The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-08


compel the Senate to submit" Doubtless
the Rebels would like "to compel the army to
undo its work." from Belmont to Appomattox.
The real and only question is, whether the
Union people of the land are also willing. In
November we shall see.
Revolutionary Future with the Democrats
-SeymOur's Denial.
From the ". y Herald.
Mr.. Seymour has accepted the Democratic
nomination again by formal letter. His
letter was scarcely necessary, as he accepted
the nomination personally before; but it may
be that as he declined it great many times
he intends to accept an equal number. An
unnecessary letter would be foolish thing
from almost any other candidate but Cover
nor Seymour is one of the few who may be
safely trusted with pens and paper, for his
thoughts are so attenuated, so vague, dim,
and impalpable by the time they are written
down, that acres of them would not furnish
sentence that could be used with effect either
for or against him. If Seymour's letter faith
fully presents the operations of his brain, that
must be the least positive and effective organ
that was ever encased in the Uranium of
man of respectable position.
There is but one point in his letter that
touches an important fact of the present can
vass. Mr.. Seymour has evidently seen the
harm that the Southern fire eaters have done
| to the Democracy. He has felt that their
revolutionary declarations were alarming the
! people, and, in view of this, frightened for
the cause, he ventures some sentences in
| tended to reaSSure us. And what is the re-
assurance he gives He only tells us that
revolution cannot follow a Democratic victory,
merely because the Democracy cannot get all
| the power of the nation into their hands at
one election. "The election of a Democratic
Executive and majority of Democratic men,
| bers to the House of Representatives would
NOT oiry IN Of ri uar,ivo
to make sudden or violent changes" There
is to be no revolution, therefore, because the
Senate stands in the way. Not that Wade
Hampton, Toombs, and the rest are wrong
in reviving the old anti-war style of Southern
harangue; not that the Democratic lead
ers North and South do not pant
TO tear up and destroy the whole present or
ganiZation and retrace the steps we have
taken towards peace; but merely that the
! Democrats can at most elect only President
and House of Representatives, and with these
can do so little harm that the people need not
be pushed by fear of the result to act against
them. This is the best reason the distin-
guished gentleman has to give in favor of his
party. This looks very much as if the Demo
cratic trainers, frightened at the way Northern
sentiment takes recens Democratic speeches,
had put Seymour to correct all that by some
smooth sentences in his letter, expecting con-
fdently that he could erase from the public
mind all the Impression made by the Southern
fre-eaters. But this is the most laundering
correction we ever saw.
From the candidates own utterance, there
fore, we are assured that the limit to the
democratic disposition to make "sudden and
violent changes" will be the power that party
possesses. We know what that limit is; for
we have lamentabe experience that a party
possessing two branches of the Government
will not be stayed in its extravaganza by the
opposition to the third branch. The Demo-
Gratis. if the case arise, will find a way to do
without the Senate, as the Republicans found
a way to practically thrust the President
aside. The people, therefore, must not rely
upon the Senate in venturing to trust the
Democrats for a change. They mean nothing
less than an absolute change of everything
that party can lay hands on, and change
conceived in the most violent and anti-na-
tional spirit; and the lame denial of their can
didate strengthens the evidence of this. Bad
enough these past years with the radical fac
tion, we should fare infinitely worse in the
hands of the Democratic faction, and our only
chance is the election of Grant, and the hope
that he will put down all the factions and give
a grand assertion of the law.
General Grants Capacity as a Soldier.
From the NJ Y. World.
The communication on this subject which
we publish is from source which, if We were
at liberty to state it, would command univer-
sal attention. 1t is from an officer of name
and standing, who served with distinction
throughout the war; an officer who led i'm
pOrtant corps in nearly all the great battles
fought in the East; who served under Grant
during the last memorable year of the war;
, who was high enough in the military counsels
to be cognizant of all the plans (such as they
were) of the Commander, and who writes not
only with full knowledge of the facts, but
with the judgment, experience, and authority
requisite in military critic. Readers of this
: communication will at once perceive that it is
from a man of ability, and when they have
proceeded to the end, they will find that
, the clearness of his statements have made
y upon them an impression which is
7 likely to be permanent. A scientific
soldier, II he be not pedant in his profession,
is the most intelligent expositor of military
movements for a non-military reader. Civil
lians who have connoisseurship in such
matters are too fond of displaying their ac-
quaintance with military language, and too
apt to give undue prominence to the mere
husks and accessories of the movements they
describe. But soldier, who has clear per-
ception of the hinges on which military events
turn, easily strips subject OF unimportant
surroundings, and conveys distinct view OF
: its main outlines. Such writer is the author
of the communication to which we invite at
! tention.
OF what Importance, it may be asked, is it
to the voters of the United States whether
General Grant is consummate soldier or noti
, Very little, we confess, If the voters have no
other object than to choose a capable Presi
dent. We do not expect another war; and ii
we did General Grant would be more certain