The Portland daily press., 1875-11-16

outspoken man, who says what he means and
means what he says. There is a remarkable
fund OF common sense about him, and he has q
great deal more capacity for affairs than the av-
erage OF government officials Even the un-
feed penny-a-iners who lampoon him do not
venture to impeach his honesty. That has never
been called in question during the eighteen
years of his senatorial life. But they represent
him as uncoutb, inelegant, deficient In grace
and polish. Well, possibly he may have a cer-
tain backwoods roughness about him, but he is
manly and straight forward. He would not sit
at mans table and break bread with him, and
then go away and vllify him with every spe-
cies of monstrous SANDER, as some of his re-
vlers have been known 10 do. He would not
stoop to the sort of trickery which was prac-
tlced to defeat his re. election to the Senate.
There's a story about that that has not leen
widely told because the successful candidate
was not blamable and is good and true man,
but it is not calculated to impress one with any
very keen sense of the purity and moral exal-
tation of the class who are so intent upon re-
form that they are ready to resort to cheating
to compass it.
You may depend upon it, wher the Presi-
dent resolved upon inviting Senator Chandler
to take seat in his cabinet the fact that the
selection would call forth an inky torrent of
cant and snivel, didn't have feather weight
with him. 1t is impossible for any human be-
ing to manifest more contemptuou5 indiffer-
ence to that kind of clamor than Gen Grant
has during his entre public life. think he is
reasonably sensitive to just criticism, properly
amenable to public opinion when it ID fair and
intelligent, but charlatans and pretenders are
his pet aversion. fancy that he rather en-.
joys seeing them in fury, and that their raw.
him amusement for a moment
After all the probabilities are that the Ameri-
can people like their President vastly better be-
cause he has SO much genuine manhood that he
will not play the demagogue for an instant. 1t
would have been perfectly easy of course, for
him to have had corps of retaners in his ser
vice scattering laudations of him broadcast over
the land. But his native repugnance to every
thing savoriDg of bumbug made It impossible
fo- him TO lend himself to any such devices
Consequently he has been a target for ribaldry
all the while, but happily it has produced very
little effect The time has goue by when the
chatter of evil tongues could iDjure man
whose life has been one clear and perfect record
of honorable motives and distinguished effort,
provided he filled a sufficiently prominent
space in the public eye 10 be judged intelligent
ly. Obscure persons have been literally ruined
by such gratuitous obloquy, but it is not so easy
matter to harm the reputation of one, every
act of whose career, military and civic, has been
a vital contradiction CT the aspersions leyelled
at him.
1t must be conceded that toe Democracy
have mighty little capital to start Plesiden-
tial campaign with. They have no origiua,
principles of their own. They have been throw
ing over unweldy cargo for dozen years and
finally in their last struggle, they made full re-
cantation of every tenet they had ever held.
Hence, there is nothing under heaven for them
to do but to tell lies about the Republicans
| The preseLt administration has been SO conser-
vative economical and efficient, that the people
will have no taste for rsking their destinies with
| another school of politicians unless they are
| grossly deceived as to the facts. 1t rs simply
| impossible to bring any truthful accusation
| against the dominant party-which can serve
to justify or warrant its supersedure.
YARMOUTH