The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-24

we implore the leaders of that party in Con-
gress to cease making commonplace, super
fetal, thoughtless speeches on international
law to be printed in the Congressional Globe,
but retire to the privacy of a caucus if it
need be, and there deliberate according to
The best judgment and patriotism they can
command, and let all the world know what
the attitude of this Government is to be on
this important subject.
DISSOLUTION OF THE DEMOCRACY.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
The story of Sheridanis great Winchester
battle is sometimes told in this fashion,
The Rebel General Early made an attack
upon the Union army, and defeated it. Some
of the generals counselled an advance which
would have been destruction to the Federals.
Instead of making the advance, the Rebels
began to plunder the Union camp and to
quarrel for the food and raiment of their cap
tives. So the day which should have been a
day of victory was passed in idleness and
dissipation. They had driven the Yankees
out of their tents and would have a good
time. Sheridan came up on that long ride of
twenty miles, reformed his defeated columns
attacked the frolicking and registering Rebels,
and sent them whirling down the valley.
That was the end of all Rebel power in the
country of the Shenandoah. A great triumph
The Democracy of New York, in all times
and under every depression the triumphant
Democracy, took possession of Albany and
the whole State Government at the beginning
of the year. It's leaders were those men of
New York city who had marshalled it in
defeat, disciplined its columns, sustained it
| through disaster, and extorted victory from
the most disheartening events. 1t had fought
every radical contrivance for the suppression
II. Df 1o1. Al.o
| principles of free government destroyed,
solemn pledges broken, and sacred constitu-
tional guarantees overridden in the effort for
| its overthrow. The great city of the Western
| World-the queen of this vast continent
within itself a splendor far surprising Tyre and
Sidon, with its enterprise, its wealth. its great
renown, had been dragged at the feet of COM
missions and boards, stripped and robbed in
the effort to deprive it of freedom and COM
pei it's people to bend to the republican ascen-
dancy. With all these obstacles-with the
great fame of Grant leading a party flushed
with power-it triumphed. His triumph was
the beginning of what seemed to be an un.
avoidable reaction. The Democracy of the
country called upon the Democracy of New
York to make good its pledges to restore tc
the stripped and bruised metropolis its stoler
franchises, to remove the fetters that hat
been placed upon municipal liberty, ant
the people and for the people,"
Never had party 80 noble a mission nor 8,
many incentives for its prompt performance
The new administration made many blunders
The President gained unpopularity in q sur
prising and spontaneous manner He STUN
bled against the old party precedents AM
trampled upon the ambition and cupidity o
the greedy and exacting men who placed hin
in power. Republicanism was confronte
| n g Il
agement, venality, and the invasion of th
constitutional prerogatives of the South. I'm
peachment ha d rent it with fssure as dee
as that the poet saw between Roland and 81
Leoline. The Fessenden and Sumner, th
Bingham and Butler factions were irrevoct
BILE in their hostility.
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder.
dreary sea now flows between"
: The victory was complete in itself, and I'll
beginning of q victory which would hay
} swept the country in 1872, and given the D.
mocracy triumphant reign for many, mar
) years; for the conservative Republicans, lii
Bingham and Trumbull would have glad
1 welcomed an alliance with a prudent and vi
, torious Democracy. What do we see? Ju
T what the Rebels tell us was seen on I'll
morning of Jubal Early's ''victory" at Wi
t chester. The camp followers, the suffers, Il
4 greedy retinue of the army have broken in
the Republican tents and gorged themselv
Q with tho plunder. Instead of wisely al
q earnestly setting about reform, and giving
Q a charter and restoring to New York its priv
U leges, the whole country is called upon
hearken to the quarrels of Harry Genet al
3 Mike Norton, of Tom Creamer and Jimn
J. OBrien Behind them, we are assured, M
} Iilden is standing, respectfully apart, glove
o and anointed, but giving the mutineers b
l. blessing. Behind Mr.. Tilden we see the r
70 cognized organ of the roughs and thieves
} this city, edited by radical outoast, who SO
3 himself and his sheet TO Messrs. Tilden a. G
's not many years ago. They pretend to le,
y the Democracy. His newspaper is simply
10 spy and pretender
n So, while treachery and disappointed amb
/ ton have left this triumphant Democracy /
Is more power and influence than pack
n bowling wolyes--while at Albany all is chao
anger, greed, strife, necessary legislation
II arrested and the Republicans hold the stu
O. ton and remain its masters by cheering
ie the combatants-we look to Washington a
le see the President gaining ground every da
OF His administration gathers around it renew
~ popular confidence. The blunders of his ci
IL career are like the blunders of his militia
or career. AS General he had Belmont @
It. Donelson; but he also had Vicksbu
It's and Richmond. AS President he
o. rapidly making himself as strong
" jackson. Instead of being controlled by I