The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-15
Washington correspondence of the
Springfield Republican.
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THR LASH PRRs1pENu1A1. Exn1pI1unN

"AShiNdIONI January y.
THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL. EXHIBITION.
You cannot keep swine from the mire,
nor 'modern" democrat from bad
company. Andy Johnson, the acting
President of these United States, is a
''democrat," and he herds with copper
heads and "secesh" as naturally ms any
porker wallows in the mire. II is his
nature, and he can't help following it,
That Is, without more grnce than il has
neen his lot to receive. Wherever there
is a chance at dinner, champagne,
whisky. and political speech-making'
there You Will find Andy johnson, II
ne can make any excuse for il We
had a fresh illustration of his nro-
penslty, last night, at the Ma
tlonal Hotel dinner. 1t was "A
full blown democratic, pnrtison
dinner, with copperheRds making nm "A
large majority OF those present. and Tho
President of the United States took MS
seat at the table! Truly he Is a mnn
who "cares nothing for dignity" For
once ne held ms tongue, with the OK
ceptlon of Offering toRs: which con-
tained hit mt Congress-, as is usual
with him. The Blair family We're out
in force, Clampitt, Mrs. Surratt's coun-
sci, and Schade, the counsel for Wirz,
were there, and to give some sort of re-
spectability to the concern, drunken
Salisbury, mRudlin CoWnn, and tho
solemn DoolittlO were present. Ii WASH
partisan dinner from the beginning IN
the end, and the President unuuestlon-
ably accepted the invitation to it MS
such. The politicians here saw it iudi.
Gates that the President has cut loose
from all his Repu blican friends and
gone over to his former enemies. This
is ridiculous, for he went over IL year
ago to the copperheads, and would this
day remove every republican from
office If he did not find the Senate in
his way. There is n class of oflice-hold-
erS who deceive him or Congress. They
are riding two horses, and must sooner
or later come to grief. For my part /
wish the Senate would give him IL
chance mt these two-faced towards, for
IL is a public calamity to continue such
men in office. But TO the dinner: Blair
senior and Blair junior and Jerry Black
did the best of the talking. Black trut-
ted out the supreme court ms if il was Il
three year old colt which he had bought
with his own money. He patroniZed il
in n way that must be soothing to Mr..
Justice Field and MIR. Justice Davis.
The dinner is the first step on the part of
the President and his copperhead
friends in the great Presidential can
vrss. 1t has begun already and will go
on till another President is elected.
Mr.. johnson has no cOnCenlments on
this head, but openly asserts his inten-
ton to so into the next Presidential
SAOCtlOh WIN bhS decentralization ISSUE.
GEN. GRANT
Doesn't purpose to be dragged by the
coat-tails along with the President.
He was invited the other day to visit
the White House and when ho got thero
found the cabinet in session and tho
veto message being read. He listened
TO it in silence and then started for tho
| door. The President interrupted him
and sought his opinion upon tho sub
ject. The General gave no opinion
whatever upon the message or the sub
iect of negro suffrage, yet the President
that very day informed prominent
newspaper man, (knowing his purpose
10 telegraph it, that Gen. Grant was
present mt the reading of tho veto mes
sage and that he approved i'll The Gen
eral the next day authorized denial
of the statement. He perceiVes that
| the President and Mr.. Seward are try
ing to use him to render their odious
policy less odious in the future than it
has been in the past, but they viii not
succeed in humbugging the public or
hoodwinking the General.