The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-22

Prssiaent Grants Now Departure =
Jacksonian Poiicy-Its General Ao-
ceptability.
General Grant gives notice to Congress and
the country that he will no longer use the strong
arm of federal authority to promote narrow
and pernicious policy in the Southern States.
II he persists In carrying out his new views,
as we cannot doubt he will, the result win be
to give him high place in the list of Ameri-
can Presidents Few soldiers ever gained .
more brilliant record for achievements in
arms General Grant has only to add to his
military honors the glory of wise civil adj
ministration TO retire from the Presidency
with fame equal to that Of Washington. and
this he can achieve by carrying out his deter
mination to do justice to the South and lop
away the dead weight carried by the repub-
ican party.
In pursuing his expressed determination of
letting the States care for themselves Gen.
eral Grant must expect opposition. The more
radical part of the press has already begun to
denounce even the refusal to do injustice to
sovereign State. In Congress, and especially
in the Senate, opposition is slowly organizing
for resistance. The refusal to confirm the
nomination of Caleb Gushing to be Chief
Justice was the first indication of o probable
rupture between the leaders of the dominant
party in the Senate and the President. But
for the finding of the unfortunate letter
of introduction to JEFF Davis the rup-
ture might have occurred before now. The
indicate that the President is ready for any
breach that may occur, will at least not have
a tendency to heal the estrangement that has
already taken place. Considered only on
grounds of partisan acceptability Waite's
nomination is not acceptable. and his conir-
tween the Senate and the Executive. The re-
fusal to confirm this latest nomination, on the
other hand, would inevitably precipitate quar-
rel As matters now stand disagreement is
possible at any rate. If it comes it will be
anomalous in the history of American politics,
for the better sense of the country will be with
the President as against the general policy of
his party, but against him on the immediate
point of difference with the Senate General
Grant occupies the vantage ground both in
his reply to Governor Davis and in his dec
larations to the congressman last Friday, and
no pretext that can be invented will deprive
him of it. ala
Since the war repeated attempts have been
made to build up party in opposition
to the republican organization, but always
without success. The reason of the failure is
plain-the dead weight Of democratic tradi-
ton was carried into every contest The
dead weights of the republican party must,
inevitably, become as fatal Nearly fifteen
years Of uninterrupted success and power
have left it many legacies Of evil fortune, and
of these none was more disastrous in itself
or will prove more disastrous to the party than
the reconstruction policy of Congress- Even
after reconstruction was accomplished and
the States restored to their original rights
under the constitution Congress persisted in
recognizing usurpations of authority as
the governing power in number
of the Gulf States. Of this Louisiana
is the most fragrant example. It is no wonder
that the Presidents experience with Governor
Kellogg has had the effect to sicken him and
to induce him to deny the demands of Gov
ernor Davis, and give notice in advance that
Mississippi need not expect any interference
from him. It is q new departure, in every way
worthy of the great soldier by whom it is
made. It is Jacksonian in its scope and will
be Jacksonian in its influence upon political
thought The first attempt at multi
fcation and secession was destroyed
by Jackson's '.By the Eternal the
Union must and shall be preserved" The
injustice which followed the failure of the
second attempt in tying the States. to the
wheels Of arbitrary and usurped authority
will find its deathblow in Grants 81 am tired
of this nonsense And in other respects
talents as strong as Jackson's will be required
in Grant The infationists are determined to
set aside the policy suggested in the Presi-
dents Message and, if possible, to issue more
paper money. Here is battle for Grant, and
it is to be hoped he will fight the new national
banks with as much vigor as Jackson fought the
old United States Bank nearly half q century
ago. The people, as well as the President are
tired Of the criminal nonsense which has been
SO long promoted by the republican majority.
All respectable men, not blinded by partisan
ship feel, with the President that the recon-
struction policy of Congress has been nurs-
ing Of monstrosities at least minority Of
the majority in Congress is willing to acknowl-
edge it Many excellent republicans are
rejoiced at the signs of rupture between tho
President and the Senate, in the hope
that it may lead to the publication Of politics.
It is not easy to break up powerful political
organization, honored as the republican party
has been honored; but these men hope that it
may at least be purified. If disintegration