The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-21
Shall Foreign Potentates Select our
President

Why Is II that it is proposed In our Assem-
bly, TO appOinta committee OF three Senators
and five members OF the House to tender 70
Gen. GRANT, on his return, in the name Of
the people, the Inequalities Of the State?
We have the answer to this query in the
very words OF the mover Of the resolution
Mr.. HAMILTON FISH, the younger. He says
"W1erod.. The people Of this state have seen with
pleasure the distinguished honors paid TO Gen ULYSSES
CRASH the late President the United States the dir
rarts Of Europe Africa. and ASA which he has
visited"
We must honor Gen. GRANT because he
has been honored in the different parts OF
Europe, Asia, and Africa he has visited.
The same reason Is assigned for rejecting
him President.
The American doctrine Is that when a
President OF the United States retires 20
private lie he Is precisely on an equality
with every other American citizen. 1t
would have been fitting and proper for Gen.
GRANT 10 act on this principle when he
went abroad. II would have shown him TO
be true American at heart. But he was
not content to carry out in his own case the
American doctrine IL equality. He had
tasted power, and had become intoxicated
with the love OF station. Different from any
OF his predecessors, he had tried in vain TO
hang ON TO the Office he held four years longer.
Fooled in this by the common sense and
patriotism Of the people he undertook 10
rank as monarch during his travels
( through the Old World. He found In our
/ Minister To England, at the time Of his ar
/ rival in that country, facile friend, zeal
! Gus to second his ambition and vanity. Mr.
! EDWARDS P1ERREPoNT was successful In
| getting certain honors accorded TO Gen
| GRANT at the Court OF st. James's, and. very
naturally the example OF England has been
| followed in the other countries he has visited
! Does any one believe that Gen. GRANT has
/ been made more rcpublican-us the
word in its broad and not in it's partisan
acceptation-by the attentions he has re-
ceivcd from crowned heads?
Gen. GRANT is the only President we have
ever had who has held in contempt the
/ brevity Of the term OF our first Office 1t
was an objection he urged TO accepting the
Office OF President the first time. And when
his second term was about expiring, no in
nucnce that could be brought to bear upon
him could ever coax or wiring from his lips
a declaration that he did not want the office
u third term.
Now he has seen with his own eyes kings
in all their pomp, with a life estate in the
royal office and then the right OF succession
descending to the eldest son, and every one
who knows the nature OF the man knows
that GRANT would now like TO be King, with
a right Of succession descending TO his cid
est son, whom he has promoted in rank over
others most unwarrantGbly.
But the people had had enough OF GRANT
as President. They were heartily sick Of
him and OF the bad crew who surrounded
him. The people would have no more OF
him. He could not obtain a reelection He
could not even make show Of strength
he could not get any support whatever FOL
a denomination.
There Is no more reason for reGlectlng
GRANT now than there was when his SECOND
term expired, except that he has beer
treated with much attention by certain for
eign potentates And is that reason why
the American people should elect him Presl
dent a third time?
The crowned heads OF the Old World woulC
like to give us n King. Is that any reason
why We should accept a King
The American people will choose theil
own President without foreign dictatioI
or foreign influence, and the instinct o
freedom will prompt them to elect som,
man other than GRANT.