The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-14


we assure these aspiring matrons, will not lift
them into the Brahmin class; and young
girl is never less attractive in the eyes of men
than when she personates a Bacchante.
Every man has a secret, pure, gracious ideal
of maiden and a mother; and womanly
woman at the wash-tub, in the market place,
or on the rostrum, does not destroy that
fancy But the belle of the ballroom, whirl-
ing half-naked in an immodest dance, her
face unnaturally red, and the smell of liquor
on her breath-pah! "Give us an ounce of
civet, good apothecary, to sweeten our
imaginationsl"
GENERAL GRANT, MIR. SUMNER, AND
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
The removal of Mr.. Sumner. through the
action of Republican caucus, from his posi-
ton as chairman on Foreign Relations of the
Senate, is, in a party view, the most import
ant and momentous event, SO far, of General
Grants administration. In bold relief it
brings out General Grant in new character
as the erecognizedhead of the Republican party
He ceases by this act to be the servant and
becomes the acknowledged master of the
Senate. He rises from the subordinate posi-
tion of Andrew johnson to the commanding
attitude of Andrew jackson. He has been
subject to the will of Mr.. Summer, as the
great Republican oracle and dictator of the
Senate; but with Sumner removal the tables
are turned and the President is master of the
situation. CONSERVATION prevails among the
Conscript Fathers from this act of their own
doing, and surprise, modification, fear, and
wrath are the prevailing expressions from the
Republican journals far and near. They tell
us that in this unwise removal of Mr.. Sumner
from the position which, with his learning,
peculiar abilities, and great experience, he so
admirably filled, nothing but decentralization,
divisions, and disasters can come to the party
in power; that his opposition to the st. Do
mingo scheme is justified by the general SEN
timent of the party; and that General Grant,
in due season, will discover that in this thing
| he has committed q fatal blunder as candi-
date for the Presidential succession.
From the Democratic press, on the other
hand, it is charged that prominent among the
influences which have brought about this re-
moval of Mr. Sumner from the Senate chair
manship on Foreign Relations has been the
influence of the British Minister with the
President in reference to Mr.. Summers un-
compromising attitude on the Alabama
claims, considered in connection with the
expected comprehensive treaty of peace be-
tween England and the United States from
the Joint High Commission, and that Sum-
ner's displacement is, in fact, from the Pre-
sident and the Senate concession in advance
to England. Next, we are gravely Informed
that there has been no other such high-handed
proceeding as this in the Senate against the
head of q committee personally obnoxious to
the President except in the case of Senator
Douglas, who was removed from the head of
the Committee on Territories because of his
''squatter sovereignty" dogmas, on the requi-
sition of President Buchanan, in obedience
to the wishes of the slaveholding oligarchy of
the South. General Grant is warned, too,
that as this removal of Douglas was the ruin
of Buchanan and the Democratic party, so
will be this removal of Sumner to the present
administration and the Republican party.
But all these are contracted views of the
circumstances the causes and probable con-
sequences of this displacement of Sumner
! from the head of the all. important Senate
| committee at this juncture on foreign rela-
tions. The head of this conmittee, in his
official relations with the President and Secre-
tary of State, may be considered a member
of the Cabinet. The Executive Department,
with the Senate, is the treaty making power.
The head of this Senate committee on treaties
and foreign appointments represents the
Senate in the White House. But how can
the President, after having been pub
licly denounced in the Senate as q
confederate of corrupt and reckless
spectators in the st. Domingo scheme
how can he hold these confidential relations
with the Senator thus boldly accusing him
of corruption and perjury? The truth is
that in the suspension of the friendly per-
sonal relations which had existed between
the President and the Senator, that mutual
confidence which ought to prevail between
them in their official intercourse was de-
stroyed. 1t cannot be forgotten that after
President Johnson accused General Grant
in that famous correspondence on the Stan
ton War Department imbroglio, with de
ception and falsehood, General Gran
on. all occasions avoided the presence of his
accuser as far as possible, even in the dis
charge of his official duties. How, then
could he be expected to overlook these graye
charges of Senator Sumner? There was M
alternative for him but to demand new heaS
for the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions, especially in view of the momentou
and comprehensive international question
now under discussion before the High Join
Commission and the great manifest destiny
programme of the administration.
We think, too, that the case of Senate
Sumner resembles more the rupture between
Calhoun and General Jackson than the quarre
between Douglas and Buchanan. During
Jacksons first term Calhoun was Vice. Presi
dent and President Of the Senate, aud in tn
position he soon began to show his hand as al
ssplrant for the Presidential succession. H
first assisted in fomenting a social quarre
among the ladies of the Cabinet, which wa
carried at length So far that jackson foun,
it necessary to dismiss the whole concern. Ii
| getting rid of them Martin Van Buren,, hi
Secretary of State, came bravely to the Gene
rails relief by setting the example of a resig