New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-21
TINE 10 UNIOID.

A dispatcl, from Washington printed III The
Ncr- York HeroH says that Gen. Grant on
Saturday night announced 10 a delegation oi
his supporters in Congress that he was be-
ginning TO think it was time for the Repnb-
"lican party to unload :; that II has been
carrying TOO much dead weight that an
oyerweening confidence IN the strength OF
" the party has imposed the State admlnlStra-
&" tons in the South upon the General Govern
"ment." The President further stated that
the saddle was beginning 10 gall. He init
mated that TevaS aud Lotisiana must take
care of themselves. He declined IN advance
TO settle the internal >1uabbles of Mississippi.
q" This nursing Of mOnstrosties," he ncryously
observes, "has nearly exhausted the life of
the party" That there is some sin
ccrity in these expressions, was clearly
enough shown the other day when he told
Gov. Davis that after approving the law under
which the election was held, running for Gov
error and getting beaten, he ought >" TO get
cont" and not b. clamoring 10 Washington
for troops to keep The legal incumbent from
taking his place. All reasonable people will
be clad 10 see that the President shares tbe
disgust they have long felt for that political
system in the Gulf States which consists, first,
in using the Federal patronage to carry cleo
tons second. when beaten, using Federal
Judges 10 declare the election illegal; and
third. using Federal troops 10 keep ont the
OF oosition and put III the Administration can
diiates. 1t is d system which has had its
nurse and protector in HIM exclusively. 1t is
as he Justly states "monsrouS' bantllng,
and nobody but his creatures III the Gulf
States will greve TO learn that he proposes to
withdraw its nourishment.
The fact that the party is overloaded is eyi-
dent to the meanest capacity That the Presi-
dent has been able to discover "a portion of
the superfluOus baggage it carrying. is o
highly encouraging fact, though it is hardly
possible that he can be led to see the full ex
tent of the burden. 1t - however, greatly TO
his credit that he seems inclined to relieve the
staggering party of portion of the load his
own hands have placed upon its back. No
other than he made Casey and Durell and
Kellogg the irresponsible agents of the Adj
ministration in New Orleans to declare every
thing legal which might seem to benefit the
President and his friends, and everything ille-
gal which did not. IL he has grown tired Of
his work in this direction, there may be some
hope of his recognizing other mistakes. Mr.
Matt Carpenter, for instance, is bulky pack
age, yet the President lent hand in
loading him anew upon the party. Does Gen.
Grant imagine that Chief-Justice Williams
would have been light to carry I or that Mr.
Caleb Cushing would not have wrung the
withers of the Republican party if the recall
citrant Senate had not interfered with his
taking place in the pack-saddle The Salary
bill was "a portentOus piece of luggage. 1t has
been trimmed down to meet the protests Of
the country, but the Presidents doubled pay
has suffered no change, not even such cnti-
cism as would lie in the adoption of q prop
osition for future reduction. When an Occa-
siOnal heavy rider, like Mr.. Murphy or Mr..
Colfax, has in some needless moment fallen
from the back of the party he was riding,
Gen. Grant has FASTENED to prevent the party
from being relieved by the accident by giving
the endorsed statesman certificate or char
acter which was as heavy to carry as he was.
1t is perhaps too much to expect the Prcsl-
dent to see what most thoughtful people are
beginning to surmise, that there Is posi-
biity that the weight of Gen. Grant himself
renders his transportation rather unremuner-
alive to the Republican party. 1t il related
of Hibernian cavalier that when his horse
in some unaccountable csper got his hoof in
the stirrup, the hOrscman said, Faith. If
"you're going to ride, I'll get down." 1t may
be dsloyal to hint such thing, but is 1t i'm
possible that the President may find out that
tho Republican party usy conclude not ~ be