Grant And Williams

rresidnet Grant and nis Bertrand Attorney- General Williams do not pull well together. Williams, grateful to the hand whioh kepthim in the Attorney-General'i office after he had been invited by th Uuited States Senate to walk out of it as a disreputable person, is hard at work in Washington, dissanainating falsehoods about the oonditions of the South, ordering the United States Army, right and lelt, all over the Southern States, and doing his best to help Senator Morton kept alive " until after the eleotion," the notion that we are in tbe midst of a "new rebellion" and of a half developed civil war. Meanwhile President Grant ia junketing about the West with his fainily visiting cattle shows aud horse-fairs, and keeping up on the prairies, if not what his organ in New York has indihcreetly described as a ' Long Branch intoxicaron," at least a " Long Branch" indiffrence to the public dutius and responsibilities of his station. Nuw, one of two things is perfectly clear. Either President Graut deserves iiupeachmeut for ntglecting hisduties, or Attoruey-General Wiüiuis deserves indictment as a public uuisance. Williams is the man who was ignoiuiniously iejectod by the Senate as unfit tor the seat of Cbier-Justice Chase, yet who shainelessly cluug and clings to the office of General after receiving that public slap in the face. If AttorneyGeneral Williams has the ulightest warraut of truth tor the stoiies he is daily promulgating about the "awful condition of the South," then President Grant is worthy of iinpeachineut for the brazen disregard of his duties and his responsibilities which he shows by loungiug and " loafing" (there is no otuer word which so exactly desuribes his performances) all over the West while tbase thiugs are doïng in the South. The English people and the English press make it a charge not uutrequently, against Queen Victoria, that at times when there is nothing extraordinary going on either in the domestic or iti foreign politics of Great Britain, Her Majesty insists upon removïng herself to her home in tbe Highlands, and so retarding tho despatuh of public business. But what would be the feeliug of the English people, and in what language would the Euglish press give utterance to that feeliug, if Queen Victoria were to remove to Balmoral iu the uiidst of an outbreak in Irelaud. The raeasures which President Grant's discredited and discreditable AttorueyGeneral is daily taking in tho South are such measures as no English Government has ever dared to venture upon in Ireland, except with the direct and express sanction of Parliameut, aud in the face of aruied insurrection too flagrant to be questioned or doubted about. Martial law is practically proclaimed over a large part of the American Republic to-day by the simple fiat of a low political adventurer whoui nothing but the personal obstinacy of President Grant keeps in a position which makes it necessary for men of character to tolérate occasional association with him. Domiciliary visits are made by this man's authority, conventions are broken up by ariued men under his orders. The Lieutenant-Genaral of the army is invited by him to strip the frontiers of the troops neoded for their protection that he may be able to extend hig incendiary operations over a wida area of territory. And wbile all this is doing, President Grant is whisking about trom town to town of the West, looking at fat Ciittle, eating good dinners, and genorally amusing himself like a shoddy speculator on a railway picnic ! One is tempted to ask whether the people of this country have absolutely abdicated the first düties of freemen and of good citizens when he sees the publio opinión of this couuty thus insolently triflüd with by the Executive of the uation and by the vulgar and unprincipled tools to whom the Executive tosses over the discharge of the functiou he has solemnly sworn to perform, as unconoernedly as if he were a village bar-keeper calliug in a atable drndge to " teud" tor a season bis