The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-22
Our Washington Correspondence,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. II, 1872


THE SENATORIAL "K1LKENNY CATs."-The
sharp, severe and spicy debate yesterday in the
Senate, between the clique and. the anti
Grant Radicals, on the selling Of arms to
France during, their war with Prussia BY our:
Government, plainly proved that Morton, chief
of the clique, does not like the situation. He
failed to answer the charges made by that Rad
ical bull in the Radical china-shop- Sumner,
and also the keen arguments of Carl Schurz,
but wandered off into q sickening enlogy Of
Grant, and an attack on the recusant Radicals.
He threatened them with accommodation
from the Radical church, should they persist in
opposing Grant. Senator Upton answered
Morton's attack upon himself and friends in
his earnest, odd and funny manner, and pep
pered the bilious Indianian until he WINGED with
pain. Morton made a personal and political
stump speech, but Upton beat him at his own
game two to one, and when he had finished, the
breach between the two wings of the Radical
party-heretofore irreparable-was widened
two-fold, Morton's anxiety about his party
quarreling among themselves, while taeDemo-
cratic Senators sit with folded hands looking on
complacently at the fight shows that he does
not undervalue the ticklish position of his
friend, the President. He don't believe in
third party. nor does be believe that the Demo
Gratis will coalesce with the liberal Republicans.
His wish is father to bis belief, but then he is
not sincere in what he says 1t is q noticeable
fact that, during all the wrangling between the
factions, the Democrats have taken; no part
and only certain Radicals have placed them
selves plainly on the record for and against
Gen. Grant. The number on the fence cannot
we'll be estimated.
The indecent and scurrilous assault made by
Senator Brownlow, on Thursday in the Senate,
| upon Hon. J. B. Beck, Of Kentucky, for his re
fiections on carpet-bag Senators, End especially
the ex,Parson and ex- Editor Brl rnlow, was re-
| piled to. yesterday by Mr.. BecE in Q manner
compofting with his high reputation as q gen
tleman, parliamentarian, and statesman. The
Parsons attack was. in his usual happy vein of
billinsgate, in Which he excels, topped off with
q tissue of braDen falsehoods, while Mr.. Beck
at once exposed, and then gave sketch of the
Parsons career, not forgetting that in 1860
Brnwni6# said slavery was "divine i1stitq-
tom" There were only three Radicals mean
enough to oHer any objections to Mfr. Beck's
reply, and these were Job Stevenson and Gen.
Garfield, of Ohio, and Hale, of Maine. Speaker
Blaine, who is very fair man, sustained MI.
Beck, who gave the carpet -baggers to- know
that he held himself responsible for his utter
ances, and that they merely pushed the cripple
Brownlow forward, fearing to make the: assault
themselves. When: Mr., Beck had flushed,
carpet-bag Governors, Senators and Reptesenl-
tatfves were below par. ~. =, a..
apoioeist and defender: Of the Presidents
fiends who were being hauled over the Goals
by the recent Custom House Investigating
Committee in New York, is down with the
smallpox A good many Of the Committee
are sick, but it takes other shapes.
| RlDIoAI ECONOMY. The deficiency appro-
! priatioh bill is only Hix millions of dollars.
This Is Radicalsm,s illustrated by dollars and
TIE DOGS OF WAR LET LOOSE ON sU,HER.
The Grant organ here, The National Rsphb-
Rcan, has short articlesi In Italics scattered an
over the paper, comparing Sumner TO BENEDICT
| Arnold, and casting ,insinuations Against the
Massachusetts Senator as q spy Of the French
Government. Blow for blow is Grants motto,
and his henchmen are carrying ont this policy
with ,sing1Iar fidelity. .,,.t1s,,,
Il TOO LATE.-Senators Patterson and Wilson
have gone to New Hampshire, to assist their
Radical friends id the coming election. Will
son acknowledged that it was no use, and tina:
Grants prosecution Of the New York Custom
House thieves Is too late. New Hampshire Is
lost to Radicalism sure. It will be the finger
post pointing the way to other States out Of the
mife In which they are now plunged.