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Show A CONUHDEOM, The New York Tuna, alludiug t Bin ford Wilson's explicit abeolulior of President Grant from any consciously consci-ously bad motive in his action in the liabcock-whisky cases, says: One of tho moat romnrkblo thinfrn in Grant's car';nr ia fwtorn fmm suspicion of dishonor which hrc has enjoy nrl , wli ilq io many whom h hud tni'l-d ar d whn hav'j had much int!umro wiih him bnvi f!:U not onlv BU-p'M:l"d but provn'l t b'i unworthy ot cunlirj'jnno. This raif: notber fjutjiliori. which ii, 'How ia it that a man of such Rlrong nitlirn iu;iiy and tuch concdvi k'"'1 t';i)Mj in many direction! m the proi'lniit i' nd bi stiimblvd into a Buries of action which canto h;i best frmnds to blush with rnortififjfttioD and mk'i his onomipg f'il'" 'I ho purtial nwer to tin qm'-tlon qm'-tlon in found in th lirnidity of hit bet adviser! and tho r'j';klifs utiaf:ity of hifl worst. Tho alcove solution will do, as far i it goci; but it docs not contain tho bottom fact. Tho republican party has always been lcJ by philanthropic maniac, conceited idealidta and half-breed half-breed idiotfl. It pickrd up lU smart politicians lrorn tho dirty debris of democratic Rjurn, tlie men who snixed tho civil war w tlio occasion to im-1 prove iti fortune. This element taught tho morally educated-lo-deatu Btatcumea of tho new regime all its vile tricks, and leavened the whole lump with its thieving propensities. When Grant came into the field of politics he was simply au overgrown baby, petted and fondled by the idiots who found themselves with the nation on ttieir hands, until ho was near burating with vanity and pride. Grant really imagined that ho was the savior and maker of the republican republi-can parly, and put on airs accordingly. accord-ingly. He had nut. been long in the chair before ho discovered that he was surrounded by a set of consum--uato asses, without tho genius ot organization or leadership, and that the party which elected him was simp ly drifting along tovarJs ehipwrcck. Uesurronndcd himself with fellows of bis own turn of mind, tho Babcocks and Kobeeous and Delauos.and the ro-publicau ro-publicau parly wcro aatUficd so long as he picked up his advisers from the party and worked in tho traces with tho majority in congress. Soon Grant began to sao that Iho White Houso was within his reach for a second terra, and he achieved it, contrary to the protests of the best republicans. He aspired to a third term, and would probably havo secured it but for the rebuke of his administration by the election of a strong democratic house in 1S74. This di.-usted his party in a measure; but the finishing blow was given to his hopes by tho house iuves tigating committees. The impeachment impeach-ment of Belknap a ml the exposure ol tho rottenness of the administration forced upon the party a new deal and they placed an unknown available to the front, leaving Grant to his fate, whatever that may be. The verdict of history may be lenient towards Grant. His party associates are likely to have to bear the brant of his follies. He is an honest, well-meaning and patriotic, though careless, man, with qualities that might have been more serviceable to the stale if he had been properly surrounded and controlled; but the republican party .never possessed the genius of goveruuic.it, and has always managed man-aged to neutralize its forces by diverse currents of leadership arid attempts to put in practice unattainable theories. the-ories. Men of military training and single-LuiudoJueri, like Grant and Sherman, eoon come to despise such a rabb'c, and cither ignore them altogether alto-gether or prepare to use them as ladders lad-ders for their own ambitious designs. Grant tried the latter game, but was foiled in it by a power which neither he nor his party had estimated very highly the people. The election ol the forty-fourth congress was a bombshell bomb-shell in tho republican camp the signal gun of the campaign of 1S76, which nothing but democratic folly could prevent ceding in the final defeat de-feat and overthrow of the eflute and rotten party of lSb'0. To this overthrow over-throw Grant has blindly contributed more than any other man, and in rendering the popular verdict history should award him at least this epi ' taph : "Ulysses ES. Grant the man who killed the republican party." |