The sun., 1870-03-09

failures Of JonN TYLER and ANDREW.
JOHNSON.
To compare Gen. GRANT as a statesman Of
ideas as a politician capable of drawing
around him and binding to his standard in
coneruous elements, os civil leader in diff.
ficult times, whose words and example can
electrify the masses OF the people-we say,
TO attempt to compare him with DE WITT
CLINTON or ANDREW JACKSON, borders on
the absurd. And yet, II looks as If he
was going to try the experiment of forming
n personal party to perpotuatc his feeble
hold upon the Presidency. Tint he will
fail in field where CLINTON and JACK.
SON did not succeed, is n forcgone conclu-
sion. The wonder is that he should DO 30
foolish as to make the attempt.
Gen. GRANTS attachment TO the Republi-
can party is very weak. Indeed, ho never
belonged to 1t, nor even claimed to belong to
ii until 1t had become necessary to his eleva-
ton. Previous TO his Inauguration he in
formed Mr. MCCLURE of Pennsylvania that
he had not been Republican. His selec-
Not a member of IL was the choice for
that position of the Republican party of
the State whence he came. With perhaps
one exception they are men Of very mode
rate attainments, sinking into dwarfs by
the side of the distinguished leaders of
the party, and therefore owing their eleva-
tion solely to him, and likely to WELD the
great influence of their positions for the pro
motion of his ambitious schemes and the
qualification of his personal aspirations
The many strange appointments he has
made, and indeed the general distribution of
his patronage, seem to spring from the same
motive as that which controlled the selection
of his Cabinet. He likes to be surrounded by
small men in the White House and the de-
partments, who will owe their advancement
solely TO him. He desires to be followed by
train of bcnefciares throughout the
country, many of them incompetent and ex-
tremely unpopular, some OF them dishonest,
and the great body Of them without any
claims upon the Republican party but, like
the Swiss guards OF LOUIS, they will fight
for the chieftain who discovered their merits
and pays their wages.
Upon what other principle than the by
pothess we have suggested can we account
for Gen. GRANTS appointing so many of his
relations 10 Office? How otherwise can we ex.
plain his readiness TO confer high aud lucra-
tive places upon those who have given him
valuable presents thus suggesting unfavora.
Ile comparisons between himself and An.
DREW JOHNSON, whom he was so eager to
drive from the White House by an impeach.
mentI How else can we account for his alac.
rity TO accept gifts from anybody, and of any
kind from houses and lands down to horses
and dogs, thus sinking his great Office into
contempt before all the peoplcf Knowing
that this disgracelul practice will of itself 50
bring hun into rcproach as to render it i'm
possible for the Republican party TO renomi.
nate him, that il tends directly to the destruc-
tion Of tLe confding organization which made
him President, he must look upon the prostra.
ton Of the party with cool Indifference, til ough
determined ito make q good thing out Of II
while il lasts and resolved through the
agency Of Grant party" to take his
chances for o reelection in 1872
That Con. GRAFT will bo uttorly disai-
pointed in his personal aspirations, it needs
no prophet to predict. That he may succeed
in running the party which trusted him is quite
possible. That he will be able to advance
even in sight of the point where CLINTON
and JACKSON failed, is TO the last degree i'm
probable. That he Will be dismissed from
the White House on the ith Of March, 1878,
with the same Indifference, not to say con-
tempt, that followed the departure of JouN
TYLER and ANDREW JOHNSON. history will
doubtless record.