The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-09-01
Letter From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l6, 1869.

Radicals, which plainly Indicate that the
President of the United Statei has recon
structedD the late opinions he allowed
some of his real friends 10 utter for him.
| The Aatoaal Republican of this morning
says "if the Republicans OF Virginia ex-
Epect to WELD the power in the councils of
the National Republican party to which
they are entitled. they mnst unite and
present an undivided front. The late par
tizans of Wells or of Walker viii be uni
ted as National Republicans in the sup
port of the administration OF Gen. Grant,
the reconstruction measures of Congress,
and the irreyoeabie equality OF all men
before the law: while the Bourhons who
voted for Governor Walker as The lesser
of two evils" will be left to seek ''unmix-
/ ed good in their own way. Now, the
/ National Republican claims to be the conf
Dental organ of the Grant administration,
and there is reason TO believe it has in a
great measure usurped the place of The
1 Chronicle, and hence announces the policy
of the administration, adopted to scatter
the conservatives. Boutwell, has formally
triumphed and Grant, like q whipped
dog, ceases his growlings and fawns again
upon his master. There is no calculating
mans character 1t may be set down that
he is that weakling whom men, loosely
4 speaking, term a "moral coward" His
Iphyseal courage cannot be questioned,
I'm it i,,t {ta, of .,hc and
ljudice. Obstinate men are VIGOROUSLY the
most easily swayed, and prejntliced men
change their opinions quicker than any
other class. OF course, there cannot be,
in such combination, any force of char
acter. Hence he Is q mora, coward
And am afraid his constitutional slow
ness, which makes him long for peace
will prevent his ever rising to the dignity
of true manhood. OF all who have ever
risen from obscurity to prominence, he is
most emphatically the "child of destiny"
the creature of circumstances. Not even
the strongest passion that actuates him,
the desire to bnild up q family can carry
him VIGOROUSLY through a struggle with
the narrow, illiberal, dwarfish intellects
which surround him. In conflict of MUD
that character which is conquered by so
weak a one as Boutwell, must be pueriie
indeed. He, however, was born to be the
eunucb of the Radical party, whether he
pretends to favor conservatism or comes
ont boldly against it, and hence, while we
contemn the ran, we pat the Instrument
nr hn 1.,,ly hid 4 sG(,nI
wards the fulflllnent of its destiny. Judge
Dent, his brother-n-law, does not relish
the Generals detection, especially as it in
wolves him in some unpleasant. 'scrapes''
as regards pusitiveuess with which he an
nounced to certain newspaper correspon-
dents, the tenor OF his brother-in- law S
opinions, and the course of policy he
would adopt in relation to the conserva-
tive movement. The Judges only course
is to meet the detection boldly and un.
1sparingly condemn it In letter written
on Saturday to the General he says, lis it
reasonable to suppose that u people hav-
ing the free choice of their representatives
would elect for their ru!ers a class of poll
ticians whose aggressive and hostile con-
duct hitherto has rendered them peculiar
gressiye conduct consists not only in the
continual advocacy of prescription, but in
preaching to the freedmen in time of
profound peace such revolutionary doc
trines as excite and direct against the
white men OF the South and their families
u most dangerous animosity. Such ami
mostly, indeed, which with continuation
of the same fuel would inevitably lead to
! a black mans party and war of races
Ind to this class of men whom you foled
in their attempt to force upon the people
of Mississippi the odious constitution re-
jected at the ballot-box. You now give
the hand of friendship and support and
spnrn from you that other class who, ac-
cepting the invitation Of the Republican
party in coed faith come in mass in Vir-
ginia and Tennessee, as they will in Mis-
sissippi and Texas to stand upon its plat
form, and advocate its principles" This
extract shows that Judge Dent fully APP,
prcciates the interests of the coming
: uuu tlIuU uC lids LII lloiC
, land manhood than his brother-in-law. In
deed Grant is Il series of mistakes--a con-
catenation of caprices, and "salt wont
isave him /" The Judge hits him hard, but
/ fear the Generals eallous skin will not
feel it, until he is told of the damage in.
fiicted upon him months after it is done
Dent will unquestionably be the conserva
tive candidate for Governor of Mississippi
and as unquestionably will be elected
Then in a few weeks will see him added
to the opponents of Radicalism in the
i. United States Senate, u minority now, bu
rapidly approaching a majority and il
, open antagonism to Grant, who, had Ii,
Z the least brains and honesty, would hav,
been in less than twelve months, the rea
President Of the country, surrounded b,
conservative counsellors and defended b,
. the conservative press as the preserver o
the liberties of the country. Instead o
this, and instead of building up q fami
"" he has deliberately abandoned hi
real friends, and it is building up TIN
. Democratic party i'll a ratio faster than
. would now if he assisted the conservative
$ against the Imperial Boutwcllcrs and til
: agrar;an Buffers.
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