Year: 1875

In Polynesia the agreement of two per
sons on any topic is described by the un-
imaginative statement that they are ''made
both alike inside" and the phrase may be
borrowed for it's apt application to Mr.. De-
lano and the public respectively. How
startlingly they are ''alike inside" and have
been tor the last eleven months, no one
would ever have guessed if Mr.. Delano had
not made the matter plain by his letter to the
President, dated July 5, and just made pub


lie Ever since last November, it now ap-
pears, Mr.. Delano's only anxiety has been
how he should get out of the Cabinet, and
how he could be got out has been for the
same period one of the principal anxieties of
the people. Never it seems, was that fa-
nous startling described by Sterne SO anx-
ious to get out of his tight place as this dis
tinguished head of an important department
was to get away from the enormous
labors and duties and responsibilities
Of his place in the Cabinet, and the eager
ness OF the people to help him in this re-
spect must, we suppose, have been great
comfort to him in all these months. The
evident, the undisguised the notorious fact
that the people sympathized extremely with
him in his desire to get out of office, indi-
eating, as it did, the attention with which
the people note the wishes of those who
serve them, was, perhaps, the only relief TO
the misery he must have endured in these
weary months of restraint and enforced re-
tention of honor and Office. 1t appears from
all this that General Grant was the great OBJ
struction. The press, the public, even the
parties on both sides, were eager that Mr..
Delano should leave the Cabinet. Mr.. De-
lano was on his part monstrously eager to
leave the Cabinet. General Grant would
not hear of it. General Grant was the
only man in the United States who
wanted Mr.. Delano in the Cabinet
and so kept him there, with equal
disregard to Mr.. Delano's feelings
and to public opinion. Now, this seems to
us to do injustice to General Grant, and be-
fore we yield implicit faith to the story thus
told we take the liberty to call for the evil
dence. 1t is true that General Grant says
this himself; but, then, in the convention
alities of this complicated life an amiable
man like the General is called upon to say
so many things for the sake of his friends
that we are at liberty to doubt whatever
seems in open conflict with his known char
acter. Now, if there is fact that is above
all prominent in Grants intellectual compo-
sition it is his devotion to his friends, and
Delano is one of them. Is it likely that a
man fond of his friends and ready always to
sacrifice to them all considerations of
the public service would have kept
this poor Delano in the pillory of the
Interior Department for eleven mortal
months and he crying all the time to 60
home Again, General Grant is of opinion
that 'the will of the people is the law Of the
land, and it was the will of the people that
MIR. Delano should retire to private life and
if General Grant had thought on the subject
at all he would have accepted that will as
law. No, no. All that correspondence is
the kind Of printed material which, as the
dry goods people say, won't wash" 1t has
lately become evident by the political
exigencies in Ohio that the Cabinet must
purge itself of Mr. Delano, and the President
in his good nature, not wishing to ruin
him for life, too kindly consented to say
whatever was necessary in order to give the
man tolerably good character and so help
him to another place.