Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-15

Special Correspondence of the Grant Co. HERALD.
| WASHINGTON, March 10, 1877.
The Congress.
| The House of Representatives o
of the 44th Congress came 10 with
| yell, went out with groan. 1t wal
a House of more than average talent
although il bad only one or two
members of commanding ability. L
died OF insincerity and inaction. L
bad nose enough and TO spare but nt
brain. It smelled with vigor anc
marvellous perseverance but it took
delight in shifting carrion only. Fol
years, the Greco of "practical''repub
llcan craftsmanship bad degenerateC
into the parrot like cry of "Rebel =
This Democratic House ran out its
prodigious nose in response ard par.
roticaiIy sneezed out - "Ihief p
Well, that was not craftsmanship
either; and so the nation wisely pre-.
ferred to endure the ills they knew
TO fly to others they knew not of. The
lessen of the 44,h Congress is: Act
Nickuaming, reduced tho Republi.
cans to minority; smelling cost
the democrats victory that was
within their reach.
President Grant.
Grants administration began and
ended with a blDnder; but both
were baffied by the courage. of men
who could not be awed by e. SEutive
| power. The Senate hurled the purse
poud Stewar. back at the new Press
ident: and Packard bravely defeat
ed the cowardly trick TO overthrow
him. By and bye. history will ap,
plaud the Senate and the Louisiana
Governor. Grant, as a statesman,
has been failure--as disastrous q
failure as Andrew Johnson, the woro,
of all our Presidents; and yet his
tory will say, belle Q, hat be was
The greatest man who ever sst in the
Presidential chair. But his admiSis-
tration shows the folly of elevating
military chiettains to great civil off,
ces. Tho training of each and the
| genius Of each are not TO be harmon,
lied for they are essentially and
forever hostile.
President Hayes.
The new President has raised the
/ greatest civil storm of our genera.
ZION. He has already divided the
Republican party into two divisions
that are sure 10 become permanent
because they are founded on per
enpial distinctions of character and
purpose.
He is more bitterly assailed al.
ready, by men high in the confidence
of the Republicans of the country,
than ever Andrew Johnson was be-
fore his impeachment. | have heard
men Of national renown, as party
leaders, predicting that be will be
impeached before his term of Office
expires He is called the "masked
Sherman" "traitor," candy No.
H." the "Repnblican John Tyler
and the like endeariDg nance.
All this hubbub means that the
death -knell Of The two old parties is
sounded, ani that the Republican
party is disbanding first ip order to
get rid of the leaders that have
brought it to the brink of the grave.
Keep cool Neither the President
nor his Senatorial ASSISTANTS will be
able to carry out their destructive
policy. One has as much right IS
the other to rule the Republic Meth.
err the President nor the leaders who
oppose him represent tho entire Re-
publican party One has as much
right az the other TO represent it.
Neither the Executive nor the SEN
ate has tbs sole right TO determine a
policy nor to select The proper men
to carry it out Both are parLy
right and partly wrong.
/ think the people can afford to
stand quiet for while and see fair
play between these fierce contest.
anita. There arc just as many spoils
mon with the President as with the
Senate. There is Senatorial Ring
and white House Ring" What
the people wan. is Justice first and
then peace; and 10 this struggle OF
rival policies and rival politicians
they are no: yet called on to take an
active part Let us keep cool and
give each their due.
The New Cabinet.
1t is not a great Cabinet, but there
are no weak mer in it. Taking both
character and capacity into consider
ation,it is the best and ablest Cabinet
we have had since Lincoln called
around him the chiefs of the party
Evarts is an ahler man than Fish,
and his social influence will be bet
ter here. He is not so rich. Shod
dy will not play the frog so mnch
in its attempts to rival bis social dis
plays. His house will be an Ameri-
can home-not 8 court In miniature.
And to know how great an advance
in reform this will be, one must have
resided here and seen the feversh
socia' life, under Grant. at the Capt.
tol, with the Fish family as its leaders
Sherman is quite equal to any Ma
tional Treasurers We have bad since
the war closed, and he is decided
Improvement over some Of them.
1t MoCrary shall prove to be the
equal of Don Cameron in executive
talent, his just reputation as law
yer will be equslled by his fame as a
War Minister. 1t is the fashion now
to decry the Camerons by the friends
of the new President, but no one
here denies that the late Secretary
has shown himself to be man OF
eminent capacity And he proved him
self worthy successor of Stanton
the greatest of all American War
Ministers. when. in the last week oil
Grants administration. be refused to
send the order that was designed to
overthrow the Louisiana govern
mont. He had the courage to say Ia
GRAFT that the President could have
his resignation, but that he would
not sign that order. Gen Sherman