The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-22

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the country, thatssto save yourself from
an explosion OF popular indigpRtion you
found it convenient 10 trana7es him to
anoIher ephsre Of scsnda10us activity,
where hts talents might be exerte with
equal effect and less efff0nterys NiF.
sginia, Tennessee, Mississjppt and Hexas
NOT to mention anything 10 humble as
myself obs structions in the Nayyof
your success; because Through PRESIDENT
Grants intervention, in ,excIuding the
proscriptive clauses from skeir organic
law, these States are brought into the
Union and firmly welded to his support.
Now, this is in direct conflict with
your systematized plans. For what
General Grant gets in the next Presiden-
tial election, clearly Mr., Boutwell, will
not get, and therefore have You de-
nounced the conservative Republicans
who are for Grant. That you may OBJ
tain the proscriptive Republicans who
are for Boutwell,, and by some strange,
dexterous management and occult poll
tlcal strategy, you have SO worked upon
the confidence of the President as to
cause him to flourish the club with which
you intend to break his head, by in
ducing him to join you in denunciation
OF the conservative Repu' iicans, party
created by his magnanimity and tri-
umphant through his encouragement.
But, sir, "your purpose is easily dis
cernible, and has a two-foll object,
namely, to destroy the National Repub-
lican party in the South, and then to re-
construct I'M its shattered fragments q
Boutwell, purity, with one Richmond in
the field to strike for your crown. But
II you cannot succeed in this scheme of
desperate enterprise, you mean to ruin, !"
a result, from present appearances, much
more likely to be reached.
Your official Intervention for Wells,
tor instance, gave 10000 majority to
Walker. Your letter to Stokes gave
Senter Tennessee by an overwhelming
vote of 10000. Your marvellous politi-
cal sagacity now active in Mississippi
and Texas will repeat your calamity, and
again overwhelm you with discontinue
and defeat. Super-add to these results
OF your unapproachable folly the impo-
sition on these States of your iron-clad
onth, and the alienation is complete,
landing them all in the outstretched
arms of Democracy.
But the consequence of your folly
does not stop here-Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania and others will follow. Decide
their political status in October, and the
North will echo back the condemnation
OF the South, and peal in your ears this
fact, that there is still left enough of the
lncorruptible virtue of the republic to
reDuke you for wanton repression of
that most sacred right-the elective fran
chlse. But, sir, this will not deter YOU
from your mad course; you will still per-
slst until every prop that supports our
party is stricken away, and the whole
grand superstructure tumbles about our
ears in hopeless ruin.
When you were appointed Secretary of
the Treasury and unanimously confirmed
by Senaao of every shade of political
opinion, did you take an oath to admi-
mister your Office impartially and for the
exclusive objects of its creation, "to col
lect the revenue and control the finances
OF the country?" Is not that Office the
property of the nation, and yourself only
clothed for time with little brief au-
thority? Then, sir, how do you explain
this perversion of its legitimate uses and
functions into a means and instrument
of oppression to force and compel an
election of obnoxious rulers upon the
people OF the South! Is such q course
consistent with your oath of Office, or do
you call this great moral idea? But,
Mr.. Boutwell,, though you have thus
prostituted the power of your Office for
purposes of oppression, without the
warrant of conscience or law" it may be
that you can tell me by what authority
you assume to pronounce upon my po-
litical orthodoxy. Who constituted you
the iniallible hope of Republicanism?
Who gave you authority to hurl The
political anathemas of the party? Again,
what right had you to commit the admi-
nistration to your policy? Have you to
learn yet that you arc only part of the
administration, and not the whole of it?
though your friends believe that mono
mania has seized your mind on that sub
ject, and that you verify believe yourself
"the State" Very respectfully,
LOUIS DENT.