New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-07
TOO MICH ADMIRA1ION.

Gen. Grant is the luckiest of men. Nobody
was ever before so adorcd without a why or
wherefore, especially by the correspondents of
Administration newspapers. One of these
writing from Washington of the Inauguration
SAVE: when the first outbreak of applause
had died away, the President read his In
"augural from Ms. copy; but the wind was
GLOWING so freshly that very few could hear
ga word of it, 1t was, however taken on
&" trust and loudly cheered at intervals during
the delivery" We respectfully submit that
this taking on trust is of bad portent. We
have had already four years of an Admins
tration which it was declared TO be treason
GUS to criticise, fiat rebellion to find fault
with, and MORALLY sinful to censure. All the
deeds of the President were by one sweeping
approval proclaimed good, and all his words
TO be words of wisdom. Whoever insnuated
the minutest doubt of the civil capacity of the
Lieutenant General was pronounced SIAN
derer whoever suggested that we might elect
better man to his place was written down a
knave or a fool. He was wise, great, good,
| patriotic, er o6ici0. He was to be taken on
trust.
The tender confidence of the offce-hoding
| public fifty eliminated on Tuesday last. AS soon
| as the President shows SO much as the tp-end
of his reverend nose, the crowd begins to bel
low with Joy. He holds in his hand written
discourse, which it is understood that he is to
read But though he does read it, the great
and furious gales set up such sonorous OPP
position that every few can hear word of it"
Still the deafened listeners are exceedingly i'm
pressed, violently moved, agreeably Initiated,
Unfortunately excited, incontinently convinced,
and generally swayed and stimulated, so that
they break into irrepressible huzzas and stem
torian cheers, into bowls of rapture and
screams of delight almost too great for mortal
endurance. They do not know What the man
is saying, but only to see those oracular lips
| parted and moving IA enough. They know that
| he is sagacious; they feel that he is eloquent
| and they take it for granted that he ia gram
NAUTICAL Let the rude wind do its worst; they
are not be cheated Of the raptures of affec-
tionate approval IT'S enough that the great
man is speaking-of what consequence is what
he saysi If loudly they applauded without hear
ing the noble sentence" Now that the tele-
graph is made available for communicating
" thought, together with the rapid transit of
steam into what spasms of rapture would
they have lapsed, if it could but have reached
| their ears
Perhaps those who hear of the thrills which
| the Inaugural communicated, not to the audi
tors, for they could MT hear anything, but to
| the spectators, will be a little disappointed
| when they come to read the report of the
speech which was spoken but not listened to-
| Still, there are grains OF wisdom scattered
here and there through the document. The
suggestion that the conduct of the colored
traveller should regulate the fare which he
will receive upon his journey" is novel and
original. This is substantially saying BE
good boys, and you shall have pie but il
you do not behave yourself you shall have
only bread and water 1t is rather hard
however, and strikes us as inequitable, that
the President says nothing of putting i'll
behaved whites upon a low hotel diet. The
botheration of it will be that the colored
traveller arriving about dinner time at hotel
will have no opportunity of showing by his
conduct whether he is entitled TO seat at
| the first or second table. Still, the Presi-
Dental theory is at least sagacious, and every
noble minded hotel clerk in the land will
thank His Excellency for it,
| The King can Do no wrong. This is the