The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-03-06
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SOMETHING OP PRESIDENT
GRANT,

postponed by the reinauguration OF
President Grant ia THE one Term
Principle" We hope that the
country has heard the last Of that
absu dry. The best Gov
ernor that the Democracy of New
Jersey ever elected was Randolph.
When they proposed t" continue
him in power for another term they
found 1.-THE one term principle IN
tho way; and he had to be shelved.
There never was one substantial ar
gument in favor OF that miscalled
principle. It finds its basis in the
flimsiest sophistry, and its advocates
in men whose minds are warped and
narrowed by mean, uncandid prelu-
lices. The shallow insincerity
which corjured it up as frivolous
objection to Grants reelection also
lent its aid to the promotion OF m
infinitude of bosh about Grants
''nepotism. Not even that cham
pion of pedantry and unmanliness
in craftsmanship, Sumner, will have
the hardihood to revive his tiresome
and labored stuffing from the CYCLIC
pedias in reassertion of what he SO
disengenuously urged in support Of
that principle" aud the charges OF
nepotism. So here comes Grant be-
fore the people to be reinaugurated;
and feeling himself vindicated, and
his honesty of motive recognized
where such recognition is worth
having, he breaks u long and signlfl-
cant silence, and modest!y yet self
respectfully refers to what he has
done in behalf of his country, and
then lets Sumner and the other mean
dctractors who have been snarlinS
at him know that he is not unmind-
full of their malevolence. The Presi
dent spoke we'll and tersely. He
has carried ont the spirit Of the laws
and riH carry them out. He is the
best, because the most rigidly i'm
partial, Executive the country has
ever had. Moreover, his sagacities
are far reaching and almost infalli-
bic. Senator Yates, in o marvellous
" clear description of Grant, spoke
of him as q man with genins for
:accumplish,aent-the successful car
rying out of purposes. Books on
politics are full of the epigrammatic
sayings of Talieyrand. That master
of diplomacy and statecraft never ut
tered wiser sentence than Gran:
did when he said that the surest way
to bring about the repeal of bad
law was to enforce it. The country
can afford no one term principle.
Men fit for Office are too scarce for
that. We cannot afford to put our
eauable men on the retired list in
order that o vagary may be put in
practice. The President we'll merits
his vindication; for never was ma
lignant and gratnitous abuse so flung
upon any honest and unobtrusive
servant as upon him. As to the San
Domingo business, how completely
q few words of his neutralize and
controvert the virus and distortion
of facts of Summers and Schurz's
bitter miscellaneous. He admirably
illustrates tho superiority of that
quiet genuineness of self assertion
which finds utterance in works. ST.
lence is golden.
It seems to us As if the country
we're to be congratulated upon this
reinauguration. There is promise
of peace; of justice; Of faithful
of the laws; Of suggestions
for the advancement of the republic;
of the fruits of true sense of duty
aided by sagacity and experience &C.
auired, in the outlook of the next
four years. Eminently sensible
are the suggestions made relating to
the sort of enlarged justice which
the colored man should have; there
is a practicable sense of mercy I'M
derlying his views regarding the In
dian question; there is hope for the
South and courage for the expansive
spirit of the age. There is an honest
bravery inseparable from the Presi-
dents views regarding the enlarge
ment of our national territory, which
will find hearty response in many
an American heart. Maybe they
hint at the Sandwich Islands per-
haps they justify the national long
ing for the requirement of Mexico
and the Isthmus Of Darien possibly |