The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-01
THE DISGUST OF GRANT.
Last Days Of the Session-Failureo of the
Bnyonet BIll-The Fickle Forney-
Greeley Stock Rising Fast.
lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
| WASHINGTON, D. c., May %.
As foreshadewed In my last letter, Congress
has postponed the final adjournment until the
Sd proximo, the business Of the session being
80 great as to preclude an earlier adjournment
One reason for this postponement Is the
overweening desire of the administration Rad
icals to procure, If possible, the passage by
the House of the odious law which has goi
through the Senate, TO continue the Ku.KIuX
bayonet law In force until the end of the next
session. Notwithstanding the signal failure that
attended the attempt yesterday to suspend the
rules In the House In order TO take up and pass
this diaooical measure of oppression and tor.
ture, iI is still hoped by some species Of trick
cry to obtain its passage during the last hours
of the session. But tue Democratic and Lib
eral Republican members who have hitherto
united 10 prevent its cOnsiierat on, will I'M.
| derstand the game which Is intended 10 be
Played, and will not be likely tn be caught
mapping, and the chances are much more than
| ever that Congress will adjourn sine die on
the 30th proximo, without giving the malicious
Radicals In that body an opportunity to furth-
er prosecute their schemes Of small spite
against eight million OF oppressed Americans
in the Southern States. Should this good for
tune obtain, there Is an end of snmptuary
/ legislation, for there will never another. Con-
gress assemble in thu national capital that
will suffer 80 devllish piece OF hal eful tyran-
/ nv to be perpetrated. When the President
was informed last evening Of The failure to
/ obtain q suspension of the rules on this bill he
manifested the utmost perturbation and
/ evinceG In very lively, and 1t is Said, pro-
i IN 10 o. ~ Aic mi anf
| He was very anXiuus to know the names of
the members who were patriotic and manly
enough to vote against this scheme for keep
| Ing the South under the rule of the Federal
bayonet until after the next Presidential elec-
| ZION, and when Informed OF the strong ma
Jority against the scheme, his disgust was 30
lill-concealed as 10 show plainly how much he
had counted upon The perpet'latioh Oh tne
bayonet power TO enforce the elections this
| fall in his own favor. But THANKS be 10
| Jehovah the alrOclOus game TO re-elect hlm-
self by snch base means i5 lost, and the Sonth
will this fall have an opportunity to vote her
| honest sentiments at the election polls unac-
compsnIed by the flash Of bay yonets and glitter
of rpaulets.
One fact In relation TO the impending cam
vass has cropped out during the past week,
which demonstrates better than any other cir
cumstance to what desperate straits the al
ministratIon managers are reduced In order
been ''seen" again, and the great conundrum
is to find ont what inducement has been offer
ed him 10 bring him back into The Grant har-
nps.. 0ue week ago, he wrote the leading
| editorial ln the Washington Sunday Cronice,
| in which the country was given 10 understand
pretty painly that he had abandoned the great
present-taker 10 his fate. Last Sunday, how
ever. the same paper contained an editorial
| bearing his nnmlstakable ear-marks, 10 which
| there was evident o strong disposition tn re-
cant the sentiments OF the previous article.
It Is stated In certain quarters that there is
! to be new minister lu Spain. appothted as
snon as Sickles gets back TO the United States.
Also that the Pre,ideut is nissati. fed with the
m amer In which the affairs Of The Russian
misslon have been managed. Another story
Is to the effect that one or more cnanges will
soon be made In the Cabinet, all OF which
point to The reward which Is sure 10
follow upou the re-adheslon of Forney TO
the Grant dynasty. ANY one Of these
snug things would, doubtless, be great
temptation to the Pennsylvania editor, but he
wants something else more tnan-lie wants any
of the above places, and that is to be a United
States senator, for the attainment OF which
position he has bent his active energies LOT
several years. And those who expect to see
him cordially support Grants reelection will
vet be disappointed, unless the President shall
conclude tU throw Cameron overheard In or
der to eraIiiy Mr. Forney's desires. This 1C is
Improbable that Grant can afford 10 do in the
present condition of Pennsylvania politics, and
those who know Colonel F6rney well are will
ling to stake money on the chancps that lne
Press will yet come out buldly for Greeley aud
an honest administration OF the government
The political atmosphere here is compound
ed of many conflictllg elements Just now,
ard the immediate future portends much TO
excite anxiety on the part Of lh0se who have
the best interests OF The whole country at
heart. The great Democratic party ~ IN Try
ing position, and only wants 10 De properly
directed to be able 10 achieve u victory over
wrong-minded und corrupt administration OF
the national AFFAIRS The present Is the
golden opportunity for moral revolu-
ton which shall overthrow and oVerWhelm
the minons OF a selfish, jooblng, narrow
minded, centralIzlng aud anti-Rrpublican pow
er, which has TOO long kept the North and
South asunder. The opportunity Is with the
Democratic party. What will they do with IL
! Let the response come with the Baltimore
Convention. A cheering circumstance, as In
dlcating the good sense OF the Democrats In
all sections OF the country, Is the fuct that bit
three Democratic papers OF any influence IN
the whole United etates have manifested
decided opposition to the Cincinnati move
ment, and one Of them (the World) has re
Gently announced that 1t will support Greeley
II endorsed by the Baltimore Convention,
though opposed to snch endorsement. But
while the Democrats who held out for Demo.
cratic ticket ut Baltimore on the ground that
the ann esty act Just passed has given them
additional votes enongh to elect such ticket.
1t should be rembembered that those votes
are all iu States where there are now Demo-
cratic maj ,ritles, and that the augmented
vote will give the electral college no addi-
tional Democratic members. Therefore TO de-
feat Grant it is absolute y lndespen able 10 sup
port ticket which will carry the war against
him Into the great Middle and western states
where the chances are doubtful, aud where
the defeat of the Grant electoral ticket will be
an advantage gained against him. This Ia
comparatively an easy task now, with 80 popu.
lar candidate as Greeley to work for, and
only needs The application OF a little common
sense to the management of the canvass to
accomplish. Despite the ra!yDg cries Of the
administration cohorts Greeley gains strength
with the people every hour, and nothing short
of miracle con prevent his election IN NO
vember. N.
TIE HEATHER THIS DAP.