The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-03
DOubly PerDlCXea.

From Brick" PomerOy'S N. Y Democrat.
The Jacobin party finds no relief from its
perpleXity in regard to Grants character aud
policy since election more than before. Taking
him for its candidate from a supposed politi-
cal necessity, to secure the election, and not
from choice, and all the time distrusting him.
and fearing that in the end he would cheat
the master-spirits and extreme men of the
party out of the desired fruits of the antici-
pated victory, they went through the cam
paign perpleXed with doubts and troubled
with the direst misgivings. But they put on
the best face they could, and wore an outward
show of confidence, the better to win; and
there being indeed, nothing else for them to
do, having staked everything upon what
might come from the election of a man who
either had no thoughts, or, if he had, refused
to divulge them.
He answered their first object, and gave
them the victory. But now that they have
won it, they are more worried than ever.
They know not what he is going to do with it.
Like the readers of Bulwer's celebrated novel,
'What Will He Do With 1t l'' they can get
no olew in advance to what is to follow. They
gaze inquiringly and anxiously into that dull,
Inexpensive face, but can read nothing. They
watch the opening of his unmeaning and un-
communicative mouth, and behold, there
issues therefrOm only smoke smoke He
does not even "talk hoss,' which at one time
so troubled that polished gentleman and
Jacobin saint, the longtime Senator from
Ohio, whose lease of official life is fast expiring.
| We think these people are not disappointed
Ia their man. In their hearts they knew that
he had no great amount OF brain except in the
! region OF the cerebellum, coupled with the will
| to execute its low, brutal instincts. OF high
intelligence or of the coronal virtues they
never suspected him. They did not hope to
! find any such qualities in him. They did not
desire them. They preferred him to be the
| hrnt hat ha fhou
could control and give direction to his rufian
nature. Cruel revengetul, remorseless them
| selves, they saw in him the very tool they
! wanted to carry out their evil purposes, and
desired nothing but to be assured that he
would be their tool. Upon this point they be-
came less at ease every day. They know not
into whose hands he is TO fall-who are to be
the master spirits of his administration. And
herein deep game is going on. AS secretly
as possible, and with every imaginable dis
guise and artifice, the two wings of the Jaco-
bin party-for it has wings, but not those of
angels, any more than it possesses the harm
lessness of the dove are plotting and
schemiDg, mining and countermning, against
each other, to capture the passive, unintelli-
gent soldier whom they united to raise to
power, but whom they are unwilling to pos
sess in common, and use for joint interests
and mutual ends.
While all is smooth upon the surface, and
tne presses ana leaders representing these TWO
wings keep up as great show OF courtesy
and forbearance towards each other as posi-
bic, so as to conceal hostile movements and
lull suspicion, jealousy and hatred rage be-
meath, and await only the exposure of some
offensive demonstration from one side or the
other to break out in violence, and lead tC
widespread disintegration in the dominant
party.
And while this is all going on, Grant is al
| e an0
unknowing, in relation to what these people
are troubled about, as the horse he is wont tC
ride, and which he converses with about as
much, and, we apprehend, quite as intelli
gently as with his own kind.
While we see and deplore in this what is in
the highest degree discreditable to sour com
mon countryside raising to the Chief Magis