| Show THE presidents MESSAGE k 11 PRESIDENT i agna gras qs message isa is a lengthy document yet jet al t so lengthy as some formen former messages all the country looked forward with eagerness to the delivery of the message messaged and now that it Is spread p r s the public there seems to be a general feelen feeling 9 of disappointment in some sort regarding it the present somewhat critical condition of national politics polities ma may y have excited the tho the gene genc general riku rikk expect a tion to a high pitch concerning thi e message and induced tho the tion lion of something more thau than ordinarily more dina rily interesting and perhaps 0 of determinate decision in regard to the crisis if such anticipations were indulged in they are not gratl fiad in the message there is startling in it for it is rather conservative re serva dative tive than aggressive indeed it is uncommonly a apologetic and belf defensive it Is 8 indicative of the end than of the beginning of a policy or a regime in it the first paragraph and in the last as well as fa some others the burden denof of the theme is of a valedictory ina jUa ture as if president grant word thoroughly imbued with the idea that the hands sands of hib his high official life ilfe were very nearly run out and abd the end was nigh at hand band even at the doors and he was not sorry for it so that instead of mapping out th elines forn fora lengthy and nail I 1 i ous administrative career he felt it to be more appropriate to him te to set his house in id order review his past patt administrative acts post poat deate e each b in tri its proper place placa on the demitor or credit me side of the account and have an ebe eye to which side the balance was d ue the custom of a EL presidential message arises drikas from the constitutional provision that the president shall from time to time give to the congress information of the state uhlon union and recommend to their consideration buch euch measures is as he shall judge necessary yand and expedient 12 the opening of congress would naturally sug suggest ragi gagi itself as one of the principal times for foi imparting mp arting such information a and id making such recommendations II edico erico the ifie established custom of a presidential message at the opening of congress and also the messages of governors of states and ter TVr tarri territories ri bli the opening ef of their thein re te j spec tive legislatures president grant in his present ines message sage gives such euch information and makes buch such recommendations recommendatiOn Fi lor briefly to most of which we need nob not more particularly refer as they are not of special interest to t the a people of this territory there may have been an expectation thab that the president would dilate the southern election bu business siness giness but this he has hash not done add and indeed it is perhaps just as well seeing that Con congress gregs greis da about to investigate the matter and things pertaining to it are so badly mixed at present besides the prey aident seems to be rather waiting for something to turn tarn u up than to be disposed to go to wo work rip nip c and turn up any moro mot than is absolutely necessary during the last two oi or three months of his off official lelal career furthermore congress is no ion lon longer with a democratic house and a republican ii senate senates recommendations of the president pr omd emd oma ent where they had or could be tortured into having a party leaning would ouid be held hold sim aim aply as 60 6 m many X bones of con mention 0 over oven which the two would wrangle wran gio glo and seesaw indefinitely luid arid without any beneficial result country so 80 the president contented himself for the present with briefly recommending some greater greaten safeguard around the of el electing epting a president and exic exec excluding illiterate I 1 from the franchise we might add that ho he also notices the reference of the report of the ther postmaster gen f 1 eral to southern bouthern outrages in regard to wat that department i jn can connection with the message we may say that it does doea not appear i to be kindly received d by the press generally for many rn ny of the public journals jo evidently feel disposed dispo eed ged now that they see the president going down the hill of ot official life and nearing the off place to give him a kick and a bad word as an his reentering entering re rc life ilfe |
