Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-05-14
From Washington.

Southern Radical ism va. northern Re@c
/ tion-Hadfcal Attacks ON the Admins
trafion-Senator Sprague About to be Put
I'm Fighting Trim-The Carliie and San
ford HOminattons-Certain Facts-Gen.
! Lee and President Grant-RadEca1 False
hoods-The CeTcoran PrOperty-A Noble
Oonatton-The Ofice-HOlder's Ague.
! WASHINGTON, May 5, 1869.
By the time the Southern States, under
false leaders, have been completely Radl-
cahzed, unanimous North will have
thrown off the shackles of Centralism. ANY
one, though blind of one eye, can sec the
thorough revolution that is silently work
ing to bring back the Government to its
initial point. 1t IS whispered in the winds,
snuffed in the air-made manifest in every
quarter-that Belshazzer is found wanting
that upon the walls of Radicalism is
written in indellible characters the omin-
Gus words " Nene, meme, tekel upharSin."
Such old coons as Bennett, of the New
York Herald, the So little villain - of the
New York Times, and he OF the Chicago
Tribune, at last fully appreciate the signs
OF the times, and are preparing for Wig
orous onslaught upon the Administration.
1t is not my business to quote these Jour
nails, but may be permitted, in the in
terests Of the mechanics of Baltimore, to
give short extract from the last named
journal. Here it is
''But in all party history nothing meaner
has been shown in the public action of the
head of a department than Secretary
Borie's running his party ploughshare
through the navy yards and work shops
Under his proscriptive rule, first rate
mechanic, unless his politics suit, must
make way for even botch, if the latter is
a better party man. That is degrading
descent in petty partisanship against which
no administration was ever called upon to
1nfanI itSclf nv hoo a
direct order that in no department of any
of the navy yards shall men be employed
who are hostile to the Administration
On such q rule it will soon be hard to
find competent workmen Of proper self-re-
spect."
The little game cock of Rhode Island is
Oh his way home to be trimmed, clipped
and GATED. In q little while he will be in
full fighting condition. Full, up to the
very gills, of pluck and patriotism, he will
be quite enough for the whole caboodle''
Of his dunghill adversaries, including the
whole family of the browns and Ives, .
, and the Abbotts and Nyes, from New
Hampshire and Nevada to the veriest
southern extremity of North Carolina
When properly heeled, bets may be ven,
. tured to any amount.
/ In the meantime, permit me to furnish
a few items for those journals, heretofore
of Radical prOclivities, who seem DESTROYS
Of dipping into the animus of the rascally
foreign appointments recently made, OF
| attempted to be made, as justification for
Kidding themselves of further Radical re-
sponsibiity.
It will be remembered with what aston
ishment the country witnessed the exhu-
nation of the fossil carcass of the Hon. Mr..
Garlic, of Western Virginia. He was
u, 10 IL l. n
fathOms deep. He was not even Radical
He was by nc means in good standing
in Radical circles. He was bepitched and
} besmutted all over with Johnsonism, and
> suspected, not logically, of divergence
towards sympathy for secesionism itself.
But 10 and behold he comes upon the
surface as the selected choice of General
Grant for Minister to Copenhagen "Hal
10, says O Senator, ''what does this mean q
81 smell job p And so it turned out to
be. Mr.. Garlic, q smooth faced and adroit
5 Spectator in land (he has given, in by
gone days, evidence of his talent in this
respectl, was the chosen agent of Forney
l " Co.'S land agency, to cal ole the people
to whose Government he was intended
to be accredited with emigration and the
purchase and settlement at advanced rates
of such lands as his principals, through
their patriotic exertions. might secure al
nominal prices. Not sufficient number
/ OF Senators being in ''the ring" of course
the thing failed for the present.
, Another still more glazing case. In the
year OF our Lord 1861 a very estimable
gentleman, Mr.. S., retired merchant
of Philadelphia, was commissioned to pro
coed to Europe with an unlimited letter Of
credit for the purchase of cloth for clothing
the army. He consulted, of course, oul
Minister at Brussels, the Hon. Mr.. Sanford
Some very curious propositions were there.
upon made to him by the said Minister,
not altogether in consonance with the con
, scientious scruples of the Commissioner
, and which was rejected with scorn Upon
the nomination of the Honorable Mr.. San
{ ford for the mission to Spain, Mr.. S.
wrote formal letter to General Grant de
tailiug the particulars of the nefarious
transaction, and protesting against the ap
pointment, and inferentially against the
Minister'S retention in hispresent position
This letter is now in the possession of the
President. But this nomination was moi
recalled, and whether the remonstrance
implied had any weight in the virtual re-
lection of the nomination by the Senate,
deponent saith not. Il was, however,
shelved.
| AS the facts connected with the recent
appointments. all round, become gradually
developed, people begin to subscribe fol-
the Imperiaiist printed in New York, to
: advocate a monarchical Government i
Apropos, this paper is taken at the White
: House.
I am requested to repeat that the recent
interview between General Lee and the
President was unattended with any refer
ence to reconstruction or politics in
any form. General Lee was much morti-
fed at the lying dispatches telegraphed
hence to other points, and especially to
7 Baltimore, representing him as advocating
: the adoption of the Fifteenth amendment.
: and as being favorable to the onerous con-
3 ditions upon which it is proposed to admit
Virginia. He desires to be considered as
: not actively interfering in political matters
, at all, although reserving to himself the
privilege Of thinking and acting according
to the dictates OF his conscience.
The Government has at last consented to
= deliver to Mr.. W. ". Corcoran his prop.
erty, situated at the corner of Seventeenth
. street and Pennsylvania avenue. The mag
r niicent building erected on the premises,
was originally designed to be appropriated
Q to the encouragement of the arts in Amer
INIT rroc coi1o5 bu ba in