The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-12-11
A Growing Difference.

The outgivings of leading radical politi-
clans, as well as Of the radical press, indi-
cate the probability of a serious division in
the dominant party, even before the inang-
uration of Mr.. Grant. The representatives
of the money-inAuence, both in and out Of
that party, desire that all future partisan
efforts shall be made to accord with the one
grand object, the resumption of specie-pay-
ments; toward that end, they are shaping
all their operations financial as well as po-
litical. In their desire to reach that end,
they manifest O willingness to dispense
with any more reconstruction" and even
10 kick out Of the way a great deal Of the
internal machinery of radical hate that in
t%erferes TO prevent the p~aoifcation of the
south and the revival of its industry. Even
that hitherto intense Jacobin, Governor
Fletcher, of Missouri, is reported as being
in favor Of q modification Of the infamous
disfranchisment law in that state, in the
new interest Of peace, fraternity, and spe-
cie-payments. He IL ably seconded in the
new attitude Of Mr.. Henry T, Blow for
merly the member of congress for st. Louis,
and q wealthy merchant in that city, as
well rs an influential politician.
But he is bitterly opposed, of course by
Mr.. Carl Schurz, q visionary German theo-
rist, who represents the intense radical, or
Colfax wing of the party in Missouri
Schurg demands more Reconstruction. y
more disfrnnchisment, soquestration, and
persecution; and he cares not n farthing
for the cost. or the effect that persistence
in the Jacobin course. may have ofthe pub
lie finances. He is n destroyer; q represent
tative Of mon who are always clamoring to
pull down something which they know not
how to build up.
In full sympathy with this German othe.
isti Mr. Congressman Boutwell,, who sayshe
shall advocate q new reconstruction act foT
Virginia, Mississippi. and Texas; exciting
more stringent conditions that have vet
been imposed. This, to his mind, is the
Nll-important business Of the approaching
session; as for specie-pnymcnts, he says,
they "can be hastened only by advancing
prosperity, and not by legislation He
fails, MS do other politicians Of the ColfaS
persuasion. to discern the fact that lcgisla.
ton is needed to advance prosperity leg.
%islation shall remove the existing Jncobin
hindmnccs TO prosperity, that keep the
south in the pIedicumeut Of Mnhomet's
coffin, suspended between heaven and
earth, and excluded from the possession a
either. So long M the South Is kept in
that condition cntailing nm expense upon
northern industry equal TO the whole nee.
oessory expenses Of the government il will
Of course he idle to hopc for advancing
prosperity. Yet Mr.. Boutwell, will ndyo.
cate new and more stringent measures "a
keep the south ina condition of bondage,
and to compel the north to pay tho cost.
Manifestly n difference between The
adherents Of those opposite views in the
dominant party cannot very long be avoid
ed. That it will be strongly developed
after the accession of Grant, tho public hai
some time forcseen. Il is growing daily
more evident that the division will not b,
postponed 30 long, but that II will "breal
out" before the fourth of March.