The Southern Enterprise

President Grant's Inaugural Address.

We present our readers with the inaugural in full. So far as we of the South are concerned, there is nothing in it especially to commend or to censure. It is national in its character, and has many expressions and opinions that all should applaud and support in every quarter of the country. We trust that every party may accept and act upon the wise suggestion, that all the questions growing out of the war "should be approached calmly, without prejudice, hate, or sectional pride." When he says, "In conclusion, I ask patient forbearance one towards another, throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part of every citizen to do his share towards cementing a happy Union," and "asks the prayers of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of this consummation," we can heartily respond, "and let all the people say amen."

President Grant has been badly advised, we think, on two points of his inaugural that will not be acceptable either to the entire party that elected him, or to the great mass of any party. His insisting on paying the public debt in gold, where it is not "so nominated in the bond," goes further than the people generally of any party, if left to their own sense of right, desire to go or would go. And the President's going out of the way to express a desire on his part that the States should ratify the 15th Amendment, will not meet with the approbation of many leading men and public journals of the Republican party; and certainly is disapproved by all others. In these two particulars we think President Grant has been misled by extreme radical advisers.