Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-19
IN THE ssLOYAL.''
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element in that party, is by no means
united and 'Iappily family" 1t is evil
dent that there are divisions, disturbances
and heart burnings il the '1oyaln house
hold. There are ms and outs. There
are those who have Office, and there are
those who want office. There are Grant
men, and men who do not "cottonn TO the
man of "many presents" Dawes has
his adherents, Sumner his followers, and
even Butler is not without party. The
Wetern Radicals have but little affinity
with their New England brethren, and the
latter talk about the possibility of union
between the South and the West, by which
Massachusetts, viii be pushed from her
stool of arrogant leadership. Some of
the Senators and members of the House
think the party has gone quite far enough
on the negro question. Others demand
that not only Revels, the sable Senator
from Mississippi, shall be Rugged to the
bosom of the 'lOyap party, but advanced
ground shall be taken on the social side
of the negro question. This wing of the
dominant faction, demand a place for
Sambo and his wife at State dinners in the
White House, at Presidential levees, and
at all receptions given by heads of Depart
ments. So far as the Senate and the Presi-
dent are concerned, the want Of cordi-
atty is not concealed The wreath has
been taken from the sword, and its naked
blade can be seen on all occasions. when
the viii Of the Executive and that Of the
Senate comes in collision. The yoke of
the civil tenure act gals Gen. Grant. He
feels the degradation. He has publicly
exhibited his feelings on this point. The
country knows the wound smarts and
hurts. But the Senate holds on to its
power. Not q jot has been aJated, and
The man at 'Ihe other end Of the avenue"
is 'bottled up" in this particular. The
Philadelphia Age says the attack of Mr..
Dawes upon the administration also looks
beyond The present. 1t is a bill of in
dictment to be passed upon by the next
National Convention of the Radical
party, sitting as a Grand Jury. Dawes
and his friends are tired Of Gen. Grant.
He IS not Of their ''kith or kin" They
have a lingering regard for the old school
Of statesmen. They remember and ven
crate Webster and Choate and that class
Of men, and, as a matter Of course, des-
pise the ebay of small things" The in
sulting rejection Of Mr.. H0aT, a pet of the
President, is also calculated to make the
family quarrel more bitter. Gen. Grant
was extremely anxious that Mr.. Hoar
should be confirmed. That fact was well
known to the Senators. They were ap-
preached upon the subject by creatures
of the administration, and oYertures made
looking 70 an acquiesccnce in the -
mands of the Executive. But the Senate
would not yield an inch. They trampled
upon Hoar, and let It be known that the
iron heel was intended for The neck Of the
President. The appointment Of Messrs.
Strong and Bradley TO positions on the
Supreme Bench has created another storm
in the Senate, and a special dispatch from
Washington to the New York Herald
thus pictures the condition of affairs as
between that body and the President at the
present time:
''Thc disposition Of the Senate to en-.
croach upon the Executive power Of pa
tronage has been growing in strength ever
since the famous Civil Tenure bill became
a fact. Il is true that when Andy went
ont and Ulysses came in there was . show
Of willingness to repeal that curious law,
with q view of giving the new Republican
President all the power he might desire to
build up q strong, honest and capable adj
ministTation. But il was merely a show.
The willy Senators never intended to let
things return to thoir old condition when
administrations enjoyed almost unlimited
power rs regards the spoils They
at first excused themselves with
the plea that they did not yet
entirely know Grant, and declared
that so long as he remained true to the
party, they, the Senators, would throw
no obstacles in his way; he might choose
whomsocver he pleased to assist him in
carrying on the government and they
would promptly confirm. But all the
while they were simply aCtua'ed by sell
fish motives. Their real reason was IN
willingness to give up q power over the
spOils which they had assumed IS q meas
UTC Of selt-pTOtcCtiOn and prcCautiOn
against what Ihey termed the dangerous
schemes of q tTCachCrOus administration.
Theyhad become so acCust0mCdt 10 exercise
a controlling influence over appointments
and found that influence So convenient
and pleasant that they felt 10 disposition
to give it up, even to an administra-
ton Of their own making. Hence all
these Ulsecmly sqUabbles over the spoils
and the heated discussions among Sena-
tors in executive sessions and the imDor-
tunitics Of greedy Senators and rCpresen-
tatives at the White House. It has reached
such q point now that no appointment,
practically, IS sure Of confirmation IN
less the Senators have in the first instance
been consulted and placated. This situa-
ton Of things is pointing more clearly every
day to . breach between the Senate and
The Executive, and is brought into promi-
nent view to-day by the nominations
made by the President for Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court, vice
Stanton, deceased, and HOar, rejected.
The honorable Senators make no
particular objection to Strong of
Pennsylvania, but they vigorously IN
weigh against Bradley Of New jersey.
The carpet-bag Senators are particularly
farocious on the appointment Of Bradley,
Among other reasons, besides Hoar's
sweetness Of temper, which led the Scna-
tors from the South TO oppose the Attor-
uev Generals elevation to the supreme
bench, was that suggested by the locality
from which lie hailed. The carpet-bag-
gers have been very loud in their demand
to have a man from their own section on
the supreme bench. They have claimed
all alon-, and still claim that the South is
entitled TO a representative in the high
est court Of the nation; that
the South has many men competent to
discharge the duties of the position, and
fI,,t tho I'LL --yf. for WON I,--o,-,v.