability, aud in I'm
perial despotisms the people are faiI
TO bow down before a hereditary anI
divinely anOinted piece of clay, with
out the temerity to "look a gift horst
| in the mouth" In the United States
| however, where the voice of might /!
the voice of the people, for a Presi
dent to please every one is a logica
impossi6ility.
To do evil in this world is often laudable,
To do good sometimes accounted dangerous
folly;
and the purest and most conscientious
man living has but to ascend the
Presidential chair to find himself pos.
sessed of more vices than Nero, and
more pusilanimtty than the second
Cromwell. The tittest man to ouI
thinking for such a great office is he
who can WELD his power as to earn q
reputation, not so much for states
manship as for stern justice, for lear
ming as for firmness and common
sense. A man may make very great
Senator but poor President. Charles
Sumner may have given to future
school books the perOratlons of anoth-
er Burke, but his Presidency would
SAVIOR too much of saint James" !" too
little of the old independence Hail.
Thomas Carlyle is probably the most
original thinker and writer in Eng
land, but the Prince of Wales, who
probably never coined a phIlosephi-
cal thought in all his charmed life,
with his dogs and his horses, and his
genial 6OnhOBliS will reign far deeper
in the hearts of his subjects than ever
could the sage Chelsea, were it possi-
BILE that he could cast aside the stu
dent-lamp and stand beneath the re-
gal canopy. What the people of the
United States want in President is
q representative American mana
man of sufficient fame and greatness
to reflect dignity upon the Office;
solid man simple, unostentatious
man; a consistent man a man who
can say no, and mean it; man in
of grave weight, wise enough
to take the advice of those whose in
is undoubted and whose
honesty is unimpeachable; a man
who takes his motto from that rare
and golden axiom, "Give every man
your ear, but few your voice."
Personal and political 6nmity are
inseparable from the chief magistra-
cy; but the man who does his duty
and to the best of his ability
is the man to fill the office. When
we stand in the presence of foreign
we wish to be represented
by a man of simple, republican hab-
It's, sufficiently great to be respected,
and sufficiently dignified TO represent
he simplicity of human equality and
he grandeur of human labor. Ifl
here were no other qualities which |
ihould commend General Grant to
he gratitude and admiration of his |
his calm eomposure and |
it itlf-pOised dignity in the presence of
glitter. should call forth |
he warmest concentrations, but he |
las zone more than that. During his |
erm of Office he has strictly adhered |
o the individuality and heunfiinch-
ng firmness which broke the rebel
word at AppomattoX. In his private
nd official acts he has carefully avoi- !
led that Ostentatious show which
night very naturally have been look
d for in g military ehieftain of such
.reat and well-deserved renown. He
las not, like Washington, suTroun-
ed himself at stated anniversaries
nd feasts with his generals in self
lorification, His mnIle of life, apart
rom the necessary hospitalities of the
alton, has been simple, almost Spar
an in its simplicity. Like the King
( Italy, he has avoided the glIttering
rowd, and sought relaxation from
he cares of Office in the American
Ike taste for horsemanship. Could
is enemies find no better charges TO
" against him than this? Out upon
leh puerile petty hyper criticism
We're his private life stained with in
ulgence as Pitts, our duty as "a ma.
on would be to judge him by his
reat and public services. But here {
e have a man whose daily walk and
for the past four years
as been watched with closer espi-
mage than the suspected criminal,
I'D what have they been able to dis [
,ver? First, that he goes to Long s
ranch, and loves a breath of the
a; and second, that he has given a
elping hand to one or two of his Q
)or relations, a thing which the un- ]
led paragon of the Cassius-like and {
lngTy office-seekers on the Other
lie will multiply a hundred-fO!d and i
zen his loving arms to every free
wing disciple OF the Tribune, every
lemy of the nations life, every one
ho desires disunion, destruction, t
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