The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10

and by the regular Passenger acts in force
but cannot be restricted beyond this without
a violation of obligations entered into in good
faith and the disregard of which will give the
Chinese good ground for refusing to observe
their part of the stipulations. No part of
these treaties binds us to allow an immigra-
ton of persons bound to service and labor
under conditions which virtually establish
system of slavery The whole policy of our
Government is against it; and nothing could
be more inimical to the permanent well-being
of the country We feel satisfied that Con
gress and the Executive will unite to prevent
this great wrong from being committed.
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS DEFENDERS.
From, the y. Y. World.
The Times would persuade people that Pre-
sident Grant has accomplished great results
during the five months of his administration,
and that he will cipher up such years
work" as to prove that he is neither neglect
ing their interests nor his duty" in being,
during the heats Of summer, this idle cigar
smoking horse jockey of President that as
the Times informs us, to its regret he is by
some journals described to be.
1t is a mark Of human nature, high and
low, which newspapers do not feel especially
bound to forget, that the movements of emil
nent personages are followed with interest by
the eyes of those in their vicinity and are
heard and read of with interest by persons at
a distance On the one hand, we must admit
the Mike McCoole the latest prize-fghter,
Cyrus Field an undaunted eHtreDr6HGur,
Daniel Pratt the great American traveller,
and General Grant the President of the
United States have been able to draw as
large crowds to gaze at them, the one as the
other; and, on the other hand it must be
confessed that persons exist who would never
dream of opening windOw-blind or walking
a rod to see all four of them in a carriage,
with Mr.. Greeley on the box, and General
Dent behind as footman yet this would only
show that a small class of persons are indif-
ferent to some kinds of eminence, and that a
large class open their mouths and eyes at any
kind.
Numberess persons have witnessed the
movements and behavior of President Grant
during his summer jaunting what sort of
occupations have filled his time, what persons
of what kind and what character have enjoyed
his intimacy, and of course, the newspapers
have reported all this with more or less
minuteness to the numberless persons at a
distance. We undertake to reply to the
Times that these reports have been character
lied by fidelity in their minuteness which is
usual in the journals of this country. Re
porters and readers alike may have been de-
ceived General Grant is the man which
these reporters have seen him to be, have
| described him to be. The anthrOpomorphic
| streak in us is not, in one sense at least, q
belttling one And had they done so foolish
and 50 bad thing as to describe him with
| their Photographic literalness otherwise than
| as he is, they would have ensured their own
detection and lost both reputation and en-
| ployment.
The slight opinion of General Grant, which
is now scarcely veiled 10y the leading men and
| journals of either party, is not shared, it ap-
| IL, l.,
wisdom and capacity the 'great results" gene
rally attributed to Secretary Boutwell,
These alterations in the public condition
are no more justly to be credited to President
Grant than to Secretary Boutwell,. They
arise, as we have before shown in the case of
the head of the Treasury, from causes quite
beyond his control. They have been equally
beyond the reach of President Grant-cer-
tainly from no fault of his.
nthe Presidential canvass last fall, Demo
Gratis pointed to the fact that over S1,6OO,-
600, 600 had been received into the Treasury
in the three years and half following the
close OF the war We demanded to know
what had become of 50 enormous an amount
of money. Everybody remembers how Mr.
Atkinson, backed by Commissioner Wells,
came to the rescue with the reply that in the
three years and seven months following the
war the public debt been reduced $500 OOO,.
to say anything else but that, before the next
November. Even MIR. Greeley, who is now
dlyerslfylng his labOrS as an essayist in politi.
cal economy with instruction in "iournalis
tic amenities, of which he is equally a
master, forgot for a while to call all men liars
He, too, and the IIUey kept telling people
daily that the public debt had been reduced
more than SoOOOOO,OOO in three years and
seven months.
This reduction of the fiscal year. as esti-
mated by Secretary Boutwell,, or as asserted
by the Times in behalf of President Grant. is
a fea-bite compared with that enormous re-
ductiOn. VIII the I Ijn,cs tell us why General
Grant deserves Of it any more praise for this
+ little than it gave President johnson for tha
t much? But for the $500, 600, 900 debt reduc
I tlon Republicans gave President Johnson n,
= credit at all.
G The increase in our customs revenue is dr1,
. to increased lmportations of foreign goods
/ since the tariff has not been reduced. W.
/ were not aware that General Grant is an inn
d porter, that he should have credit for this
y But neither he nor Congress- nor the part
IS which elected them, deserve credit that thes
t revenues are what they are. They should b
3l much larger by abOlishing all duties on tn
e four thousand articles now on the tariff list
r and by reducing the rates on the dozen q
5, fewer suffered to remain. That which is don
n is no credit to anybody-that which is left III
II done disgraces him and them.
If The increase in our internal revenue fro1
h whisky, which the Times attributes to Gene
s. raj Grant, was due in no respect to him. Th
n WO1%d forewarned the Republican party an
r. the country of the certainty that diminishe
rs revenues would follow an increased rate o
% whisky, and increased rates would follow il