The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-09-24

DENT.
He Lays Down His Carpet.
BaE 10 Hand" Boutwell,
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WARRINGTON, Aug. II, 1869.
Hon, George s. BoutsosA. Secretary If
the Treasury:
S1R-I shall make little apology
for asking your attention to my let .
ter, and less for the nature of its
cont ents. You were tho first to
deny the political orthodoxy Of my
friends and myself. and by all the
rules of the forum I am entitled to
. defense. Again, you hold an Of
6ce of the Republic, and your acts
thereof are legitimate subjects of
criticism by the hun'blest citizen
thereof. But in some respects We
arc alike; for instance. We are both
aspirants for place, with this differ
ence-you aim to be the next Prcsi-
dent. with every assurance Of sue
cess, except in the opinion Of the
people; while l seek an humber
place with my hopes in disastrous
eclipse, except in the judgment Of
Mississippi. So, in the probable
results Of the future, We both stand
adverse to the judgment of the
country.
FIRST ROUND-BoUrwRLL DOWN.
In the pursuit Of your ambition
you are uncrupulous as to the
means Of your success. Your orgap
the New York Sun, in tho same
breath ridicules the capacity Of your
master and dwells with cmphas sis
on your peculiar fitness for his
office.
Your excellent tool, Mr.. Tullock,
became so reckless in the manipu-
lation Of your department in tho
interest Of your ambition, and 50
defiant of the wishes of tho Prcsi-
dent and the country, that to save
yourself from an explosion of popu-
lar indignation you found it con
vcnient to transfer him to another
sphere ofscandalous activity, where
his talents might be cxertcd with
equal effect and less cffrontery.
SECOND RouxD-MoRE PUNISHMENT.
Virginia. Tennessee, Mississippi,
and Texas, not to mention anything
so humble rs myself, were obstruot-
ions in tho way Of your success, be-
cause, through President Grants
Intervention il excluding the pro-
scriptivo clause from their organic
laws, these States are brought into
the Union firmly welded to his
support. Now, this is in direct
conflict with your systematized
plans; for what General G rant gets
in the next election, clearly: Mr..
Boutwell, will not get; and there
fore you have denounced tho Con-
seryative Republicans, who are for
Grant, that you may obtain the
proscriptive Republicans, who arc
for Boutwell,; and by some strange,
dextrous management aud occult
political strategy, you have so
worked upon the conideEce Of the
President as to cause him to -four
ish the club with which you intend
to break his head, by inducing him
to join you in denunciation Of the
Conservative Republicans, a party
created by his magnanimity, and
triumphant through his manage
mcnt.
THIRD ROUND, BLOW FROM rHs
SHOULDER.
But, sir, your purpose was easily
discerned, and has twofold object.
namely, to destroy the National
Republican party in the South, and
then to reconstruct from its shat
tered fragments q 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
ruin-a result, from present ap-
perancecs. much moro likely to be
reached.
Your official Intervention for
Wells, for instance, gave $4,000
majority for Walker. Your letter
to Stokes gave Senter Tennessee Q
~ an overwhelming voto Of 10, 900.
Your marvellous political sagacity
now active in Mississippi ard Texas
will repeat your calamity, and
again overwhelm you with dis
comfture and defeat. Supcradd to
these results Of your unapproach-
able folly the imposition on these
States Of your iron-clal oath, and
the alienation is complete, landing
them all in the outstrecned arms Of
Democracy.
But the consequence of your fol-
~ does not end here. Ohio and
Pennsylvania and others will follow
decide their political status in
October, and the North will echo
back the condemnation of the South
and peal in your ears this fact
that there is still enough Of the
incorruptible virtue Of the Re-
public to rcbuko you for ; wanton
repression Of that most sacred right,
the elective franchise.
FOURTH ROUND, THE sEcRErARr's HEAD
IN CHANCFRY.
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