The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-12
GENERAL GRANT.

l think II Will De lreely aunIISeu shas
our Republic is now, more or less, IN
transition state, and some strong ten
denotes to consolidation have more or
less influenced public affairs from 1865
70 1876. 1t is needless just now TO state
what these various measures were. Ger
tsluly everything which required the ex-
e2utive action OF the President during
that time, ans which required any con-
struction of the Constitution, was done
b. him in the EXTREMIST manner IN
which that Constitution would at all sd-
NIT. In many instances the power OF
the Executive stretched the Constitution
to lis EXTREMIST tension. In other and
more fragrant instances the executive
acts were were without authority OF law
or Constitution The administration OF
General Grant may, then, be well and
truly characterized as one tending t.
a1solutism. The republic was being
Mac Mahonrzed. BY causes which nc
human agency could control, and which
must therefore be regarded as provIden
t,l by all those who believe IN q mora.
governor of the universe, the action OF
the government in many most importan
nsrticulars has been directly reversed
By this reversal, the country has been
brought back nearer TO its fundamental
principles ard to its original action. Ii
Is clearly, now, nearer 10 the standard OF
All the Democratic administrations, and
to all of the administrations from MIR.
Jefferson to 1861. And this has been
brought about by that providential order
which has reversed the administrative ac-
ton of the country which perverted leg
i.lation and misused the Constitution
from 1868 to March 4th, 1876.
General Grant was the incumbent
during these eight years o! the Presiden
tial office. During this time he married
his daughter to a scion Of the Diplomatic
family O. the English Monarchy. Per
hans 10 one will seriously blame him Tor
this, as it is the duty OF every father to
take the best care of his marriageblc
daughters, and General Grant always
took good care O. his relations, At the
close of his administration, this General
and President has visited the m Onsrchies
of the old world, and has been there re-
csved and feted MS no American citizen
before him has ever been, however great
and good they were. No man Will have
the hardihood to say that greater and
better men than he have goae there be-
fore him. Now, why is this? We know
that It is the law Of all such human
intercourse that men honor and pay obedi
ence 10 other men VINO have distinguish
et themselves log conduct in those things
which | Q nearest 10 their own hearts, or
h We IN some marked degree those
lalities which they most admire. Now
u .ners Grant Is not III orator; he
i, not scholar In any line
OF study whatever; he Is no eminent
Mechanic or farmer; be Is TO statesman
that has Indicated any measure OF public
political economy for the great benefit OF
ms own. or Any other country; he has
not suggested how capital could be used
and the laborcr have full compensation
or lust reward; he has no, shown how
STRIKES can be prevented Or riots sp
u ,ased; Tor has he the eciat OF a general
L 4 rasr1lta hN-c Il
or even moderate means, or by his modes
of saving human life in the achievement
IF victories. None of these belong
I General Grant Then why have the
monarchists OF Europe CoudescsHded
to honor him beyond the thousands OF
great and good mel who have gone there
b fore this time, IN oil public and private
capscities? General Grant is there SIM
ply as citizen of the United States,
with daughter perhaps sdvantageously
married in diplomatic family. There
is no reason for this outburst of monarch
ictl and srIstUCratiC adu,atlOn, except
tina. the tendency OF his administration
wss concentration and that consolidation
of government on which alone the secur-
ity of the monarChislS and the nobility so
firmly rest. Il is the public judgment of
Europe that the administrations OF Gen
eral Grant were what all true Republicans,
all men who love the Government OF the
United States and the Constitution upon
which it is based, claimed his admins
trs,ion to be, and feared that with a
"third term" it would permanently come
20 be.
| do not write this for the present.
General Grant is not dead. The leaders
of the so-called Republican party may
want him in tie future. Marlus, the
tyrsnt of Rome, after being in exile, and
wsnderjng houseless and homeless amid |