, 1869-09-03
A BLAST AT THE PRESIDENT.
WENDELL PHILLIPS OPINION OF GEN.
GRANT AND HIS CABINET.

WENDELL PHILLIPS OPINION OF GEN.
GRANT AND HIS CABINET.
Wiseacres remind us that we must
not expect to 1auch at once ! that asa
great change has been already made as
reasonable men would expect in one
generation that history moves, in four
cases out OF FIVE, pendulum fashion
action and reaction. We know all that.
We know also why it is in four cases
out Of FIVE; and why, had God given
US q great man for q leader, we might
have been the 6fth exceptional case and
move straight forward. Had Grant
been wise and brave enough for the
hour, the South would have been as
law-abidiug as New England, and loyal
men would have dared 10 show their
wealth and their opinion there, under
the'protection Of law. Politics would
have marched to the music of a safe,
gainfal and contented industry Surely
Richelfeu or Bonaparte, Cromwell,
Walpole, or Chatham, intalled at Wash
ington, would, IN Eve years have made
New Orleans and Savannah the twin.
sisters of Boston and Chicago. Charles.
ton would have been the banner town
of the ultra republicans, and Galveston
would have taken for its city seal and
motto "If any man insults the Stars
aud Stripes shoot him. " Instead of
this what have We for President A
Jockey and sea side lednger, a restless
| boy, needing constantly TO be amused
| and so impatient of business that be
cannot stay at his post more than a week
at time. Five months ia office, he has
not yet given US an administration.
But, posting a copying clerk here and
there, to keep the machine in motion,
be hurries off to idle week at a water.
place, act Dummy at monster show, or
helpless at steamboat excursion. The
Presidency must indeed be a sinecure,
| if, 10 such an hour as this, man bred in
a camp and a tan>yard can properly
discharge its duties three hundred miles
from the capital, in the intervals of the
race-course and the half hour left after
theaters and concerts
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Northern property safe nowhere at the
South. Texas covered with outrages
on woman aud murders of men. Tenn,
essee playing the same game as Virginia
Stokes at the risk Of bis life, unsurport>
ed by the government, fighting on for.
lorn hope. Andrew Johnson clamoring
for the election of Senter, and Greeley
quietly hoping for the defeat of Stokes |
In one-half the South loyalists telling
US that unless there is a change at
Washington they cannot live there
"must fly across the Ohio "-and
throughout the South the came men
warning US that in 1892 democrats { that
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 disloysl apathy or
honest incapacity at Washington. There
Grant shows himself occasionally. Fish
never was a republican. Cox was a
Johnson man. Boutwell, stands alone
no press to support him. fyou look
at the Tribune, its editor treats slavery
as dead issue, and longs for the old
Whtg- party-while it is managed by
one who opposed impesch n eut, and
would have voted for Chase as the
Tammany candidate in 1868, and wants
him as such candidate in 1872. IfJohn-
sons treason and Grants neutrality be
succeeded by Chase and Wade Hamp,
ton, sent to Washington by Tammany
Hall, where will twelve such years leave
the nation7 X
To your tents, 0 Israel-for a second
| Buchanan sits In the White House,
temporizing while the enemy gets into
batt.a array.-Anti Slarery Standard.