The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-11
Things In Washington.

GRANTS RADICALIsM-wENDELL PHILLIPS TO BE
PRoprrIATED-NEaRo MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
THE FEARS OF THE soUTH-So CHANGE IN THE
CArINET-THE REASONS WHY.
telegram dated Washington, November 7, to
the Baltimore Gazette says
Weeks ago wrote that the Radicals upon the
heel of their defeats would place Grants "great
name" in the foreground as an offset. The very
mon I mentioned as those having him in leading
strings have authorized publication which ap-
pears in this mornings Chronicle, verifying every
table ''man Friday" of Grant Rawlings, his Chief
of Staff, Logan, his prospective War Secretary, au-
thorize Forney's public declaration of the Generals
perfect acquiescence in the Radical programme
whatever it may be. When I spoke of this move
ment my statement was made upon specific inRor-
nation from reliable source, and 1 now saw, upon
the same authority, that Grant has authorized the
military Junto which has him in charge to 90
great zeal farther, even to the extent of getting
tho vote of Wendell Phillipsl 1t is the veriest
this pretence of doubling his real position. The
trick is counterfeit, clumsily copied from the
plate used in 1848--with this difference, that old
Zack was in more honest hands than those DOW
manipulating General Grant.
The official order Of the President directing the
general of the army to disband mot disarm) un-
authorized military organizations, is construed
here as referring exclusively to the District of
Columbia, and to include white as well as negro
companies No action has been taken in respect
to similar combinations at the South, where it was
manifestly most required I know, personally,
that numberless applications have been made to
the Government to increase tho military torce
there to prevent imminent outbreaks. The neces-
sity of immediate action has been made plain as
day, but the excuse is ever ready that no troops
can be spared.
at the very moment (Monday mighty when the
President was issuing his order to Grant to sup
press lawless military combinations, there was
passing inside of his own portals procession OF
negroes armed to the teeth, with drms and flies,
deantly vociferating in his ears their exultation
at his prospective despotsm.,
President has definitely abandoned the idea of
changing his Cabinet, and 1t is very much doubted
in intelligent Democratic quarters whether any
change at all, at this late day, would serve any
valuable purpose. 1 learn, however that this
change Of purpose on the part Of the Executive
cannot be attributed to mere capriciousness on
his part. On the contrary, the difficulty seems to
be this: IF the President should replace his pres
ent advisers with men Of the same political and
moral stamp, it wodld only be repetition of the
fable Of the fox and the flies, and lead to no good
result, political or otherwise On the other hand,
If he should seek in the Democratic and Conserva-
tive ranks sounder material, the difficulty would
arise as 10 the matter OF acceptance. Since the
elections Of Ootober-to cay nothing Of those
more recent-the ''outs" seem to prefer remaining
whore they are for the present, being suddenly
impressed with the necessity of "searching
operation in the way Of ''reform" hereafter. It
is very clear, in short, that the general opinion
here is that it would be next to impossible for the
President to get suitable Cabinet from the ranks
OF the Democratic Conservatives.