The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-21
Will Gen. Grant Understand the Mean
ing of Last Tuesdays Elections

ing OIL Last tuesdays Erection
Tho national interests and the national
honor, backed by public opinion, call for an
immediate change in tho State Department.
The Cabinet needs reconstruction other.
wise, but in other departments the de.
mand is not 80 pressing The Presi.
dent cannot longer afford TO turn
deaf ear to this demand. He has already
made up record on this one subject which
will render it necessary for the Republican
party to rcpudiate him, and that in very
adrift the men whom he has appointed to
manage the State Department If he keeps
HAMILTON FISH and BANCROFT DAVIS, he
cannot possibly keep place in the public
respect for himself.
The United States have within the last
eight or nine years won q leading position
among the great powers Of the globe We
are, by a long distance, the foremost nation
In the western hemisphere. And yet, under
the administration of Gen. GRANT, we have
permitted ourselves to be bullied and brow.
beaten, over and over again, by Spain, the
weakest monarchy in Europe, and that, too,
In regard to affairs upon the American cont.
nent, with which Spain ought not TO be al
lowed to interfere.
We have gone further than this we have
not only been made to cringe before the
threats Of this crumbling despotism, but
have built gunboats at her bidding, and
furnished her with warlike munitions, where.
with she might crush the struggling pa
triots of Cuba, who have simply cmulated our
example by setting up republican institu
tons and abolshing negro slavery.
We have bent even lower still for
we have Looked on with closed mouths, and
hands hanging lstlessly at our sides, while
the myrmdons of Spain have shot and gar.
roted American citizens, who were Iilty of
no crime but loving liberty and desiring the
independence of an island lying right by our
shores
And all this has been done, and been per.
mitted to be done, by Gen. GRANT and his
Secretary of State, HAMILTON FISH, without
the utteranco OF one word of manly protest
Does the President suppose that he can
play this disgraceful part much longer
without arousing the indignation, as he has
already provoked the misses, OF the great
body of the American peopleH Are not the
returns of last Tuesdays election enough to
wake him from his apathy
For q century and a half England has
maintained her place among the leading
Of 81, al hx tha 10 all
has shown in indicating tho rights even OF
her humblest subjects, when violated by
foreign States. However perilous the cir.
cumstances which confronted her, she has
been ready, at whatever cost of treasure and
blood, to stand by her people whenever and
by whomsoover their liberties wero put in
jeopardy. In the light of her history how
mean appears the record of the conduct OF
Gen. GRANTS Administration toward Spain
in view Of its treatment of our citizens in
Cuba, and especially the browning infamy Of
the murder of the patriot GoIcoURIA.
The most eminent Americans have general
ly held the seals of the State Department, al
witness JEFFERSON, ADAMS, CLAY, WE'D
sTER, MARCY, and SEWARD. BY the side o.
such names, how contemplate seems that
of the feeble FISH Let the Republican
party insist upon his prompt removal from
an office in which his laundering imbecility
and cowardly cringing have become 80 con
spcuous. Can leading Republicans tolerate
him any longer in this high position, after
the people of Now York have 30 decisyely
,taI thnt
as they did on Tuesday last