The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-20
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WASHINGTON, April is.
The special dispatches to The NEWS stated
some two weeks since that there had been al In
nuence brought to bear to INDUCE the President
to withhold the special message he had prepared
to send to Congress, recommending general am
nesty, when the work Of Radical reconstruction
was finished, by the admission OF Georgia; but 1t
was not believed then that Grant would prove
weak enough to yield q policy he had gone SO far
In approving, as TO prepare special document
setting forth to Congress his reasons for 1t. Now
however, there Is no longer any doubt. Heiniorm-
ed the Cabinet on FriIay, as teegraphed yon, that
the condition Of sooiety in the South was srch that
he had abandon ed his intention OF asking Congress
to pass general act removing all political disa-
bIlities imposed by the Fourteenth amendment.
The President has no oriclal information that
there are any outrages in the South. He has
merely swallowed the bugaboo stories or Bull
lock and Company, which have been reinforced
by the SANDERS Of the Texas carpet-baggcrs, that
there have been, for instance, three thousand
murders in that State since the close OF the war
1t is notorious fact that the Washington Chroni.
Gle manufactures its daily pd6ulum OF so-caed
outrages, and keeps an itnerant ex-agent and
minister OF the Freedmen's Bureau wandering
through the South to keep up the excitement.
"You can always tell" SAL! Mr.. Beck, OF Ken
lucky, in q recent debate, "when there is to be
o new move in the reconstruction programme, for
the washington Chronicle for day or two before
always comes out with half a column or so OF
newly discovered outrages in the South" That
is just about the truth of it, and the rebuke ad-
minls.ered to the notorious Governor Bullock by
the Radical Senator Edmunds, OF Vermont, who
called the attention Of the Senate the other day
"to the presence OF this creature lobbying on the
Senate floor when he ocsht to be at home sup.
pressing the outrages lie is constantly talking
about,n proves 1t. You will notice that Il is the
carpet.bag element all the way through that at
tempts to postpone general amnesty. Greeley
And T,eocher and other leading Northern Rcpubii-
cans HI. ,e seen NO reason to change ther rlinds,
but favor that liberal policy as warmly now as
they have heretofore. Possibly before tie end OF
the session Grant may decide to come out in fl
yor of it again, but now he Is squareiy opposed
TO itb
There is pretty fair prospect, unless the IL
vestigation is rendered grossly partisan, thaI
General Howard, the commissioner Of the Freed
mems Bureau, will be thoroughly shown up as
the most complete hypocrite Of tile age. The
"yh;rlisig OF tme," sooner or later, reaches just
such men, and in his case, 1t has already been
proven that lc has thrown the cloak OF religion
over some of the most remarkable rastalt.cs OF
The day. The evidence thus far taken shows that
he appropriated nearly quarter Of mil
lion of dollars ont Of the Freedmen's Bureau
fund of the United States Treasury to pay
for the erection Of the negro institution here,
known as the Howard University, and that he
did this without scintlla Of law or construction
of law authorizing it. Men are serving terms IN
the pentrentlary for "appropriating" less sums
than this out Of the public treasury. But he has
not stopped there. lie had q pet church he
wanted to foster here, and So lie took S1S,000
more out of the United States Treasury, without
authority OF law, and bought the bonds OF the
church. These bonds have no marketable value
whatever, and even If they did, it would be new
ertheless q. misappropriation of public funds to
bur them. But Howard has not been the only
cuilty oNlcer: for the evidence shows the exist
cnce of q regular Freedmen's Bureau Ring, ali Of
whom have suddenly grown rich.
The President, 1t is known from his expressions
10 senators, is very crest-fallen over the pers:s
tent failure that greets every step OF his foreign
policy. lie struggled hard TO save the anneXa
tion scheme Of San Domingo. He has failed in
h:sEuban programme, White Fish has no! recov