The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-31
The Power Behind the Throne.

FROM me ~. r. World.
Wendell Phillips is the radical barometer.
In his late speech at Boston he foretells the
storm that is brewing for Grant, should that
person, in event of an election to the Presi-
dency, refuse to mould his policy with an eye
single to the negro. 1t may strike the
soodo- &c l'sSiero~~ 90 associate tle ide~ Of
policy with General Grant, but still it is neces-
sary to use that collocaton in order to fore
shadow the radical design towards him.
Should it be so ordered that the Chief Magis-
tracy of this country is to be handed over to
the head of the army, and that head proceed
in his sphere in strict accordance with the de-
structive programme, we'll and good. Mr..
Phillips and his coadjutors will, in that case,
be in harmony with Grant and rather extol
him, a la Lincoln, than otherwise. But once
let him evince tendency to moderation, and
it is easy to see in Mr.. Phillips late speech
the course that is to be pursued against him.
He will be broken down. Such popular conf
dence in him as may now be felt will be done
away with, and in the place thereof the seeds
of hate, distrust, and insult sown.
If it be thought this is an extreme con-
tingency, simple reference to the campaign
against Mr.. Johnson will sufficiently show the
contrary. When Mr.. Johnson stood up alone
of the Southern Senators, and refused to
withdraw; when, by the exercise of his intlu-
ence, he withheld Tennessee from formal seces-
sion; when, by such withholding, he held up
the hands of those who restrained Kentucky,
Maryland, and Missouri, no praise was too
great for him who alone remained faithful
among the faithless. Pulpits rang with his
laudaton; presses that now never mention
him but with sneers exhausted themselves in
his glorifcation; and, as the highest possible
evincement of loyal gratitude, he was put
upon the ticket with Mr.. Lincoln and elected.
Even after the death of that parsonage, and
Mr.. Johnson's consequent accession, he was
still praised, still lauded, still glorfsd, still
believed in. But he cOntTavened radical
ideas, and he fell. Those who had been edu-
Gated up to believing him an Aristides were
educated up to look on him as worse than
Judas. 1t was even sought to impeach him,
and the effort by only hair 's-breadth failed
MutotS mutdndiS, the same agencies that
broke down Mr.. Johnson will, if he mutiny,
break down General Grant. His drunkenness;
his stoppage of exchange of prisoners; his
amazing disregard of his brave mems lives;
his embarrassing report" to Mr.. Johnson;
his interference in behalf of Lee; his boggling
at the platform-for he did boggle, be it
known, and would have refused the candidacy
had it not been fixed as it was; his double
dealing in the Stanton imbroglio; his slur
on that representative Republican, General
Butler; his completely in swinging around
the circle his proven unveracity in the
Cabinet; the cloud under which he left the
army III ioo4, WIN the tureen sIory a'
length; the pleasing manner in which he
peacefully pulled his cigar when, on certain
day in Virginia, two thousand United States
soldiers were shot dead and three thousand
wounded in two hours time, TO the extraction
| of no further comment from their general than
| a nonchaiant "Well we must try it again, I"
as, lighting fresh partagd, he left his com
| Portable camp chair to mount his horse;-these
things and more will he brought up against
| him, and tipped with the same venom as the
shafts now levelled at the once adored john
son. Back of them, as back of them with Mr..
Johnson, will be furious Senate, largely re-
inforced with loil vagrants and bitter House.
Great as he is, Grant viii go down, if ever
| President, unless he be heart and soul with
the Wades, Forneys, Buffers, Summers,
and Scllleses. The bull be it soon or late,
succumbs before the tauridors. Aud mean
time where's our peace