The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-19

our people will in a few years crowd their wild
tribes from the map of America. In this case
justice which Furnishes crime Is true mercy.
General Grant ON tho Issues and Pros
| poets OF tho Presidential Contest.
The Presidential contest is becoming ami
mated, and promises soon to be exceedingly
| spirited, pungent and exciting. The views of
General Grant on the leading political topics
of the day, as given to q HERALD correspondent
the other evening In familiar conversation at
Long Branch and as published in our issue of
yesterday, are really refreshing as q quiet
diversion from the dismal plattudes and
windy declamations of our noisy politicians
More than this these observations Of General
Grant, as far as they CO. In defining his views
upon the leading questions involved. his opin-
ion of Mr.. Greeley and his expectations in ref
erenoe to the approaching elections, are valua-
BILE as calculated to give shape and direction to
this Presidential canvass, particularly on the
administration side. We see that he is we'll
advised as to what his party is doing and in
regard to the expectations of its leaders in
tain no apprehensions that political revolu-
ton is at hand. Nevertheless we think it
would be wise thing to recall Mr.. Boutwell,
from North Carolina and then to send him
home; for he is behind the age ON the stump
and in the Treasury.
The President knows that the' National
Republican Committee at Washington are hard
at work, though in full confidence of success,
and that they have some interesting documents
ready for distribution which will be sure to
have their effect-extracts from writings of
Mr.. Greeley, perhaps, giving what he knows
about farming, and about the tariff and about
Gratz Brown, and about the democratic party,
or something of that description. We know,
however, that on both sides the car loads of
campaign documents that are sent into all
parts Of the country for elechoneering pur-
poses are mostly turned over to the grocer as
waste paper, and that the paper maker and the
printer are the only parties who derive any
substantial profit from these campaign docu-
ments. They are certainly superAuous rub
bish in these days of many newspapers
operating through the telegraph. But we
doubt not that brief letter recalling our
Minister from Madrid would be good cam
paign document
In the next place, General Grant is assured
| that In North Carolina the republican ticket
will be successful by good majority; that the
prospects Of his party are excellent in Penn
sylvania, and that even in New York not only
are their chances good, but that they are
morally certain of carrying the State. ''You
see, said the General to our attentive COM
missioner. 'fhe opposition who are out
always make the loudest and largest promises
much larger than any cool observer can believe
they are able or willing to fulfl-and the per-
sons promised are always too ready to mistake
what they wish to be for what will be- and
here he speaks like philosopher. And yet
General Grant may be mistaken in the idea
which is the general idea among the republi-
cans that this Presidential contest Is nothing
more than struggle on the part of the
''outs'' against the '.ins" for the spoils. Con-
ceding 1t to be so, it must be next conceded
that, as the ofice-seekers are as ten to one
against the office-holders, the advantages in
this contest are clearly with tho outside com
bination. Moreover, it is probable that Mr..
Fish, as Secretary Of State, will not do much
to advance the cause of the administration in
New York.
Nor can we accept without some qualify
ing grains of SALT the discouraging Judgment
pronounced by General Grant against Mr..
Greeley. 1t is possible that if Mr.. Greeley
were actively at work in support Of the
General for another term the happy accord
between these two eminent men would be as
remarkable as tho impossible gulf which now
divides them. General Grant may indeed
believe that 'Mr. Greeley would have filed
the civil service with all the worthless men
in the country if had let him )" but Mr.
Greeley may retort that even without his
assistance, good many worthless men have
crept into Office who ought to be removed.
The President is evidently pleased with the
idea that his Secretary of State has gained an
important victory over England in the Geneva
Conference touching the duties of neutrals
hereafter but upon this matter, in spite of
the blunders of Mr.. Fish and the blunders of
Mr. Gladstone, we are indebted to the good
sense of the Council of Arbitration for the
| compromise arrived at on these consequential
damages. But who can answer for the conse-
quential damages to the administration from
the blunders of Mr.. Secretary Fish,
Execution Of Ku Klux Murderers.
| In another part Of to-day's issue we pre-
sent full account of one of the most revolt