The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26

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. So, in the probable results
of the future, we both stand adverse to
the judgment of the country In the
pursuit of your ambition you are migrate
full and INSCRIPTIONS as to the means of
success. Your organ the New York Sun,
in the same breath, ridicules the capacity
of your master, and dwells with emphasis
upon your peculiar fitness for his office.
Ycur excellent tOool, Mr.. Tulloch, became
so reckless in the manipulation of your
Department, in the interest of your ambi-
ton, and so deficient of the wishes of the
President and the country, that, to
save yourself from an exposition of
popular Indignation, you found it
convenient to transfer him to
another sphere of scandalous activity,
where his talents might be exerted with
equal effect and less effrontery. Virginia,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas, not to
mention anything so humble as myself,
were Instructions in the way of your sue
cess, because through President Grants
Intervention in excluding the prOScriptive
clauses from their 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 Presidential election, clearly Bout
well will not get, and therefore have you
denounced the Conservative Republicans,
who are for Grant, that you may obtain
the proscriptive Republicans, who are for
Boutwell,, and by some strange, deXterOus
4 1ct,n
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 inducing him to join in de-
nunciation of the Conservative Rcpubli-
cans, a party created by his magnanimity
and triumphant through his encourage
ment But, sir, your purpose is easily dis
cernablc, and has a twO-fOld Object-name-
" to destroy the National Republican
party in the South, and then to recon-
struct from its shattered fragments, Bout
well party, with no Richmond in the field
to strike for your crown. But, If you can
not succeed in this scheme of desperate
enterprise, you mean to ruin, result
from present appearances much more
likely to be reached. Your official inter
vention for Wells, for instance, gave
10000 majority to Walker. Your letter to
Stokes gave Tennessee to Senter by an
overwhelming vote of 10000. Your mar
Vicious political sagacity, now active in
Mississippi and Texas, will repeat your
calamity, and again Overwhelm you with
discontinue and defeat. Superadd to
these results of your unapproachable folly
the imposition on these States of your iron
clad oath, and the alienation is complete,
landing them in the outstretched arms of
Democracy But the consequences of
your folly do not stop here. Ohio and
Pennsylvania and other States will decide
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 incorrupti
bic virtue of the Re iublic to rebuke you
for a wanton suppression of that most sa-
cred right, the elective franchise But,
sir, this will not deter you from your mad
course You will still persist, 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
a Senate of every shade of political Opin-
ion, did you not take an oath to admins
ter your office impartially and for the
exclusive objects of its creation-to collect
the revenue and control the finances ofthe
country? Is not that office the property of
the nation, and yourself only clothed for a
time with Il little brief authority? Then,
Sir, how do you explain this perversion of
its legitimate uses and functions into a
means and an instrument of oppression, to
force and compel an election of obnoxious
rulers upon the people of the South? Is
such course consistent with your oath of
office, or do you call this great moral
ideag 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 prOnOuce upon my political
orthodoxy? Who constituted you the in
fallible Pope OF Republicanism Who
gave you authority to hurl the political
anathemas of the party? Again, what
right had you to commit the administra-
ton to your policy? Have you yet to
learn that you are only a part of the adj
ministration, and not the whole of it,
though your friends believe that mono
mania has seized your mind on that SUBJ
iect, and that you verify believe yourself
the State? Very respectfully,
LOUIS DENT.