The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-30

ton, the appointment of relatives to Office, the
acceptance of presents, the St Domingo job
or even the awkward episode Of the Pleasonton
letter. All these, together with French
arms and Custom House Investigations
the people are willing to ignore, in
view of General Grants great services in the
war, and in the hope that experience will
render him more cautious Of the politicians in
his second term than he has been in his first
term of Office. But they are not willing to
see the white citizens of the South oppressed,
to risk the danger of the subversion of all our
liberties by patiently suffering an unconsti-
tutional and tyrannical treatment of portion
of the States of the Union. They do not
desire that the country shall be led into new
peril by the efforts of political adventures to
inAame the passions of the ignorant negroes OF
the South, and to incite them to such acts
as those witnessed yesterday at Charlotte, in
North Carolina on the occasion Of the Carl
Schurz meeting when the blacks attempted
to burn down the city. Nor do they wish
that the foreign policy Of the government, as
instanced in the cases Of Spain and England,
shall form the model of our diplomacy for the
next four yeaSs. ~ lsg ars5 f..stsfe7sa
We desire to impress upon President Grant
the fact that in these respects his Cabinet and
the politicians in Congress, to whose control
he seems to have given himself up, are now on
trial before the people. If the country could
90 back to the personal record of the President
as it stood four years ago, and render their YER
dict upon that alone, the election of November
next would already be decided. They would
see before them the General who carried the
Union arms TO victory through the smoke and
fire Of many battle field; the generous SOL
der who honored the gallantry Of the fallen
armies of Lee and Johnston the patriot who
set his face against the persecution of the con-
quered people and insisted upon peace
that should reunite the States in heart and
bury the animosities of the war out of
sight forever. But between President Grant
and the American people now stand
the politicians who during eight years
of peace have striven to keep alive the
hatreds and passions of the war. and the Presi-
dental advisers who have led the administra-
ton into serious blunders and difficulties If
this same policy is to prevail and if these same
men are to be retained in power another four
years, can the country be .recompensed by the
knowledge that President Grant himself is
gallant soldier and an honest man? We have
told the President repeatedly that the Ameri-
can people would regret toadminister rebuke
to him by driving him out Of Office; but they
cannot be expected, they ought not to be
asked, to take with him the men who have be-
Titled the nation in her foreign policy and
who have outraged the constitution, displayed
their contempt of popular rights and disgraced
humanity by their cruel treatment Of the South
and by their attempts to raises dangerous strife
between the negroes and the whites. There
is no reason why this should be demanded of
them or forced upon them, especially as Presi-
dent Grant has it in his power to do justice to
himself and to the people before the latter are
called upon to vote on the Presidential ques-
ton. He can, at his will, suspend the action
of the Ku Klux law and leave every Southern
State as free as Northern State to vote as it
may see fit in the Presidential election
Although Congress passed the odious law it
is a dead letter until the President puts it in
force, and hence. by refusing to avail himself
of its power to force himself upon the South
ern States by the did Of federal bayonets and
negro votes, he can at once rebuke the policy
of the radical republicans in Congress and show
his confidence in the friendship of the American
people. He can at his will change his Cabi-
net and send Boutwell, and Fish into retire.
ment If he stood at the head of his armies
in the field he would not hesitate to drive
from his ranks incompetent and unfaithful
officers. Let him follow the same course now,
and the people, who revere and admire him as
a soldier, will honor him as o civilian. He
could not go into a battle with hope of sue
cess if his plan Of action was faulty and his
subordinate officers unreliable. He cannot
enter hopefully upon the Presidential contest
with an offensive policy and incapable advisers.
He knows how to carry his banner to victory
it will be his own fault if it should trail in the
dust
The HAvRE REaArTA.-The steamship City
of Paris, which arrived at this port yesterday
morning, brought us the letter of our Havre
correspondent about the Havre regatta It was
at this regatta that the Sappho beat easily,
though not actually engaged in the race Mr.
Ashbury's Livonia. Had the English yacht
Guinevere, considered as the fastest boat in
the English pleasure feet, taken part in the
regatta, as was expected, Commodore Douglas
would have engaged in the contest but in
the absence Of the fast English yacht the
American yachtsman declined, for the reasons
given in special telegram, published in the
HERALD the day after the race. and now cor
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