The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-01-21
Washington Correspondence.
WAsurScros, D. G.. Januarv 0. 1871

WASHINGTON, d. c., January 9. 1871.
General Grant, either with view to re-
ward Senator Conkling, of New York, for
not carrying his State for the Radicals in the
recent elections. or to pay him for some ser
vice not yet made public. or In order to carry
out some scheme in which there Is a Job, has
promised Conkling that if he will get rid Of
Chief Justice Chase, who recently was strick-
en- with paralysis. he can have his position.
One of the means to accomplish this Is TO pass
Law pensoning the Chief Justice off on full
pay during hfe The mereenary knaves
reckon everything nv dollars snd cents Blu,
it will fail. The Chief Justice, like Richie
lieu. will no. be killed off bv this Barradas
and his master. but is Fastening to Washing
ton to resume his seat, and show the schem-
ers that he is true TO his country and to the
duty imposed on Elm, and cannot be pur-
chased, as is the fashion with those wto would
buy him. The pertinent question is. What
decision, involving money or land, is to be
made or reversed that it is necessary 10 have
the Chief Justice cut and the pompous blonde
Conkling in his place? What shape will tie
next Presidential job take?
The National Capitol has at last awaken
ed from its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep. and is be-
ginning TO make up for lost time Improve
avenue. extending from the Capitol to the
White House, a distance Of mile and a half.
and magnifeently broad, has been paved
with wood. and in consequence grand iolli-
ficatioD, one which will make glad the heart
of Grant. the great jollifcator, will be held
on the ODD and 23d of February. 1t will be
a tumble Of the 4th of July, mixed with
Thanksgiving dav, Christmas, the Italian
carnival and the Roman Corso, only that the
horses will be speeded along the magnificent
avenue in the American manner. The DAYS
will be p succession of sports, and the
nights will be turned into day, and iolliiy
will be in order ali the time crowds will, no
doubt, be attracted here to see the grand car
nival, and the hotels arc in good condition
to take care of them.
The friends of Governor Hoffman, of New
York, have certainly behaved very handsome
~ in Withdrawing his name as candidate
for the Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency in 1872. The New York WoHd, tie
New York telegram, and other New York
papers most emphaticaly endorse the action
of the schemes of the Tammary Society, who
have declared through their organ, the New
York Leader, that Governor Hoffman is not
q candidate, and that New York desires the
candidate to come from the West which an
pears to be, by common consent, the wish OF
the party. Judging from the Democratic mem
hers of Congress and others who visit the
Capitol. The Leader goes further and most
warmly proclaims ex-senator Hendricks, of
Indiana, as it's choice for the nomination.
This action on the part of New York or Tam
many, which politically is New York, yirtu-
ally settles that the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency will be a western man.
The recent usurpation of authority by the
President in sending the United States troops
into the Northern States to intimidate voters
and to assist the Radicals in CARRYING the
elections by fraud and force, as has been the
rule Mt the South, has been most signally re-
huked, first by Governor Hoffman of the
great Empire State, who spoke in the lam
guage OF the Constitution for the well known
rights Of the States and the people next we
have the Radical Governor of Pennsylvania,
John w. Gearv. who not content with re-
buking the President fer his outrageous usur-
patton, distinctly asks for legislative action
He said, 1T merits prompt consideration and
decisive action, not Only by the General AS
sembly, but by Congress" This is strong
language from Radical Governor to a Rad
ical President but it is only another evil
dence that times are changing, and that the
madness of the war and the bitterness which
succeeded it is passing away. and that the Sc.
cond sober thought of the American people is
fast asserting itself. Scarce has the thunders
of the guns fired by New York and Pennsyl-
vania died away when boom comes the sound
of artillery from little Delaware. Governor
Salisbury, of that State, while on the sub
iect of Federal interference, recommends the
passage of law making such interference
a felony, punishable with the forfeiture of
the right of suffrage and other penalties
which the Legislature may deem proper and
expedient. The swarms of marshas made
bv Federal authority will have no business in
Delaware hereafter to carry out the behests
of their master Ulysses.
There is little doubt but that Presidents
Grant. through his mouth piece Senator Mor-
ton, will ask for little more reconstruction.
as the only means of keeping the South from
throwing their vote soldlv for the Democratic
candidate for the presidency in 1872 Ia a
day or So we shall have several volumes of
kuklux and rebel atrocities before Congress.
which will make the hair Of the truly 'leil'
Senators and Members stand on end, and will
CONCEAL the blood in their veins. In this
connection Secretary Belknap, at the request
of the President. has prepared a list cf all
the murders and outrages committed in the
Soutn since the beginning or the reconstruct
ton policy Would it net be well to have a
list of all the murders and outrages commit
ted in the North during that period. / opiup
the difference would not be so great. Inthat
case would reconstruction be the remedy for
the North? The worse the condition of
things at the South. the palmer it is that re-
construction is a failure. or it would produce
better condition of affairs. Reconstruction
has served to give the Radicals power Cor ii
while, but | am not sure that they will re-en
act that game; the recent elections is warn
ing which they will do well to heed
E6F- DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is no Pat
ent Medicine humbug gotten up to dune the
ignorant and credulous. Tor is it represented
as being composed of rare and precious sub
stances brought from the four corners Of the
earth, carried seven times across the Great
Desert of Sahara on the backs of fourteen
camels, and brought across the Atlantic
Ocean on two ships" 1t is a simple. mild
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