the President has discharged his duty faith- | san feeling, and he had the almost singular fully and intelligently, virtually charges the Chief Magistrate with unfaithfulness and folly; nay, the new Secretary even goes so far as to intimate that the President's course is materially abetting an element in the South which is ready again to assume an attitude of violent hostility to the North.

fortune of conquering his foe without rendering himself amenable to any charges from that foe of inhumanity. The protest which he has now addressed to the President is in phrases of earnestness and even excitement, whose impression will be much enhanced by the notorious moderation of their author, a moderation which the President himself seems to have fatally misunderstood.

That after this letter the President should have persisted in removing Sheridan shows him to be a bold man, but of the kind of boldness that led Sam Patch to leap upon The reply of the president to General the Genesee Falls-to his destruction. It Grant is calculated to exasperate his oppocannot admit of a moment's doubt that the nents to the utmost. "While I am cogniLieutenant-General's opinion will be final zant," he says, "of the efforts that have with the loyal American masses. By the been made to retain General Sheridan in theory of the American Government the command of the Fifth Military District, I President is ex-officio commander of the am not aware that the question has been land and naval forces of the country; but submitted to the people themselves for dethe Lieutenant-General is practically the termination." Such expressions as this, incommander, and it is his especial business dicating the resolution of the President, in to know the condition and wants of the na- defiance of the national legislature, to astion in every thing that affects military ad- cribe to those recently in arms against the ministration. The President, in setting Government an equal authority with those aside the advice of the military chief in a who defended it, will probably alarm the military matter, must necessarily be regard- Northern people, and lead them to lend a ed as availing himself of a power meant to willing ear to the proposition for impeachbe nominal for his own political ends. ment. This ultima ratio of the Republic has And there are circumstances connected now been assented to by the New York with this particular case that can hardly. Tribune and other journals and statesmen fail to intensify public indignation against who have hitherto stoutly resisted it. him. One of these circumstances is, that the general who has been removed from New Orleans has in no wise been the subject of personal reproach. It is not contended that he has dabbled in cotton speculations, or confiscated rebel furniture for his own use, or issued insulting orders concerning Southern ladies; it is alleged only that he has carried out con amore the laws passed by the Congress of the United States. And that his promptness in this respect is the result both of his loyalty and his conviction of the necessity of those laws will be inferred, from the fact that his political sympathies have hitherto been with the democratic party which alone supports Mr. Johnson in the North. But the strongest circumstance of the case is, that General Grant's politics have also been hitherto democratic. Nor have the events of the last few years sufficed to elicit from him any expression of anti-slavery, anti-Southern, or even of moderate republican views. He bad on these subjects been so reticent that each party has spoken of him in connection with its coming presidential nomi

nation.

During his long struggle with Lee in Virginia, Grant issued no proclamation against the South which savoured of parti

"The country." writes Mr. Greeley, "needs adjustment, security, tranquillity, repose; and he persists in keeping it unsettled, distracted, angry, and apprehensive. It cannot be thus disturbed and convulsed forever to humour the caprices and gratify the passions of any one." This seems to be now the voice of the most reluctant in the North. No one now seems to believe that the President means to execute the laws faithfully. When the President says that in New Or leans "a bitter spirit of antagonism seems to have resulted from General Sheridan's management," the country will probably remember that a similarly bitter antagonism resulted a few years ago from General Grant's "management" before Richmond; and when he declares that "his rule has, in fact, been one of absolute tyranny, without reference to the principles of our Government or the nature of our free institutions," it will no doubt remind him that Sheridan is not the Supreme Court; that he was appointed to execute laws, not to analyze their principles; and that to say that his faithful and literal execution of them is "absolute tyranny amounts simply to a confession that he, though sworn, as President, to execute the laws of the United States, will not execute them. This, of course, closes the

argument between the President and Congress, and remits the settlement to another set of weapons altogether. The President may protest that this or that will destroy the Republic: his declaration that negro voting would bring on a war of races has been followed by the orderly election in Tennessee, in which 60,000 negroes voted with the whites; but beneath all is the main fact that when his vetoes were overborne in the manner prescribed by Congress, his opinions about the laws became of no more legal importance than those of his unofficial countrymen. Any hesitation in the execution of those laws whilst he occupies the Presidential Chair must force upon Congress a trial of physical strength with him; and to this all signs now seem to point.

ry of MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS do you always
write her down as your "Favourite Queen"?
3, Should the proved fact that WILLIAM
dren in it, prevent your calling him a darling?
WALLACE burned a school with all the chil-

CLAUDE DUVAL, do you think the latter ought
4. Having seen MR. FRITH's picture of
to have been hanged?

5. Should you have liked to call on KING RICHARD THE FIRST, your "Favourite King," after he had lunched on the Saracen's head?

6. Show the true mirthfulness of the Merry Monarch, in taking a pension from France, and letting our ships be burned in

the river?

7. For what other reasons than that he was ugly and religious would you have hanged that monster OLIVER CROMWELL?

8. State the national humiliations and atrocious legislation endured by us under WILLIAM THE THIRD, which induce you to regard him as a hateful hook-nosed wretch?

THEOLOGY.

1. Do you think that curates are sufficiently awake to their duties as croquet-players? 2 For what reason would you have the ser

cratic. Give a second reason for this view, in 3. You regard the High Church as aristo. addition to the fact that Patristic means Patrician theology.

4. Distinguish between a movable feast and a pic-nic.

The letter of General Grant is also of great importance in another respect. It simplifies the question of the presidential succession. He has been for some time an inevitable fact in all political plans, each party fearing that it might have to contend with his military renown and with the popular gratitude toward him, if it nominated any one else, yet each fearing that if elect-mon omitted ed be would not represent its principles. Having now determined to sustain Congress there is no longer enough ambiguity about General Grant's views to prevent the Republicans uniting upon him. For the rest, it is not only admiration for military glory that inclines the people to select General Grant to the next Presidency; they are keeping a military government in the South side by side with civil authority; and they can hardly hope to complete the work of reConstruction without the co-operation of both kinds of power in emergencies that must arise. It is natural that they should trust one whose courage and patriotism have been fully tested, and whose name, already associated with the great victory over disunion, is now found at the head of those that sustain the people in their demand for a thorough and just reconstruction.

5. Why would you not be married on a Friday?

6. State whether you are a Ritualist, and, if so, whether the persons who educated you have since been removed to an asylum.

7. Are you aware that when in Scotland you are a Dissenter ?

8. Do you not think that a bishop's wife ought to have a title?

9. If you were a parochial clergyman's wife, should you think it wiser to insult your Dissenters, or to treat them with silent contempt?

10. Show that, though there is no objection to complaining loudly if a preacher gives you an extra ten minutes, it would be vulgar to express impatience at being detained at the Opera until 1.30.

6. Is not English poetry far inferior to Like sunshine and cloud o'er the surface, of French?

The sneers that recoil on the pens whence Neglect ne'er discouraged, nor praise led to

God-speed to KATE TEPRY, who leaves all too May this rhyme, kindly meant as it is, not of

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