The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-28


will not be deferred in the mistaken zeal of
French leaders for French honor. That
is no longer at stake. There can be no
deeper humiliation in reserve for them than
that into which criminal and imbecile Gov
ernments have dragged them.
1872.
From Hdrper's Wefkly
The formation of Grant Clubs in the city
of New York is u significant sign OF the ten
dency of opinion ia the Republican party. 1t
shows that the conviction OF the denomination
of the President is SO strong that gentlemen
are willing to pronounce for him, thereby
prejudicing tn sir chances with any other
possible candidate. There is, indeed, no
other serious candidacy, and the reason
undoubtedly is that the administration of
General Grant is felt to be, upon
the whole, honest, efficient, aud salts
factory. 1t certainly has not lacked criticism
from its friends, III which we have borne a
part; but its great merit is that it has practi-
cally persuaded the great mass of intelligent
American citizens that it seeks unostenta-
tiously and economically the public welfare.
A certain good sense has presided over it
througbout and attacked with rancor which
from Its extravaganza has been often ludi-
crous, it has yet maintained its even way,
and has quietly lived down a great many i'm
posing accusations.
Indeed, feeble Republican administra-
ton would be more trusted by the coun-
try than any Democratic administration
whatever. For the permanent fact in the
political situation which is universally seen
and pondered is that the Democratic party is
the party which sneers at the war and the
victory of the Union, and which steadily
honors the cause and the leaders of the Rebel
lion. 1t is by Democratic votes that Gene
raj Blair, who would have relinquished
the victory in which he took part, is elected
to the Senate. 1t is by Democratic votes
that portrait of General Lee is ordered by
the Virginia Senate, and portrait of Gene
raj Thomas is declined. 1t is by Demo
cratic papers that General Longstreet is de-
cried, because he did not persist in his
hostile attitude to the Government 1t is
by Democratic papers, in fine, that Rebels
are extolled, and the great results of the
war are belittled. Meanwhile the leaders OF
that party are seen to be substantially uu-
changed. The old Copperhead element is
supreme. The party orators aud papers cry
out against Republican extravagance and
corruption, while in the government of the
city of New York the whole country beholds
an illustration of Democratic economy and
honesty!
There is, therefore, and most Justly, in the
great popular heart of this country, a pro-
found dlstrust of the Democratic party.
If man thinks the taxes heavy, he sees
that the dominant party has both dimi-
nished the debt and reduced taxation,
and he asks himself whether he can fairly
expect any speedier relief from the party
whose last declared policy was virtually re-
pudiation. He looks at General Grant
In the White House, who as General Blair
told us, would undoubtedly make himself EN-
peror, and he asks himself whether the
country would have been more peaceful and
prosperous and stable if MIR. Seymour had
been placed there. He sees everywhere
tranquil and confident industry, and such
a restoration of order as 10 country ever
showed alter SO fierce q CONFUSION as that
of the war, and he asks himself whether
industry would be more tranquil and
confident and order more assured, if those
who made the great and bloody disorder
should be called To control affairs. He sees
that the intelligence, the rural labor, the
moral sentiment of the country instinctiveIy
favor Republican rule, and he asks himself
whether the cause of individual liberty, of
education, of moral progress, of the general
welfare, Is likely to be more advanced by a
party to which the ignorant and vicious
classes naturally gravitate.
And this man sees that the Republican
cause-at once patriotic, and full of the glo-
rious traditions of the pure devotion and
heroism and results of the war, and progress
sive in the truest American sense, the cause
which is that of all our best prHciples and of
our most legitimate hopes-is satisfactorily
represented to the popular mind by the
honest purpose, the sturdy good sense and
simplicity, of General Grant. 1t does. not
make him an ideal hero. 1t does
not deny that it wishes some things might be
different in his administration, as, indeed in
every administration. 1t does not defend or
praise every measure; but it judges him by
the character of his whole administration,
and it declares that it finds him sensible, sim
cere, upright; man who does not believe
that the old day of slavery was better than
the new day of liberty; who does not wish to
try how far he can venture to return toward a
policy which the country has rejected but
who does wish to confirm and strengthen
the country in its new and true policy of
equal rights for all men.
During Mr.. Lincoln's first term, and in the
very crisis Of the war, there were those who
thought that it would be wise to try new
candidate who had not been so severely
criticised. But those who heard the thrilling
shout of unanimity with which he was re-
nominated in Baltimore knew that it was the
voice of that great popular confidence, which
was only the surer because it was not blinded
by idolatry. The good sense of the people
renominRted Lincoln, as it elected Grant
The same sagacity is now turning to Grant,
as a man who has faithfully served the coun-
try, and whom the country heartily trusts.
AN ENTERPRISE OF THE TIMES.
From EreTy Saturday.
We should say that the history of modern
enterprise is yet to be written, were it not
actually writing itself on the face of the earth
in lina9 which lin ND nF oil