The New York herald., 1869-06-01
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The Administration i, Peace.

The Administration is Peace.
: The administration, like the empire, is
peace. The Cabinets and the government
journals Of England and France have unneces-
sariy interpreted General Grants warlike
antecedents, his strong Western progressive
ideas of manifest destiny" his inaugural,
and his foreign appointments of Messrs. Mot
ley and Washburne, as meaning war-war on
the land and on the sea /; war not only for
absolute dominion on this Continent and the
whiphand over Eastern Asia, but war Incl
dentally for the balance of power in Europe.
The vote of the House of Representatives at
the close Of its late session, authorizing the
President, in his discretion, to proclaim bel
ligerent rights in behalf of the Cubans, aud
the trenchant speech of Senator Sumner and
the emphatic vote of the Senate in condemna-
ton Of Mr. Reverdy Johnsons peace treaty on
the Alabama claims, have created something
of war panic in England, and have perplexed
Napoleon and alarmed the provisional govern
ment of Spain. From all these things the
conclusion across the water has logically
been this-that General Grant is going to give
us and the world the aggressive warlike game
of Napoleon the First, instead of the pacific
dispensation of Napoleon the Third.
Similar impressions have prevailed here to
such an extent that the cunning gold gambling
bulls of Wall street for little while coined
money from their impending wars and rumors
| of wars, and the bellicose Cabinet councils
| thereon. But the Wall street gamblers have
| so far exhausted their war pancs that the
| stupidest plucked pigeons no longer believe in
the cry of wolf. The prevailing impression in
Wall street has become so strong that Grant
means peace that no more such experiments
are now tried, as "belligerents rights for
Cuba" ''war with Spain, England and France"
''the projected military occupation of Mexico"
or the ''invasion of Canada" or the ''seizure
of Nassau" All such late high-fying canards
have become dead ducks. In fact, the con
vincing signs and evidences of peace which
have of late been thrown out 80 freely from
Washington have resulted in a general disap-
pointment Of the expectations of our financiers
politicians and people.
There is time, says King Solomon, for
everything, and among other things time for
war and time for peace, and General Grant
| evidently believes that the time for peace has
| come, and is resolved not to risk anything
| that may possibly disturb the existing peace.
| The only danger is, to use familiar expression,
that he may run this peace policy into the
ground, and give us too much Of the benevo-
lent old woman or the pacific Quaker.
| General Grant in the broad -brimmed
| hat and butternut shad-bellied coat of the
amiable Quaker may be pleasing subject of
| contemplation TO the philanthropist, but the
character, In our Judgment Is not suited to
the man, the place or the time. But the Sec
deal cautiously on all these questions which
smell of gunpowder, because of the peril to
our bonds and currency from the London Stock
Exchange and the gold bulls Of Wall street !"
the Secretary Of State says, ''We must throw
out tub to the whale now and then to smuse
him, but let us have peace !" the Secretary Of
War says, "We have our hands full just now
| in regulating Southern rebels and Western
Indians" the Secretary Of the Interior pro-
tests that any alarm Of war will arrest the
good work OF his Quaker friends among the
Indians and the settlement and development
Of our new mining States and Territories !"
the Postmaster General says, "Let Cuba, st.
Domingo, Mexico and the Alabama claims
wait while, we have now other fish to fry y
the Attorney General gives his opinion that II
r will be blunder to accept the belligereni
4 rights and neutrality precedents Of England OF
3 the humane Intervention experiment Of Ma.
poleon, and the Secretary Of the Navy sees II
the reunion of the late belligerent Presbyterian
4 factions the dawning Of that promised mil
lennium when the British lion and the America
u eagle shall lie down together between Genera
!, Grant and Queen Victoria, and the ships q
the navy shall be employed in the diffusion q
n tracts and Bibles among the heather.
! We conjecture, at least, that such are th
' opinions which control the Cabinet, and W
suspect, too, that in such pacific ideas tb
J. Cabinet members believe they are speakin
2 the mind Of their chief In regard to tb
: President himself we apprehend that havin
satisfied Congress and the ofiice-hunting pol
ticians In the division Of the spoils and th
radical leaders in regard to negroes rights. In
/ dams rights and women's rights, as far
! possible, and having made up his mind tbs
the Alabama claims may be kept as = rod
. pickle that Mexico can wait. that Cuba is do