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the war path. The Judge says he repre-
sents the Conservative Republican
party, of which his brother-in-law,
President Grant, is the head center. He
blames Boutwell, for Grants defaction
in the Tarbell conversation, and has aa-
dressed that gentleman the following
highly interesting and spicy letter:
Hon. George Boutwell,, Secretary Of the
Treasury:
SIR Il shall make little apology for
asking your attention to my letter, and
less for the nature of its contents. You
were the first to deny the political or
thodoxy of my friends and myself, and
by all the rules of the forum am emit
tied to q defense. Again, you hold an
Office of the Republic, and your acts,
therefore, are legitimate subjects OF
criticism by the humblest citizen there
of. But in some respects we are aike
for instance, we are both aspirants Tor
place, with this differenco-you aim 10
be the next President, with every assur-
ance of success, except in the opinion Oh
the people; while / seek an humber
place, with my hopes in disastrous
eclipse, except in the Judgment OF Nils
sissippi. 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 unscrupulous as to the means OF
YOUR success. Your organ, the New
York Sun, in the same breath ridicules
the capacity of your master, and dwells
with emphasis on your peculiar fitness
for his Office.
Your excellent tool, Mr.. Tullock, be-
came so reckless in the manipulation of
your department in the interest OF your
ambition, and so defiant Of the wishes
of the President and the country, that
to save yourself from on explosion OF
popular indignation you found 1t con-
venient 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 distractions in
the way of your success, because,
through President Grants intervention
in excluding the prOscriptivo clauses
from their organic laws, these States are
brought into the Union firmly welded
to his support. Now, this is IN direct
conflict with your systematZed plans;
for what General Grant gets in the next
election, clearly Mr.. Boutwell, will not
get; and therefore you have denounced
the Conservative Republicans who are
for Grant, that you may obtain the pro-
scriptive Republicans, who are for
Boutwell,; and by some strange, dexter
Gus management, ard occult political
strategy, 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 you in denunciatiOn of the
Conservative Republicans, party
created by his magnanimity, and trium-
plant through his management.
But, sir, your purpose is easily dis
cerned, and has twofold object, name
", to destroy the National Republican
party in the South, and then to recon
struct from its shattered fragments a
Boutwell, party, with no Richmond in
the field TO strike for your crown. But
if you cannot succeed in this scheme of
desperate enterprise, you mean to run |
q result, from present appearances, |
much more likely to be reached
Your official intervention for Wells,
for instance, gave 10000 majority to
Walker Your letter to Stokes gave
Tennessee TO Senter by an overwhelm-
ing vote of 10000. YOar marvellous po-
litical sagacity, now active in Missis-
sippi and Texas, will repeat your calam-
ity, and again overwhelm you with dis
comfture and defeat Superadd to these
results of your unapproachable folly the
imposition on these States of your iron
clad oath, and the alienation is COM
plete, landing them all in the out
streatched arms of Democracy.
But the consequence of your folly does
not end here. Ohio, and Pennsylvania,
and others will follow, their political
Status in October, and the North will
echo back the condemnation of the
South, aud peal in your ears this fact
that there is still left enough of the
incorruptible virtue of the Republic TO
rebuke you for wanton representation
of that most sacred 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 con-
frmed by Senate of every shade of
political opinion, did you not take an
oath to administer your Office impair.
italy, and for the exclusive objects of
its creation-to collect the revenue and
control the finances of the country
Is not that office the property of the
nation, and yourself only clothed for
time with a little brief authority Then,
sir, how do you explain this perversion
OF It's legitimate uses and functions into
means and Instrument of oppression,
and compel the election of obnoxious
rulers upon the people of the South I
Is such a course consistent with your
oath of office, or do you call this great
moral ideaf But, Mr.. Boutwell,, though
you have thus prostituted the powers
OF your office for purposes of Oppres-
sioh, without the warrant of con-
science or law, it may be that you
can Tell me by what authority you
PIesuine TO pronounce uDon my po-
hticai orthodoxy. Who constituted
you tine lnfallible hope of Republican,
ism Who gave you authority to burl
the political anathemas of the partv ?
AGAIN, what right had you TO commit |
tne administration to your policy |
have you to learn yet thatyou are only
apart OF the Administration, and not
the whole of it; though your friends
believe that mouomania has settled
your mind on that subject, aud that YOU
verify believe yourself the State. Very
respectfully, LEWIS DENT.
Going to Attend the Convention.
The Conservative State Convention
in Mississippi convcnes on the Sth
proximo. Judge Dent will leave Wash
ington on the sth, in time to be present
at its deliberations, but will return as
soon as the nominations are made. He
does not expect to take an active part
in the campaign until the LIST of Octo-
Der.
GALVESTON md Houston Railroad.
In the case of Cowdrey and others