The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-16

Tho Adminlstratiou Dividods
At length there Is very serious difficulty in
the Cabinet; that is to say in the administration;
that is to say in the country; that is to say in
the world. For what Is there that touches the
interest Of this nation but touches the interest
of the human race, more or less from Lapland
to Peru, by way of the cable that is to be
down the Amoor river and across the South
Pacific, not excepting the Chinese, who are
only counted out from humanity by the great
ethnolt9ist Of Ireland and California, which
his name Is Eugene Casserly? This momentous
difference b,sgins with Dent Dent is the cause
Of war We M can, of course, one of the Dents.
General Grant Is against Dent-clearly, un-
mistakenly; for is not Dent mounted for the
Mississppi races on that conservative demo-
cratico-republicau-recon struction nag that has
just proved his powers in y rglnla ana Iennes-
see, and does not Grant sta 'ke his money on
the radical animal? Here le.t us drop the
passing tear of q philosophic sorrtW over the
errors of great men, and lament the .enoency
with which the gods sometimes afaict th,sm TO
defer doing the right thing until 1t has become
the wrong one, and doing it then. For these
many months have all the snariers Of the less
rational press been swapping at Grant to throw
overheard from his political ship those J0nahs,
his brothers-in-law. He would not do it.
Finally one of his brothers-in-law turns up in
a place where people would rather like to see
man left alone, and Grant rushes forward to
hustle him out
But we rejoice to say that Dent can stand
it. He,can stand the opposition of one part Of
this administration quite as well, perhaps, as
the successful man in Tennessee stood the
opposition of another part; for the administra-
ton seems to have happy faculty for putting
it's foot down in bad places, and experience
well nigh justices the observation that if it
comes out with particular emphasis against
man he is pretty sure to win. We are not GER
tain, however, that this will apply to Dent,
since in his case the administration, as we have
said, is troubled with division of sentiment.
While Grant is against Dent more important
parsonage is in his favor. This is Mrs.
General Grant. Mrs. Grant was elected
to the Presidency by rather larger figure
than her husband can claim, for is she not the
better half of that unit known to the law as
Ulysses S. Grant, Grant and his wife, of
course, are one 80 far as the law can see, and
thus perforce the wife partakes of the hus-
bands condition. She, from merely being
his wife, is as much President as he is, and
from being the better half in this Presidential
unity she is entitled to claim rather larger
proportion of the general vote. Thus the
weight of division by political reasoning, and
we have no doubt by avoirdupois also, is in
Dents favor.
Dent is General Grants brother-in-law he
wondered at Grants support of his many
brothers-in-law, and we have wondered at it
too; and it seems to us that the hostility with
which the President now regards man bear
ing that relation is much nearer the correct
attitude of nature War between brothers-in-
law is what has been ever since man was first
afflicted with brother-in-law, and what will
be forever where man is at full liberty to as
sert his nature, unless he is man exception
ally disposed to shave peace" Grants good
disposition towards these gentlemen in the past
is therefore either an evidence that he is man
of unusual amiability or that he has not had
his own way. Now we know that he is not an
amiable man, but regular fighter, and Mrs.
Grant long ago told us that he was very Obsti
nate. He has, therefore, been under the infu-
ence of will other than his own, and we
leave Sorosis to guess whose will it was. eve
nominate Mrs. Grant for an honorary men,
bership in Sorosis.) Now the world must
have a great respect for the tact and diplomatic
genius that have enabled this estimable lady to
keep her hero down in this quiet way until the
present time, hardly making herself known
save in results. But what is the dreadful
stimulus that has induced Grant to violently
assert his own will at last? We fear that this
portends general rupture-a breaking up in
the whole harmonious machinery OF the gov
eminent that may compel grieving country
to part with Fish and Hoar and Robson ct al.
A Chapter of Accidents.