The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-25

pulous demands are accepted rather than give
up the Just fruition of our sacrifices to save
the Republic. Now, however, the ma
ton is redeemed beyond the power
of treason, and the Republican party
is about to redeem itself What
ever necessity this regeneration involves, the
work will be done. If it can triumph in
honor, it will triumph; If the choice is be-
tween death or continued dishonor, it will die
It's vindication and it's retribution are as GER
tain as the returning noon and night, and
when the full measure of its regeneration is
reached there will be none to honor or to
initiate the man who has blistered a patri-
otic party with his frauds and blotted
it with mean ambition When he
goes out amongst the people of the State
whose honors he has stolen by public debau-
cherry, every honest face that confronts him
is but finger-board pointing to the shame
he has flung upon them; and there is not one
but that hopes he may long live to gather the
whirlwind of popular reprobation he has so
boldly invited 1t will be the stern Judgment
of long-suffering and betrayed people, and
it will be meant to teach to future pretenders
that the intelligence and virtue of the people
who climb to honors unworthily. Every
friend of public honesty will rejoice, there
fore, that our Senator is well to-day.
THE POSTMASTER G GENERALSHTF.
RUMoRs from Washington indicate that Post
master. General Creswell is to be driven out
of the Cabinet in the same manner that
Secretary Cox has been, and through the
same influences and for the same reasons.
1t is great scandal that men like Messrs.
Cox and Creswell should he made to suffer
for no other reason than that they have per-
formed their duties to the public with fidelity
and integrity, and their example will certainly
deter other officers who may be disposed to in
stitute reforms from doing their whole duty,
by convincing them of the hopeless
ness of contending against the prof fessional
politicians. Without discussing at the pre-
sent time the merits or demerits of Mr.. Cres-
wells case, we wish to urge the importance of
choosing for him suitable successor. In all
the clamor over the recent intrigues with re-
gard to the Cabinet one of the main points
| brought forward was the claims of Pennsyl-
vania to have a representative at the head of
one of the departments, and if it is really the
intention of the President to dis
| place Mr.. Creswell, he cannot find any
where q better man for the Postmaster
Generalship than the Postmaster of Philadel-
phia, General Henry H. Bingham, who during
the time he has been at the head of the
Post Office in this city has, by his activity,
| intelligence and rare administrative ability
won the cordial regards of all classes of our
citizens. General Bingham is Republican
whose party record is unimpeachable, he is a
soldier who served with distinction through
out the entire war for the suppression of the
Rebellion, and he is Pennsylvania. What
he has done in the Philadelphia Post Office is
an evidence of what he will do upon larger
scale if he is placed at the head of the Post
| Office Department, where his great admins
trative talents viii have ample opportunities
to display themselves and if a change is to
be made in the head of the Post Office De-
partment, the President could not find
throughout the length and breadth of the
United States a successor to the present
very able Postmaster-G General who would
give more satisfaction than General
Bingham. There is no necessity for hunting
about in the ranks of the hack politicians for
Cabinet officer, when a gentleman so well
qualified in every respect as General Bingham
is at hand, in position VIII 5re he has amply
demonstrated his abilities; and we hope sin
cerely that the President will at least give his
claims a candid consideration before fixine
his choice elsewhere.
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