The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-22

He Writes TO the Modern Uiysees-A
COnfab with His Friend the Presi.
dent-The Puritan Mode of RestOr's.
tion-OId Captain Hix and his" Bull
From the Metropolitan Record.

From the Metropolitan Record.
WoSHINToN, JooN III, 1865.
To Etlishess EsS Grant, Lootennon Gimme
ra1of tie Unity Stats IN Our ptaiS 'rhae
ace ant in tie feet:
Vow are awor n dreadful wor has waXcd
hot all threw our Sowthern Stats. Mulch
uropertv was finally destroyed, and menny
valuable lives was lost, both on our side
and on that of the rebels. The country as
A hole. which had been goin on proSperln
in every way ever since the days of Wosh-
ington. was sot back fifty years and more.
When the smoke OF the titln was bowed
Off the feel OF conflick, and we rad II
chance to survey the surroundln clrcun-
stances, we saw devastation, rum,
lavock' desmay, and despair Standln
before us, 5ehid us, on our ritz
IGud and on on left. We was head
over heels in Diet as a nashon, and as indi-
viduals all Of Us, except the spectators,
the contractors, and tire coptoliSt>. Things
looked mity bal, you may depend, LisheeS.
Bnt Won and ali of Us had been in : good
cause. | and the President had been
spreadin ourselves 10 sair the Union OF our
fathers, Jest rs they left 1t TO rs When
,llay didc. Vow and your army had bin
dofn OF the saim thing. That was the raj
lyin cry cvcrywhay among the loyal Stats,
while the rcls was dcclarin that We want
ed TO orcrtIrn the Convent, TO blot out
Stait rites, and bid up srea, consolidated
despotism in the room and plals OF the
lust and equal republican government
which grOwed out OF our Constitution.
and the President, when we had To taik
the rains oil Convent into our hands, tonnd
things Just so as | have been tellin You,
and as you know. The rebellion had then
struck its flag, and give up its arms, and
had gone home, and sed it wouldn't lite II"
more. We found the Southern Stats III
ruins, cravin our help 10 git ont OF thar dll-
iicul,ies. We lent them our heplin hand,
and took them out Of the mirc and dirt oil
thar ill.starred revolushon, and put them
back Just whar they yused 10 be when
Andy was little boy born in North Caro-
liner. They war pleased at our help, and
/ know thay come back into the Union
with good faith, and with determination
10 stay thar forever, and never scsede II"
more. We told them thay mout do so. We
shook hands with them, and made good
friends; and havin done this for the pre>cr-
yasion OF the Union rs it was, we wei
coined Congriss to this sitty last December
with pride and Joy. We expected the mil
lcnnium was Just about TO bust out; that
the rain of glory and happiness was about
10 shine: that wOrs were TO be forgotten,
and fit no more that the havock and ruin
in our land was TO be cured by the parental
care OF Congriss and We all, and that all
teers were TO be wiped for every boddy's
Use, north, south, east, and west. In our
annual messidge we told Congriss what We
had done, and asked them to do thar part.
What was our surprise to find that Congriss
was still for wor against your southern
brethren, and against US, too. Thay, the
northern men, got in themselves and kept
out all the southern men, and packed 4
committy on reconstruction, opposed TO
the repose Of the nashoD, and then they
seized upon our glorious old Constitution,
which the immortal Washington called
"the palladium Of our liberties" and com.
menccd TO patch, to tinker, to twist, 10
tare and destroy that, proyin TO the world
that the Rebs were rite when they said
them Republican Radicals were at hart
enemies Of our Constitution and our form
OF govment. Amt this so, Lishees? |
know you say yes. II they were true to
the Constitution, what do they want to
mend II for! Ii the Constitution and the
Union it formed was so glorious and wise
cOmpack as to justify us in spendin
millions Of money, and laying ON the
oTlter hundreds of thousands of our
best young men, in wagin war with fire
and swode, 10 preserve il, why should il be
destroyed in such hot haiste Lishees,
these Radicals are enemise TO our form OF
paymcnf and I'il tell Won how Won ma
know it. The Constitution says the Stats
are all equal aud sovereign, except as to the
powers delegated 10 Congress, and that in
the balls Of legislashon all the Stats shall
have thar just representation according to
thar numbers. These Radicals dispute
and deny this in toto, and in dOin 70 thay
btnks . blow st tho very bart Of the com.