The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-02-02

gers-What Will They Do with Him g.
What He May Do with Them.
What is to be done with General Grant |?
The sphinx continues dumb, and the listening
worshippers gathered around him are in a
painful state of perturbation. He seeks no
conferences with the radical managers in the
lump or in detail; he does not send for them,
and when they call upon him to pump him he
talks horse or offers them choice cigar; he
travels East, he travels West, he attends
Union League welcomes, lawyers dinners,
wedding festivals and fashionable suppers; he
walks among the bulls and bears of Wall
street and rides behind pair of fast trotters
among the horse jockeys of Harlem lane; he
sees everybody, talks with anybody, and yet
nobody can get at the secret Of his Cabinet or
his policy. What does it all mean? Does he
mediate the despotic role of Cromwell, pre-
dicted by General Blair?--the treachery to
human rights, feared by Wendell Phillips, or
the detection of Captain Tyler or Andy
Johnson?
These questions and such as these are not
only perplexing the politicians, but exciting
the public curiosity. But this suspense can
not last much longer. For the present General
Grant, without an official notice of his election
as President, may entertain the soldiers ideas
of the propriety Of silence on the subject; but
next week the votes of the Electoral Colleges
will be counted and the result proclaimed in
Congress, and then, perhaps, he will disclose
his chosen advisers and define his position.
For few days this week he is expected to be
once more the lion of New York, and we I'M
derstand that the managing politicians here
abouts intend to seize the opportunity to draw
him QUITO make him speak-to bring pres
sure upon him which he cannot resist They
say that his reticence has been long enough
respected; that the party which has made him
President is entitled to some respect from him
that it will have no further evasions, trifing,
hedging or humbugging; but that he must
show his colors and declare his intentions or
prepare for the fate of Johnson.
The recognized orthodox radical organ here
has neither warning nor encouragement to give
the faithful concerning Grant, but it sticks to the
Tenure of Office law. On the other hand, the
Jack-in-the-box, facing both-ways, semi-repub-
ican organ hard by betrays the spirit of rebellion
against the President elect. 1t tells him sub
stantially that he does not understand his
position; that he is not the master, but the ser
his case has ceased to denote wise head but
that, on second thoughts, General Grant may
be wisely left to his own discretion. Here
we have sharply given hint of mutiny and
silky apology; but the hint is suggestive of
an approaching fight among the factions over
the shoulders Of Grant. As the matter stands
it would appear that the first endorser of the
paper of JEFF Davis holds the whiphand over
the chosen orator of Andy Johnson. A few
days more and we may have solution of the
mystery or confusion worse confounded but
we must take things as they come.
Meantime the House bill repeating the
Tenure of Office law remains untouched in the
Senate. The radical managers Of that body
distrust the silence of Grant. They are evil
IDENTIFY resolved to bring him to terms in black
and white before they give him their vote Of
confidence. We expect, therefore, that he
will 90 into the White House bound with the
shackles taken from Johnson and that so,
under the law, he may be restrained from
general clearing out of the whiskey rings and
all the other rings fattening upon their spoils
from the Treasury and the taxpaying masses of
the people. Not doubt seems to be enter
tanned anywhere that General Grant will faith
fully carry out the reconstruction laws and all
the other laws Of Congress. The only fear
seems to be that he may bring to light and
break up the vast and comprehensive abomina-
tions and corruptions and robberies of the
revenue rings and lobby coalitions of the re-
publican party.
What, then, is General Grant to do, If, as
President, he shall find himself tied up, like
johnson, with the Tenure of Office law? His
true course will be to dismiss, as fast as he
finds them, the official plunderers or confede-
rates Of the plunderers Of the Treasury, and
to put honest men in their places, with his
reasons to the Senate, as the law requires, for
these changes. In pursuing this policy let
the President act upon evidence sufficient, in
his own honest judgment, for removal, and
let him pursue this purpose to general clear
ing out, and he may challenge the Senate to
meet him upon this issue. He may have to
fight lobby capital of millions of money /; his
sweeping plan Of reform may be checked by
the Senate, but it will be supported by the
country. Let him make this battle, and if
hampered and delayed by the spoils coalitions
of his first Congress, the next to be elected, in
1870, will be with him. In our judgment the
only serious apprehensions entertained by the
radical managers in reference to the Cabinet
or the policy Of Grant are their apprehensions
Of breakup and dispersion Of the hordes Of
radical spoilsmen and plunderers now fleeing
the Treasury at the rate of hundreds of mil
lions year.