The New York herald., 1869-09-15


and me Sun Clique.
Among the latest Washington rumors set
afloat in reference to the Chinese mission Is
one that ex-senator Morgan has been offered
this important position, and with the promise
that the administration will apply to Congress
rumor may be based only upon conjectures;
but from the recent attentions of Mr.. Morgan
to General Grant at Newport 1t is possible
that the ex-senator may have his eye upon
some foreign appointment. Considering the
little political clique. however, to which Mr..
considering it's relations to the administration
since the 5th Of March, we do not think that
Morgan or any other member of this clique has
any claims upon the President which he Is
bound TO respect.
The clique to which we refer Is the joint
stock company Of the New York Sun. If we
are not mistaken, this company, formed to buy
out the old Sun, embraced ex-senator Morgan,
Senator Conkling and Frederick Conkling,
Moses Taylor, Marshall o. Roberts, George
Opdyke, Senator Murphy and others, each in
the sum of ten thousand dollars, more or less.
The paper by this combination was purchased,
and Mr.. Dana was chosen to run the machine,
and he has been running it as sort of inde-
pendent radical opera 6onts concern, with
just enough of democratic sugar coating to
disguise the medicine. We have no doubt,
however, that primary object Of the adven-
ture was, through this newspaper, the recon
structed Sun, to regulate the appointments Of
General Grants administration, beginning
with the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps and the
New York Custom House, Post Office and
internal revenue establishment. In all these
departments the programme Of the company
or clique in question has signally failed, so
far, at least, as the recommendations, aspira-
tions and expectations of Dana and the action
of the administration thereon may be taken as
our guides.
What has followed2 From the proclamation
of General Grants original Cabinet down to
this day the course Of the Sun in reference to
General Grant has been simply scandalous.
The editor of that paper has seized upon
every appointment and every movement of
General Grant and upon every event Of his
| administration admissible of misconstruction
to his prejudice, and in everything and in
| every way, in bold denunciations, in spiteful
! sneers and slurs and inuendoes, and in ugly
hints and quirks and bubbles, 1t has studiously
labored to belittle the President and to make
him appear in his great Office dishonest, selfish,
| incompetent and ridiculous. We have not had
such exhibitions of paltry personal spite and
spleen from any other journal in reference to
| General Grant as we have had during the last
| six months from the Sun. Assuming, then,
| that the financial copartners in that establish
ment, including the men whose names we have
given, are consenting parties to the extraor-
binary newspaper tactics of Dana, the ques-
| ton recurs, what claims have this newspaper
clique, or any of them, upon General Grant
Mr.. Morgan, Mr. Senator Conkling, Mr.
Roberts, Mr.. Murphy and the rest, it is true,
appear to be hand in glove with the President
bat if these gentlemen are hackers and asso
ciates of Dana and his opera 6oufe manage.
ment of the Sun, are they not playing double
game? In our judgment, if Mr.. Morgan, fol
example, as a financial and political copartnel
in the Sun, is a. consenting party to the wrath
of Dana and his spiteful fings and slurs upor
General Grant, Mr.. Morgan has lost all claim
upon the confidence and respect of the admins
tratiOn.