The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-05-13

Now SIR you would look in vain throughout all the
eulogies of personal admiration and all the fulsoms
adulation of political trimmers for solitary expires
sion denoting him of this high emnenee; nor less
vainly would you search amongst all that has been
written by him, or that passes under his name OF
that has proceeded from his lips, for striking ut
teranee, even wandering sentiment, which would
mark him as of this class
In period of almest four years since he left the
| White House, he has not uttered one idea that has
attracted the admiration Of the public, and although
feted ad by toadics abroad and at home,
during this whole period. what of all the adula-
tors has had the temerity to offer to him assurances
OF admiration respect and honor for his political
achievements and commanding statesmanshipi
The successful General, bold, resolute seneralshp
at the head an army whose deficiencies of numbers
and warlike material kept constantly supplied
from the most capacious sources have been and are
| the crownng glories of his name. From his full
claim to these have disposition to detract; the
benefits they have wrought to the country purpose
not to depreprecae but may not defy his admirers
and his supporters point in all the history, to
instance in which ample returns for all services
rendered more abundant testimonies of gratitude
and substantial compensation have been contrib
uted
While since the close of his term. others-Mr.
Hayes at the head of the Government, Mr.. Sherman
as Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Ed
munds, Dir. Washburne and others In and out of en-
inent positions have been giving their best en-
erges and their wises efforts to the advancement of
the general veal there has not escaped from his lips
word, has there been done through his agency
by his advice one act that looked beyond the graf
cation of intense love of adulation and attery,
and the accomplishment of most unhappy, illtimed
and discreditable ambition to be again reinstated
| in power and eminence; to be made little bigger
| than "the Father of his Country
This greedy thirst for glcriicson, this hobnobbing
with grandeur, with digntaries aristocraey Emper-
ors, Kings, Pashas, Mikados, would, in any other
American citizen, be held the most aggravated form
of snobbery. Is Gen. Grant made of other than hu-
man material, that in him it should be designated
| by some other name
With the finest opportunities ever offered to mortal
man to elevate his name yet niche higher in the
| temple Of fame, by a becoming acquiescencs in a
customary policy, which only needed his high en-
| dorsement at the end as at the beginning of the
century it had that of Washington, have acquired
the ''esto perpetua" of Father Paul, what do
| instead The lamentable and bumiiatng sounlngs
of public sentiment during the last twelve months,
to ascertain whether he might dare the risk of agaiu
offering himself a candidate for the Presidency
For, let it be disguised it may, it has been
during these many months past, there is nothing
palmer than that there has been systematic effort
of his friends to sound these depths and for this
| principle-quid Jacit per alum, facet per
Nor is it only that this fact has been thus vividy
brought to the 'front.' but it has brought along with
| it demonstration of what foreshadowed by
broad hints at the time of his going abroad that his
| inf. al IN I;sb ,I; oIa
result.
Speculation this direction, coincdent with his
start upon the tour of the globe that there such
hidden policy underlying the programme of his
movements, looked preposterous TO be set down
to the absurdty of that egotstcal spirit that delight
ed to foreshadow improbabilities and to fashion
treme and remote combinations. Much has been
heard of prestcraf and kingcraft long through the
ages, little then did the most asue forecaster of hui
man events, outside of the charmed circle of consp
| racy, imagine that in point of fact there being
matured of the most striking instances of aristo
craft that the ingenuity of cabalisc eontrvance had
ever designed. But craft in all its diversified oper
tons, rarely fails to overstep its mark, and, like
'vaultng ambition "oerleap ITSELF and fall on
t other" No less is a sober astute and wise per-
ception of well disciplined intelligence amply suf.
cent to ferret out and expose the fallaeies the hid
den designs, the dangerous purposes of Unsuitable
avdity of power. Finely conceived, ingeniously
planned stealthily but steadily pursued as it has
been it is to result in disaster, as was ever
any project of this warning element against popular
rights Else is the democratic sentiment common
alike to the party in its which has adopted it
its title, and to that which it is attempted to
pervert from the line of all its teachings its profess
sions and its aims, mere snare, pretense, and a
cloak to be laid aside easily that of the willy
hypocrite
And what is founded the pretext and the justi-
fation of again investing him With Presidential
power! That he, Gen. Grant, and Grant only, can
the country at this critical perod-critical in
deed, when, patent to the most cursory inspection,
the most satisfactory evidence, tho country has
passed from the stormy threatenings of financial and
sectional embarrassments, with which he closed his
administration, to of secure calm and undoubted
prosperity during the years in which he has not only
been absent from the helm, hut has not so much as
been passenger board. If the storm has been
so admirably weathered and the ship of our safety
has quietly drifted into calm seas and assured
safety, under this condition of affairs it is easy
to see the terrors of the emergency that now de-
mand return to his leadership. And if there were
unusual and and alarming portents above and around
u.s. is it to be conceded that the Republican party has
far descended below its wont of superb material
that it is not only to be twtted WITH but is itself to
afx its own nbrand of degeneracy, like that with which
Cassius upbraded Romeor her nfatuation for Casari
"When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one mani
Now is it Rome, indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man."
To have attained anything like the combination of
merits that could give plausbility to assumption
of superiority in anywise approaching grand an
altitude he should have added to the fame of General
which all accord him. the splendid attributes of the
highest genius for craftsmanship the loftest exem-
plifcation Of patriotism that woud stand side by
side with that of Washington, in ennobling the grand
principle inaugurated by him, wisdom that could
disdain the allurements of sycophancy, alike from
misguided and fawning home worshippers, and from
the paraded and ostenaous displays of aristocratic
pretensions abroad. Then should it, could syer
have been written that the development of the three
years since his abdicaton of executive authority,
have added distinction marks his fame but what
are embraced in the three ss-silence smoking and
the segar. L.
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