The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-17
General GRAMS Administration.

SatlSIY AL COACeTueu mas YET 10 Do SEEM
General Grants Administration.
From The N. T. Herald.
The Copperhead press has opened lively
fire on General Grant What for What do
they want On this plan what is to become
of the Democratic party under Grants admin
istration' The pros pest is Ioggy. The party
entered into the late Presidential campaign
strongly impressed with the idea that the
contest to them was less struggle for the
spoils than for existence. The Democratic
leaders and managers, still wearing their JEFF
fersonian green goggles of State rights and
State sovereignty; stlil limited in their vision
to "the Constitution as it was," proceeded
upon this theory-that We must win this cleo
tion at all hazards, in order to overthrow the
radical policy or to prevent the fulflment of
their reconstruction system, negro suffrage
and negro equality included, and their fnan-
cial system; for otherwise all these things will
be contaminated, the Government will be fixed
on new basis, and We shall not have Demo-
cratic principle left to fight for or plank to
stand upon.
Hence, with the encouraging election re-
suits OF 1867, the tenacious and desperate
struggle of the Democracy under Seymour
and Blair to carry the October State elections
OF 1868 in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana;
for they well knew that the tate of their
national ticket and organization hung upon
those elections. Failing at every point in
these decisive October trials, they virtually
gave up the contest, and prepared in New
York to cover their retreat so as to save their
army from dispersion and their supply trains
from capture. They had aimed at nothing
less than the restoration of Johnson's policy
OF reconstruction and the application of PEN
dleton's system of finance, niggers' rights as
defined in the Dred Scott decision, and the
Constitution as expOunded by Calhoun. They
fought, in short, under Seymour for "the
Union as it was," barring the abolition of
slavery; and with the defeat of Seymour all
was lost. They fought to recover their cid
Southern Democratic balance of power on the
issues settled by the war; and in every cleo
tion since the war, and at the close of the
battle, they were an army adrift.
The next great event affecting the interests
and prospects of the drifting Democracy is the
incoming of the new administration. The
leading Copperhead organs of the party prick
up their ears to catch the first sounds of the
inaugural. They hear it, but they do not like
it. 1t means negro suffrage, Southern recon
struotion as adopted by Congress, and gold to
the bondholders. They wait next for the
Cabinet, and with its announcement these
very fastidious Copperhead journals out Herod
Herod in their denunciations of the appoint
ment of Mr.. Washburne as Secretary of State
duO vi MI. Dt6WdTt dS OoCT6taIy Vi Luo lT0d-
sury. The whole Cabinet they think absurd
and outrageous; but A. T. Stewart for the
Treasury, above all things, they contend,
proves General Grant thickheaded but con-
ceited ignoramus in daring to put his will
above the law of 1889. Next Mr.. Stewart re-
tires and Mr.. Boutwell, is appointed to the
Treasury; and yet these COpperheads organs
are not satisfied. A man of practical abilities,
they say, is changed for a noisy, pretentious,
nd hall alfs
to lament the surrender of Grant to the radi-
cal leaders. Worse than all, in stopping GER
tain whisky ring pardOns OF Johnson, Grant
has violated the Constitution, as it appears,
and in everything that he does or attempts to
do he illustrates the old story, they say, of
the bull in china shop. As presented by the
Copperhead organ OF the Manhattan ring,
General Grant is blOckhead and a blunderer,
a sort of despot and yet a willing servant Of
the radical politicians, and an ignorant soldier,
wlthal, whose only distant idea of his position
is that 1t was given him to enable him to pro-
vide fat places for his family and his personal
friends.
What can be the meaning of all this Copper
head fault-fndiDg and baldsIdash 1t means
that the Copperhesd leaders and managers
are sounding the alarm TO the perplexed De-
mocraoy to beware Of the temptations O
Grants administration; that the party mus
prepare to fight Grant as a sworn enemy, ant
not to cultivate him as friend in diguise-
another Andy Johnson. His inaugural ant
his Cabinet, they are told, proclaim his radi
calism; the restoration OF sheridan to New
Orleans fixed his sympathy with the carpet
baggers, and his removal of General Blair a;
. Pacific Railway Commissioner proves the
hostility of Grant to Democratic Ofice-holders
and that they are to have not even q sop 4
the pots and pans OF the kitchen. "To you
tents, then, o Israeli" Stick to your party
stick to your Democratic principles, and IL
your war cry be, "Down with this radical ad
ministration 10
Was there ever such stupidity Is it in
possible to teach these Democratic BOurb1r
anything In any event we must tell ther
that before the year 1872 Southern recor
struoti0n will be settled and fixed, and negi
suffrage will be fixed, and the payment of th
national debt will be provided for, and of th
old Democratic notions OF State sovereignt
not q scrap will be left. The Tammany pla
form OF 1868 will be-yea, is now-as dead {
the Whig platform OF 1852 We can to
them, further, that Democratic hostility
Grants administration will only contribute
clear the field for his reelection in 1872; an
that, with nothing but dead issues and dea
men TO fight for, the Democratic politician
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