Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-29

intense gratifcation. They saw in it
an opportunity of finally getting rid of
the troublesome incubus. before he had
utterly ruined the prospects of his par
ty. and before he had brought auy fur
! ther disgrace to the country.
When this promise was made, the fail
u of Clews& Go. had not been aDnouLc c.
ed. Brother in-law Dents vile con1ec-
ton with the discharge of the Barirg
Bros. London, and the substitution of
Glews & Co. as agents of the Treasury
d. partment in England had not then
been made public. Everybody knew
that GRAFT and his family connections
had grown to be immensely wealthy,
but everybody did not know that the
Treasury DEP artment was the source
of all this wealth, aId that Ciews &
Co. aud brother-in- law Dent were the
conduit pipes leading from the Treas
ury, through which ali thls weait..
flowed.
And then, too, Delanol what of him?
When this fair promise was made, De-
l1uo had not resigned. The official
records and proofs of his black -mail
lug operat'ops, and the documents
which led to the Secretarys resigna-
ton, had not been made public.
Delano not having r, signed. his sue
cessor could hot, necessarily, have
been appointed. Ola Zick Chan iler
was quietly at rest in Michigan, dis
turbing nobody. nor anything. He
was where the Republicans of M'chi-
gao had placed him when they defeat
ed him for Senator, to save themselves
and the Senate from the disgrace CT
his presence IN the first legislative tri
bunal of the alton.
These things had not transpired
when Grants promise was made. The
honest aud sensible men of his party
lived in daily dres,l of something ter
r.by disgraceful that might at any
moment happen. and breAthed sigh
of relief when the promise was gwen,
a kind of mental rese, vation, that III
case of an ''enlerge1acy, 1t might he
come necessary to revoke the promise
and ag .in take fresh hold on the le:ns
of p ,wer.
Aud now what will these hon"st and
sensible men say, when The Y come 10
peep at the last hand which Grant has
dea himself i'll the great game, In
VIII ch the Presidency is the stake?
Since the accession of O'd Z4ck
Chandler to Grants Clbinet, the po-
liticel horizon has been carefully
scanned, and the Executive eye bas
again quietly rested on the Island of
Cuba. Intim atoms of the forthcoming
n, ssage to Congress on this subject
are beginning to crop cut. The ad-
ministration organs have taken the cue
and are falling in line. The Washing
ton Republican, the chief organ, has
sounded the keynote, and the little
organs will soon take up the chorus.
81 ere is the first verse of the refrain,
taken from the Republican of the Goth:
g The necessity of Legislation To pre-
vent the traffic. direct or indirect, by
American citizens III Cuban slave
properly will be- at once admitted, and
the recomme ndatlODs fer that purpose
made by the President will be accept
! ed rs an earnest of his devotion to the
| cause of true Repubiicanism."
This, then, Is to be the burthen of
Grants next song to Coogress:-Wa
with Cuba and for what To pre-
vent American citizens from trafficklng
in Cuban slave property.
The Southern people have no otjec-
tion to the stoppage of this traffic eve
rywhere over the whole world. The
stoppage would not injure one of them.
They are forever done with the Legro
kee say a. much?
But Grant does not want to meddie
with the Cuban slave trade for the
purpose of aiding Republican exertions
in the struggle for fire sdom and irde-
pendarce. He sees that his own party
friends wish to be well rid of him;-
that they wish to captere MIN and bot
tie hirn up; and like t. cuttle fish, he
is preparing to throw out his inky
poison to darken the surrounding wa
ters and hide bis designs. When the
waters clear up again Grant will have
secured the nomination for the Third
Term.