National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-06

would have blasted him. Could cheek
60 further than this Why, certainly.
The very next sentence proves it. "The
aspirations which he is known to cherish
render every chance of foreign war pre-
"vious to the next Republican nomination
for the Presidency an occasion Of anxiety
land apprehension.
How did it become known that he cher
ished such aspirations 7 The Herald says
he is "the silent man." Indeed, we be-
lieve that the real ground of its quarrel
with the President is his reticence. He
has failed to seek or follow its advice. He
has failed to vince at any of its darts
But it has first started and then repeated
this story of Grants ambitious designs,
which it claims the great honor and sagacity
to have been the first to discover, until we
sometimes think it really has come to be-
lieYe in its truthfulness. The SILENT man"
never told the Herald of his aspirations
OF course not. But that veracious sheet
with its wondrous foresight, penetrated fu-
turity or exercised its omniscient preroga-
tive and read the heart of General Grant,
and then exposed his Utmost thoughts to
the American people and warned them
against the dangers Of his ambition. This
is what the Herald would have us believe.
How grateful should the nation feel.
Remembering the great havoc which the
publication of the Captain Scott" CORE
spondence-which was published In It's
columns some years ago-made among the
Presidential candidates of that time, the
Herald has endeavored ever since to draw
some expression of opinion from the lead
ing men of all parties upon all questions
prominently before the public, in order to
have in its hands the weapons for their de-
struction, should its interests or the within
of the occasion demand their sacrifice. Its
efforts thus far seem to have been wasted
upon President Grant. He has pursued
the even tenor of his way, performing his
official duties according to the judgment
with which God has endowed him, salts
fed to rest the consequences with the good
sense of the people.
1t is somewhat annoying, we know, for
a great newspaper TO see its advice and its
warnings, its tenders Of patronage and its
anathemas, its praises and its rIdicule, alike
UNDECIDED. 1t is impossible for the Herald,
with its inflated notions, of its own power
and the sweets attending its exercise to
conceive of any one willingly parting with
a ruling position. The elder Bennett could
never have abdicated 10 the junior even the
full control and management of the Herald
while he lived, and the son inherits the
same ambitious notions and love of power.
To convince the present Bennett that the
Herald was second to any other journal in
this country or the world, in point of fame
and power, would stir his ambition to the
depths He would strain every nerve to
the utmost to regain the throne of journal
ism. Failing in this he would die discon-
solate 1t is quite natural that men Of such
disposition and passion should judge others
by themselves. Ii is on this hypothesis
that the Herald imputes to the President
aspirations to third Presidential term.
If we had any special objections, either
traditional or constitutional, to the re-elec-
ton of General Grant for another term we
should feel inclined to beg of the Herald
and its New York contemporaries to cease
their abuse of him. We think that even
they should be satisfied by this time that
their misrepresentation and personal and
political ISLANDERS have served to strengthen
rather than weaken him with the masses.
As it is, we are perfectly willing that they
should run their own gait. Foul epithets
falsely applied rarely injure any but the
utterers, and slanderous tongues usually in
herit their own blisters. The whole great,
proud, arrogant and libelous press of the
commercial metropolis, with scarcely a
single exception, have, during the past two
years, opposed the Southern policy of the
President without scruple, but they have
failed to change it. The New Hampshire
election showed and the election in Con-
necticut appears to confirm the fact
that the people of the North are still
firm in their adherence to the reconstruc-
ton measures of the Administration. Con-
necticut lies at the very door of this great
press. The whole power of the latter has
been exerted in the effort to obtain YER
dict in Connecticut against the Southern
policy of General Grant and the condemna-
ton of Sheridan.