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

promptly resigning. A new Cabinet followed;
bat jackson, in consideration Of the good
service of Van Buren, in setting the Cabinet
difficulty, appointed him Minister to Eng
land; and so sure was Van Buren, of q con-
irmation that he was in London before the
Senate had acted upon his nomination. But
when il was brought to the vote there was a
tie, and the Vice President, Calhoun, as Presi-
dent of the Senate having the casting vote,
cast it against Van Buren, and so he was re-
called. But this vote was the ruin of Cal
houn; for in the Presidential election OF 1882
Van Buren, according to Jackson's desire,
wss put on the ticket with him and elected
for Vice President, thus cutting out Calhoun
as President of the Senate and from the line
of the White House by the very man he had
sought to disgrace
Incensed to any scheme Of revenge, Cal
houn next tried the rash exL eriment of South
Carolina notification against jackson; but in
this the bold agitator was promptly snuffed
out by Old Hickory, with General Scott as
his peacemaker in South Carolina, under in
structions, "By the Eternal" if they at
tempted to violate the laws of the United
States "to blow Charleston out of the water.
From that day Calhoun became the active
schemer for Southern pro-slavery
party, looking to disunion and South
ern confederacy. His last speech in the
Senate, on the compromise measures of
1850, was sort of prophecy of disunion.
He died disappointed man, but
bis Southern disciples filled with his South
ern constitutional chop-logic, took up his
grand ultimatum of Southern confederacy,
and among the first fruits of this movement
we find from the Northern reaction the radi-
cal abolitionist of Massachusetts, Mr.. Sum-
ner made chairman on Foreign Relations in
the United States Senate. This change from
Mason, that pugnacious stakeholder, subse-
Al r l. r. 49, II
Mason and Slidell marks the practical be-
ginning of the great revolution which, we
may say is finished with Summers removal
from his post by his own party in the Senate.
Sumner, at war with the administration,
now takes the place of the factious Calhoun,
as Massachusetts in the Government has
taken the old dictatorial position of South
Carolina. General Grant, the President, and
the recognized head of his party, comes for
ward, like jackson, to enforce discipline as
master of the camp. He has, above all, a
grand programme marked out touching our
international and commercial interests and
| our manifest destiny" 1t embraces CON-
| prehensive settlement of all our outstanding
accounts with England on solid basis Of
| peace; q central position in the splendid
island of st. Domingo for the absorption of
| the great trade of the West Indies, and q
| halfway house there for the vast squadrons
Ol SHIPS Wnicp, Will tue opening OF the Darlen
ship canal, will pass and repass between New
York and the Pacific and the Oriental nations
and islands of Asia. Mr. Sumner, as an
impediment to all these grand designs, has
been removed. The Republican party in the
Senate has elected upon this issue to stand
by the President, and there is no other course
of safety to the party at large. Mr.. Sumner
and his friends may perhaps be strong enough
to break down the administration and the
party if they choose; but from Grant to the
Democracy they will be out of the frying-pan
into the fire.
Still, there is great danger that this attempt
of General Grant to introduce the discipline
of regular army into this free militia organi
zation of the Republican party may break up
the whole concern. The State election in
New Hampshire to-day, we expect, will
throw some light upon this subject. They
have had time enough there to form judg
ment upon this removal of Sumner. The
New Hampshire Republicans are intelligent
men, and they fight for their party like old
soldiers. If, therefore, to-day New
Hampshire shall go for the Democracy, it viii
be a sign of an impending general Republi
can breakup. Otherwise, it is probable that
the sacrifice of Sumner will be accepted by
the party as the casting of Jonah overheard
| an act required to save the ship.