The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-02

He was made Minister to Spain, and
failed to achieve any remembered repu-
tation in Madrid. He was general
In the army, and came out Of the ranks with no
more fame than thousand other generals,
who quietly took of their swords and went
into trade. He edited newspaper and failed
In that. In time he was thrown into the
Senate, where he has only succeeded
as an incessant, sharp, endless, quick
witted talker, who has not made
speech which will last beyond the
necessities of the democratic party in
this campaign. We do not esteem our Senate
as an astonishing body. Weregard it as fine
collection of mediocrities. We have no Senator
who will compare with Mr.. Gladstone, Mr..
Disraeli, Mr.. Bright or Mr.. Lowe, and so far
from Mr.. Schurz being the marvel that his fol-
lowers insist upon regarding him, he is inferior
to Sumner, Thurman, Edmunds, Conkling,
Morrill, or Ferry, and is really about match
for Morton or Frank Blair. We mean that he
is match for Morton or Blair in intellectual
resources. As an eager, risky, perpetual
talker, always obtruding upon the Senate with
a speech or an interruption. he is only sur
passed by Garrett Davis. He can truly say
with Tennyson, 'eMen may come and men
may 60, but 60 on forever.
And as for Mr.. Trumbull, we dismiss him as
politician who followed faithfully in the
traces of the republican party until the
incense bearers tempted him off with hopes of
the Presidency. A politician who reforms at
sixty and publishes himself as Statesman"
may excite our curiosity, but scarcely our
enthusiasm. These are the demagogues and
consprators who have held the country at
their mercy for three weeks, delaying public
business, spending the peoples money, and
bringing the good name and good faith of the
nation into disrepute. merely to defeat General
Grant. Their allies are found in disappointed
politicians like Greeley, who abandons tariff
man like Grant to aid In the nomination and
election Of free-trader or like Fenton, who
has been squealing with nose high in air ever
since he and his litter were turned out of
the troughs of the Custom House; or like
three or four pretentious newspapers in the
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for independence, and proclaim that no virtue
remains in journalism but what they happily
possess; that they alone are unterrifed and
unbought; that, thanks be to God, like the
Pharisee of old, they are not as other journals
are! We really do not know whether the feel
ing excited by this comedy of scandal and
ambition is one of amusement or con-
tempt. We are amused when we see these
strollers from the republican party establish
side show, and advertise themselves as real,
new patriots, with gorgeous costumes and
machinery and decorations, and that their play
is the only legitimate drama, while the per-
Torrance at Philadelphia is sensational and
unworthy. But we cannot refrain from our
contempt when we see the Senate of the
United States surrendered to the intrigues of
politicians who have no grievance against
Grant that does not arise from disappointed
ambition.
Behind these men there Is public opinion
which Is as true to Grant as it was true to
jackson when Calhoun and Clay and Webster
Numbered at him in the Senate. The people
stood by jackson against the politicians, and
he triumphed. The people are standing by
Grant, and we are profoundly convinced that
he will have triumph as conspicuous and
splendid as was awarded to the here of New
Orleans.