Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-06
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Political Speculations-. .Rum0red Cabinet
Changes, &c.

ter from special correspondent in Wash
ington, part of which we think will be of
interest to our readers:
THE PRESIDENT AND THE POLITICIANS.
Grant well represents the new regime.
There is a heartiness about his Admins
tration and abundant social content. The
worst thing have heard about him is that
he smokes, and likesa good horse. Well,
Washington was as fond of horses as Grant.
while Jackson, with his unexceptionable
character, found no comfort greater than
good main of cocks. Grant is by no means
popular with the politicians mean those
politicians who bear the same relation to
the party that the shriveled and impish
Jockeys do to the Derby races. 1t il their
business to ride, and they din your ears
with their political horse-talk. First comes
all the scandals about the Dents and broth
ers-in-law. Then the Cuban heroes mourn
and will have no comfort, because General
Grant will not send an army and free q
country they are too cowardly to go home
and fight for. Men who lap the disappoint-
ments and the venom of the New York
,Setcer tell you about West Point and mill
tary domipation, and you fancy You see a
Government i'm girdles and epaulets, and
the divine presence behind an impassa-
Bile wall of brigadiers." /"
All this the correspondents says is because
the President will have his own way.
In speaking of Ben Butler, he says:
Wherever he sits, he is the head of the
Radical table. He is the Macgregor of
them all. l lounge into the gallery and
| look down-and the eve drifts unconscious
ly to the large brain, the wide expansive
| forehead, the profile that looks like an old
| Roman coin stamped with the face of the
earliest Csesars-and know that most eyes
| in those wide galleries rest with mine upon
| the member from Massachusetts,. If at
rest, which is not often, iieinsepsiblx sink !
| into the Napoleonic attitude-the bodI
slouching in the chair-the arm tiirowI
over its back--the face looking thoughtfct
ly into some mental VISTA How much h.la
| tred-how much anger-hOw much terror
how much passionate envenomed wrath
has curdled over the pathway of Benjamin
| +. Butler. Is he popular in the House p
| / asked one who should know. No! he
is too aggressive The thought came to
me that greatness is always aggressive
that nothing is more aggressivesthan the
sea-the tides-the thunderbolts; and as a
man who believes in the Cromwells, the
Dantons, the Napoleons, the Gambettas,
the Carnots, the Stantons of history-who
sees more true royalty in the banished
figure of the Great Protector than in all
the Plantagenets and Stuarts and Hanovers
whose statues stand in the English palaces
/ II retain for Butler the same enthusiasm
i
by making the slave a cOntraband and pun.
ished traitor i'm the sight of traitors for
dishonoring the flag. This Representative,
with all his enmities, Is to-day the strong
est man i'm Congress-the strongest with
the Administration. You feel his influence
everywhere. Those who claim to hear the
whispers of the throne say that no voice il
more potent, and that no mind outside OF
the Cabinet more frequently impresses it
self upon Executive deliberations Hated
and feared as he is, he il one of the mosi
genial and courteous and generous of men
He has the rare gift of commanding the
awe and the affection of those around him.
They say man is never great to his valet
Before estimate hero, tell me what hi.
private secretaries say. AS mere idler In
J this capital city, with nothing to do hut e
, see the great comedy as it changes from ia.
to day, and disposed to look crynically be
meath the robes that drape the. greatness
that is all around, and seek to know which
: is bronze and which mere clay aud earth
, ware, am impressed with the devotion
, | and esteem which those who know Butle
and serve him, feel for his genius and char
acter."
After this personal picture of Butler tn
: correspondent makes prediction.
"THE NEXT ADMINISTRATORS.
81 have spoken of this Administration
and perhaps the one that comes after.
: | VIII YOU dllOW lie II 1ittlt piopiltt,t III
. rambling writing? The Zone that come
I after will Cd. VI be the second term @
|. ! Ulysses S. Grant. 1t is probably soon I
|, say this, especially with the political jock
eys in high chorus of depreciation, and tn
pert ISLANDERS of his enemies filling the air
t As for the jockeys, they We're quite as fierc
= against Mr.. Lincoln i'm 1864 and the abus
=. of venal editor is about as much to b
feared as the abuse of Mr.. Bryant or MI
u Unsworth, or some OF your negro ministries
d Grant has tried to do what Is right. III
" has kept the peace; he has paid the debt
v he has collected the revenue; he has shun
= ned alluring quarrels; he has not angere
. the country by distracting dissertations o.
n the Constitution he has been rich in say
|. ing common sense; and although he ha
/ disappointed aldermen and ward politi
y clans, and the shoo-fy statesmen VIII
! would own him--the people who plow am
Y weave and dig, and who have no intere,
beyond their crops and yarn believe |
Grant Ii is u great thing 10 know "
T, have a man who means to do what Is righ
1t and once we have him we are going to SUI
e tain him, although he appoints twent
r. times as many relatives to Office, and fai
=, to estimate the genius of his maligner an
"a higher than the Appraisers Office in IL
t, Custom-housc True Democrats migi
et have taken Mr.. Chase and made GOO
campaign. but the country will scarcel
follow a party which took possession
Id New York only TO create a public scand
A. betxyeen Mike Norton and Bil} YWee,