Wilmington journal., 1872-08-02
The Fate OF Grants Owm-The DcIanO-
Wood COrrespOndencc

wood Correspondence.
Grants people seem to be having bad
luck III North Carolina.
Bull Run Wilson came down here with
hate and malice in his heart and cant and
hypocrisy on his tongue, but tho story Of
his battle field cIrOuso WAS told, and he
straigltway once more Started in haste $50
hum," thoroughly disgusted, it is said,
with both blacks and whites. The few
blacks and fcwcr whites whom he met,
soon satisfied him Of the midsummer mad
ness Of his mission to the Tar Heels, and
he went home.
boutwell,, the great Massachusetts, Finan-
cier, came down also, and talked tOT several
mortal hours to q crowd Of two hundred
negroes about Syndicates, finance and the
Latin version Of a Massachusetts motto
His sable audience came away, doubtless,
fully satisfied that since the time when, &C
corling TO Tourgce, the Ku-KluN threw
fifteen dead negroes into one mill pond,
nothing so dreadful had ever appeared IN
North Carolina as that same "Syndicate."
"Fore gracious! Boss, who do dat Sandy
Kit look like, anyhow"
Boutwell, spoke English though once, and
that SO plainly that every one who heard
him understood what he said and what he
meant.
When he said, speaking for General
Grant and his party: owe ARE ADVISED
TO CLASP HANDS ACROSS THE BLOODY
CI1AsM MADE BY TIE WAR. l PROTEST
AGAINST THIS ADVICE" every man,
woman and child there, both black
and white. understood that he and
his party meant that there should be no
peace in the South until we surrendered
ourselves like born slaves into their hands
What a chilling feeling these horrible
words must have sent to the heart of every
man that heard them!
Far and wide the telegraph flashed the
blood-curdling sentiment Of this Mass achu-
setts fiend, and a storm OF Indignation
swept over the whole land, North, South,
East and West! Everywhere good men,
the men who had not sold themselves body
and soul to Grant, rose up and Indignantly
denounced the man who could thus seek
to prevent the return of an era OF peace
and reconciliation to the long outraged
people of the South.
Boutwell, tarried not long. lie, too
struck bee-line for Washington, cursing
in his heart-he is doubtless too much like
Bull Run Wilson to curse with his lips
the hour he set foot upon North Carolina
soil.
Another Cabinet man, another one OF
Grants strikers and shysters, another one
of those men who bear The same relation
TO Grant that Cobb does to Beast Butler,
has come among us; and verify, this last
importation, who also comes with printed
speech, already in the hands OF Northern
newspaper men, one DELANo by name,
seems destined for even worse luck than
his illustriOus compeers and predecessors.
Delauo is, or was at last accounts, in
Raleigh, and so also was one VIM. T.
Wood, who is q graduate OF the Washing
ton War Department under the "virtuOus"
Stanton, and eX-chief Of the Secret Service
Woods mission now seems to be to Ego
for Delano." He tells some hard things
about Delauo, stories that we have heard
before, and which, ii the Georgia papers
can be believed, can be established by in
dubitable testimony.
North Carolina is a bad place for people
like Wilson and Boutwell, and Delano.-
Our people down here prefer to call a spade
\ "spade," rather than an agricultural i'm
plement." The ''higher civilization of Mas
sachusetts" has not yet reached us, and We
trust in heaven it never will reach us.
We venture to say that Delano viii soon
find our honest old State unhealthy. He,
too, will, ere many hours have elapsed,
start ''to hum" Read what Wood says to
DelanO. The correspondence is to be
found OH our first page.
DelanO is already white around the gills.