Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-20
09io Statesaall,
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondents Of III. Ohio st.ts.m.n.l
wAsHlNeroN Cry. Feb. Is, 1865.

WASHINGTON Cry. Feb. Is, 1868.
Sipcsmy last letter of week ago, no
Yery exciting or wonderful thing has
been day yeloped IN the Radical camp.
$incS the Grant and johnson correspon-
dence has been concluded, che storm has
somewhat abated amongst the rumpites.
/ They, as well as General Grant himself,
are quite sick of that matter. / should
not wonder if the General even got
"diSsq,, after this excitement. had died
out. 1T was-quite evident -tozah observ-
er, during the reading of the letter Of
the President, accompanied with the
testimony of his five Cabinet officers,
that the leaders of the rumpites felt
sore. Old Thads got up and went out,
shaking his head as if mad. I don't
know which excited his anger, whether
the President or the General himself. for
getting into such scrape, and then
getting out Of it $50 badly. Bingham
held his hand over his face and looked
solemn. Whatever the party may say
in regard to this matter, it was evident
to all impartial observers that the Cen
eral had got himself into bad fix and
did not get out at. all. Hence the rea-
son for the Radical papers all over the
country, each in his own way, to
smoothe the matter over, with but a
poor understanding as to the tac-
tics to be used, and, consequently,
their copious effusions in defense Of their
Echief are like the showman's zebra,
'many stripes and nary two alike"
They ought to have held convention
and agreed upon some common order of
defense and the people might have been
gulled into the belief that Grant did not
act treacherously with the President. l
think, as the; matter now stands, the
General lost ground even with his Radi-
cal friends l oh'tthink a clearer case of
double-dealing was ever proven, alto
gether inconsistent with gentleman OF
honest impulses: 1t is said now, how
ever, to the credit of the General, that
it is the first scrape of the kind he ever
Igot into and that it will be the last.
Legislation during the week in Con-
gress has not amounted to much. The
appropriation bill has been considered in
committee of the-Whol almost every
day and many amendments made. The
great effort of the party is to make show
of economy, for it is only show, in
order again to humbug the people with
next fall. They cut off small matters,
such as depriving the President of al
most all his clerks, the most of whom, are
soldiers, and increase the pay 20 per
cent. of the employees about the capital,
who are supposed to be too near head
quarters not to know some things that
little hush money will prevent from
leaking. But, alas, for the thou
sands of poor fellows who are
removed from the sanctuary, but who
do largely more work. They cry in vain
for relief from their starvation salaries.
rfhey are clipping and carving small
matters, and when it suits party pur-
poses best, they take it "from him that
hath not and give it to him that hath"
and this is about the only scriptural in
junction I have known them to obey.
You hear every day in the House about
economy and retrenchment by these fe..-
lows In these smaller matters, but Just
say a word about repeating the Freed
mems Bureau act. or disbanding: the
enormous standing army that is being
used to enforce submission to negro
domination in the South, and immedi-
ately the whole pack commence to howl
about liberty, equality, human rights,
secession. rebellion, Copperheads, Val
landigham, jeff. Davis, Pendleton, &c,
and some freedom-shrieker is ready with
letters from anonymous, writers from the
South (loyal; of course, but afraid if
their names We're given they would be
murdered) ,-stating how some poor Afri-
can brother or loyal white man has been
brutally murdered or otherwise maltreat-
ed. and can you, ,sunde er Sthese circum-
stances, abandon these people to such a
fate? Oh, no, cry such benevolent and
amiable gentlemen, as Ben. Egg
gleston, Jim Ashley, Thad. Ste
vens, ct i'd omne genus. How long
will the people suffer themselves
to be fooled and cajoled by such
stuff from such pack of unprincipled
Edemagogues? The Radicals will give
in to an increase. of the paper currency,
contrary to their proclaimed policy of
contraction during last falls campaign.
1t is generally understood that.the Ways
and Means COMMITTEE will bring in a
measure increasing the volume ofssthe
currency at least so millions. This
M slre, let It Be known, however, is for
political effect alone, and consented to
only at the urgent appeals of the West
ern Radicals, who are daily crying out
"save me or sink" 1 think the "Hel
lespont" is too broad for them or their
"Cassius' (Grant) this time. The de-
bate on the Bingham Reconstruction act
is about concluded. Mr.. johnson may
speak t6tbs question. as TO its effect SO
far as it proposes to circumvent the Su-
preme Court, and may be Trumbull will
reply. The debate upon the admission
of Senatar Thomas to his seat has been
quite animated again this week, and it is
now not certain he will be admitted. II
counted as near as could yesterday and
the best,I could make his chances is 26
or 25 or % to %. This I consider
favorable estimate for his admission. II
should not be surprised if the nays
and yeas would be reserved from this on
the final vote. Verify, the jewel consist
ency,, of which moral poets sing, has
been wholly ignored in Mr.. Thomas
case of the Senate, and John Young
Brown, of the House. The only charge
against Mr.. Thomas is that he gave ev-
idence of sympathy with the rebellion,
i'm that he resigned his Office of Secre-
tary of the Treasury under Mr.. Bu-
chanan, and gave his son 500, who was
about to leave his home in Maryland to
join thesrebei army: These gentlemen.l
mnst be rejected admission!t to seats for]
mere sympathy with the Rebellion,
Whilst Senator Pattarsa, aud Ran.a