The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-06
Our WashinRton Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, D, c., October 8, 1872.

10 THE GDTTOH OF THE fdGSIX. q lew
days more and the agony will be over.
On Tuesday night, or on Wednesday by
noon, at farthest. it will be known in
every city of the United States whether
we are to be, in the future, united peo-
pie, with common rights, common inte-
rests and common purpose, or whether
large portion OF our country is to be
doomed for four years more, after the
4th OF March, 1873, to have the little
life-blood remaining in it sucked out by
mercenary carpet-baggers and ignorant
negro egislators-whetber the South is
to be the Ireland, the Hungary, or the
Poland OF this great nation, oppressed
by special and unconstitutional legisla-
ton, or to be an integral part of it
whether its young people are to be sur
rounded by influences calculated to de-
velope and foster in them love Of their
country and of its Institutions, or are to
be aggravated into sullen hatred Of, or
active hostility to them, by the continued
disfranchisument of their fathers, elder
brothers and other relatives and friends.
God help the South-the entire country,
for that matter-if it is to be consigned
for another four years to the guardian
ship of the characterless, swindling
scoundrels who, for their own base and
selfish purposes, have kept it in hot
water during the last past seven years.
But there need be no fear, think, of
such dire calamity.
The Star, of this city, Grant organ,
virtually gave up Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania, few days ago, to Hendricks and
Buckalew; but Judge Edmunds, Secre-
tary and general manager Of the Grant
Congressional Committee, still pretends
to think that these two States will 20 for
the corruptionists. and SO, of course, do
all the other Grant ofice-holders. But
their looks and general demeanor belle
their expressions Of confidence. They
are not bland and exultant as they were
few weeks ago, but have become cap
tious and quarrelsome. Most of the
active men in the Grant ranks here are
fighting for their very lives-with pOliti-
cal halters round their necks. Senator
Harlan, Of Iowa, for example, who is
now running the Chronicle, knows very
well that he will never be heard of again,
If Grant is defeated. Harlan was repu-
dated by his State, and when he leaves
the Senate, on the 4th of next March, he
will go back to Iowa the most unpopular
man there.
Cresswell was never anything more
than fourth-rate lawyer in Maryland,
aud having neither professional nor go
cial standing in his native State, would
be buried by Grants defeat beyond tho
reach of any revivifyinR influence short
OF Gabriel's trumpnt. E ,tno disco on,neS.
| The bar-rooms have been doing q
good business for the last fortnight.
| Whiskey straights have been in great
demand by the Government clerks who
sniff danger from afar. Many of them
have been in Office ten or twelve years,
and feel extremely uncomfortable ut the
prospect of having to do O fair days
work for fair days pay, alter next
March, during the remainder of their
natural lives. They very properly ex-
pect that the incoming administration
will mako pretty clean sweep in all the
executive departments. Many of them
have purchased houses here, thinking
themselves settled for life. I saw two
this morning who have advertisements
prepared, Offering their property for
sale, for insertion in the daily papers
next week. if the coming State elections
Indicate the probable election of Mr..
Greeley.
The last cold snap having pretty much
cleared out the watering places and
otner summer resorts OF the TOW remain
ing fashionable families thut fingered
round them after the close of the season,
reluctant to return to their city homes,
and the Atlantic Steamships, landing,
every few days, their immense return
cargocs of men and women who have
been "doing" the highlands of Scot.
land, the Alps. tho Rhine and othe,
parts OF Europe in search of health and
pleasure, tho cnpital of the nation is be
ginning to assume n more lively and
cheerful aspect. At every step or two,
you meet faces which you had missed
for the last three months. The number
OF stylish turn-outs on the avenue, every
afternoon, many of them driven skill
fully and gracefully by women. increases
from day to day. The theatres anJ
churches arc bottcr attended.
1t is also rumored that Provost Mar
sh"l- General Grant has promised three
days leave Of absence, from their legiti
mate campaign duties on tho stump il
Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio and Pcnnsylva
nia. to all his heads of departments ant
bureaus Immediately after the elections
in those State. on the 9Th instant-this
of course, after having consulted Attor.
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