The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-29
Se,pe Of General Grants Dtsappoins-
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ments.
We think It necessary to say that in sus'
costing to Mr.. Grant some days ago tnat ne
ought 10 resign and 60 to Europe we aid not
speak IN any sense as his ExceItency' organ,
as may have heea supposed by some hasty or
iH.iudging persons. we have not the p'Nt-
iegc OF bis intimacy, nor even OF inc ihs;inaey
az his int;mates. The happy thought ana not
come 10 us through Mr.. Dick Harrington. or
Governor Shepherd. or even General Casey.
II was inspred-as We do not DOUBT Mr..
Gran. a.. once saw-solely by our devotion
"a his Excellence 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 j. is our duty to tell him that, con-
sidered as President, be isa failure. lie
has many fine qualities he is an excellent
iudce of horses: he has an unimpaired di.
cesiiou. which is a good deal in these days OF
dyspepsia he has u keen eye for the main
chance liz business transaction, and there
arc good reasons for thinking that he might
make fine reputation rs real estate agent.
But. to speak profanely aud after the Galena
manner. be "m1kes mighty poor President"
The Herald has tor long time done its best
to conceal this deplorable fact from his Tx
eellepcy. Eyeryb else has, OF course,
seen it long ago. # there is anything the
American people, otficc-hoiders excepted, are
unanimous upon 1t is that Mr.. Grant does
not understand civil government. But that
did no. concern US so long as we could hope
to conceal from his own eyes the wretched
work he bad made and is continually making
OF il. What could it matter to us or to Mr..
hoyr
as lie was happy!
lie appears TO us, however, sometimes TO
have suffered from dim apprehension That
he was unapprecIated.. When, Il day or two
ago. he told q committee OF southern men
that the white men of Louisiana and Missis.
sippi arc "uugratcfui," we saw touching
evidence OF this. After all be has done for
them. after tue amy he has kept down there
10 make them vrluous, after the carpet-bag-
ners be has set over them to attend 10 their
taxes and finances, after Sheridan. and kel.
lopg, and Casey, and AmeS, and host OF
othcrs--after all, these southern white men
remain unhappy, and. What is worse, " un.
GRATEFUL 1t must be very di>couraginS to
Mr.. Grant
Then. again, in his last annual message there
are traces Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that even
Mr.. Grants great spirit haS been wounded.
For instance, il he had set his heart on any
Que thing everybody knows it was TO reform
the civil service. So determined was he to
achieve this great work that his fertile mind
even conceived the brilliant stratcgem OF
making the civil service as corrupt and met
ticicnt as possible, in order. is everybody can
,rr. to make the work Of reformation the
more conspicuous and 10 unite the people
with him in il. Hence Casey and Tom Murpb!
and Shepherd and Simmons, MT TO speak OF
q, Ems or perhaps hundreds OF smaller lights
o: the same Jack.U'Iantcrn kind. In mes.
sa.c after message his ENcellcncy called TIDE
attention of Congress ard the country 10
thi> desire TO reform the civil service, 50 near
Li, grcai heart: and with what result! Slr.
t,atI pa.heticuIy describes it in his last
M. SAG" He spys: "Gcnerally the sup
Do, which this reform receives is from those
WHO give it their support only to Ind ianit
wbcr ihs rules are apparently departed
: from" Can any tjng more saddeninS ana
utiiras, Gus be imagined!
Then 10 come 10 grief Of Il different
Kidd, could anything more unpleasant occur
toa President than TO take for granted that
all Of US" meaning bis Cabinet, approved
of the dispersion OF the Louisiana Legisla-
t,,re and then to discover that lie had mis-
taken his Llcn: that his own household, so
to speak, would not stand by him that there
were actually men in bis Cabinet who had
The audacity and The lack of good feeling to
tell TIE public that his EXcellency had not
consulted them and this when he had plainly
told the public in two different dispatches
that he bad:
Why should we 90 on narrowing up his
EXccieucy'> soul! Is it not enough? The
southern white men ungrateiul, the civil
service lcIormcrs complaining, Congress ne
glec'uS his most important recommends.
ti0us. as. for instance, that in which be
thoushfully urged it to "direct the employ
mrnt' OF our Irrational products" and
finally. even members of bus Cabinet con-
tcmp'ih, enough to "go back on him. As
b" would SAYS it not best that he should
resign:
We NEAR. Of course. best for his own COM
fort and reputation. We speak only rs his
friends and supporters, and out Of our anX.
iCy To-. hln. For no one doubts that his
resignation would delight the whole coun-
tn. II would make him, as we have before
painted out to him, one Of the most popular
men III the laua.- Nc,GSEOr& Herald.