The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-02
SPIRIT or THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF rHB LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPIos-ooMPmKD KvERY
DAY FOR TaE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
TIE ADMINISTRATION Is PEACE.

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The administration, like the empire, is peace.
Vbe Cabnets and the government journals
~ Enoland and France have unnecessarily in
tcrpreted General Grants warlike antecedents,
Sis strong Western progressive IDEAS OF mani
fast Jcetinv ~ his inaugural, and his foreign ap-
,,ointments of Messrs. Motley and Washburnc,
5e meaning War-war on the land and on the
sea: A war not only for absolute dominion on this
continent and the whiphaud over Eastern Asia,
INT a war incidentally for the balance of power
in Europe. The vote of the House of Repre-
sentatiycs at the close of its late session,
authorizing the President, in his discretion, to
proclaim belligerent rights in behalf OF the
Cubans and the trenchant speech OF Senator
Sumner and the emphatic vote of the Senate in
condemnation of Mr.. Reyerdy Johnsons peace
treaty on the Alabama claims, have created
something of a war panic in England and have
perpleXed Napoleon and alarmed the prOvi-
sional government of Spain From all these
things the conclusion across the water has LORI
cally 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 ambling
bulls of Wall street for little Whige coined
money from their impending wars amid rumors
of wars, and the bellicose Cabinet councils
thereon. But the Wall street gamblers have
so far exhausted their war panics that the
stupidest plucked pigeons no longer believe in
the cry of wolf. The prevailing impres lion in
Wall street has become strong that Grant
means peace that no more such experiments
are now tried, as "belligeTent 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-hying canards have
become dead ducks. In fact, the convincing
signs and evidences of peace which have of late
been thrown out so freely from Washington
have resulted in general disappointment of the
expectations of our financiers, politicians, and
people.
There is time, says King Solomon, for every
thing, and among other things a time for war
and time for peace, and General Grant evil
IDENTIFY 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 n familiar expression, that
he may run this peace policy into the ground,
and give us too much of the benevolent old
woman or the pacific Quaker. General Grant,
in the broad-brimmed hat and butternut shad-
bellied coat of the amiable Quaker, may be a
pleasing subject of contemplation to the phian-
thropist, but the character, in our judgment, is
not suited to the man, the place, or the time
But the Secretary of the Treasury says to him.
''We must 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 amuse
him, but let us have peace;" the Secretary of
War says, "We have our hands full just now in
regulating Southern Rebels and Western In
dians;" the Secretary of the Interior protests
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 awhile, We have
now other fish to fry" the Attorney-General
gives his opinion that it will be a blunder to
accept the belli9erent rights and neutrality pre-
cedents of England or the humane intervention
experiment of Napoleon, and the Secretary OF
the Navy sees in the reunion of the late belge-
rant W.T. factions pf al
promised millennium when the British lion and
the American eagle shall lie down together be-
tween General Grant and Queen Victoria, and
the ships of the navy shall be employed in the
diffusion of tracts and Bibles among the
heather.
We conjecture at least, that such are the
opinions which control the Cabinet, and we sus
pect, too, that in such pacific ideas the Cabine
members believe they are speaking the mind o
their chief. In regard to the President himself
we apprehend that having satisfied Congress
and the otice-hunting politicians in the division
of the spoils and the radical leaders in regard t
negroes rights, Indians rights, and women
rights, far as possible, and having made N
his mind that the Alabama claims may b
kept as rod in pickle, that Mexico can wait
that Cuba is doing very well, anc
that st. Domingo may be wisel,
postponed till the reassembling of Con
gress, he is resolved for season to tax
things quietly and smoke his cigar in peace
This may be pronounced "a lame and impoten
conclusion" and transformation of Genera
Grant utterly impossible; yet such as we hav
indicated appears to be his position and his pol
icy. His position seems to be that of MAJ
satisfied with things as they are and indifferen
to the shaping of events; and his policy appear
that of mastery inactivity, and peace at al
hazards of delay upon, every question affecting on
foreign relations. Win not anything, then, b
done upon any of these questions till the reas
sembling of Congress in December? Perhap
not. Is this the best plan for establishing peace
We think not; but we must await the course c
events.