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EVEN'G, APRIL II, 1872.
POLITICAL NOTES.

What the Missouri Republican par
ticularly admires in the New York WOrld.
is ''the robust ability shown in looking
cross-eyed at things political"
The St. Louis RepubLcdR is open to the
logic Of events, and plaintively declares,
awe do not know that there are any Lib
eral Republicans in Connecticut" which
means that there are none visible to terri
bly, anxious and expectant "possum" eyes.
The editor of the Brown county Gll.)
Democrat does not seem to take kindly to
the passive policy. "Shall we CONSENT"
he eXclaims, "to see that glorious old DEM
ocratic banner trailing humbly in the dust
beneath the triumphal chariot of our enc
mics? A thousand times, No! We will
see Gratz Brown, and Carl Schurz, and
Frank Blair ete,Tally damned first There
you have it."
The Detroit Tribune wants to know
what more the Democratic leaders need to
convince them Of the utter futility Of
further preserving their organization.
"Whle that disloyal and unpatriotic party
attempts in any form or by any means to
regain the old supremacy says the Tn
bwle, "every friend Of equal rights and of
honesty in the national finances will be
compelled to stand on his guard against its
schemes. Do not its managers and its or
gans perceive the hopelessness Of their
efforts ?"
Setting asida tho element by which the
Liberal movement is characterized, and
looking only at the occasion for organizing
new party, the Boston Globe (ndepen-
dent holds it to be clear that there is no
great measure, no sharply-defined system
Of policy upon which to rally the masses,
and make them desert their old political
standards; nor is there any great man,
standing like Saul head and shoulders
above his countrymen, of whose name the
Cincinnati managers can avail themselves
to that end. Unless an entirely new and
unexpected phase in the politics of the
country should occur, the movement will
be in vain.
The Pittsburg Gazette says: "The
last feather we presume has been laid upon
the Democratic camel. Miss Grant is GO
ang to Europe. Could anything more afro
cious be conceived? Actually going to
Europe! and something less than hun
bred years before her father became the
commander-in-chiefa and President Of the
country he had not much money! '1ilden,
llIlS rs w llclC blu NIauI PHL
the money to send his daughter to Europe
with? Schurz to the rescue! Greeley to
the front! Sumner and Trumbull, on!
Demand an investigation, appoint COM
mittee, and give the Senator from Missouri
the privilege of searching Miss Grants
pockets and of reading the Presidents
private memoranda, for nothing else will
satisfy his intense craving for-justice."
The Boston Globe says: "There is a
manifest unfairneSs in the drift which
politics is taking. Those who are opposed
to the present administration do not seem
to meet their opponents on any great ques-
ton of policy, but chiefly attack the per-
-Onal character Of General Grant. So far
rs politics is concerned, the President has
no individuality he is a representative idea
only, and when stump speakers denounce
bin, as was done in Connecticut last Satur-
day, in yilest terms, the are adducing no
argument, for even if their ridiculous
charges were true, they amount TO nothing
as it regards the national policy and ma
ti0nal politics. Anger is clear evidence
Of weakness, and when stump speaker
works himself up to degre of vituperation
and vulgar personalities, he exposes a want
of argument and reason. As to General
Grant, personally, he is like a stump
speaker himself human being, not a
saint; we are all sinners, otherwise this
would not be Connecticut or Massachusetts,
it would be hcayenD