Year: 1869

IL is not often that President is assailcd
at the outset Of his Administration with the
vindictiveness shown by the Democratic press
TO President Grant. In all free governments
the least courtesy any party in opposition
can show TO new Administration Is pa
tience. The transition from one rule TO
another is awkward, and oftentimes at
tended with jars and stumbling. The men
who come in are new TO their work-and
to each other. Until they gain this knowledge,
matters will go slowly. A new government gen
orally means new policy, and any new policy
is TO certain extent experimental. There is the
clamorous appealing of men who want office.
Their claims are eagerly pressed-and in
many cases the claims are just. The
old politician who wants rest, the young
politician who Graves for hOnOrs, the
friends" of Senators and Representatives and
men high in station-the multitudinOus gather
ing of ambitious party men-who demand
"recognitiOn," all press upon the new Presi-
dent. Every expectant goes to Washington
with his own ideas of his services to the party.
As these ideas are only limited by the vanity
or the ambition of each particular candidate,
slight knowledge of human nature will show
tho vastness and turbulence Of the currents of
Office -beggars which sweep around the Presl-
dent We presume there are ten men asking
for Office to one that can be appointed. The
dsappointments That cOnU from this form
n large part Of the vexation and criticism
which attend the beginning of every new
Administration.


There il also peculiar trouble attending any
new Government that begins with the policy of
Ia tl,c nf Raform
The Republican party dwelt upon that fea-
ture of its platform with repeated emphasis.
We know how slow every reform must be-
how patiently an Administration must labor
to accomplish it, and how very difficult it is
to realize the dreams of enthusiastic and imagi-
native supporters. Andrew johnson was a
bad President. and the tone of our Govern
ment was reduced by him to a lower pitch than
at any former period OF our history. IL was bad
enough under Jackson and Tyler but with all
their faults they commanded personal re-
spect Mr.. Johnson was dislked both as n
man and President, except by small cir
Gle OF bad men. This dislike eliminated
in yearning for Grant, so general, so deep,
we might almost say so pahtve, and
sentimental that when it was really known
he was President the joy was raptorous and
exulting. Men said in their gladness "Now
eve shall have peace, security, reform, econ
"omy, strength, good harvests, stimulated com
"merce, better currency, and every blessing
"Of good government" Well, men may vow re-
formation, and declare that seven half-penny
loaves shall he sold for penny. When an un-
popular minister was once oyerthrown in Eng
land the poets sang of a ministry by which
"private life" could be by "wise acts re-
"claimed," and ardent youth to nObler manners
framed" The fall of Disraeli and the accession
of Gladstone and Bright we have no doubt
meant to many hopeful Englishmen the instant
remedy Of every evil under which the British
people have suffered-lreland paciied, labor
happy and more content. These good results
! and all good results only come with patience
and effort and time


After fever the body is weak, and after
| dissipation the natural sources are clogged and
| sluggish Thus it is with mainland TO q Ger