The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-06
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Wendell Phillips Lets Our On Grant and his
cabinet.

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From the Anti-Slaccry STANDARD.
WiseaCrGs remind us that we must not expect
too much ut once; that as great a change has
been already made reasonable men would
expect in one generation; that history moves, in
four cases out five, pendulum fashsOn--acton
and reaction. We know all that. We know
also why it is so in four cases out of five; and
why, had God given us a 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 as law-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. gain
ful, and contented industry. Sully, Richelieu,
or Bonaparte, Cromwell, Walpole, or Chatham
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 would have taken
for its city seal the mOtto-''H any man insults
the Stars and Stripes, shoot him. Instead OF
this, what have we got for President? Jockey
and seaside lOunger; restless boy, needing
constantly to be amused and so impatient
of business that he cannot stay at his post more
than Il week NJ time. Five months in office,
he has not yet given us an administration. But,
posting a cODYing clerk here and there, to keep
the machine in motion, he hurries Off to idle
week at a watering-place act Dummy at Mon
ster show, or Helpless at IL steamboat excursion.
The Presidency must indeed be a sinecure, If, in
such an hour rs this, man bred in q camp and
lanyard can properly discharge its duties three
hundred miles from the capital, in the intervals
of the Tace-cOurse and the half hours left after
theatres and concerts.
Northern property safe nowhere at the South.
| Texas covered with outrages on women and
| murders of men. Tennessee playing the same
| game as Virginia. Stokes. Mt the risk of his
| life, unsupported by Government, fighting on
| forlOrn hope. Andrew johnson camoring for
| the election of Senter; and Greeley quietly
| hoping for the defeat OF Stokes In One-half
the South lOyalsts telling that unless there is
| change ut Washington they cannot live there
must fly across the Ohio'-and throughout
| the whole South the same men warning us that
in 1872 Democrats Chat 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
| incapacty at Washington. There Grant shows
himself occasionally. Fish never was Repub-
| lcan. Cox was johnson man. Boutwell,
| stands alone-nO press to support him. If you
| look al the TTibune its editor treats slavery as
! dead issue, and longs for the old Whig party
| while it is managed by one who opposed inn
| peachment and would have voted for Chase as
| the Tammany candidate for 1868, and wants
| him as such candidate in 1872. If Johnsons
| treason and Grants neutrality be succeeded by
| Chase and Wade Hampton, sent to Washington
| by Tammany Hall, where will twelve such
| years leave the nation To your
| tents, q Israel-fOr second Buchanan sits
in the White House, temporizing while the
| enemy gets into battle array.