The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-19
JUDGE DENT on THE WAR PATH,
Hc gives Secretary BOutweIiu Piece
OF HIS M3Hd.
SIC Don't Thlnk Boutwell, Constitutes
tho Ntate.
MAsHINnroN. Anrl,st II

WARRINGTON, August II.
Judge Lewis Dent, brother in. law OF
tho President, and an applicant for
gubernatorial honors in MissIssIppi IA
on the war path. Tho Judge SAYS he
represents the Conservative Republican
party, OF which his brother. law,
President Grant, In the head center
lie blames Boutwell, for Grants tle(aC.
ton TO tho Tarbell conversation, and
has addressed that gentleman the fOl-
lowing highly Interesting and spicy
letter:
Hon. George BOWLwelI, Secretary of The
Treasury: . j.
'SIR-I shall make little apology for
asking your attention TO my letter, and
less for the nature OF It's contents, You
were the irstto deny the political or.
thodoxy fmy friends and myself, and
by all the rules OF the forum am en-.
tiled u defense. Again, you hold an
oli!ce OF the Republic, Hrd your acts,
therefore, are legitimate subjects OF
criticism by the humbl0st citizen there. .
OF. But in some respects we are nike:
for instance, we are both aspirants for
place, with this dltference-you aim 10
be the next President, with every rs.
surAnce oEBucceSs, except In the opIu-
Ion OF the people; while seek an hum.
bier place, with my hopes In disastrous
eclipse, except ln the Judgment OF Mis-.
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 Won
are unscrupulous as 10 the means OF
your success. Your organ, the New
York, Sun, In the same breath ridlCules
the capacity OF your master, and dwells
with emphasis on your peculiar fitness
for his Office.
.Your excellent tool, Mr.. Tullock
became so reckless In the manipulation
OF your department In the interest OF
your ambition, and 30 defiant OF the
wishes OF the President and the coun.
try, that TO save yourself from an ex-
ploslon Of popular indignation you lind
It convenient TO transfer him to another
spsre Of Bcandalous activity, where hts
talents might be exerted with equal
effort and less etfrontery.
Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Texas, not to mention anything 80
humble as myself, were distractions
In the way OF your success, because,
through President Grants intervention
In excluding the prospective clauses
from their organic laws, these States,
are brought iuto the Union firmly vel i.
ded TO hts support. Now, this Is In dl.
rect conflict with your systemized
plans; for what General Grant gets in
the next election, clearly Mr.. Boutwell,
Will not get; Rnd therefore you have
denounced the Conservative RepublI-
cans who nre for Grant, that yon may
obtain the proscriptive Republicans, ,
who are for Boutwell,; and by some
strange, dexlerous management, and
occult political strategy, YOU have so
worked upon the confidence oft Pres.
ident ~ to cause him to flourish the
club with which you Intend 10 break
his head, by inducing him 10 Ioln YOU
In denunciAtiou OF tho Conservative
Republicans, u party created Oy his
magnanimity, and triumphant throup h
hislmanagement. p
But, sir, your purpose ls easily dis
cerned, and has twOfold object, name.
ly, TO destroy the National Rspublica
party In the South, and then 10 recon.
slruct from It's shattered fragments q
Boutwell, party, with no Richmond In
II iTy you aiI can n nSs Succeed In this scheme na
OF desperate enterprise, you mean tc
ruin-a result, from present appear
ances, much more likely to be reached
'Your official intervention for Wells
for Instance, gave 50. 900 majority tC
Walker. Your letter 10 Stokes gave
Senter 10 Tennessee by an overwheIm.
Ing vote OF 10000. Your marvellous
political sagaclty, now active In Mlssls
sippi and Texas, will repeat your ca,
] amity, and again oyerwhelm you with