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Show FRANK BLAIR'S PROPHECY. Tlio Omaha Herald in view of the present decided leanings towards a third term for Gen. Grant, calls to;mind the prophesy of the late Frank Blair, that Grant would never leave the White House alive, if the people should onco place him there. Blair was then jeered by nearly everybody every-body uB the victim of a silly delusion or personal prejudice. He grew impatient impa-tient to a point of irritation when his friends would expostulate with him by depreciating Gen. Grant's ability and power. " What !" he exclaimed to a friend on one occasion "what! i Grant a weak man? A man whose I slightest word brings a whole senate to his feet to do his will, a weak man." And then he would berato the stupidity, stu-pidity, as ho thought it, of men who did not know what they were talking about. We doubt the fulfillment of Blair's prophesy, though there can be little question that the third term idea is bb firmly imbedded in the president's brain as that bullet is in tho Vineland editor's, or that he is backed in hiaaa- pirationsbya largo personal following, not only among the army of office holders, but by a class ol influential men, financiers and others, who wish to maintain the recent policy of the administration without change. They foal that t.hpv can rtV.v uoon the men who vetoed the BO-called inflation bill af the last congress in every emergency. emer-gency. The su'iis of the times, bow-ever,$indicate bow-ever,$indicate that the people, not tbe speculative financiers, will have their own way in 1876, and that General Grant will retire from public life in March. 1877. |