Year: 1871

Up to the present time Grants administra- tion has had8a powerful advocate in the New York HerGld Fer some reason which has never been Hstisfa ctoriIy explained that most prominent journal has hitherto endorsed every act of this meat stupid and shamefully ignorant man that ever occupied the Presidential chsir Summers speech has, however, turned the tab les on Grant, and so completely has the work been accomplished that even the Herald Is obliged to admit Grants ignorance, and the lawlsssnsss of his course in tho San Domingo annexatian scheme, before vsnturing anything in the spirit of an apology It says, referring to senator Sumner in his speech:

 Be proves by incontroTertibIs evidence and that taken mostly from the official acts and records of the government that the presi- dent has, in the language of the resolution, without excuse or apology for interference, res sorted to beigerent intervention and acts of Hsr on the coasts of the island of St. Domingo after the failure of the Dominican treaty in the Senate, and that this was unauthorized vio- lence, utterly without support in that kingly prerogative which is disowned by the constitu- ticn of the United States. In fact Mir. Sun | ner makes out case for impeachment of

 much more serious nature than that worked up against President Johnssn There need be

 no fear that General Grant will be impeached.

 however, except in political sense, and 20

 one desires to see him brought to trial in any other way for his errors, grave as they may

 have been, arise from his ignorance of public

 affairs, his military eoucation and the mischiev-

 Ous influences around him, more than from

 lack of patriotism or desire to be 6 usurpsr. We have been disposed to sustain Gen.

 erai Grant on account of the services he rem

 dered the country in the war, and believing 1 he as honest, having hope at the same time

 that with experience hs would show some capacity for craftsmanship; but he has failed

 and we see littls else but blunders both in our.

 domestic and foreign affairs. Public senti-

 msnt in every direction, and even in New Eng. l land, the stronghold ofradcal republicsniam

 IS turning against him. At the very time the

 tide of public opinion was thus turning, as clearly shown by the elections, the President guarreiled and attempted to whip into his tnea- l sure Mr. Sumner, the foremost man ,ia: the Senate and one of the oldest and most efi- cent men that built up the party which put him in the White House. We see the immediate result, though we have not Yet seen all the con- sequences of this mistake. Then look ct the wretched failure of the administration policy toward the South. The psopls of that section showed such 8 ready disposition to repair tho damages of the war, and to make the best of the astounding social, political and indus trial revolution they had passe1 through, tn at

 within year or two they raised again hun- dreds of millions worth of surplus produce.

 Their peaceful industry and energy under such cireumStances were astonishing and called forth the admiration of the world But the administration kept it's heavy hand still on this people, refused them amnesty or encourage msnt and indirectly fomented disorder to serve q base political purpose. Whatever

 Ku Klux crimes there may be in the South and we have no dorbt they are greatly exag- gerated for political effect in the North-haYe resulted from tho miserable and hearteas policy of the administration aud the radical party. If we look at the financial adninis- tration and measures of the government we ses nothing but blunders; no statesmauship,

 and every act directed 10 tho one end of sus- tsining the New England policy of protection The whole financial policy has been contract. ed, sectional, to favor the few and to burden

 the many, General Grants administration through all its course is now weighed in the balance and is found wanting. Though the masses of our people are conservative and slow they are fast coming 10 llis conclusion.