Grant A Failure

From the Chicago Tribuno, Miircli 13th. live senators who, in obecüenco to tho ommauds of the President, so indecentlV ïurried through the Senate the ivmoval E Mr. Suinner froni tho positton he had o long and so ably filled as Chairman of i Committee cm Foroign Relations, dingly unfortunate in. the plens icy offefed ir. cxtciinution of tlmt act. 'Iwy did not raise the quostion ot liis bility, or of his past sernoos : thoy studiusly rofrained frum uny considorutirn of lis knowledge of international law, his irfei I familiarity wilh uil tin.' ivlaiinu f uuiinvn government witfa other govraments, and thecarefu] atndy he has so oug givon to the constitutional hearings pon those relations. 'u dleagree with tho Presidenfa policy as (.-.mie to be considered as a personal ifferenco", and u personal difierenoe is ïeld to be sufficient ground tor political Btraciam. It was months ago doolared lint Mr. Siuiiiicr's attitude on tho imvxtion of Santo .Domingo demanded that ie shonld be removed from his post in tho Comiiiiftci: on Foreigu Etélations. fSo ïonstrous an assumption of . Eiecutive lowcr overa oo-ordinate branoh of the :overanient was reoetved, at tho time, ftther us an out-buret of the eplenetic ictulance of a partisan than the sober nnouncement to inake a political innovaion in our system of govermnent. Bui vente havo shown that they were, m very deed, wordsof sober earnest and of jositivu Latent, A member of th' Gabiïet luis, since then, beon removed from ïis post simply because he would nol ■ielil li'.s coiivictions of official duty to the personal wishes of the President ; n commissioner of an important bureau, who bas held his position under STiooeoding administrations, and wIioki: integrity lms oever been queationed, has met with a imüav fate for precisely the same reason ; and now the threat in Mr. Bumner's case has been fully carried out, umi the President is wanniy congratulated, for u. third time, by his friends, that his personal wishes are paramótstt to all queëtiónsof public welfare, or j)irty doecney, or patriotic service, and are to be obeyed t all hazards. Por the Military services of General Grant the country is duly ful, and it has shown its gratitude by bestuwing upon hini the higïicst oüicc within its gift. But it has not forgotten, and it will be very careful now not to forget, that thisreward was bestowed upon tho s ildier and not upon the htatesman. Asa man, he is still upon trial with the great mass of his countrymen, and, before pronounco upon hini the favorable jndgment as a statesman that they have awarded to him as a soldier, they wil! wait to see whether he possesses any other qualities than those that made him a good ttghter. He possessed and he displayed ly the oiKilitics tliat were n m the peculiar conjuncüon of circumstances, in the genera] ot' an army duty it was to march to Richmonu. Possibly the same quality may win in tho On to Santo Domingo! 13ut tho jui is, whother Üxat quality is the one which tho p "pi'.' most demand and most confide in 111 u civil ruler. Xhc Coustitution is uot a military codo, nor our body of luw.s the rules of a drom-head court-martial. Tli!' statesman rulos with the oerebruin ■bellum. In liim we look lor intellect and moral qualities of oharacter ; for large views of tlie aft'aiis ci' governmeaat; for the highest consideration of the rights of tho peoplc ; for tho abnegation of mere sclfish purposes and ends, and the power to ayail oimself of the wisest counsel, und to rouch good rcsults ioi' tho common welfare. The soldier may poesesa uil these, but that profesaion does not necessarily cali for tlicir üxhibition, for lic muy be a good fighter without them. Jt wee with the hope that the soldier wlio fought so veil nüght be equally valuable as a cít.1 ruler that Ghrant was made President. Thus for the country is still, at best, in doubt as to whether it has most to fcar or most to hope as to the resulta of that experiment. A President who departa so widely iVoni the unifona examiile of all his predecesSOra, except in one disustrous instuneo, as to brook no differenoe ot' opinión in a coordinate branch of the govermnent, and who resorte to the most despotic meaeuxos to coerce that opinio:!, ccrtuiiily does not command i;ntire conñdeuce as to mental and moral íitnoss to be the ruler of' a free p!Ople. The President who reeileitr:ites against such a counsellor in most important afíairs as Charles Sumner, a man wise and lion(;st and unj'ielding in his sincere ronvietions, uid insists upon taMng t; liis bosom snoh a counsellor as Simon Qsnxeron, who is not wise, and who, if ho has an; oonvictions, holds to them ouly tbr convcnienee'.s sake; a President "vho throws asido, beoause il1}' stand in the ,:y ui' liis views and bis purposes, mea in whose integritythe country knows itmay coniidc ; a President most f whoso chosen adViaen éeóm to bc man of littlo wisdom and lesa character, and who scom to oommend themselves to him chifley because thoy are pliantto bis will and know no higher l:iw than to obey his behosts; o President who, in nuuiy things, as in civil reform and in the ehoico of officers to admiaister different branches of the govornïiieiit, has ccrtainly disappoiated tEe public expectation, is not the President wlioni a eonliding pooplti expect to find in Qeo.eral ürant. Still anxiously and patientv waiting and looking fot the fuliühnent ot' tliat high promise with whioh tlic Administration oame into office, it is xmdoubtedly a faot that the recent aotion of the Stenate, at the dictation of General ürant, has oaused a wido-sproad anxiety ind a SUSpicious watclifulness and apprem which it will by no means 1 bo do away with.