The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-05

Held. lie has gained his point. He has the
honest soldiers sense of honor, and he has
made it good. President johnson, in the
Stanton-War Department imbroglio, accused
the General of deception and falsehood, aud
we know the consequences that followed to
Johnson. Mr.. Sumner, in his turn, has
already felt something of the reaction against
similar charges touching the honesty of Gene
raj Grant; and with all his pompous, ponder
Gus, and laundering philippics, we expect
the Senator, by the simple facts of the ST.
Domingo Commissioners report, will be re-
duced to mere bag of wind-'full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing" 1t is re-
markable, too, that after his unbounded ad-
miration of the Alaska annexation scheme
and after carrying through that delightful
purchase of icebergs and white bears, at an
outlay of seven millions in gold to Russia and
two hundred thousand to the lobby-it is, in
deed, very remarkable that Mr., Sumner
should regard the annexation of Dominica, at
less than one-fourth the cost of Alaska as a
scheme of war, bankruptcy and all sorts Of
national disasters.
The opposition of the Democracy to this
Dominican scheme is not surprising, for
General Grant in this idea is stealing Demo
cratic thunder. Nor are we amazed at the
horror concerning the project of those radi-
cal Republicans of the old Puritan school,
who fought to the last ditch against the an
nexation of Texas: but Mr. Summers hos
tility to General Grants pet measure. after
all, we fear, is mainly due to his mistaken
estimate of his own Importance as the Mag
nus Apollo of the Republican party. At all
events he is silenced upon San Domingo,
and, with Schurz and the other Republican
mutineers against General Grant, Mr. Sum-
ner must now seek some other point of
assault, or give up the fight to cut him out
and cut him off as the Republican candidate
for the succession. 'Where there is a will
there is way" and we apprehend that the
troubles of most of these disaffected and dis
appointed Republican leaders lie deeper or
nearer home than San Domingo.
General Grant, however, has still the party
organization within his reach, and may still,
with proper management, be master of the
situation. He is learning, but has yet much
| to learn Of the complications of the political
| party machine The examples furnished by
| General Jackson he may profitably consult in
reference to intractable boilers; and the con-
ciliatory policy of Lincoln with aspiring but
foxible malcontents should not be overlooked
| jackson ruled Calhoun off the Presidential
track as declared enemy; but Lincoln con-
| quered the aspiring Chase, and quietly dis
| posed of him as friend by making him Chief
| Justice of the United States. Let Gen. Grant
| call the leading Republicans of Congress
around him for counselin any doubtful move
ment henceforth, and he may escape repeti
ton of the troubles he has had to encounter
| upon st. Domingo. Let him propose a gene
raj amnesty in connection with the pending
scheme of bill of pains and penalties on the
Southern Ku-klux Klans, and he may dc
much to secure his lost ground in the South
let him be cautious in iaterposing his autho
rity and his personal punishments in relation
| to the local squabbles among his party leaders
in this State, that State, or the other, and LEI
him seek rather to heal than to widen tn,
breaks in the party lines, and he may d.
much to keep his party together. Otherwise
the malcontents may reduce him to the hu
initiation and the hazards of a scrub race il
| 1872.