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Show GENERAL GB ANT'S DESTRUCTIVE GE-NIUS. Postmaster Jewell's removal is sharply criticised by the New York republican press. The Sun terms it "ignominious and mortifyiog." The ' Times says: Unle33 the president explains ex-plains the cauBe of the removal on public grounds he has placed "himself "him-self in a position where the party will be obliged to resign him to the indulgence indul-gence of a perverse humor for whose freaks they must decline any responsibility." respon-sibility." Tho New York Tribune says: "It cannot be longer denied that Grant has been all the time nostue to tne policies and plans which Bristow in the treasury and Jewell in the poatoflice have been endeavoring to carry out, to cleanse their departments depart-ments of corruption and inefficiency. It is the eld atory made ao familiar during seven years of personal government, gov-ernment, and Beifiah, arbitrary, unreasoning un-reasoning and despotic rule." The New York IltraU thinks that "tho political effect of the retirement of Jewell will be slight. He had no Bpecial weight in the cabinet, or in the eyes of the country, except as an honorable, amiable republican, who rejoiced in his high station. Tho president is no longer able to harm Hayes, and Hayes does not mean auy more of Grant than he can help." The New York JTcrald ia probably correct in its estimate of Jewell's weight in tho administration, but not in its idea that Cirant is without tho ; power to harm Hayes. The spectacle now exhibited at Washington at tho Outset ol tho presidential campaign is unprecedented. The republican party, to which Ulysses Grant owes o much, now finds its greatest enemy in tho man whom it has cherished and elevated to a position far above hia merit and abilities. Jt jfl an il-l lustration of the fable of the viper'' turning to sting its benefactor. The removal of Jewell may have been merely a mark of the executive friendship for Morton, or it may exhibit ex-hibit the presidential desire to strengthen Indiana in tho October election, but it is a blunder, nevertheless, never-theless, and one which can hardly fail to mark a losing element in the campaign. Whether it is the result of that presidential strategy which has come to be regarded as incomprehensible, in-comprehensible, or the exhibition of a capricious temper which there is reason to believe may haunt the president, is immaterial. The etlect is Hkely to be the same in either case. The demoralization ot the republican party ia inevitable, and between the deaire on the one hand to conciliate the president, to prevent an open war, and the necessity on the other to repudiate his policy and acta, the Hayes campaign opouaamid the most discouraging surroundings, and puis a remarkable triumph within the easy grasp oi the opposition, should they exercise the most ordinary vigilance and prudence in handling their forces. During the campaign of the Wilderness, Wil-derness, Grant,by his peculiar tactics, suflered Lee to destroy a greatei umber of his own men than the great southern general had opposed to the Union forces. In like manner it ia not improbable that the republican republi-can party may be principally- indebted in-debted io the man whom they have boosted into fame and power for their destruction. This would bo the accomplishment of such poetic justice as is rarely dispensed in the tribunal of nations. |