The daily gazette., 1875-01-30
His Ercel1encV's. Great Opper-
tatalZtU.
From the N. 7. Herald ofyesterday.

From the N. 7. Herald Of yesterday.
The longer we consider the impor.
tant question of General Grants re.
signation of the Presidency the more
facinating 1t appears to us in its har.
mony with his own circumstances and
those OF the country. Thinking of
that letter of resignation, which would
give such universal delight to the peo-
ing the words in which Milton makes
Adam address Eve in Paradise
OF this conversing we forget all time:
All seasons and their change, all place alike.
And yet seeing how day after day his
Excellency puts off that stepping dow
and out which, as we have repeatedly
assured him, and as we cannot doubt
ne knows, would be the most popular
act Of his life, we are tempted to ex-
claim
Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it pursue
1t is pitiful to see man hesitating to
do that which is so certain to crown
him with applause and holding fast to
power at the daily expense of his re-
putation, and we cannot resis the i'm
pulse which once more bids us to re-
present his Excellency the critical sit
uation in which he stands. In the first
place, and to begin with himself, as he
usually does, we observe that his Ex-
cellency has by this time found com
Portable places for all or nearly all his
needy relatives and friends. He has
acquired pretty, or, indeed unless his
| intinates belle him, a large, fortune in
| the White House. He has had, on the
| whole, very good time, with great
many more heavy dinners than at one
time of his life he dared look forward
to. Throw in the fact that he has en-
tertained king, and General Grant
would, doubtless, confess, If he were
asked, that he has made very success
full career.
One of the most marvellous things
about him is the constancy with which
Fortune, the tickle dam, sticks to him
He has been literally pelted with good
luck; there has been nothing like it
since Marlborough that great comman.
der, who was called the most fortunate
and most greedy of mankind. And
Inow, at the very close of his career,
she remains faithful to him, and indeed
she seems to have reserved her great
est, her most precious favor for her
last. Not Pittsburg Landing, notCold
Harbor, not the blunders of femberton
nor the incapacity of Halleck, not the
mulishness of Andrew johnson nor the
folly of Republican managers, nor the
Igreater folly of the Cincinnati men
who nominated Greeley or of the De-
mocrats who accepted the nomination
not all these favors of Fortune, which
, gradually raised his Excellency, with
, out conspicuous abilities, with but
} slender education, with the most as
/ tonishing and absolute ignorance OF
/ civil affairs, with a curious contempt
> for constitutional limitations and for
, the law, with an almost incredible in
3 capacity to learn even the rudimental
principles of civil government, from
, Ian obscure adventurer to be President
i and to second term in that office-not
, l. all these favors of Fortune together
! compare with the opportunity she now
holds out to him with her most fasci-
, mating smile.
II We alude, of course, to his magni-
ficent opportunity to leave public life
by resigning the Presidency.
In the first place as everybody sees,it
!. would be absolutely the most univer-
0 sally applauded act of his life. 1t
i would make him at once, as we have
j. before pointed out, the most popular
{ man in the country. 1t will be said,
8 ] indeed, of His Excellency when he has
n resigned, that nothing in all his career
). fitted him so well as the leaving of it.
n We need not tell him, of course, that
It he would confer an inestimable benc-
lit on his country by resigning. He
r is not SO dull as not to understand that
!. But consider only some the other Gle
II ments of the problem.
.et There are, we are aware, unscrupu-
o lous Aatterers who still whisper to His
q Excellency hopes of third term but
II we should despair of General Grant if
re we thought it necessary to repeat to
re him our often and faithfully given
3, warning-that the American people
,r do not favor third term. He can
r reach it only by revolutionary and
u disgraceful means; by acts which
Is would make his name Odious, moi
n only in this country alone, but all ovel
Ill the werld. % Before he can be re-elect
ed he must stifie the voice of thu
H. people, confuse public sentiment an(
e. PROSTATE the country in all its inter
ia. ests, either by needless war or by I
si. desperate and criminal attack upon tn
ia peoples liberties. Whenever Case.
ne and Harrington and Conkling ant
IN. williams and Shepherd whisper thir,
lie term in his ear, we beg his Excellenc,
he to put them to the test let him asl
ro- them whether it is the act of friends Il
to advise him to perpetuate the powe
i'd by which they gain profit and secu
.se rity at Sc ruinous an expense to hi
nv reputation We will not promise tina
he they shall blush, but certainly the.
ed ought to.
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