The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-27
Some OF General Grants Disappoi Mt.
mcnts,

ments
We think it necessary to say that in sug-
costing to Mr.. Grant some days ago, that he
ought to resign the Presidency and go to Eu.
rope we did not speak in any sense as His
Excellency's organ, as may have been sup
posed by some hasty or ill-judging persons.
We have not the privilege Of his intimacy,
nor even of the intimacy of his intimates.
The happy thought did not come to us through
Mr.. Dick Harrington or Governor Shepherd
or even General Casey. 1t was inspired-as
we do not doubt Mr. Grant at once saw
solely by our devotion to His Excellencys
credit and good name and our conviction that
he would improve both by abandoning his
attempt to govern the country.
AS the humble but attached friends OF Mr..
Grant it is our duty to tell him that, con-
sidered as q President, he is failure He
has many fine qualities; he is an excellent
judge of horses; he has an unimpaired di-
gestlon, which is good deal in these days OF
dyspepsia; he has q keen eye for the main
chance in a business transaction, and there
are good reasons for thinking that lie might
But to speak pro .anely and after the Galena
manner, he ''makes mighty poor President"
The HERALD has for o long time done its best
to conceal this deplorable fact from His Ex-
cellency. Everybody else has, Of course.
seen it long ago. II there is anything the
American people, ofica-holders excepted, are
unanimous upon it is that Mr. Grant does
not understand civil government. But tnat
did not concern us so long as we could hope
to conceal from his own eyes the wretched
work he had made and is continually making
Of it. What could it matter to us or to Mr..
Grant how unhappy the nation WAS SO long as
he was happy?
He appears to US, however sometimes to
have suffered from dim apprehension that
he was unapprecated. When, day or two
ago, he told committee Of Southern men
that the white men of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi are "ungrateful," we saw touching
evidence Of this. After all he has done for
them, after the army he has kept down there
to make them virtuous, after the carpet-bag-
gers he has set over them to attend to their
taxes and finances, after Sheridan and Kel-
logg and Casey and Ames, and a host Of
others-after all, these Southern white men
remain unhappy, and, what is worse, "un-
grateful" 1t must be very discouraging to
Mr.. Grant.
Then, again, in his last annual Message
there are traces of ppointment-signs
TINT even Mr.. Grants great spirit has been
wounded. For instance, if he had set his
heart on any one thing everybody knows it
was to reform the civil service. So deter
mined was he to achieve this great work that
his fertile mind even conceived the bril-
liant stratagen of making the civil
service as corrupt and inefficient as pos
sible, in order, as everybody can see,
to make the work of reformation the more
conspicuous and to unite the people with him
in it. Hence Casey and Tom Murphy and
Shepherd and Simmons, not to speak of
dozens or perhaps hundreds of smaller lights
of the same Jack-o' lantern kind. In Message
after Message His Excellency called the atten-
ton of Congress and the country to this de-
sire to reform the civil service, so near his
great heart and with what result2 Mr..
Grant pathetically describes it in his last
Message. He says:-"Generally the support
which this reform receives is from those who
give it their support only to find fault when
the rules are apparently departed from" Can
anything more saddenng and outrageous be
imagined?
Then, to come TO grief of diff rent kind,
could anything more unpleasant occur to a
10 fob {~r
of u.s. meaning his Cabinet, approved of the
dispersion of the Louisiana Legislature and
then to discover that he had mistaken his
men that his own household, so to speak,
would not stand by him that there were
actually men in his Cabinet who had the
audaci.y and the lack of good feeling to tell
the public that HIS Eycellency had not con-
suited them; and this when he had plainly
told the public in two different dispatches
that he had?
Why should we 60 on narrowing up His
Excellencys soul F.? Is it not enough? The
Southern white men ungrateful, the civil ser.
vice reformers complaining, Congress- neg
lccting his most important recommendations,
as Tor instance that in which he thought
fully urged it to 'drect the employment OF
our national products and finally even
members of his Cabinet contemplate enough
to ego back on HIM" as he would SAYS il
not best that he should resign?
We mean, of course, best for his own com.
fort and reputation. We speak only as his
friends md supporters, and out of oul
anxiety for him. For no one doubts that his
resignation would delight the whole country.
1t would make him, as we have before pointed
out to him, one of the most popul.r men in
the land.
The brooklyn Trial.
The shadow of death was thrown over tho
Beecher trial yesterday, and strangely blended
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