The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-17

lng states its opinions as to the views of Gene
raj Grant, #.4 "H ..
,'Those Republican newspapers, therefore,
whlch, ike the Times, are trying to identify
General Grant with the Republican party, are
opposing strong presumption by the thinnest
Grant to be sure, favors the execution of the
keconstruction acts; but so also does President
;t6IL Johnson As they do not differ on this point
to the present posture of affairs. President
Johnson would, indeed, have had no such
execute; nor is there any evidence
that General Grant ever favored, or tried to
comedies that Congress has practical control
OF reconstruction, by consenting to execute the
Grant finding these laws in force, recognizes
their authority, without going behind them to
inquire whether they ought to have been
dent and Acting Secretary of War differ on any
important practical question:" 'H
The remarkable silence of General Grant, and
his acquiescence in the order of the President,
render such deduction as that made by the
Word not unwarranted. 1t may be true or
false, but no one can either verify or deny it,
none knowing anything about the sentiments of
the Acting Secretary of War; .. ... by ..
While the Democracy are declaring, with the
World, that "as Washington was elected and re.
elected on the strength of his character and
services, without pledges either asked or given,
we trust that General Grant will be elected il
at all, in the same way and with the same gene
rous confidence. Having restored the authO-
rity of the Government, we hope that he may
add the highest civic to the highest military
fame by restoring long.los cordiality of feel
ing" the Republicans are naturally anxious to
see the General declare himself. The New
York Tribune says:- ...
Probably General Grant can afford to be a
Il naf n a1Ns1h aVnA fnNn htrR I'D
cannot afford to elect a dea fand-dumb Presi-
dent. If these were ordinary times of peace,
and the Executive office meant the appoint
ment of tide walters, postmasters, and cousuls,
we might be content to see Grant in the office,
even If he never had an opinion. t'
1.-The Republican party is too great; its mis-
sion Is too mighty; to speak politically, IL Is
too strong-with three fourths of the Electors
College almost inevitably in its hands-to go
begging for a candidate, or to intrust its work
to man who does not feel in sympathy with
IT, II General Grant is the man, we shall be
happy. But in the face of his recent record, in
the face of his silence, in the face OF the appall
| ing fact that the men who claim to speak
for HIM are the men who planned the
| great Copperhead tonvention in Philadelphia,
is, he cannot carry our banner unless he wears
our uniform. He cannot lead this party unless
| we know where he means to go When he COM
manded our armies, every soldier knew who he
meant to fight. IL is proposed to give him
higher command, and to begin even greater
canvass. Is 1t too much for us to ask, before we
1all In line, what colors are we to wear and who
are our foes?" "u
II Grant by his silence and his actions allows
himself to be placed in the position of having
the World and its party for friend, and the
Tribune and its party for an enemy, even his
splendid reputation will be sullied by such
association. The Archangel Gabriel could not
remain popular with such combination
THE DEIUGE.-We believe Scripture tells US
that the world will never be destroyed by an
other deluge. From that fact, we venture to
prophesy the immediate return of fair weather,
for a couple of days more would prove the
Bible to be untrue. If it took forty days of
rain to destroy the earth before, we must be
pretty near the limit to prevent recurrence
of that unfortunate cleaning out of creation.
Accounts from all portions of the country,
particularly South, tell the same tales of other
cities as was told by The EVENING TELEGRAPH
yesterday of our own. Railroads washed
away, canal embankments overfowed, cul-
verts broken, and houses flooded, is the univer-
sal report. 1t has been many summers since
such an amount of rain has fallen-as many,
we believe, as thirty-fve. However, the end
must be near.