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Show THE PRESIDENT AMD HIS PARTY. President Grant's menage displays the laudable ambition to stand well with the American people, and we believe that his own verdictof liirni'.-ll an recorded in his last message will come to bo accepted as mainly correct. cor-rect. His nomination to tho prcsi dennj was truly an unfortunate onn; but it was the fault of tho re-publican party rather than his own. for the sake of availability thuy forced tipan the country a man utterly tin fitted to fill the high pfrtjition of the presidency, presi-dency, and not sati-ffi' d with the ex-poriene;e ex-poriene;e of a single- term, ire-electe-rl him, continuing tho original blunder. Availability, r.. Hilary popularity, i ubvirbed every ot'rior motive of the republican party, and at a time win n Morlm or Sum nor, Conkling or Wi. sor, Bris'.ow or Cox could have bton made president without difficulty, the parly thresw ovrljoard ih gro.it and lifelong lead' rn and st up fin ifi atandard b-arcr and f-xpont nt a rni'D ' utterly ignorant in flUt-nrrmtnliip, and who bud no cofic ptions of Him duti'B of tho rxiyjifivf! ollice. A Tier eight yurn of blundering, as Grout himrdf , conf' ''.' n ar.d bit p:rly will not deny, I we find b'.th on the r-n'pi'i trlo of d(V:il, d(Hp:iir arid nii"iry, waiting like the drunken vic'irn of Iih own folly, for tlx; iix vit .M tin I. An Grant counts the last hundred days of his mistaken official career, we ! may well belicvo that the inspiration in-spiration of the coming relief a fiords him cause for real thankfulness. If the same thing could be said of th e defeated party now fighting with the energy of despair for a fresh lease of its fraudulent life, the country might consent to let it quietly pass into history, thankful that it bad finished its work and could no longer convulse the country with its revolutionary policies. But having docided to cheat its way through another presidential presi-dential term in defianco of popular opinion and the votes of the majority of the people, it will not receive the favor and consideration that will be given to its retiring president, who, yiuldiug to the inevitable, gracefully retires to private life. |