Show A T lime TIME TO GO UP AND A TIME TO GO DOWN timae THERE is a tide in the affairs of men luen there Is a high tide there is the height ot the tiie tide the height of the highest tide whence the tho course and the prosperity of men and of individuals are in continual subsidence having reached the acme aeme of their success and their renown and their popularity decrease naturally follows increase there was a timo time when president grant was the idel idol of tho the nation first in war first in peace first in the hearts of his countrymen when no other man could obtain even a respectable minority of votes as a rival to him in the republic when the people almost worshipped wor shipped him and impulsive gushing fe femi feml nines ninea boiling over with patriotic a tri trl otle pride ei swarmed around him m at public gatherings ready and anxious to receive him with oscillatory salutes by violent assault or rather peaceably if they could forcibly if they must and some of them actually iid ild did lid BO so manifest their intense regard for him he is one of the seven presidents who were twice elected to the presidential ident ial chair in grants ease case to the astonishment mortification and death ef of poor Gree greeley leys generally believed to be a better but not a stronger man there was a time when the prospect was promising that grant would be the first president of the united states elected to serve a third term to sit sll a third quadrennial term in the executive chair he was the only president to whom an admiring congress doubled the established presidential salary there was a time when many citizens feared that grant would be elected for a third term that he never would vacate the presidential chair until compelled to do ao so in the inevitable course of nature that he would maintain wis hla poal position there by force of arms if he considered it necessary and transform the federal government of this thia great republic into a great and powerful military despotism 3 with as supreme dictator that time however is past no one seems to harbor such apprehensions hen now the third term ia evidently gag lag as dead as a door nail 31 anti awl grants power influence prestige and popularity are evidently declining As a public man all appearances indicate that be he has passed the zenith of his fame and is now ia in his decadence going down down down how low we shall not prognosticate nobody talks or hardly thinks think of a third term now and the idea of a military dictatorship is almost passed out of mind this ebbing and flowing of the tide is in accordance with the general run of things mundane few public men there are whose course shines brighter and brighter unto the day of their death their perfect day usually comes some time previous to their death the fame and the glory of the great duke of wellington culminated at waterloo 3 and andl the hero worship directed towards him arose out of that part of his hia life which was consummated with that decisive victory when he be subsequently took hold of civil affairs he thereby added not to but rather diminished his renown and popularity it has been much so with grant his fame and glory and popularity are based apen that part of his public career ending with the decisive military events before richmond his ris civil record is generally held to have detracted from rather jather than added to his reputation renown and popularity his fame culminated with the surrender of lee then the sun of his bis glory vias was wag at its zenith from that time athas it has been gowing down towards its setting insensibly at first but moro and more sensibly now it has been su that at the expiration of his second term march 4 1877 it ift ai h president grants design to take a tour in europe that appears to be a sagacious resolve if resolve it Is 1 or op shai be in europe lie ho would bo be received with honor as ex president of the united states as president for a double term but especially bc be cause of his splendid military fame hla hia famous war record would be ba the basis of tho the gibat regard which would be extended to him in fur foreign lands if ho he should make this european visit when ho he returned again to this country in all probability he would find lind himself in a I degree decree in the character of rip van winkle he would be bo measurably with the people out of sight and out of mind he is not dot the sort of man to make his mark in congress and consequently it is not likely that ho he will ever be sent there moreover it would be much liko like being elevated a little lower for fur an ex president to sit in the house of rep representatives i to make laws when lie he formerly had the power to approve or to veto them or in tho the senate to approve appointments point ments when ho be formerly had the power to make nominations and some of or them viem practically absolute neither is it likely that the ex pre president ident woultz accept local civil office so that ha will bo be out of public civil life lire he will wilt be practically out of the army no more to reenter re enter it except in the possible e contingency ot of a serious internal or external war and then only when a great crisis was reached and the incompetency of the current military leaders was manifest or greatly feared with this axce exception P the probability is that president grant and general grant after he be returns to private lifo life in this country will quickly sink out of public notice and be no more heard ot of in the active affairs of tho the current national public life than if he had never existed |