The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-08

from the results OF the recent OOuue0uOut
election it would likewise appear that in advo.
eating the proposed fifteenth amendment to
the Constitution giving equal suffrage to male
citizens throughout the United States of all
races and colors white, yellow, red, and
blaok-General Grant has given q new popu.
lar impulse to this movement; for heretofore
in Connecticut the Republican party, when
ever it has distinctly broached the question of
negro suffrage, has been signAlly defeated.
We might, then, plausibly conclude from all
these facts, and from the general demoralza
ton of the ferlorn Democracy, that the pros
pect for General Grants administration is all
that could be desired, and that, after dispen-
sing his rewards to the faithful till the offices
are all filled, he has only to sit dowH and
smoke the pipe of peace with Vice President
Colfax as President of the Senate in order to
settle the question of the succession.
But all such estimates as these are shallow
and fallacious. Every one of our Presidents
so far who has had nothing better upon which
TO build than the spoils has been a failure.
Tyler, Fillmore, and Andy Johnson are the
most notable examples. Poor Pierce and
Buchanan failed-the one because he laid vio-
lent hands upon those great compromise mea-
sures on slavery which had given peace to the
country and the other because he lacked the
moral courage to grapple with secession after
the manner of Jackson. Since the time of
Menroe we have had but two Presidents
elected for second term-Jackson and Lin
coin. The reelection of Jackson resulted from
his war against the old United States Bank as
a financial monster and monopoly, absorbing
the liberties of the people. The reelection Of
Lincoln resulted from his war with q great
rebellion. The States and people adhering to
the Union cause were satisfied with his efforts
during his first four years in the prosecution
of this war, and so they reelected him as the
surest and shortest way to finish it. With
these two exceptions we have not had for
forty five years President who has raised
an issue sufficient to supplant his rivals and
to give him second term, and to all of them,
been a stumbling block, delusion, and a
snare.
It is evident, then, that we can form no
judgment of the issue of General Grants ad-
ministration from present appearances. All
the advantages of the situation are his; but
there are dangers ahead of fearful magnitude.
For example, during his present term he must
check the swelling tide OF political corruptions
and demoralizations resulting from the moral
pestilence of the war, and we must have
financial system established from which the
people shall experience a great relief from
their present burdens of taxation, and foresee
the removal, too, within the present genera
tion Of the incubus of the national debt, or
the national election of 1S72 may give us
touch of the decisive financial settlements of
the great French Revolution. 1t is folly to
shut our eyes to the drift of public sentiment
on this question. The masses of the people,
looking at our present financial system OF
debt, taxes, national banks, and bondholders,
feel only the pressure of a financial oligarchy
'makipg the rich richer and the poor poorer, -
compared with which the old United States
Bank was farce, humbug, and baga-
telle.
But can we hope for the removal Of these
mountains of debt and taxation and spolia-
tions and cOrruptiors under General Grant
within the four years to 1S72H No. He may
cut them down to a great extent; but If he
cannot utterly remove them, he must do
something else for popular diversion in his
favor. Here are Cuba, St. Domingo, Mexico,
and the Central American States down to
Darien. They are the locks and keys of the
Gulf and Of the American Isthmus passages
from ocean to ocean. A decisive American
policy on the part of General Grant will
absorb all these outlying islands and States,
and add so largely to our material revenues
as to reduce the national debt to a mere trifie.
Then there are the Alabama claims, proper
basis upon which to negotiate the cession to
the United States of her Britannia Majesty S
North American provinces Of the New Domi-
MON, from Halifax to Vsncouver's Island; for
this thing, too, is in the order of "manitest
destiny"
Here we have scope and verge enough for
the most brilliant, imposing, and powerful ad-
ministrations in American history. Cuba al
this moment presents golden opportunity fol
q coup d'etat that will electrify the country and
open the way for the whole programme sug-
gested. 1t is morally certain, too, that unless
the public mind shall be diverted to these ex.
ternal attractions, it will recoil on our inter
nal burdens of taxes and debt and culminate il
political revolution more astounding to the
world at large than this last upheaval result
ing in the abolition of slavery, negro suffrage
and equal civil and political rights. Terrific
rial expansion, then, means the success, anG
what is called mastery inactivity means the
failure of Grants administration.
President Grant and the Egepub.
lican Party.
From the NJ Y. World.
The approval OF the new Tenure of Ofic
! bill closes and rounds off the brief and troubet
cycle of General Grants first month in tn,
Presidency. No other question threatening Il
embroil him with his party Is likely to come
up before adjournment, which takes place a
the end of this week. We are therefore il
possession of all the materials we are likely
to have in some time for estimating the rela
tions OF the new President to the politica
party that elected him.
In ordinrry circumstances, a question OF th
kind could not arise. A new President ha
commonly political record which closel
identities him with his party. He has gene
rally done battle for its leading measures, an
is SO bound up with the party by his antece
dents and known sympathies, as to pre-
clude all doubt or inquiry as to whether IA
will be found in harmony with its lead
ing representatives. But General Gran
was never a Republican until h