The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-02

| and sound policy. ALI experience, IL Is urged,
| shows that the former IN the only safe way
The only way in which his administration can
be made success, and that the latter will
lead Inevitably to the fate of John Tyler ani
Andy Johnson. Members OF Congress, in both
houses, wearied with watching and waiting to
he. 'sent tOT," do not hesitate TO proclaim
more or less openly, that II General Grans
does not consult the Republican party aud
conform to it's expressed desires, he must not
count on their support, and naturally enough
they predict for him q speedy dtscomhture'
in all this there is something OF good sense,
something of natural impAtienCe. aud good
deal OF narrow minded aud ignorant selfish
ness. Grant knows that he has been elected
mainly by the Republican party, aud that the
political sentiments and principles of that
pariv are those which in the main control the
country. 1t is not at all likely, therefore,
that he will either ignore the principles or the
interests of the party. The Government of
this country is q party government, one in
which the wishes and views OF the dominant
party must control. No President, therefore
can hope for success in carrying on its admiu-
istrstion in disregard Of these views aud
wishes; and General Grant is the last man
likely to make the attempt. He is not man
OF overweening personal ambition or of undue
confidence in his own ability. It is a marked
feature Of his lite that he has always shuuusd
power rather than sought it, and that desire
only motive which has ever governed his pub
lie action.
But, OH the other hand, he ia not mlu
likely TO take his opinions ready made from
others, or to regard auybody's ideas OF policy
and duty as paramount TO his own. Hs will
think for himself and Judge for himself % all
matters relating TO his own official action
And, although he was nominated and elected
by pol tical party, no President for many
years has been more free from the rigid re-
sponsibility to the rute of party than he. He
was never identified in any active way with
the party which elected him, aud gave only a
general assent to its leading principles, aud
declared his general sympathy with its views
and purposes, when it offered him its no nina
ton.
And with that general declaration the whole
party was satisfied. Il asked nothing more at
his hands. 1t was neither expected nor de-
sired that he should so far identify himself
with any section of the party, or with any
class OF its leaders, as 20 hamper the inlepen-
dence OF his olioial action. tie has the conf
dence OF the great body OF the people, without
regard to parties, ard VIII command theirsup-
| port in all acts that relate TO the public good
and involve the restoration Of peace and hsr-
mony to the whole codptry.
The reconstruction policy of Congress has
not only come to bs the lag o. ths land, but
it has come TO ba the settled policy of the
DatlOn. We near no more from any quarter
of OverthrOwirg it. The Democrats have
ceased to revile IL in their speeches and con-
ventons. Even the Southern newspapers
most bitterly opposed to it at the outset have
ceased to den0unce it or to expect its reversal.
1t is felt universally that, whether it is Or is
not the best policy that could have been
adopted, il has CONS to be the only policy from
which settled peace and harmony can be ex-
pected. No one d0ubJs, therefore, that Gone
raj Grant will administer the Government in
conformity with it's spirit and its language,
and that the reorganization of society, polii-
cal and civil, in the Southern States must
proceed on the basis OF It's principles and its
provisions.
But III the selection OF the specific agencies
and meas ures by which this result shall be
sought, General Grant may very wisely be
left TO the exercise of his own discretion. In
deed, his relations to the people of the whole
country, as well as to the party which cleo ted
him, give him the right to claim this at their
hands. He will without doubt, consult the
opinions of the men whose abilities, character,
and position make their opinions of value on
all matters of public concern; but he has a
perfect right to claim exemption from that
volunteer dictation on all matters, great and
small, and especially on all appointments tc
Office, which party leaders have come to con
sider it their right to exercise over all incum
bents of the Executive chair.