Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-09-28

TuI PRESIDENT As A SPEECH.MAKER.
The Liberal Democratic press Is passing
around with, various clever and lronlcal com
ments thereupon, the two short speeches oil
President Grant at Newark, New Jersey
eight or nine days ago. The criticisms OF our
sarcastic contemporaries address themselves
rather To the manner than the matter oil
thcse Presidential discourscs, and are likely
TO be best appreciated by those VINO oeheNe
effective stump oratory to be the highest at
trlbute of American statesmanshlp apu an
cyer-ready speaker the wisest and safest au-
nIni,tratOr of public Affairs. We arc Tree to
ropfrss that If General Grant were OF TINS
moment a candidate for tue chair oil OtteS'
ieiir,s AT Yale or Harvard, we should ieei IN
conscience bound to oppose him and join our
forces with Mr.. Sumner, but we have some
hclIeI left vet in the eternal fitness OF things
and can never think OF conscnung 10 Apply
ing the professor test of scholarship 10 tue
pgoplcs candidate for the Presidency Heu'
Grant has been enCouragingly successful MIN
self and has taken reasonably good care oil
the country with an expenditure Of rs ie"
words as II Is easily possibly to conceive OIL
vet at tho same time, his uttcrances have been
sufficient to satisfy the falr-mluded and right
thinking that We are not suffering under IN
infection Of dumb Obstinacy. 1t is given TO
but few among tho many TO be able, haP-haE-
ard like, ut any time or place, and under any
set Of circumstances, to put their emouohs
into consistent form and give them fitting
speech, aud the whole body Of the graduates
Of West Point, where General Grant acquired
the liberal" part OF his education, are re-
markable for deficiency rather than prohency
In rhetorical and oratorical Accomplishments
so arc military men generally, yet they u'n-
ally have good administrative Talents, ana
these have perhaps been the secret OF fresi-
dent Grants sO-cNlled good luck In govern
mcnt. Ills best fricnds-and such are those
who know him best-assert no higher claim
for him than that Of being, In the civil sphere,
n fair representative of the average, middle
class American, clcAT-headod, firm oil pur-
nose, slow of speech, chary OF words and
chiefly effective In action. II his admlnisua-
tlon has been successiul-and 1t looks as II
such were to be tho verdict at home, as
abrnad-We need look no further than at
Grant's personal attributes for the moving
cause, and In refining in from the lofty flights
which our statccrat took In those troubled
but brilliant days of war aud reconstruction
tbere can be no better governing qualities
than those which General Grant has mani
tested during his existing lncumbency oil the
executive office. The country has seen aud
is seeing too much Of the misdlrectlOn oil Inc
supposed genius Of statesmanship to mistake
the choice between a brilliant and safe
public man, and on that We found our hope
Of the victory OF November,
President Grant told the gentlemen Of the
industrial exhibition that he was happy to
Ina there TO witness the display Of Newark :
manufactures. lie further told them that
their iar-famcd city had done well, and that
her manufacturers have an Influence opposed
TO the Importation Of foreign manufactures
and then he stopped. His first sentence was
polite, bis second complimentary, bis third
patriotic, and the whole courteous and In
good taste, considering the orator aud the
audience. The plth OF the whole speech was
tho suggestion, that with such variety and
excellence In homemade products Us lie
there saw there was neither need nor fear or
the paupeT manufactures Of Europe. The
ssntiment was Mr.. Grceley's before his zero
battle feat At Cincinnati, but we miss the ex-
trayaganco and elaboration Of his style, just
as the Confederate generals missed tho clabO-
ration and extravaganza Of Mcclellan aud
other exllugulshed stratcgists when Grant
supplanted their modes of warfare by his
own.
The second speech was to an assemblagc
elegantly described by the New York Erening
Erprsss As 1.-The Newark crowd, gathered
before Ex-Governor Ward'5 houGo at night.
The President expressed his gratitude for the
- reception" he had "receiyed" at the hands
of the Jerseymeu, and though sincere in
,pIrit, was undoubtedly Pathological in speech,
which may be attributed to the really i'm
promptu character Of the occasion, For tho
rest. lac said that no had hud tho pleasure OF
whiting tho stat, fair a. Elizabeth, where he
saw Little else but people, aud that he was y
the exposition that blight, aud again people,
Lut Ilule Of what obey bad there To See Here
VA. another literary DIrmish, but Tho time
me very opposite Of tnutoiosicnl, 50 that We
nu,t accord General Grant tue mgrit oi 'arI-
nv, even In his petty offences against taste
'or the rest, ho said that no hoped TO SEQ To-