Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-12-17

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The0 l8iginqs of leading radical poliH
ciane, as 'geIl as Of The radical press, indi
cata the probability Of a serious division ~
the dominant party, even before the inaHg
liration Of Mr. Grant The representatives
Of the money-iniiuence. both IN and out O.
that party, desire that all7fatiko partisan
efforts sballbe modB 10 accord with the one
grand object, the resumption Of specie-pay-
mcnts; toward that end, they are shaping
all theiE operations financial as we'll as po-
litical in their dobire to reach that end,
they manifest 4 Willingness to- dispensd
with any more tireconsiruetiony and ever
TO kick out Of the way great deal Of the
Internal machinery Of radical hate that in.
terferes to prevent the paci6catioh Of Che
south and the revival ofitsundhstTy. Even
that hitherto intense Jaoobin, Governor
Fletcher; Of Missouri, is reported as being
in favor Of o modification OF the infamous
disffanchisment law in that state, in the
new interest OF peace, fraternity, and spe-
cic- payments. He a ably seconded in the
new attitude Of Mr. Henry I. Blow for
merly the member Of congress for st. Louis,
and o wealthy merchant in that city, as
we'll as IN influential politician.
But be ia bitterly opposed, Of course by
Mr.. Carl Schurz, d visionary German theo-
rist, who represents the intense radical, OF
Colfax wing Of the party in Missouri.
Schufz demands more Reconstruction, y
more disfanehisment, sequestntion, and
perseeuiion; and he cares not farthing
for the cost, or the effect that persistence
in the Jacobin course may have Of the pub.
lie finances. He is destroyer; a represen-
tatiVe Of men who are always clamoring to
pull down something which they know not
how to build up. .r
In full sympathy with this German athe-
isti Mr. Congressman Boutwell, who sayshe
shall advocate new reconstruction act for
Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas; exciting
more stringent conditions that have yet
been imposed. This, to his mind, ia the
all-important business Of the approaching
session; as for specie-payments, he says,
they ''can be hastened only by advancing
prosperity, and not by legislation He
fails as do other politicians Of the Colfax
persuasion, to discern the fact that legisla-
ton isneeded to advance prosperity, leg
islationshall remove the existing Jacobin
hindrances to prosperity, that keep the
south in the predicament Of Mahomet's
coffin, suspended between heaven and
earth, and excluded from the possession Of
either. So long as the South is kept in
that condition entaiIing an expense upon
northern industry equal 10 the whole nee
cessary expenseslof the governments it win
of course be idle to hope for advancing
prosperity. Yet Mr. Boutwell, will adyo-
cate new and more stringent measures to
keep the south ina condition of bondage,
and to compel the north to pay the cost.
Manifestly n difference" between the
adherents Of those opposite views in the
dominant party cannot very long be avoid
ed. That it win be strongly developed
after the accession of Grant, the public has
some time foreseen. II is growing daily
more evident that the division will not be
postponed SO long, but that it will "break
ont, before the fourth Of March: s ID