The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-03

OF the original Cabinet, not counting Mr..
Washburnes fortnight's inoumbency, four
out of the six were from this side of the Allie
gheny Mountains, and the others not further
west than the Miami The citizens of Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia were preferred
to the untutored denizens of the prairies.
The foreign embassies showed the same re-
suit. The six great courts of London, Ber-
lin, st. Petersburg, Madrid, Vienna, and Con-
stantinople, like the Cabinet, belonged wholly
to Massachusetts New York, and Pennsylva-
MIA. Illinois got France, and Northwestern
brother-in-law secured Denmark And when
accident, or imbecility, or ill-temper forced
change, Camden succeeded Philadelphia, Ohio
OHIO, and Georgia part of Massachusetts,
In the Cabinet and in foreign patronage the
dispenser did not seem able to get further
West than Indiana The only two States now
represented in the Cabinet that pretend to
call themselves faithful in their allegiance are
New Jersey and Massachusetts,. How long
they will remain so, even radical Massachu-
setts, is beyond our ken. Pennsylvania, after
waiting in vain for something better than
she has got, is, through her Executive, in
open mutiny, and so far as we can trace po-
pular action, is drifting slowly but surely
back to the moorings of her ancient faith.
For these new and doubtful and selfish friends
has he, without a scruple, sacrificed all those
representative men who, as neighbors aud
early friends when he needed them sorely,
petted and sustained and promoted him.
Operative as these elements of disappoint-
ment may be, they are, we repeat, of minor
moment in comparison with the great inner
revulsion which we have alluded TO, for, after
all, masses are not affected by the frustrated
hopes and aspirations of leaders. To take
the most notable instance of disaff cotton
Missouri. The people of that great State
we mean those Independent Republicans who
once were maj ority-do not care farthing
whether it is represented in the coterie called
a Cabinet or not, or in the wider and more
ornamental circles of diplomacy. This is not
what alienates them. Missouri, if we may
give a new application to well-worn figure,
is the keystone of great arch resting on the
North and the South. Had Missouri bee ome
part permanently or for any long term, of
the Southern Confederacy, it would have
been fatal to the ancient Union. The popu-
lation, while the heat of war was active, was
fercely divided. Hence is it, perhaps, from
mutual respect, from the necessity of making
allowance, that the process of reconciliation
has been so rapid and so sure. Nor is it in
the least surprising that, when this generous
and rational impulse found itself unexpect-
edly in conflict with the Executive, the strug-
gle was sharp and the result decisive. So
will it be everywhere throughout the West,
and this, one would think, should be apparent
to every one. This is altogether independent
of the material considerations we have else
where suggested. Yet, in the face of these
unerring, unmistakable signs and portents,
we find the new crusade devised and perpe-
trated Surely madness can no further CO. 4