The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-26


least and that is the removal of seoratarv
Stanton. This is a good thing all round.
good thing for the President, as it shows that
he has some backbone, which his friends had
begun to doubt; good thing for Secretary
Stanton, for it makes him the radical candi- |
date for the next Presidency; good thing for
Grant, as it makes him our next President: |
a good thing for Butler, as it bottles him up
once more; and good thing for us all, as it |
secures to the country in peace the services of |
the man who saved it in war. 1t was alto
gether the boldest and most effectual stroke
that has been delivered on either side of the
Reconstruction struggle for long time. Con-
gress has heretofore had the fighting prinoi-
pally to itself; it has pitched in with disabili-
ties and restrictions, and reductions of eXecu-
tive patronage and power, till it had, as it
finally supposed its adversary at its feet but
in this last act the latter seems suddenly to
have recovered his vitality, and to have deli
vered settler that knocked the former out of
time.
We have invariably defended Stanton when
during the war he was traduced and viliied
for his frmness decision, and energy, which
his enemies called despoHsm, impoliteness,
and brutality. The country is under load of
gratitude that it cannot pay, and which it GER
tainly will not by bestowing the next Presi-
dency upon him; that goes to Grant, but when
he shall have completed the customary second
term, and the people shall have settled down
into a position where radical views are less
dangerous, the great organizer of successful
resistance to treason should, in common graft
tude, be adorned with the highest honor they
can bestow. Stanton has proved himself
thoroughly unselfsh patriot during the war.
Much as we admire him, we must ask him to
sacrifice himself once more for his country's
good, by being beaten in a race for the Presi-
dency by General Grant.
MIR. Stanton was always the ablest, and now
the President has made him the strongest, of
the leading Republican candidates. He has
infinite courage, immense vigor, and unsur-
passed ability. To him belongs much of the
glory of our successes, and still more of our
heroism under defeat. He bore the labor and
heats of the day of our tribulation; he con-
tended bravely with traitors abroad and con-
tractors at home; his perfect devotion to the
cause and his entire honesty, have never been
doubted, and under the influence of the great
events through which he has passed, he has
become an extremst-as black as Thaddeus
Stevens and that is greater re-
commendation to our Republican friends
than all the rest. He represents all the
nobler sentiments of his party, and is entirely
free from its baser predictions. If the coun-
try endured terrific war, he bore his share;
If 1t is burdened with crushing debt, he has
flched no part of it. And when the proper
exposures and explanations are made, which
his want of time and inclination has heretofore
prevented, we are confident that he will come
out head and shoulders above any other
prominent man in the Republican ranks. If
we could vote for a radical-with all his negro
superiority and white man inferiority upon
his head-we should prefer voting for Stan
ton to voting for any other that we know.
The further consequence of the removal, in
the annihilation of Benjamin +. Butler, is a
wi IN ha
devoutly thankful. The country has had
enough of the hero of the spoons and bottle,
of impeachment and investigating committees,
and has paid him well for his services-even
admitting that he did not pay himself more
literally still. 1t gave him the command of
New Orleans, where he did some good things,
and had good time, and where he was
cused of doing a few bad things, and won
rather a bad soubriquet. 1t put him on Con-
gressional committees, and let him pry into
every matter except those relating to the gov
eminent OF New Orleans under our military
commanders during the war, and the rumOr
runs that he was not desirous of having those
affairs pried into. 1t has listened to innu-
merable violent, fiery, and extravagant
speeches from him, and let him abuse and
insult the President to his hearts content
This should satisfy any reasonable man, and
if he is nominated by the Republicans, a large
portion of that body will cut him in a brutal
like the butler to the head of the house.
By making a martyr of Mr.. Stanton-and
such rebellious and positive martyr too, as
will delight those that love to carry ideas to
all extents-the President has crushed out the
minor aspirants, that entire nest of little rep
tiles. Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Ben. Wade,
have no such crowling glory to show to the
people, no such magnificent record during the
war and glorious martyrdom at its termina-
ton. Sumner may be a good man, but he
never was much in fight. Thaddeus Stevens
has but one idea that the radicals behold
and say sit is good, - and that scintilation is
a "mild measure of cOnfscation." And as for
Ben. Wade, he jumped too far when he took
that famous leap forward; in fact, he jumped
into a bramble bush that not only scratched
out his eyes, but opened those of his constitu-
ents And since then he has never been able
! to find another bramble bush that possessed
| the magic power of scratching his eyes open
| again, and those of other people shut. But
| whatever recommendations of agrariansm,
| confiscation, or negro-worship these men
| possess they are utterly outdone by the
| superior claims of the hero and marty of the
war.
Lastly, the famous removal is especially
beneficial to the nation, as it forces Grant into
| the candidacy for Presiden', in self-defense.
| He has committed the objectionable sin; he
| has warred against the Holy Ghost of the
| radical religion; he has set himself up against
its high priests-for him the furnace is seven
| times heated. For him it is Presidency or
private life. He must either whip the blacks
| of the North as he did the whites of the
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