The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-21

would have upheld before Spain, and her European
American hemisphere, In such unmistaHabe terms as
to crush out the more or less taolt coalition against
tne extension OF free institutions in the Antilles
which has exerted such bsleful and iutimdating
influence upon Mr. Fshs tlmorous though we'll
meaning tactics. Under all the aspects Of the
General Grants overture to Mr.. Seward may he re-
nc garded as bright spot IN that total eclipse Of genius
administration.'-M Y. SIN.
The friends of Mr.. Seward have been,
since his departure from Auburn on his pre-
sent travels, diligent in the prediction that he
would return home the most popular man in
the nation. They have fattered themselves
that absence, accompanied by speeches from
the departed and judicious announcement by
telegraph of his movements, would, by a kind
of reflex action, awaken the people TO medita-
ton upon his virtues, bring about his acts
while in the Department of State, and
general revision of the Judgment respecting
him and his career, already pronounced. We
had supposed that all this coming change of
opinion in respect to Mr.. Seward was antici-
pated by his admirers with JOY, growing solely
out of foresight of what pleasure would
thereby be given to the years of retirement of
the late Secretary of State but we evidently
saw through glass darlly, for it now appears
that he is candidate for office, and that
President Grant is playing around the edges
OF the Seward plot by patronizing the dstri-
button of speeches of the latter among dis
tinguished personages in Washington" ="
There are circumstances in the case of the
SIN which make that journal an organ of Mr..
Seward, his friends, and the aspirations of
both Of course, before Seward can be got
B the State Department., Secretary Fish must
be got ont. Hence the assaults upon the ad-
mlnistration of the latter, which have been
open in the Sun, and in the Times (another
Seward organ) a realization of the tactics
sketched by Pope in the well-worn lines
GNnna N,,vtIl,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
just hint fault, and hesitate dislike"
OF course, this is q Republican family quar-
rel in which Democrats take no part. If Re-
publicans in this State see fit to calumniate
Mr.. Fish in the interest of Mr.. Seward, it is
their own affair. And so it is if President
Grant makes himself busy in distributing
Stewards speeches with intent to show his
preference as between two public men of
New York. The friends Of Mr.. Fish and
those of Mr. Seward in this city will, of
course, respectively have their own apprecia-
tion of the affair. In like manner. the asser-
tion of Seward friends, that the foreign re-
lations of this Government have been
plunged into ''chaos" since he left the De-
partment of State, must by Democrats be
looked upon as a matter they are not called
upon to investigate in order to declde If there
really be a ''chaos' there. whence it came.
AS 10 OeWaIuS IuS Vi
American supremacy on this hemisphere
in relation to the Cuban revolt, if he were
Secretary of State, SO as to crush the 'tacit
coalitions against the extension of free in
stitutions in the Antilles" which have ''ex-
erted such baleful and intimidating inhu-
ence' upon Mr.. Fish-that is rubbish. The
only conspicuous fact about the conduct Of
the members of the administration in Caban
matters is that Grant has been most Of the
tha infin pf Iaf
who with no thought for the duty and mate
rial interests of the United States, have
impelled him to talk and advise in the in
terest of the insurrectiOn, Just as Corbin
talked and advised in the interest of the gold
ring under the guise of seeking the best in
terest of the Treasury. Mr.. Fish, on the
other hand, seems to have considered that
his first duty was not to Cubans, but to the
interests of the people of the United States,
and that all such matters as Cuban bellige-
renee and the like were things of private con-
Germ as between the citizens of this country
and its Government, about which there was
| no need of the advice or menace of inter
loping foreigners without courage to take per-
sonal part in winning independence ON the
field of battle. If the solicitude of Grant for
Cubans and Fish for Americans be evidence
of 'chaos, then it exists; but how would
Stewards presence dispel it unless he fell into
the policy Of the President?
As to Mr.. Seward, his constant. persistent,
shameless violation of the rights of individual
liberty, in the persons of Northern men, while
he was Secretary of State his indecently
hasty striking of our colors and surrendering
to the insolent seven-day demand of England
in the Trent affair; his utter abandonment of
our real rights and grievance in the Johnson
Clarendon treaty, after having for two years
absurdly vexsd and teased Earl Russell nearly
to death about the asserted offense to us OF
recognizing the rebels as belligerents and the
general perception of the country that the sue
cessful conduct of our affairs with France and
England during the critical period of the
Rebellion was mainly due to the conspicuous
good sense of Messrs. Dayton and Adams,
and not to the verbose and elementary
dispatches from the State Department, viii
effectually prevent him from accomplishing
a reversal of the existing popular Judgment.
If, however, President Grant has deter
mined to differ with Mr. Fish as to the true
policy of the country in respect to certain
foreign questions, or, for any other reason, u
get rid of the latter to make room for Mr.
Seward it is some consolation to reflect tha
he is brading a rope wherewithal his owl
neck would in due time be stretched.
MIR. SEWARD IN MEXICO.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
No other foreigner has ever received from
the Mexican Government such an ovation