The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-17

like this, and who so fitting to be made use OF
in that way as the President2 There he
is in conspicuous position, and 1t is
the simplest thing in the world to
make him responsible for everything
that goes wrong. 1t is doubly convenient
because it saves you, who make the charges,
from taking any blame to yourself. AS for
the Justice of the course, who thinks of doing
President Grant justice No, not suits
The whm of many Republicans far better to
charge him with all kinds of offenses, and to
read those generous and manly attacks upon
his father, his wife, and all who belong to
him, which are prepared from time to time
by the professional libellers of the press, and
which pass muster in these days for political
criticism.
If President Grant is ''all wrong" at this
particular crisis, where is your man who is
''all right?" Bring him out. Let us have
look at him. Why make him clark horse?'
Nobody wants to prevent you ''saving the
country" If you have got anybody slowed
away in the background who can reconcile
the discordant sections of the Republican
party, and give to each section all that
it demands, for PHYS sake let us know
who he is. Where is your one man who
is to-day more entitled to the confidence
of the country than this much abused Presi-
dent-whom you first dragged from a post
with which he was we'll satisfied to make
scold, misrepresent, and abuse Politics is a
practical business, not ack-olantern, to be
pursued by fanatics, sentimentalists, and
''soreheads, with the public at their heels.
We must have some man at the head of af-
fairs, and not an abstraction hatched by doc
tTSnGtreS. Now where are you going to find
a man-you Republicans who go about raving
at General Grant-lkely to do all that you
require of him? Why, if you could produce
such man by evolution, or natural selection,
or any other device of the philosophers, you
would be pelting him with mud before six
months were over. ''It is all President
Grants fault" Very good-then, of course,
you have some policy to suggest which would
restore harmony and enthusiasm to the Re-
publican ranks? Let as hear what it is
Wendell Phillips speaks first. What does
he take to be the panacea for all our troubles?
Here we have it, red-hot from the National
Standard of this week. -'Nothiug short of
half dozen Southern millionaires at the
drum-head will awe the Ku-klux into submis-
sion." Mr.. Phillips prints this new remedy in
capital letters, but it looks to us sufficiently
fierce in ordinary type. And again he talks of
sweeping Rebellion with the bosom of des-
truction and leave it no ruler but the sword,
until every now living white man is in his
grave" MIR. Phillips puts no commas in
this sentence, nor do we, for it is clearly
meant to be read in q breathless manner
Now is this the magic policy which would
have prevented New Hampshire going Demo-
cratic? The New York RUening PoSt-as
thoroughgoing Democratic paper as you
will meet anywhere-vows that even the COM
paratively moderate measure introduced into
Congress for the restoration of order at the
South, would ''fall with the certainty of
doom that always falls on madness in po ower.
A charming sentence, although we cannot
pretend to say what it means-except that
Wendell Phillips specific would not take with
the Post. So here we have the doctors quar-
relling over the patient, and protesting that
each Others prescriptions would be certain to
put him out of the world. Republicans are
everywhere wrangling about the differences
which they have created for themselves, and
then they go shouting at the President, and
tell him that it is all his fault that they are
living like dogs, whose nature it is, as we
know on the very best authority, to bark
and bite.
Let those Republicans who are clamoring
for the impeachment" of Grant and the
dissolution of their party come out plainly
and tell us what it is they want. If you don't
like the Presidents policy, why don't you
suggest better one?-not on a single point
only, mark you, but upon the entire range of
questions with which man in the Presi-
dents position is necessarily required to
deal. 1t is easy enough to keep on nagging
at public officer, but can you produce
policy better than that which he is pursuing?
If not, the best thing you can do is to lock
yourself up in room and have your minister
come and talk to you, or read you few chap
ters out of some good book, or else you had
better fight it out with your own shadow,
and not go forth like prophet of evil into
the public streets, wringing your hands and
tearing your hair, and calling out for "more
gore" and a few Southern heads-as Mr..
Phillips does, for instance-by way of freshen-
ing things up a bit.
GENERAL BUTLER'S KU-KLUX BILL.
From the N. Y. World.