New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-21

tuds for what he did in the field-confidenct
In his wholesome example in his Cabinet
were the twin agents in the work of Tues
day, November 5, 1872.
If it is true that every road leads to Rome
it is also true that every effort to explain the
late election leads to the vindication of the
Republican party. Take the'case in any of its
aspects and the sequel is the same. View
it in every light, and you end in the admis.
sion that the Republican ideal, being right
at the first, was right at last that, originat-
ing as theory, it has been crystalized into
fact. What party could stand out against
such record? Surely not the Democracy,
who began their fight by an open surrender
to the doctrines they had so strenuously
opposed.
There is good deal of cheap talk about
| the necessity of party discipline and the pun
| ishment of deserters and some of the callow
partisans can find no better way to dignity
victory than by naming Republican offenders
most worthy of sacrifice. But if you follow
| their logic to its source you invariably find
! that it begins and ends in selfishness. An
| ofice-seeker is at one end and an office holder
at the other end of the argument. If YOU
trace the motives of the petty people now in
command of the Union League, and try to
divine why they have become sort of Ooun-
Gil of Ten, or a jury Of twelve sitting upon
the sins of others, you will find, without ex-
ception, either an eager appetite or ques-
tionable gratitude for office. If you read over
the bitter articles in certain Republican pa
pers you will soon realize that the editors
fear somebody may supplant them in the
good graces of the President. We do not
think Gen. Grant is any wiser than WASH
ington, or Adams, or Jefferson, or any more
sagacious than Lincoln and he would have
fn no
Johnson, if he did not see through these
transparent articles. He is to-day the pos.
SCISSOR of imperial power. He can make or
unmake States and statesmen. He can
change policies, as he has crushed parties
But he cannot change human nature and
one of his constant perils will spring from the
fatterer and the slanderer and not the less
80 because the flatterer will try to prove him.
self sincere. and the slanderer will be the
more earnest because the object of his hate is
absent. The proud spirit never condescends
to pay false compliments, and the brave one
never calumniates. Grant is fine specimen
of these double capacities. He scattered few
praises in his military campaign, and he for
bore, with an iron silence, to reply to the at
tacks of his later detractors. He kept his
counsel and fought on, and so won in war
and politics.
Out of the nettlc danger, then, we have
extracted the flower safely. Nothing, so far
as we can see, can drive General Grants adj
ministratiOn into any disturbing attitude. |
His present Cabinet, as we have always con-
tended, suits him. He is on terms of conf |
dence with every member of it. Retained
himself for four more years, there is really no
reason why he should throw anybody out who |
has done his duty. Why should he not in
augurate Monroe era ofgood feeling? That |
is in accord with his temperament. Nobody |
wants any more war, or any more territory,
save, perhaps, that of Mexico, which will fall |
into our lap like ripe pear in due season.
Grants reelection settles everything, and he
can smoke his cigar in peace, in the welcome
shadow of his own vine and ig-tree, feeling |
that all parties have willingly consented that
finance, currency, revenue, slavery, suffrage,
wages, Indians, and foreign relations, have
been about as well adjusted under his less
than four years. administration as if he had
been providentially selected for the work.
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