Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-22
Grant Gossip.
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The Washington correspondent Of the
| World undertakes to give Grants opinion on
prominent men, as he has given them in pri.
vatc conversation with his friends Grant re.
gards H. Is. Washburnc as honest and eco
nomcal, and to him friend in need. Ho
can have what he wants from Grant. Grant
considers Rawlns as brother, who is capa-
Die of tiling any place, but too poor to take
Cabinet position; Senator Morgan merely
as bag of doll! all his Senatorial abors
being to secure his reelection; Fcssendcn, as
the eblcst statesman in tho Senate, man of
order of intellect, catholic views, large and
well-improved experience and great moral
courage; Sumner as great scholar, finished
orator, and faithful representative of his
State.
Il know nothing, personally, Of Wendell
Phillips" said General Grant lately. "I
should have respected him aud accredited him
with moro honesty Of purpose if he had or-
posed my election. I certainly could never
support man | thought as weak and bad as he
profcssed to bclive me. Logan is the coming
man of illinois. When Douglas died his
mantle fell upon logan. His skill, galantry
aud success i'll the field arc not properly ap.
prccated by the leaders of the party. Scna-
tor Morton is too much of II politician to be a
safe finanoier; he makes greater effort to
make his views popular than to demonstrate
their soundness. Wlfcn Norton adopted tho
greenback fallacy of Fcndleton, he underratcd
the integrity of the masses. When he un-
dortakes to show way to specie resumption,
he ovcrratcs popular avaricc.
"3cnnctt is a Scotchman Noman born in
Scotland becomes ncclmated in this country.
| lie has always conducted his journal upon the
principle cnunciated by tho Scotchmau who
advised his son John, "Whcn you marry,
marry a woman who has money, for any wo.
man may turn out i'll but, gad the money
never will''
! Henry Ward Beecher don't want Office ;
but he would be better preacher if he were
less of politician, and better politician if
he were less preacher. 1t is impossible to
have il philanthropy that will cover whole
nation, and yet fit plymouth Church
! General Mcclellan is an able soldier. GOOD
citizen and pure man lie has great powers
of organization. The Army Of the Potomac
was the best organized, best equipped and
best disciplined army tho world ever saw
For accomplishing this the country is indcbt
cd to Mcclellan. While to a large extent
M ri tn11 1Dck f1,a ,e, H..
try, he never lost the confidence of his ar
my.
Butler is not so bad as his enemies i'm.
aginc. Lhaveno ill.will toward him, and am
satisfied there would never have been any dif.
ference between us if it had not been for mis-.
representations Of third parties There is no
truth in the report that George Wilkes ar
ranged our difficulties. There is moth az in
common between Wilkes and me, except fond
ness for horses and the turf. Butler is man
of great forco and character, and ho would
be leader in any country in which he lived.
Greeley is u great and good man, aud
faithful, honest aud efficient advocate of the
cause Of human liberty. He always seemed
to me to cxaggcrato the bright side of human
nature and underrate it's dark side. IIe ex.
agcratod the captcity Of tho negro, while he
underratcd the crime of jeff Davis. Such
men are always the dupes of men Of inferior
abilities. Raymond always reminds me of a
jumping jack. He is heads up or tails up,
just as Seward or Weed move him. When
Raymond goes wrong feel like forgiving
him, for he knows not what he does Nobody
supposes him to bo anything but the mouth.
piece of Seward and Weed, though he is a
brilliant writer it he would be independent.
Seward is a man of very groat ability and
very little principle. If he had not intrustcd
his politics to Weed he might have been a
statesman, but Weed being very corrupt
politician, Seward was dragged down from tho
elevation Of craftsmanship to the lowest depths
of demagogucry Johuson would have re-
manod pure, true, patriotic, aud wise Pres
idont if he had been removed from the bane.
full influence Of Seward"
tbs "Albany (Ga.) News congratulatcs
itself upon the decided falling of in the nun,
Der of vagrant freedmen in the streets, most.
of them having contracted aud gone home to
commence the years work. This. can be as.
eribed to ono particular ioauset above all 9th
ers: tbcfe'is mo material political egitation