Year: 1869

rosoiute purpose. But his resoiute purpose
has become puerile vacillatlon; his common
honesty is nepotism, or worse; and common
sense is the quality of all qualities that the ad-
ministration is most without.


Pressed to exclude the grovelling politicians
from Office, General Grant was ready to meet
the public view of the necessity of such a
course; but he Immediately confounded with
these grovelling politicians every public man
whose name had strong party affiliations.
How great blunder this was is seen in the
reflection that in such crisis as we have re-
Gently passed through all men disposed to serve
the country faithfully in civil life, and who
were men of force, became necessarily party
men. BY the terms of his exclusion therefore,
he forced himself to choice of respectable
good-natured nobodies. Can the American
people be persuaded that there is nothing be-
tween that extreme and the miserable place
holders of the corrupt cliques? On this prin-
ciple Grants Cabinet was made. Disguised
with the result he then fell into the other
blunder of giving up his efforts altogether, and
politicians of the worst stripe had freer sweep
than they have had before this long while.
Here is failure. In rude age of the world 8
history so simple a soldier as the second
Caliph could remember that .'the family of
Omar had enough in Omar" and did not need
Office. He could advise his successor, also,
''not to prefer his relatives above all Others :"
For President in this age to conspicuously
indicate his Indifference to precepts so soundly
based in all views Of public morality and Off
cial purity is great error.


We are, it must be remembered, only in the
third month Of Grants Presidency. Popular
enthusiasm has cooled into disappointment.
Anticipations of vigorously honest discharge
of public duties have faded away, and the
common laugh is at the ridiculous anti-cli-
makes of Grants reforms and the dispro-
portion between what he has done and what
he might have done. But the causes of the
failure so far are not in the grain Of the man.
He may have been misled as to his own powers
and qualities, and the praise Of his reticence
may have given him the notion that wisdom
consisted in holding ones tongue-a notion
that materially damaged the constitution of the
Cabinet. We still believe that there is in the
fibre Of this man what we want to make q
President of the right sort but the President
is not there already made. Some of the
greatest careers of political history began in
failure. Grant can scarcely become so laugh
able figure as that great genius of modern
politics, the Emperor of France, has been,
apd Caorna Cappinv a fai
also. We shall be reconcled with the failure
we chronicle in this third month if from this
point Grant shall address himself to his great
duties with something of the energy and
patient persistency he has shown in another
sphere; for in that way, but not otherwise, he
may yet make his Presidency great success.
General Reynolds and the Texas Election.


Our telegraphic advices yesterday from Gal
weston state that General Reynolds has selected
all the registrars for the State, and that should
the President order an election in Texas 1t
could be held in July at the time designated by
the late Convention. It is but few weeks since
General Reynolds returned to his command in
that State, and this promptness of action in
cooperating with the wise efforts Of President
Grant to restore the complete arch Of the Union
does him high honor. Parties who find their
private interests advanced by delaying the re-
construction of the State governments in the
three unreconstructed States have represented
that an election could not be held in Texas at
the time designated, because there was not
sufficient time to take the necessary action for
registration. But where there is will there
is a way, and General Reynolds has shown
that he possesses the necessary will.


All that is now required Is for the President
to issue the necessary proclamation ordering
the election to be held, and General Reynolds
will end the way to hold it. In view Of the
iniquitous conduct of the Convention in voting
the credit of the State for enormous sums and
granting millions Of acres Of land to advance
the schemes Of private spectators, the Presi-
dent will serve the cause Of justice and hon
esty by directing that separate vote of the
people be taken on the question Of submitting
to the action of the new Legislature all that
portion of the work Of the Convention which Is
Unconstitutional and Of purely Legislative
character. If the schemes are good and OF
actual benefit to the State they will incur no
danger by such course, and if they are sim
ply plundering jobs they should be submitted
to legislative examination. Let us, then, have
the proclamation for the Texas election at
once, and that for Mississippi as soon as posi-


BILE. The whole Union will then be ready for
new start on the lst of December, with Cen
eral Grant as pilot Of the ship Of state and
manned by full Congressional crew.


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TnR POLICE BOARD OReANIzED.-The new
Board OF Police Of this city organized yester-
dav under q connromise-a plan of ad;uat-