The excitement in the Union about the Presidential election flags,
while the parties are waiting for the joint report of the Com- mittees of both Houses, and the President has therefore been interviewed. His deliverance is very clear and simple. Who- ever is elected and presented to him by Congress he shall instal, and if that proceeding is resisted, he shall use force. He com- mands the army until his successor is appointed, and he has the right to call out the State militia in aid of the army, and will use it. He evidently does not believe that resistance will be attempted, and especially discredits the agitation in Indiana, where the most open threats app ear to have been uttered. This is, of course, the only attitude a Constitutional President could take, and indicates none of the vacillation which the Nation attributes to General Grant.
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