Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-23

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The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette directs attention to the
fact that the Grant administration has
reached 8 point at which its imbecility
becomes ludicrous, and that sneers are by
no means confined TO its political oppo-
nents. This correspondent says leading
Radicals in both houses openly and con-
tinually treat the President and his cabi-
net with personal disrespect-and {what
is Infinitely more galling) with undis-
guised leyity. There is no. single man
of the whole cabinet council who comes
up to the point of mediocrity In states
manship, or even stateoraft, except Bout
welEand he is, body and soul, the mere
creature of the controllers of clasa inter-
ests at the East. The President,
(whoso utter incapacity for the dis
charge of the duties of the Office
he nominally fills is painfully ap-
parent to his best fricnds) founders along
with whining appeals TO those to
whom he, in the beginning, surrendered
the just powers of the Executive, in the
valnhope of sitting personal attacks.
The more he founders" the deeper he
sinks in the public estimation, and even
in that Of the Radical faction, as repre-
sented in Congress. Not long ago, in the
interest of the San Domingo spectators,
he waited upon Senators st the capitol,
when he was glaringly snubbed, not a
dozen of his own party responding to his
general invitation to meet him in seMarble
Hail." In huff, he starts off upon
heller skelter excursion, leaving this
party at odds and ends. Anon,
he returns, sis not TO be seen
for days. except to few of his cabinet,
and then runs off again, to fab for eels
and catfish in the ponds about the rural
residence of Simon Cameron, giving
thereby fresh grounds for suspicion of
completely in other jobs. Upon his last
return, this correspondent is told, upon
good authority, he ''sent for" certain
Senators of his own party, who per-
emptorily declined to confer with him at
all. The degradation of the Presidential
office is complete. Never before has any
President sought conference with any one
outside of the Presidential Mansion.
Never before has President importuned
members of Congress to visit him upon
matters pertaining to the condition of
party politics and been signally repulsedl
Doubtless the disgust of leading Radi-
Gals has been expressed for the reason
that the President could not be made to
feel the necessity of surrounding himself
with men of more. brains and more
honesty. 1t seems, however, he could
not be made to appreciate the Importance,
nay, absolute necessity, of giving up the
'gift enterprise" line of administration
upon which he has been fighting it out
'iall summer. 1t could not, however,
but be seen, even by Gen. Grant himself,
that there was an unmistakable lack of
ordinary common sense among the set he
had gathered around him He fell upon
the expedient, therefore, of procuring a
sort of Lord Butte. This power behind
the throne, ''greater than the throne
intself," and much greater than all its
surroundings, turned out lately to
be no other than Caleb Gushing,
to the utter establishment of the
whole Congressional Radical faction, and
to the downright rebellion of large por-
ton of it. This correspondent says it is
in every body's mouth in Washington
that Mr.. Cushing ia now consulted upon
all important administrative matters, as
he has been for long time as to the most
ingenious means of ignoring just claims
upon the Government of the United
States, preferred by long suffering claim
ants. If he did not write, will it be de-
MED that he dictated the, message' Mr..
Cushing is famous for expressing surprise
at any and everything! The upshot of
this business may-must, it is thought
eventuate IN burst up of the cabinet.
The present '1ittle onpleasantness" about
the ''Cuban patriots is as nothing to
what, in public opinion, is to come. The
whole batch of Subscribers" must be
thrown overheard, when Git is facetiously
observed) Mr.. Fish, especially, will again
be CONSIGNED TO his proper element.