New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-20
NOTES FROM TIE GRANT RALLY.


Cooper Institute meeting last Wednesday, but
he wrote letter which contained some very
oueer things. He rejOiced that merchints and
bankers were the promoters of the gathering.
"Their voice is timely now again to hold the
Country steady on the course OF safe, honest,
"and prosperous administration" We have
no wish to quarrel with his praises of New
York business men but the meeting must have
been reminded by his letter that when Con-
troller Connolly wanted q testimonial to the
"safe, honest, and prosperous administration
of the finance department, just when he was
ND to his neck in frauds he called upon the
most eminent of our merchants and bankers,
and they gave him what he asked for. They
meant well, but merchants and bankers arc
not always best informed of public affairs, or
most Outspoken in giving the pubic the
benefit of their information.
We are apt to think highly OF the inteli-
gence of people who take our advice. "Of
all the men l have seen in high station"
says the Hon. Roscoe Conkling, there is not
one more ready to revise his own judgments
and weigh the suggestions of others" than
Gen. Grant If the President had not been
quite so ready to revise his own Judgment by
the suggestions of Mr.. Conkling and Thos.
Murphy, the Republican party might now have
been happy and harmonious.
Nobody questions the personal honesty of
Gen. Grant, but surely it WAS not wise for Gen.
Sickes to tell the audience on Wednesday that
the President found extravaganza and COZ
Eruption in the collection of the revenue"
and has changed all that" or that " lie found
" the country embarrassed in its commerce"
and has changed all that too. Gen. Grants
young friend Leet is not forgotten yet, and
what his General Order system did for the
embarrassment Of the commerce OF New-lork
our merchants and bankers" have told US
pretty plainly.
Must the Philadelphia Convention carry
Judge Mexican and approve the Mormon mud
DIET Gen. Siclles declares that Judges Chase
"and Davis have already overruled nearly every
" act and opinion of their past record, and have
within day or two signally surpassed and
"eclpsed ALI former exploits in this direction
"by bringing Brigham Young and the Nor
"mons into the Liberal Republican movement
ain their eagerness to carry the doctrine OF
Estate Rights to point that no Southern
"man, not even Calhoun, ever ventured
"tO CO. They insist that even in the
"TerritOries the jurors of the courts OF
"the United States must be impaneled
"by Territorial squatters" This is not true.
The decision of the court, if we are correctly
informed, was unanimous, and only supported
the consistent opinion of the Attorney-Gen-
eral whose advice the President ought to
have followed rather than the unenlightened
zeal of the Rev. j. p. Newman. Besides, Gen.
Sickles grossly misrepresents the issue. The
Judgment was not that Jurors of the courts
"of the United States must be impaneled by
Territorial squatters," but that jurors in
Territorial courts must not be lmpaneled by
United States marshals. However, if the
Oflice-h0lders want to undertake the defense
of this wretched business it is not for us to
make objection.
~ religiously believe" says Gen. Wilson,
" that the Republican party came into being
"by the prayers, the labOrs. and the noblest
" aspirations of the best portion Of our cOun-
" try" We believe so too; but the difference
between the Massachusetts Senator and us is
this: We want to see the Republican party
kept in being by the same agencies, while
Mr.. Wilson intrusts its preservation to 1hOs.
Murphy
Last of all comes Oliver p. Morton also,
and what he finds particularly to like in Gen.
Grants administration is, among other things,
the management of the Treaty of Washing
ton, which "settled difficulty" Senator
Morton is a sanguine man if he believes that
our difficulties with England are settled, or
will be settled in a manner honorable to the
United States Either the arbitration has
been defeated by the msmana &c ment Of our
agents, or Gen. Grant is going to retreat from
he stand he has taken on the indirect claims
Senator Morton may choose whichever al
tentative he ploases. The people are not
likely to be satisfied with either.
The effort Of every Southern and Western