The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-09
The New York Press on the Presidents
Message.

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NEW YORK, December 8.-Tbe Herald
says The message Of President Grant is
a more creditable document, both in point
of reasoning and literary execution, than its
predecessors from the same source. The
President makes it clear enough that in bis
view of the three principal causes which
have led to the disastrous defeat Of his party
are the prostration of business, the condi.
tion of the southern States, and the unsuc-
cessful experiment Of reforming the civil
service. This is not directly stated, but it is
necessarily implied in the texture of his
views on these subjects. The sum of the
message, so far as it has party bearing, is
the committal of the President to the resto.
ration of a sound currency, an implied pro-
mise to treat the South With leniency and
justice, and abandon the eiyil-seryice reform
unless Congress supports it by legislation.
This is the programme OF President Grant
for reinstatisg the Republican party.
"The President has got the Spanish ques-
ton into such state that it can be famed
into fame whenever he thinks it expe-
dent. He relies on the country to support
him in war in which the abolition OF
slavery in Cuba and the breaking OF the yoke
of colonial servitude will be the leading
Sc
Gus mistake if he thinks he can play this des.
perate game with success. If ne has spi-
geon.holed our just complaint against Spain
with such purpose be will have cause to
rue the day when be meditated such trick.
"The financial recomme ndations OF the
message are sound in principle but defective
in detail" 7, -.
The Times considers the Presidents
change, and his proposition to repeal the
legal-tender clause as sound. Tee President
in stating that be will still sustain Kellogg
does not say what he will do about Packard
and Casey, which is a pity. The Times
thinks the Presidents reference to southern
matters is plain advice given in kindness
and frankness. ..s.'as,e-e
In regard to the ciyil.service reform the
Times SAYS: awe are sorry that he an
nounces his intention of abandoning the
ciyil.seryice reform unless Congress dis.
tinctly supports it by legislation. It was an
attempt that promised much, and might
have been made to yield great results. With
his recommendations US to specie payment
and free banking We are In entire sympa-
thy.ns .-.
The Tribune considers this the best mes
sage Of the President, because probably
it was written uader the Christening OF the
late elections. It condemns his position to-
wards Louisiana, but comments mainly on
nearly all the rest of the message.
The Sun says: The Presidents message
is reasonably sound, theoretically, on hard
money and return to specie payment, but
the Presidents arguments are not as urgent
as his theories are sound, while some of his
plans for retiring our paper money and re-
Yiving gold and silver as circulating me-
dunn will provoke severe criticism not only
of the inflationists, but Of the hard.money
men as we'll. With the exception of his re-
concentrations of free banking, the views
he now expresses concerning the currency
are but a rei.eration Of his veto of the green
back bill of last session."
The World says " President Grant and
Secretary Bristow are less 10 doubt than the
Republican press and politicians as to the
significance of the overthrow of their party
in the late elections. They have reached the
clear opinion by what means, If by any
means, the political revolution can be
stopped midway, and the Democratic party
hindered from taking possession OF every de-
partment of the Government in the elections
of 1875. They recommend immediate steps
towards specie payments, not promises OF
execution which are perpetually postponed,
and reform of tariff to the end of obtaining
a larger revenue by lower dnties on fewer
articles. This, their concurrent advice, ex-
hibits the Presidents and the Secretary's ap-
probation at last of the great evils from
which the country Is suffering, and their ad-
mission that those evils are of legislative orl.
Gin. and admit of legislative remedy. Add
to this the exorbitances and usurpations OF
power on the part of the Federal Govern
ment, and General Grant and Secretary Bris-
tow will have discovered precisely the vul-
nerable points in the Republican policy upon
which the Democratic assaults have been
concentrated and irresistible. They advise
Congress to abandon the defence Of what Is
indefensible, and to Illustrate further Demo-
cratic victories by themselves now doing
what desparing people have elected the
next Democratic Congress to do"