The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-08-25
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ale Reminiscencc-AReminde to the
Vrginia JUu7taIs-A Carte Blanche
Giccn 10 General CMtJy-THe Rad
~-ieaED eGtI-B aa1-ias- ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Reduction Of the Public Debt-G arla-
tanryof Secretary BowhUeU-4he Pub
Tic Indebtedness 1ccumulatng-Ihe
Pensions Unpaid-A New Paper to
be Started By Whom and Wig.
WASHINGTON, August 81, 1869.
Although it was weary clear from
the start that the Conservatives in the
unrcconstructed States (if they really
placed any reliance upon the assur-
anccs of the President0 were doomed
to bitter Disappointment, still the Dc
mocratic news papers north of the Po-
tomac very generally RETAINED from
expressing Il word of Encouragement
after it had become evident that a
vast majority of the people of that IN
fortunate section of the country had
determined upon the despcrote expert
mcnt of trusting to Punic honor, Nor
have the ill-natured filings of suchnews-
papers Us tho Richmond Wig, even
after it had been made manifest that
Grant had deceived those who had
coniided in him, becn sufficient To in
ducc the real friends of tho South to
remind that 81 told you SC" in thevery
beginning.
No one fully acquainted with the
conversations and circumstances at
tending the, acceptance, occupation
and evacuation of the War Depart
mcnt Gas Acting Secretary 81; by Gen-
eral Grant, could have been deceived
by any of his assurances. 81 The chief
reason why l desire the return of Ex-'
President johnson to the Senate is,
that this significant chapter III our Ma
tional history may be ventilated ofici-
oally and i'll detail, if, not in the en-
phatic language in which it was related
to me. l can, however, vouch for an
illustrative incident, not set down in
| the bills of confidential revelations. /
saw with my own eyes this modern
Caesar "plunging' through a motley
crowd assembled in the 'sEast Room"
in the hot month of August, 1866,
sweating like a bull calf, to be in
time to stand alongside of Andy,
while Hon. Reverdy johnson present
ed the famous Philadelphia resolutions
Of blessed memory. / shall be borne
out in my recollections by the Elk
| Minister, when l say that no one in
this vast assembly gave more decided
mods of appropriation to the salient
points of his eloquent ,arraignmcnt of
Radical ra-calities- than the General of
all the armies of the United States.
But Mr.. johnson may not, or he may,
know (but whether or not the fact can
he proven by unquestionablc evidenced
that very moment, and ereTl be}oTe,
General Grant was in strict cQlhaieati-
al political relations with Wilson, Of
Massachusetts, and-,haI entered into y
compact, the chief obligation Oh his
part being the betrayal of tho, man
whose confidence lle was 10 acquire. By
such Affect sycpphancy,, a-isysrs. !.
l. The Virginia and other Southern
newspapers, who arc in the habit Of
copying these letters, and yeti are some
times puzzled to see how it can be
known here to q sworn enemy of the
Administration what the head of it
will do in a given contingency, may
herein have an inkling of the ground
of the suspicion which a at the first
entertained in respect to the linalac-
ton of his EXccllency after his cele-
hratcd interview with Mcssrs. Bald
win, Stewart q Co.
A gentleman just here from Rich
mond, who is no fool, and being deep
ly and largely Interested in telling the
truth in this matter, is no liar Gal
though a RadicaD, tells a plain story:
Grant has given Candy Il carte diameter;
but this military upstart is deficient in
the higher regions of political meta-
physics vas, the simple rejection of all
members of the Legislature who
tcoulan't tai ct h-e-oath = III C
drawIs these words out, l am inform
| e,l, as Titus Oates did The P-l a-a-t =
| We'll, all, it is found that in tn" blnn-
dcring deception of the President he
too was grossly at fault. BY the ut
most stretch of military power the two
objects aimed ut cannot be accomplish
eI-mmely, the "reconstruction' of
the State upon Radical principles, and
thc usurpation of all the offices ! 1t
seems the 'eConservatives' who CAN
"take tie Oath' are necessary to form q
quorum. Nothing whatever. can be
done without them-not. even the pas
sage, under compulsion, of the Eff
tcenth Amendment -! The Yirginians,
consequently, have it yet in their pow
or to ward off Il worse blow than being
ctil Eont ont Of .our oloripuS JTuinn