The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-08-19

publicans who arc for Grant, that you may
obtain the proscriptive Republicans who arc
for Boutwell,; and by some strange, dexter
ous management and occult political STRAIT
egy, you have 30 worked upon the confidence
OF the President as TO cause linn V flourish
the club with which you intep1 To break his
head, by inducing him TO Join you IN dsnnn-
citation Of the conservative Rspublicans-a
party created by his magnhnlmity and
triumphant through his encouragement.
But, cir, "your purpose Is easily discern
able, and has two-fold object, namely, 10
destroy the National Republican party In the
South, and then 10 reconstruct from Its shat
tered fragments q Boutwell, party, with no
Richmond In the field to strike for your
crown. But II you cannot succeed In this
scheme Of desperate enterprise, you mean to
ruin,"a result, from present appearances,
much more likely 70 be reached.
Your Official Intervention for Wells, for
Instance, gave thirty thousand majority 70
Walker. Your letter 10 Stokes gave Tennes.
see TO Senter BY an overwhelming majority
vote Of seventy thousand. Your marvellous
political sagaclty, 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 allen
alton 10 complete, landing them Into th,
outstretched arms Of Democracy.
But the consequence Of your folly does no
stop here-Ohio and Pennsylvania and othe
States will decide their political .ttatus Il
October, and the North will echo back tn
condemnation OF the South, aud peal in you
ears this fact, that there Is still LEFT enoug
OF the incompatible virtue Of the Republic /
rsbuke you for wanton repression Of tina
most sacred right-the elective franchise
But, air, this will not deter you from you
mad course; you will still persist until ever
prop that supports our party Is stri Uric, g,
, | away, and the whole grand superstructur
tumblcs about our ears In hopeless ruin.
When you woro appointed Secretary OF tn
Treasury, and unanimously confirmed by
= Senate OF every shade Of political opinion, di
Z you not take an oath TO administer your offic
impartially, and for the exclusive objects {
! lis creation "To collect tho revenues an
control the finances Of the country ." Is nc
that Office the property OF the nation, an
, yourself only clothed for time with q littl
brief authority Then, sir, how do you OK
plain this pervcrsion Of its legitimate use
aud functions Into means and instrumen
OF oppression to force and compel an cleo
ton OF obnoxious rulers upon the people Q
the South.
10 such q course consistent with your oat
Of office, or do you call this great mora
ideal But, Mr.: Boutwell,, though you hav
thus prostituted the power Of your Office fe
purposes Of oppression, "without the wal
rant Of conscience or law" II may be tina
you can tell me by what authority you al
sumo TO pronounce upon my political ortht
doxy. Who constituted you the infallibl
hope Of republicanismi
Who gave you authority to hurl the polite,
anathemas Of the partyi Again, what rigl
had you to commit the Administration I
! - H. = -.
are only . part Of the Administration, an
not the whole Of II though your friends b,
Hove that monomania has seized You
mind on that subject, and that you reril
believe yourself "the State"
Very respectfully, LOUIS DESr.