The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-20
GRANT ArID,. r4r :. ,soUrn. ,lt, ,1
Bad Faith OF ,rrssidenf Grant-A Re
nsrkable Reminiscencc-A oarto
Blanehe Given to General 0anby-
Tho Radieal nSad loo X In virSints
No Moro Reduction or the Public
L Debt. tsf-
A Washington letter, Of Tuesday. to the Bal
timore Gazette. says: d

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. Washington letter, Of Tuesday. to the Bal
timore Gazette. says:
Although 1t wasvery clear nom che start
States III they really placed any reliance upon
the assurances OF the President) we're doomed
TO bitter disappointment, still the Democratic
newspapers north of the Potomac very gene
couragement after 1t had become evident that
vast majority of the people OF that unSortu-
nate section OF the country, had determined
upon the desperate experiment. of trusting to
Punic honor. Nor have the il-natured ain9s
Of snch newspapers as the Richmond Wbig,
even after IL hsd been made manifest that
Grant had deceived those who had conhded in
him been sufficient to induce the real friends
q 3EBouth 10 remind that people that 81
tong 80" In the very beginning.
No Jhe folly acquainted with the conversa-
tions and circumstances attending the accept
ance, occupation and evacuation Of the War
Grant, could have been deceived by any Of his
assurances. Tho chief reason why desire
the return OF ex-President johnson to the Sen.
ate is, that this significant chapter in our ma
in detail, II not in the emphatic language in
which 1t was related to mo. can, however,
youch FOR an illustrative incident, not set down
in tho biiis Of confidential rovelations. saw
with my own eyes this modern Caesar 'plung-
Ing" through m0tiey crowd assembled in the
East Room" In the hot month OF August,
1855, sEeatipy Ike g bull calf, to be 10 time
to stand aloDRside Of Andy, while Hon. Rev
erdy johnson presented the famous Philadel
phia resolutions OF blessed memory. shall
be borne out In my recoilections by the
ex-mlnister. when say that no onein this vast
assembly gave more decided mods Of approba-
tion to the salient points OF his eloquent ar
rafgnment OF Radical rascalities than the gem
eral OF all the armies OF the United States. But
Mr. y0hn:os may, not, or he may, know (but
whether or not the fact can be proven by uu-
questionable evidence.) that at that very
moment, and even before, General Grant was
In striet sconfdentiN political relations with
Wilson, OF Massachusetts, and had entered into
ing the betrayal Of the man whose confidence
he vas to acquire byisuch abject syc6phAncy.'; :: ;
The Virginia and other Southern neWsps.
pers, who,are in tho habit Of copying these let-.
ters; and yet are sometines puzzled to see
how 1t can b6 known here To q sworn enemy.
10 the administration what the head Of It viii
do In given contingency, may herein have
an linking OF the ground OF the suspicion
which was OF the first entertained IN respect
to tho flnal action OF his Excellenoy after his
celebrated interview with Meesrs. Baldsin,
a gentleman iust here from Richmond, who
is no fool, and being deeply and LARGELY inter-
'estpd In telling the truth In this matter, Is no
liar (although Radically tells plain story:
Grant has given Canby Q carfe blanche; but
this mllitary npstart is deficient IN the higher
regions OF political metaphy sics. His panacea
was the simple rejection OF all members OF the
Legislature who "couldn't 9 take t.h.e
o-a-t-h r. He draws these words out, j. am
informed: as Titus oates did ..rhe Pl.a.a.f Z"
We'll. after oil. II ts found that In the blunder-
Ing deception Of the President. he, too, was
grossly at fault. by The utmost stretch ofmill-
tary power the two objects aimed at cannot be
omplished- the Reconstruction"
OF the State upon Radical principles, and the
usurpation. OF all the offices .It.s seems the
"Oonservatives" who can take the OATH. ere
necessary to form q quorum: Nothing what
ever oan be done without them-not even the
passage, under compulsion, OF the Fifteenth
amendment The virginians, consequently,
have II yet In their power TO ward Of worse
blow than being still kept out Of ogr glorious
Union. S4s y - 81. - N zs.t
!. II anythIns could show more pl.Iniy the
eharlataury Of the hsad OF the Treasury than
another. one .wonld suppose u would be the
announoenent that .there vould be no moro
reduction Of ,tha public debt for the present"
Our financial system, then, is 30 eonstttuted
that II is liable TO augmentation or dminutfon
BY dt9 and starts at the bidding Of the fiscal
prodigy from Massachusetts, BY fefusinS to
pay Accumulated; ;ipdebt tedness, Mr.. Boutwell,
has put ous lying balance sheets. Sises he has
been In Office he aays be has reduced tbs; debt
forty millions, and 'Gt thxf rate htl rndefiinss
blAte out that the reduction will be one hun.