Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-01
THE POILCY OF THE PRESIDENT CON-
,gRASTED WITH THAT OF THE RADE


In the great political changes that are taking
place in the country, changes that seem to be
vital to the prosperity of the nation, 1t will
loudly be insisted upon by those who cannot
see that the war is over, that those measures
provided for the defence of the Government
when in the most imminent danger, must be
continued onward into years Of peace. Such
men, such political leaders, cannot see any
thing progressive in the tremendous revolu-
Ton that has been wrought; and timid and
eelfshly ambitious at the same time, they will
not concede that the awful lesson of carnage
and losses at the South has been effective:
they would have us believe that a section
utterly crushed has gained nothing in the way
of bitter experience. Commend to their at.
tention the sorrowful and subdued utterances
of Alexander H. Stephens, wherein he coun-
sells his people to submission; to patience;
striving at the same time to inspire them with
some little hope amidst the darkness that has
come upon them, and in the estimation of
Sumner and company, some street encounter,
.ome tTaing collision betwixt those lately
placed in entirely new relationships to each
other-the occurrence exaggerated by some
mercenary correspondent whose letter to his
employer is nothing if not sensational-is
enough to neutralize the truth; to beget new
issue of fierce enmities and prejudices, and to
call for new and more stringent rule over
those who ayow their willingness to accept in
good faith the fate or the destiny that has
come upon them.
Again: who does not know that had this
class of men, or any one of them, had the
direction of affairs at Washington, they would
never have had the courage to disband those
vast armies, which when, Andrew johnson
came to the Presidency he had the sublime
trust to return quietly to the walks of civil life.
Who does not know that if Wade-scared Out
of his wits lately, because a visitor to his room
pulled out pocket knife to cut piece Of
tobacco-that if he had been the President
we should have had these vast forces garri
soning every city and hamlet in the wide land;
that the White Horse would have emulated
in appearance the palace of the Tuileries in
its triple guards; that, in short, it would have
been wears before the country would have
been relieved of the pomp and dstracting
presence of military display; OF. the Treasury
relieved Of the enormous burdens incident to
such condition Of affairs.
Remembering all this, rejecting properly
upon it, who is there in the land that is not
ready to admire the courage, the forbearance,
the trust manifested by the Chief Magistrate
in the American people; and contrary to every
precedent in the old world, who does not see
the glory reflected upon free institutions by
conduct so noble and so true? Who after
this can be listened TO with patience, when lie
to whom the country is indebted for so much
is calumniated; abused as ready to betray that
nationality he has been 50 bravely instrumen-
tai in delivering from the worst evils in the
first instance, in vindicating the character OF
the American people in the second.
Whilst much may be conceded to the chronic
timidity which counsels fears of section ut
terly PROSTATE; and whilst we must fain re-
alize in the attitude and conduct Of these men
sumner, Stevens, Wade, ct i'd omne genus,
the feeling elected by the romancer' account
of the Staying of 'Guy Denzil, +" in RoFeby-
that when the radical leaders look upon the
overthrow South