The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-15

policy of economy and retrenchment, has
vindfcated bis administration before the coanl
try, snd his sagscity and capacity in the great
cause Of international peace. And here we
may remark that his experience in the horrors
Of war, as in the case of the Duke of yelling
ton, has given the world one Of the most de-
voted champions of peace.
The question, then, as to the Republican
candidate for the Presidential succession, and
as to his commanding claims and popularity
over all other candidates Of his party, is set
lied in favor of General Grant. As he now
stands before the country, the great peace
maker, how small appear the wrath Of Sumner,
the folly of Fenton, the complaints of Carl
Schurz, the detection of Gratz Brown, the
hedgiDg of Trumbull and the doublings and
twistings of Greeley concerning the distribu-
ton of the spoilsl With the record which
ton, and especially from the Joint High Com
mission, he can stand before the people upon
his merits as a statesman, and will be hard to
beat as q candidate for another term. The
Democratic party will have to meet him again
in the feld and here these important ques-
tions recur, Who is their man, and what is
their proper plan Of operations?
General Sherman is their man, and the
platform proposed in Memphis Universal
amnesty and universal amity"-is their proper
platform. The greet difficulty of the Demo-
cratic party, with ito Copperhead and South
ern Rebel affiliations, has been and is the
cloud Of popular distrust which hangs over
it in reference to the fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments; and the secret of its
weakness in 1864 and in 1868 was that oppo-
sition to the war for the Union and its fixed
results which cut off from it the great mass
of the supporters of Lincoln in the war
Let the Democracy make General Sherman
their candidate, and all these barriers between
them and the Union party of the war will
be removed. They will at once divide the
honors of the war with the Republicans and
disarm them on that issue. All doubts, too,
as to the future policy of the Democrats in
reference to the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments will be at an end with General
Sherman's nomination, and all misgivings in
regard to the redemption of the national debt.
He is sound upon all these questions, and we
know that be is not man who can be nodded
to their purposes by unscrupulous and mis-
chief-makipg politicians In short, the nomi-
nation of General Sherman would of itself be
new departure for the Democrats which
would break down all those distinctio4s IS on
the war which have been their weakness and
the strength of the Republicans.
But it is particularly upon She Ku-klux
question that General Sherman eommends
himself to the Democratic party. His late
speech at New Orleans on the Ku-klux has
given him a new claim to the confidence and
support of the American people in any posi-
tion in which he may appear before them.
In this speech he has defined his policy in the
South to be not that of coercion, but that of
conciiation-not the policy of the bayonet,
but the policy of local remedies of law for
local disorders such as those of the Ku-klux
Klans. He is opposed to thrusting in the
army where it is not wanted, and he believes
and he, as the head general of the army,
ought to know, when he says that it is not
wanted in the suppression of the Ku-klux.
These ideas of General Sherman are the pre-
vailipg public sentiment, and it must be re-
membered, at the same time, that peace in
and with the South is not less to be desired
than peace with England on a mutually satis-
| factory basis.
The Southern policy of Cancellation and re-
| conciliation emanating from General Sherman
is better than the policy of the bayonet adopted
by General Grant. "Universal amnesty" is
| good, and universal amity, we believe will
follow it, The victorious party in a foreign
war can afford to be generous and the victo-
rious party in domestic war ought to be
| generous. How else, looking to the South,
can we heal the wounds still left open from
the war? General Sherman, then, is the
proper man for the Democratic party. Put
him in the field and in the front against Gene
raj Grant, and not only will the Union sup
| porters of the war be divided between them,
| but the courtesies of brother soldiers will
/
ties. The violent hostilities between the two
parties and the two races will disappear in the
South, for, as many of the blacks will be
drawn to Sherman and the Democrats, the
bitterness of the whites against them will
change into better feeling aud the present
danger of war of races will be removed.
On the Ku-klux question General Sherman
will neutralize the popularity of General
Grant on the Joint High Commission; and on
the war and the issues of the war the two
parties, with Sherman opposed to Grant, will
stand substantially on the same footing be-
fore the people. Thus, then, upon the great
financial questions of the day, the Demo
cracy, under the banner of Sherman, may
North and South, secure the balance of power
in the election. In short, if for the great
Presidential battle of 1872 General Grant il
the only man for the Republicans, Genera
Sherman, of all men, is the man for the
Democracy. Let them try him, and the
party will at once rise to its feet, '1ike
giant refreshed with new wine" North and
South, East and West. Try him, for the
field is open for Sherman, and the coast il
clear.
PUMPING A PHILOSOPHER.
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