The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-04


learned. Is this the way she proves herself
| to be worthy q place among the great powers
| II Il is, she may abandon all hope OF ever re-
| writing her history, for she Will turn against
| her the very hearts that were beating proudly
| in her cause of national regeneration, and the
very hands that we're ready to render all the
help they could towards its victory. They
who hoped to see her live will rejoice to see
her die.
A CHANGE OF CABINET TIE ONLY
SAFETY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.
From the ~ y. Herald.
When General Grant commanded the armies
of the Union, victory perohed upon his ban
ners, because no man had the right to dues-
ton his acts or demand his purposes. But
the Presidency is a different thing. Congress
has reduced ii to a mere second mates posi-
tion, and every party leader who controls
section in Congress claims the right to issue
orders and to know all the plans. To make
the matter still worse, these political section
masters are not agreed among themselves.
Each Is jealous of his competitors, and the
result Is confusion. The Washington des-
patches all agree that there is much dissatis-
faction among the politicians there, and the
Western newspapers are beginning to find
fault with the President for this state of
things. There is ground for complaint, and
it lies in the fact that the recognized head of
the Cabinet, though q very worthy gentleman
OF the old school, is entirely untitled by his
ideas, habits, and tastes for the post he fills.
The fact is, General Grant is not politician
and does not wish to become one. He fought
many splendid battles and won great victo-
lies, for which grateful people have elected
him to the first Office in their gift, and are
willing to pass over his shortcomings. He
cannot at this time take hold in an entirely
new field and become great worker, and his
disposition, therefore, is to let matters take
their course in Cabinet council. He has no
foreign or domestic policy to urge, no plans to
carry out, no ambitious designs to foster, and
therefore he has confidence in those he has
called around him. But for this very reason
he should have the strongest possible Cabinet
he can construct. This would be the best evil
dence that he entertains a lively interest in
the welfare OF the nation, and o signal return
for the confidence reposed in him. 1t is ad-
misted on all sides that the present leader
OF the Cabinet is not up with the
ideas of the time, and though eminently
respectable and desirous to do all that lies in
his power, he holds no grasp on the heart of
the country, and is incapable of marking out
and carrying into execution policy for the
administration.
The President, therefore, should not court
disaster by procrastnation and unseemly
delay. The voices from the East and from the
West are signs of the rising spirit of the times,
and must be needed II We would not invite
defeat. The unanimity with which the Senate
and the whole country have responded to Mr..
| Summers recent mastery utterances on our
foreign policy points to him as the best man
to place in the position of Secretary of State
and at the head of the Cabinet; and recon-
struction of the Government should at once be
made, not only by calling him to Office, but
also by consulting him as to the persons who
may be called to hold the other portfolios.
| Gy,Ya. laa fhax ziunv nm
of the administration, the President can feel a
confidence that no gross mistakes will be com
mitted like those of waiting to know what
England says before we decide upon our policy
in the Cuban question, or drawing up the in
structions of Minister Motley; and without
taking upon himself the supervision of every
step in foreign or domestic affairs, ne may be
sure that his administration will not stand
before the country convicted of incapacity and
| maritorions of defeat.