The daily gazette., 1876-12-19
From the n. Y. Herald.
A WORD TO PR ESIDENT GRANT.


We ask the President to take care that
he does not in these last days of his pub.
lie life fatally stain his own fair fame. If
he acts according to his Incorporate and
unconstitutional language he may do the
country great injury; but he is sure in
any case to leave the Presidency an OBJ
ject of contempt and disgust to the very
men whom he must meet face to face in
Europe They will inevitably regard
him as an ignorant and reckless partisan
and not as a statesman or patriot as the
fit leader of a faction in Mexico or Boil
via but as most unfit to have ruled great
nation, or to associate on terms of equal
ty with themselves, the statesmen who
rule Es2pe. 1t will require all his efforts
during NE remainder of his term of Of
fee to redeem himself from the ridicule
and aversion with which the most emf
nent statesmen of England and other
European countries will be filed by an
utterance of which he ought to know not
one of them, from the highest to the low
est, is capable, and which, if one of them
used it, would drive him from public life
in irretricvabldice disgrace. Gen. Gran
is not the representative" of party het
is the President of the whole people; the
President of the democrats as well us of
the republicans. Let him take great care
to remember this. He cannot afford to
act partisan part in the events of the
next few weeks. The verv threat to do
80 is revolutionary, an unconstitutional
and dangerous act in him. Can he not
I see that when he thus announces HIM
| self as "a mere partisan he invites and
4, challenges opposition from the other
| party; that lie sollcts suspicion and justly
alarms and repels all fair-minded men!
| The most honorable men of both parties
in Congress are coming together to pre-
pare % measure for examining" the elec
! toral vote. Does the President, as the
representative" of n party, mean to op
pose and to veto any bill they may agree
| upon if it shall not happen to favor hi.
party purposes? The scrutiny of the vote
in the disputed States goes on. Does til,
President mean TO support the Louisian;
Returning Board inresisting the demand
of Congressional committee to see its
work? Does he mean to interpose him
self, as the representative" of n party
between the country and the discover,
of wrong in those States? Is he so com
pletely the victim of the Camerons
Chandlers, Mortons, Logans and othe
extreme partisans that he cannot Sc
men are, with a contempt they scarcel
conceal, using him for their ends? Doe
he imagine that they did not perceiv
long ago that he was ignorant of civil al
fairs and therefore fit tool for them be
, cause they can easily deceive him? Gen
eral Grant means to travel in Europ,
How does he hope to face the men Ii
! must meet there? How can he escap
their keen and cynical contempt, if i
these weeks when great question is t
be honorably decided, he does not ris
, rise above the petty representative of
: party? And where, we ask him, will
be if, when divested ofthe power, infl
: encc and respect of the Presidency, one
more private citizen, he shall figur
only as the representative" of n party
Can he not see the painful, the ludicroI
the humiliating future he is preparin
. for himself?