The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-01

admitted by publishing most interesting
narrative from bis pen Of his sufferings
in Judlcw Street Jail, to which unpleasant
resort he found his way in consequences
Of some disastrous financial events not
unconnected with strawberry farming
The pen which depicted 30 vividly many
years ago the mishsps of captive in the
Partisan prison of Clichy has not last its cum
ming. AIR. Greeley seems to have been
worse treated in Ludlow street than he was
in Clichy, possibly because the people in the
former place, understanding his speech, may
have been exssperated by his frequent and
profuse profanity. He states that he went to
prison in order to learn the Inconvenience of
captivity, which Is quite of piece with his
going to farming at Chappaqua in order to
learn the disadvantages of agricultural iguo-
rance. But though we sympathize with him
in his tribulstions, we are only half
sorry at heart that his temporary withdrawal
from the use Of pens and ink should
have given the Galveston cobold chance to
personate him. For the discourses which
the cohold has delivered for him supply a
timely and excellent complement of the ora
tions made for MIR. johnson and Mr.. Davis
by their respective doubles. The main differ
ence between the tone of the former and of
the two latter is to be traced to the circum-
stance that Mr.. Davis and Mr. johnson look
bitterly back to Presidencies come and gone,
while Mr.. Greeley looks brightly forward to a
Presidency still to be. Should the dream be
fulfilled, common gratitude will require Mr..
Greeley to endorse his cobold by making Mr..
Davis his Secretary of State and sending Mr..
Johnson as Minister to France.
THE SUCCESSORTOP PRESIDENT GRANT
From Theo. Tiltons Golden Age.
If Mr.. Greeley, in coming home from the
South, should bring with him, as gift from
that portion of our common land, a popular
nomination to the Presidency of the United
States, this expressed wish, by one section of
the Union, ought to be promptly ratified by
the other.
The next Presidency, judged from to-days
point Of view, is like the raspberry plant
which takes one year to grow the stalk and
the next to bear the fruit. We are now
growing the stalk OF next years Presidential
nomination.
The farmer of Chappaqua, who went south
ward on the simple errand of carrying an
agricultural address to Texas, is now every
where hailed by Southern men as q North
erner in whose honesty they trust, and whose
kindliness they reciprocate. If among all the
Northern candidates the South prefers this
charitable statesman, we believe the North
would assent to the wishes of its late enc
mics, and give to the Southerners a President
true to their best interests.
renOmlnatlOn OF Oeneral GranJ WOulQ De
SO injudicious that il ought to be no longer
discussed. To say nothing of the great fact
that his administration has been but a medi-
ocre success, and not worth repeating for
another four years, the victorious North
should not second time impose on the
whole country the conqueror of one-half
of it. This is not the way to heal the wounds
of civil war. Peace, magnanimity, frater-
nal kindness-this is the spirit which we hope
the North will seek to exhibit toward the
South in the next Presidential canvass.
No man in the nation more signally repre-
sents this spirit than the kind-hearted North
ern farmer who has gone to the South to
plant with his own hand an olive of peace in
that fre-scarred land. Good men in the
Southern States, of all parties might so gen.
orally unite in urging his nomination that the
North, notwithstanding its lingering severity
of temper, will undoubtedly respect the sug-
gestion.
As for ourselves, without being unduly for
ward or rashly persistent, we are free to say
that our first and early choice for the next
Presidency is this large-minded and humane
statesman-the Benjamin Franklin of his
time.