The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-22

there is mighty conflict coming between the
industrious masses and the great monopo-
lizing corporations, and the people and press
should be prepared for it.
The silver Wedding Mt Long Branch.
Good wives are like the Commandments
they are given to us to keep Probably NO
one throughout the length and breadth of the
Union more deeply appreciates this fact than
the man to whom Providence has committed
the welfare of thirty million Americans for
four years longer, and to whom gossip
ascribes the ambition to continue taking care
Of them during the term of his natural life.
In palmer words, President Grant celebrates
to-day his silver wedding, unless the undue
notoriety which has been given to the affair
by the administration journals shall induce
him to refrain from any commemoration
which would seem, even Indirectly, to invite
publicity. This is an occasion in which the
principals ought to be more susceptible to
congratulation than at any previous period in
their lives We hope that the friends of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Grant will absolve us from any
desire to peep into that domestic privacy
which to-day is hallowed by the recollections
and associations of a quarter of a century; but
it is the doom Of a popular ruler to be inter
esting to the nation which he governs, and the
discipline of public state teaches him to tole-
rate good-humoredly the curiosity felt by the
people in that portion of his life in which his
personality is strongly interested. To the best
of our knowledge and belief no President has
ever previously celebrated wedding of this
description during his official term. In fact
it is given to few to enjoy the echo of their
honeymoon after lapse of twenty-five years.
And, besides, so many silver weddings are,
after all, only silver-plated weddings, and the
plating rubs off as soon as the guests have de-
parted and husband and wife are left facing
each other alone. Few married couples have
mutually strengthened and sweetened each
other through two and half decades. Few
can at once congratulate themselves on
happy and prosperous career, and point to a
happy and prosperous family, refined by good
education, cultured by intercourse with the
best society and possessing that physical and
mental stamina which argues not very
heavily Swallowed future.
We shall not pry into this silver wedding or
present a vulgarly minute catalogue of gifts
and donors. If President Grant should ever
become invested with the purple with which
some people seem as though they would like
to clothe him it will be time enough for us
to take advantage of the opportunity which,
in M al k~k1 1,o
would doubtless be willing to concede to the
reporter. But the silver wedding of the
president of republic does not ape the osten-
tation which on similar occasion might be
shown at foreign court. 1t is said that the
motive for placing the wedding ring upon the
a superstition that vein from that
finger communicated directly with the
heart and that the magnetism of the
blood therefore kept up continual sympathy
between the heart Of the bride and the golden
crclet which the bridegroom touch had con-
secrated. The idea is pretty one. There is
truth of imagination in it, if not truth of fact.
Lending ourselves to this neat illusion for
moment, we can imagine, were it true, how
quick must have been the sympathy of the
Presidents wife as year after year she
watched, first her husbands plodding stead
fastness and then his gigantic upward strides.
Some thought like this is perhaps worth being
incorporated in the picture which the public
will paint for itself of the Presidents silver
wedding. To remain king over one womanly
heart for quarter of century is better than
to have assumed the CBsarship of thirty
millions of people for few brief checkered
years.
The RoYALIsT CAUSE IN THE FRENCH PAR