The New York herald., 1869-04-20
General Grants Appointments-"Le Let Us
Have Pence"

bA6usos ouu tuo lOlly VI JOuuSOu.
General Grants App0intments-"Le Let Us
Have Peace"
s'Let us have peace" is the motto of Cen
eral Grant. 1t is good motto-yea, it is
glorious and sublime. We all want peace;
but for all that, on the Cuba question and the
Alabama claims there is smell of g,npowder
which to Young America is positively re-
freshing. In fact, the great mass of this peo-
pie no more want peace now at any price with
John Bull or the Spaniard than they wanted
it on such terms with jeff Davis. The peace
which General Grant wants is peace among
ourselves, peace between the two late belli-
gerent sections, peace in the South, peace be-
tween whites and blacks, peace with the wo-
mems rights women, peace with Congress and
the office-seekers, no matter who the office
holders may be or what may be their claims,
services or usefulness, or what may become of
them. Ageneral clearing out will at all events
settle this business, and so general clearing
out is going on.
''The new broom sweeps clean"-almost too
clean. We have never had anything like it
before, nor behind either. Rotation in Office as
established under General Jackson was to
rotate the adherents of the defeated party ont
and the v.ctors in, on the rule that ''tO
the vctors belong the spoils" Now the
new law of rotation sweeps out Grant men,
Johnson men and Seymour men, radicals, con-
servatiyes and copperheads; and good services,
experience and qualifications seem to 60 for
little or nothing with the persons going out or
the parties coming in. Crippled Union soldiers,
with the followers Of Andy Johnson, and rebel
confederates and peace democrats, and help
less women by the score, are carted of to the
guillotine and sacrificed 10 sum total of two
or three hundred every day. The grand idea
with General Grant, they say, is to clear out
everything and to fill every place with some
new appointment, 80 that when there Is not
an Office left to squabble about he will surely
Shave peace"
The House of Representatives Is the mill
which first grinds out the applications then
they are assorted and divided among the
heads of the several departments then they
are passed over to the President, and then, as
we have heard it conGdentially whispered, in
cases where there are several applicants for
the same Office, with Congressional papers and
hackers, the President puts the names in hat,
from which the first one drawn is sent up to
the Senate. 1t is done by lottery. BY this
process startling catalogue of all sorts of
appointments bad and indifferent-is
sent up every day, and, with an occasional
sop to this, that and the other Senator, they
are confirmed as if they were run through by
steam engine. The ofllce-seekers arc
astOunded at this rapid work, and every day,
heavy batch Of places being disposed of, every
day heavy detachment OF disappointed car
petbaggers, cursing and swearing, evacuate
Washington. This likewise is a new thing
but in clearing out these fellows it begins to
look like ''peace" around the White House.
Occasionally, however in some nomination
the President treads upon the corns Of high
and mighty Senator, and then there is speck
OF war; Take the case Of Senator Ross. His
candidate for postmaster of Lawrence, Kan
sas, did not happen to be the first pull from
House and roundly lectured the head of the
nation for presuming to ignore ''the man OF
Ross" aud finally told tho astonished fountain
of patronage to go to Halifax. Nor was this
all, for when Grants man for said post Office
was sent into the Senate Ross said, 'Tbis is
not my nan, and demand his rejection = and
he WAS rej2ctcd. Senator Brownlow made
the same demand. with the same result. The
personal wishes therefore, Of any republican
Senator, even if "one of the immortal scvcn,"
are law Of the Senate which the President
must respect in reference 10 any special Office,
although no such rc1uistion can be found in
the new Tenure of Office law.
How is all this to end? We cannot conjco-
ture; but, after all, i! does not look much
like ''pcacc." SO far as the several factions,
sections and races which make up the rcpub-
lican party are concerned, thoy have no right to
complain. For instance, radical Is made
Secretary of the Treasury, conservative
Secretary OF State, reconstructed rebel
general Is mads Governor Of Now Mexico.
numerous women are made postm sters,
as they are oticially called, an Indian
is made Commissioner OF Indian Affairs,
O niger is made Minister TO Hayti,
and another Minister to Liberia. A Chi
naman or two as Consuls to this Central
Flowery Kingdom would make the thing com
plete il regard 10 rsoes-white, yellow, red
and black. Sill we cannot positively say that
all this will give us peace In regard TO the
spoils or in the matter of retrcnchmcnt, econ
omy or reform. The soreheads threaten n
muiiny in the camp, aud some Of tho lucky
ones on reconsideration have been thrown
out Upon the whole, In the proportion which
the candidates bear to the Offices will be the