Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-11
wendell PhiIIips's opinion of Grant
and his Cabinet.

and his Cabinet.
Fror the Anti-Slavsry Standard.J
Wiseacres remind US that we must moi
expect too much at once; that as great
Q change has been already made 90 rea-
sonsble mea weuld expect in one genera.
ton; that history moves. in four cases
out of five, pendulum Authorization
and reaction. We know ell that. We
know also why it is so in four cases out Of
Eve; and why, had God given US great
man for leader, we might have been the
fifth exceptional case and moved straight
forward. Had Grant been wise and
brave enough for the hour, the South
would have been a. lsw-abiding as New
England, and loyal men would have
dared to show their wealth and their
opinions there, under the protection of
law. Politics would have marched to
the music OF q safe, gainful, and con-
tented industry. Sully, Richelieu or
Bonaparte, Cromwell, Walpole or Chat
ham, installed at Washington, would, in
five years, have made New Orleans and
Savannah the twin-sisters of Boston and
Chicago. Charleston would have been the
banner town of the ultra Republicans,
and Galveston have taken for its city seal
the motto: IF any man insults the Stars
and Stripes, shoot him." Instead of this,
~hat have we for President A jockey
and seaside lounger; q restless boy,
needing constantly to be amused; and so
impatient of business that he cannot stay
at his post more than week at time.
Five months in Office, he has not yet
given us an administration. But, post
ing copying clerk here and there, to
keep the machine in motion, he hurries
off to idle week at watering-place, act
Dummy at Monster show, or Helpless
at a steamboat excursion. The Presi-
dency must in Iced be sinecure, if, in
such an hour as this, man bred in
camp and lanyard can properly dis.
charge it's duties three hundred miles
from the capital, in the intervals of the
race-course and the halfhours left after
theaters and concerts.
Northern property safe nowhere at the
South. Texas covered with outrsges on
women and murders of men. Tennessee
playing the same game as Virginia.
Stokes, ct the risk of his life, unsupported
by the Government, fighting on for
lorn hope. Andrew johnson clamoring
for the election of Senter, and Greeley
quietly hoping for the defeat Of Stokes
In one-half the South the loyslists are
telling us that unless there is change at |
Washington they cannot live there
must fly across the Ohio"-and through
out the whole South the same men are
warning us that in 1872 the Democrats
THAT is, rebels) will rally the whole |
South on their side. This is too uniform |
to be accident. 1t is the result of plot |
at the South and Of disloyal apathy or |
honest incapacity at Washington. There
Grant shows himself occasionally. Fish
never was o Republican. Cox was q
Johnson man. Boutwell, stands alone
no press to support him. If you look at
the Tribune, its editor treats slavery as
a dead issue and longs for the old Wing
it .is managed by one who
opposed impeachment, aud would have
voted for Chase as the Tsmmany csndi-
date for 1868, and wants him as such
candidate in 1872. If Johnson's treason
and Grants neutrality be succeeded by
Chase and Wade Hampton, sent to Wash.
ington by Tanmany Hall, where will
twelve such years leave the nation
= To your tents, o Israel
for second Buchanan sits in the White
House, temporiging while the enemy gets
into hattie array