The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-05
THE CAMERON CONSPIRACY.

From, the PittsJuyg Commercial.
Washington dispatches assert that the
President is much surprised and chagrined
by the publication of Cox's correspondence,
particularly by the contents of the letter of
the Secretary, "the purport of which" we
are told, General Grant does not appear to
have noticed before it appeared in print" A
despatch adds:-
''Now that Cox has seen proper to publish the cor
respondence covering his resignation 1t is under
Will be made known from an official source within
few days, and through the same channel that the
the President feel that in justice to himself not less
than to the Republican party and its representation
in Congress, some notice must be taken Of Cox's
letter OF resignation"
Remembering the character of former de-
spatches undertaking to explain this matter,
the public will not be in haste to accept any
mere say-so in preference to the published
letters. One can readily comprehend that
the President realizes the embarrassments of
the position in which he has been placed by
Cameron, Chandler Co., who now that they
have accomplished their object will be found
more intent On the spoils they have won than
defending the President before the public
Months ago we said that Cameron and some
others who had up to that time been unable
to use General Grant, had determined to
ruin him. We said this on information. We
said it because Simon Cameron, while in one
Grant, in another was saying things that none
but an enemy could utter. He is doing the
same thing now. While he is all praises in
certain places of the President for his part in
the Cox matter, in others he is gloating over
the progress of his plot to ruin him. 1t gives
us 10 pleasure to say this, but it had better be
said. The very courtesies and apparent
friendship of Cameron for General Grant have
been planned and timed as a part of the
nj 1At fvxu n.1so
over the embarrassment of the President in
the Cox matter. He rubs his hands in hearty
glee because he has brought the President in
conflict with almost the entire Republican
press representing the true sentiment of the
party and country. Simon Cameron is Gene
raj Grants greatest enemy from deliberate
premeditation. He has used language and is
sfill giving utterance to thoughts and express
sions about the President which none but a
bitter foe would utter. Cameron is all the
more dangerous as an enemy, because he is
cloakiDg his enmity under the guise of friend
ship. He Is pulling the President down while
protesting to support him. He is persuading
him to do things which he knows the country
will never approve. His design is to load the
President down with embarrassing acts and
false steps, and at this moment is congratu-
| lating himself on the success which has thus
| far attended his efforts.
| We say these things from a sense of duty
and in true friendship for General Grant
| We conceive it to be the Office of true friend
| ship to utter warnings against enemies in
disguise-to point where the serpent is con-
cealed. General Grant can feel sure of the
confidence and support of the country so long
as he acts on his own Judgment and up to
his convictions of what is polite and right
We need not be told, as we now are, that the
President only since the publication of the
correspondence has come to realize how the
matter looks, to make us believe that it was
! not his act. 1t was the result of the Cameron
should deprive the actors in it OF influence
| hereafter.
RED CLOUD AND GENERAL GRANT.
From the NJ Y. Sun
Red Cloud seems to have withstood all the
! Establishments of Mrs. Fish's tea parties at
the White House, and to have returned to
the wilderness with a highly philosophical
idea of the white mans civilization.
In the opinion of this Indian sage, Anglo
| American civilization eliminates only in
peoples cheating each other, the rich COB
bling up the poor and fattening upon the
| land they stole from the aboriginal owners of
the soil. Red Clouds theory has evidently
| been framed under sense of the grievances
| of his race, and bears some what too harshly
upon the Caucasian occupants of this conti-
nent. But it should be remembered that he
saw none but tbs most paltry side of Wash
ington society, and it is no wonder that his
aboriginal imagination was not dazzlei by
the himsy show which was got up at the
Executive Mansion for his benefit. If the
| Tpdian obiaf had mona amnoo our har1