The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-09-17
and laughed st BY their adjoining neigh
born, both North and south-'he people of
the British Provinces and Of Mex,co X

Sno laugneo st Dy their adj Dining neigh
bors, both North and South-the people o,
the British Provinces and Of Mexico. ,
Il would have no hesitation in recon
mending that notice be given the French
that foreign troops must be witAd,uwn from
the continent, and the people left free to
govern themselves in :heir own way.
00Htd cpe' ~ sell on credit to the Gov<rnmen,
| q Aez'co, aU the ammunition and clotAin1
they ''a"f' and aid them seith e0Eers to COM
"a"d troops. In fine, would take such
measures as would secure the supremacy
OF republican government in Mexico"
However much we may regret tie
tate of poor Macmillan, and glad as
we are to do his memory hooor for the
noble deeds be purposed, We cannot but
see that the sentiments here expressed
we're those Of statesman. ,laximiI.
ian's fall was necessary to complete the
work Of suppressing the Rebellion
Gen. Grant understood this, and with
1t that cardinal principle of American
progress, which We write as the sisth
principle OF his craftsmanship:
NO INTERFERENCE IN AMERICAN AFFAIRS BY
THE MonARcHs OF EUROPE.
Finally, We come to what NAV be
called an illustration rather than a
principle. Our public men have been
given too much to spending money
not enough to saving it. Gen. Grant
for ak months was in charge of one of
the most difficult and expensive depart.
ments of the Government. He brought
the eye Of an experienced soldier to the
work. and Immediately began a system
Of retrenchment. He diminished the
Bureaus and consolidated their Duties
thus dispensing with large number of
ofhcers aud clerks. He abolished ey-
cry s'neeure remnant of the war; re-
duced tho service of the Freedmen's
Bureau, the Quartermaster, Commissa-
~, and Pay Departments sold unuec-
essary armories and arsenals; stopped
the making Of large guns, and saved
every penny that could be saved With
out detriment to public interests. So
thoroughly was this done that even
President johnson paid him this high
compliment:
''Sslutary reforms have been introduc ed
BY the Secretary Of War ad interim. and
great reduction Of expenses have been ef-
fected under his administration of the War
Department, to tho saving of millions to
the Treasury"
SO, therefore, we may write at the
end OF this summary principle that
deserves especial honor, and which in
itself is the highest craftsmanship:
RErREScHHESr IN The DISBURSEMENT OF
Gen. Grant has been before the coun-
try for three years in capacity of al
most civil responsibility. No question
has arisen 10 which he has not taken
positive and decided ground, and ip
some questions We find him far in ad-
vance Of the ablest of the men common.
~ called statesmen" Horatio Sew.
mour, for instance, is man of purely
civil attributes and antecedents. Mos.
OF the men who deny to Grant aay-
thing more than brutal courage, and
dull routine knowledge of war, who re-
gard him as an orderly sergeant by
mistake made a general-in tactical
science drone, and in battle a butch
er, regard Seymour as representative
OF thu ripest and most enlightened
statesmaashlp. We do not hesitate to
take our captain as he stands before us
IN these volumes, and compare him
With Mr.. Seymour. The one never bs-
''eved in the country, nor had any SYM
pathy With its trials and successes -
When Gen. Grant was surely twisting
his armies around Vicksburg, and per-
forming feats only equaled by apo
leon in his AusterIitz campaign, he
stood like a moaning Cassandra, and
proclaimed our ruin. The one was
the minister Of victory, the ether the
preacher Of defeat-a Jeremiah in la
mentation, shrinking, timi1, purpose
less officer when the time for action
came. While the one was demand
ing the unconditional surrender of
Pemberton, the other was dallying with
4 mob of New York rufians, aud virtu-
ally negotiating for the conditional
surrender Of the Government to that
mob While Grant was ordering the
military protection Of loyal men at the
South, Seymour was willing that
policy Of disfranchisement and banish-
ment should prevail. While Grant was
repressing and Furnishing the reviving
Rebel sentiment in the South, Seymour
aud his friends were striving to give it
new life. While Grant was urging the
admission of the Southern States upon
terms which would insure all rights to
all-mercy aud protection to the van
quished, justice aud suffrage to the
l,yal-Mr. Seymour was willing that
they should spurn these terms, and all
terms but such Is would bring them
back more defiant and more powerful
than before the war, with majority of
Rebels in every State IS large as that
which now oppresses Kentutky, and
With more political power than under
tho old system of representation. He
would have South Carolina as powerful
in Congress as Connecticut. He would
have made the Reconstruction laws a
dead letter, by giving their execution
into the hands Of generals like Rous-
seau and Steedman. We do not know
that he had any policy about Mexico
aud his ideas Of retrenchmont may be
understood when We see that he is the
darling and chosen leader of the most