The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-09-01
Gran and the South.
A Washington letter, of Tuesday,

~ W asnlngCon letter, OF tuesday,
to the Baltimore Gazette, says:
Although it was very clear from
the start that the Conservatives in the
unreconstructed States (if they really
placed any reliance upon the assur.
anoes Of the President) were doomed
to bitter disappointment, still the
Democratic newspapers north of the
Potomac vory generally refrained from
expressing a word of discouragomont
after it had become evident that vast
majority of the people of that unfor.
tuuate section of the country had de-
termined upon the desperate expert
menu of trusting to Punic honor. Nor
have the i'll natured Aings Of suoh
newspapers as the Richmond Whig,
even after il had been made manifest
that Grant had deceived those who
had con6ded in him, been sufficient to
induce the real friends Of the South
to remind that people that III told
you so" in the very beginning.
| No one fully acquainted with the
conversations and circumstances at
tending the acceptance, occupation
and evacuation of the War Depart
ment Gas acting secretary by Gene.
raj Grant, could have been deceived
by any of his assurances. The chief
reason why desire the return of ex.
President johnson to the Senate is,
that this significant chapter in our
national history may be ventilated
officially and in detail, If not in the
emphatic language in which it was re-
lated to me. can, however, vouoh
for an illustrative incident, not set
down in the bills of confidential reve-
lations. saw with my own eyes this
modern Caesar "plunging" through q
motley crowd assembled in the tEssst
Room" in the hot month Of August,
1866, sweating like bull calf, 70 be
in time to stand alongside of Andy,
while Hon. Reverdy johnson present.
ed the famous Philadelphia resolu-
lutions of blessed memory. I shall
be borne out in my recollections by
the ex minister, when / say that no
one in this vast asse mbly, gave more
decided mods of appreciation to the
salient points Of his eloquent arraign-
ment of Radical rascalities than the
general of all the armies Of the Uni
ted States. But Mr.. johnson may
not, or he may, know (but whether or
not the fact can be proven by unques-
tionable evidence,) that at that very
moment, and even before, General
Grant was in strict confidential politi-
cal relations with Wilson, of Massa-
chusetts, and had entered into COM
pact, the chief obligation on his part
being the betrayal Of the mun whose
confidence he was to acquire by such
abject sycophancy.
The Virginia and other Sou,hsrp
newspapers, who are in the habit Of
copying the letters, and yet are some
times puzzled to see how it can be
known here to a sworn enemy to the
administration what the head of it
will do in n given contingency, may
herein have an inkling Of the ground
of the suspicion which was at the first
entertained in respect to the final ac-
tion of his Excellency after his cele-
brated1 1interview with Messrs. Baldwin,
Stewart & 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 (al-
though Radical tells pluin story :
Grant has given Candy carte
blanche; but this military upstart 10
deficient in the higher regions of po-
litical metaphysics. His panacea was
the simple rejection of tho members
of the Legislature who ecouldn't
take t.h-e o-a-t.h - He draws
these words out, am informed, as
Titus Oates did "Tho P-l-a-a.t P-
We'll, after all, it is found that in the
laundering deception Of the Presi-
dent, he, too, was grossly at fault. BY
the utmost stretch Of military power
the two objects aimed at cannot be
accomplished namely, the "recon~
struotion" of the State upon Radical
principles, and the nsurpation Of all
the Offices 1t seems the "Conserva.
tives" who can "take the oath" are
necessary to form quorum. Moth.
ing whatever can be done without
them--not .s.even the passage, under
compulsion, Of the Fifteenth amend
ment The Virsinians consequently,
have it yet in their power to ward off
worse blow than being still kept out
of our glorious Union.
If anything could show more plain.
ly the charlatanry of the head Of the
treasury than another, one would sup
pose it would be the announceme {
that "ihere would be no moro reduc-
tion Of the public debt for the pre-.
sent" Our financial system, then, is
SO constituted that it Is liable to aug.
mehtation or diminution by fts and
starts at the biddinl the fiscal
prodigy from Massachusetts. BY re.
fusing to pay accumulated indebted
ness. Mr.. Boutwell, has put out lying
u halanna. shaa4a d. Sinnn hn hna L aasSs L.