Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-08-20

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Judge Dent, the Conservative candidate
for Governor of Mississippi, and brotherin-
law to Gen. Grant, disposes of the oGlcious
Secretary Boutwell, quite summarlY in the
following letter. The threatening storm
will burst before long, and in its fury will
hurry corrupt Radicalism headlong TO its no.
litical gravel
WASHINGTON, Aug. II, 1860,
TO Hon. George S. Boutireu, Secretary Of the |
Treasury.
SIR shall make little apology for ask
ing your attention TO my letter, and less for
the nature OF its contents. You were the
first 10 deny the political orthodoxy Of my
| friends and myself, and by all the rules Of a
forum l am entitled 10 a defence. Again,
you hold an office of the Republic, and your
acts therefore, are legitimate subjects OF
criticism by the humblest citizen thereof
But in some respects we are alike. For in
stance, we are both aspirOnts for place, with
this difference: You aim to be the next
President, with every assurance of success,
except In the opinion of the people, while
seek an humber place, with my hopes in
disastrous eclipse except in the judgment of
Mississippi.
In the probable results Of the future we
both stand amenable TO the judgment Of the
country. In the pursuit Of your ambition,
v you are ungratetul and Inscriptions as TO
, the means of success. Your organ, the New
York Sun, in the same breath rdiculcs the
capacity of your master, and dwells with
6 emphasis upon your peculiar fitness Tor his
# office. Your excellent tool, Mr.. Tullock,
:, became so reckless in the manipulation 81
y your department IN the interest of your am
o bition, and so defiant OF The wishes of tht
II President OF the country, Tint tn save your
NJ self from an explosion of popular indigna
:, ton you found it convenient TO transfer hin
q TO another sphere of scandalous activity
al where his talents might be eHerled witt
Ia equal effect and less eifrontery. Virginia
Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas, not IL
! mention anything So humble as myself, wer'
u distractions in the way of your success, be
e cause, through President Grants ineryen-
lion in excluding the proscrptiyo clause
Il from their organic law, these States art
brought into the Union and firmly welded Il
d his support Now, this is in direct conflic
n with your systemzed plans for what Gen
e Grant gets In The next Presidential election
!. clearly Mr. Boutwell, will not get, and there
fore you have denounced the Conservative
/ Republicans who are Tor Grant, tina
y you may obtain the proscriplive Republi
I cans, who are for Boutwell,; and by som
10 strange deXtrous management and occult pc
, litical strategy you have so worked upo
'' the confidence Of the President ms TO caus
d him to flourish the club with which yo
E. intend TO break his head, by inducing hiI
in 10 join you in denunciation of the Cor
~ serVative Republicans party create
a. by his magnanimity, and tIiumphal
Id through his encouragement But, sill
OF your purpose is easily discernible, an
has a low Hold object, VIZ 10 destroy III
National Republican party in the Soutl
IA and then to reconstruct from its shattert
u IL. Al
ly mond in the field TO strike for yonr crow
a. But if you cannot succeed in this scheme
= desperate enterprise you mean to ruin
result, from present appearances, mut
I'd. more likely to be reached. Your official i
no terventlon for Wells, lnr instance, ga
am twenty thousand majority 10 Walker Yo
~, letter 10 stokes gave Tennessee to Senter
q" an overwhelming vote oil seventy lhousan
10 Your marvellous political sagacliy, nc
1se active in Mississippi and Texas, will rept
ON your calamity, and again overwhem y
with discontinue and defeat Superadd
~, 10 these results of your unapproachable io
us the imposition on these States OF your iro
Ugh clad oath, and the alienation is compile
tov landing them all into the outstreehcd nj
of Democracy. But the consequences
- your folly do not stop here. Ohio and PEI
vas sylyania and others will follow, dccidl
5 of their political status in October, and
nEn
w the South, and peal in your ears this ia
that there is still lett enough OF the iuc,
It a ruptible vIituc OF the Republic to rebukG y
lble Tor q wanion repression Of thai mast sacl
. a, 1ight-the elective franchise.
But sir, this will not deter you from "
ono mad course you will still persist until ev,
he prop that supports our party is stricl
lun. away, and the whole grand snper-stuc
ZION tumbles about our ears in hopeless III
When you were appointed Secretary Of
lohc Treasury and unanimously confirmed b.
t. Senate OF every shade OF political opni
the did you not take an oath to administer y
90 office impaially, and for the exclusive
jeots of its creation-to collect the revei
ing and control the finances OF the country
hey not that office the property OF the nali
nv and yourself only clothed for a lime vii
L,i. little biief authorityr Then, sir how
US" you explain this peryersion OF Its legitin
lost uses and functions INTO a means and ins
un- ment of oppression tn force and cOmpc
hey election of obnoxious rulers upon the pee
&c of the South
"s- Is such n course consistent with your
tue OF office or do you call tins n great IN
Z de- idea? But, Mr. Boutwell,, though you I
now thus prosttulcd the power Of your office
INV purposes oil oppression, without the war
Of conscience or law, it may be that you
MI tell me by what authority you ASSUME
saw pronounce upon my political OlthoGn
incl Who constituted you the inalhble POI
,,.ht Republicanism Who gave you aulh'
% TO lurl the political anathemas OF the pa
less Again, what right had you 10 commit
,lics, Administration 10 your policyf Have
urht To learn yet tint you are only part OF
= Administration, and not the whole g
A'f though your friends believe that mono
AT mia has seized your mind On that sub
th is and that you verify believe yourself
rs Stat. Very respectfully,