The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-01

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Republican Convention, under instructions
from that body, to present to General Grant
and Hon. Schuyler Colfax record Of its pro-
ceedings, and to inform them of their nomina-
ton, performed that duty on Friday evening,
at the residence of General Grant Quite q
number OF persons were presert, including
delegates 10 the convention, several members
EosCongress, Gen. Grants staff, and the ladies
Of, the families Of General Grant and Speaker
Cola1, respectively. After an. address by
General Hawley, General Grant said: AZ.
Mr. President and Gentlemen Of the National
short time, tc write you letter, accepting the
trust you have imposed upon me-. Applause.
| Expressing my gratitude for the confidence you
have placed In me, will now say but little
orally, and that is to thank you for the unan-
unity with which you have selected me as a
in addition, looked on during the progress OF
the proceedings at Chicago with 6 reat deal OF
interest, and am gratified with the harmony
and unanimity which seem to have governed
the deliberations of the convention.
II chosen ofill the high office for which you
have selected me; will give to its duties the
same energy, the Same spirit. and the same
duties which have deyolyed upon me hereto
whether shall be able to perform these
duties TO your entiro satisfaction time will de-
termine. You have truly said, in the course OF
your address, that shall havo no policy OF my
own to interpose against the will OF the people.
Speaker Colfax also made brief spesch.
Subsequently General Grant was waited
upon by committee of the Soldiers and
Sailors League" As his response is literary
curiosity, it is appended, as taken by one Of
the most accomplished stenographers Of the
age and reported uerbattm as delivered:
I" Gentlemen Of The Committee of Soldiers and
Sditors-I viii say that it never was desire Of
mme to be candinate for any political Office.
It Is sourceot qualification to me to feel that
I have the support Of those who Sustained
me through the great rebellion which We
haYe passed II did not feel had the
support OF those, Iwould meyer have consent
ed to be q candidate. IT was not q matter Of
choice With me, but I9hope, as have ac-
cepted, that will have your aid and support,
from now until November, as I had it during
the rebellion
TIE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS s-sHALL THEY BE E1-
EcuTEps-Tm RADICALS .ooRHEREp-A CON-
aREssosl1 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DIFFERENCES
IN THE sEvAIE-wHAT WILL THE SUPREME
COURT DO WITH RECONSTRUCTION
The Washington correspondent Of the Bati-
more Gazette writes under date Of Fridayeven-
ing:
The real question, paramount to all others,
ia ut last at this point, assuming shape for
grave and decisive consideration. The Radi-
Gals, in their unbridled career (presuming upon
their large majorities in Congress, unrestrain-
ed even BY the Executive veto which has been
very righteously interposed, and very sincerely
it is believed by the country, have passed
series OF bills known as the Reconstruction
acts. The momentous question now looming up
is whether these laws las they are called) shall
or can be executed The tremendous power
now placed in the hands OF the Conservatives
by. the inevitable effect OF reaction and and
not by forrultous irrelevant issues, such
as the impeachment OF the President
(which merely served to unloose the
discordant materials already upon the
point of eyplosion), has enabled them to
place the whole matter squarely before the
country. The Radicals. have been corrected.
tt was observable yesterday by the restiyeness
Of Drake and others in the Senate, that how
ever the vile plotters Of new disruption OF the
affect to desire the restoration Of the Union,
even upon the iniquitous conditions PRE-
scribed by the laws re erred to, they have de-
termined to ''go back" Quoting their own
slang phraseolgy in order to be Ineligible all
round), upon their own thrice reconstructed
system OF reconstruction! The Radicals IN
the Senate are now divided in respect to res
tora.ion" or Reconstruction" upon two vital
points, viz: First, whether if the Southern
States if now admitted" are certain OF voting
the Radical ticket in November; and second,
whether If lin case they are prematurely
brought into our blessed Republic) the SUI
preme Court will not have time (before the
eighty electoral votes can be made a:ailsble)
to authoritatiyely declare that all Congress
has yet accomplished in this behalf must be
taken in Pickwickian sense, and in no wise
obligatory in legal one. The discussion in
tho Senate to-day upon these knotty points Is
exceedingly refreshing.
BUTLER's CAPTIyE-How NIB. wooLLEY IS
TREATED.
The Washington correspondent Of the Ba!ti-
more Gazette writes under date of the 29th in
slant:
The question regarding the imprisonment is
now the one discussed iu all circles OF society,
and the managers are exerting themselves to
make his confinement as unpleasant as possible
Butler actually insists upon the Sergeant-at-
arms removing Woolley from the committee
room which he now occupies to cell
in the basement of tho building. When
this purpose became publicly known, Q
stream Of visitors and sight-seers poured
Al Sha lamar oforiaa of the GaOitOl