The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-09
General Grant, Senator Morrill,, and
"Dr." Rush.

These three wise men, according to our
Washington telegram of Saturday, talked
over the matter of the "third term" Their
conversation must have been very edilylng.
The brief glimpse Of it afforded ty our cor
respondent is absolutely instructive. NOR
RiLL seemed to approach the President as
woald an affectiouatc friend lion that bad
been worried and vas suffering from several
darts inserted in his body, especially in his
hind-uuarter. lie touched. the subject
most guardedly aud o5sequiousiy. lie
gently begged the President to disaVow
that horrid "third term; but the Pre-
sident made no concession to the APP
peals of MORRILL,. Not he. General
GRANT is smart enough to know that
to disown the third term immediately after
the drubbing the public bsve given him
would be an acknowledgment OF defeat,
which would be damaging and not at all
consistent in the unconditional" warrior.
So he squelched the sanctimonious bigol
from Vermont by the remark ''I. is only
a newspaper sensation; and what dses it
amount to-" Or, he might have said, after
the man who was denied passage on NOAH s
ark, - It's no great shower after ALL"
DR.. RUSH BURGESS. TINT noted Radical
philosopher Of this city, called on the Presi-
dent, and was honored with mole familiar
and ampli6ed discourse by the great silent
man. DR.. RCsH, whose eytravagant theory
of phlebolomy he chiefly directs upon the
bovine race, but who has had his own prac.
tice applied to himself in the recent CAM
paign in this district (he has been terribly
flsl-bittcn by black Repubicausl wanted to
apologize for his defeat; but Gene;al GRANT
closed his mouth with his hand and en-.
phatically informed the Doctor that he
"knew enough about the Richmond dis.
trict already" He immediatey Giated upon
the third term and its symptoms. He con.
tended that ROBERTS Of Utica, who has de-
nounced the third term, had been defeated
Pennsylvania, which denounced it d" precipi.
tately,' had gone over TO the Democracy;
and South Carolina, which had endorsed the
third term, had been saved to the Admins
traitor. He spoke Of South Carolina as
having "sincerely, though ilnprudently,"
endorsed the third term; but lie pMny
thought her course bad not injured The Re-
publiclns; as if the negroes OF tina! State
know any more about the third term
ethan hog does about holiday"
The colloquy between DR.. RUSH and Gene
raj GRANT is so like that between two in
Maidstone with the asthma and the other
the ':roomatis." "I'm so oppressed. Pm
$50 clustered nil the time. Pve tried
" smoking fennel and 'gympson weed,
"and-." "Oh, dry up" says his auditor !;
"hear me talk about disease as is disease"
and asthma has 10 subsde with i wheeZc.
I" Roomatis then gasconds," and presents
his sufferings in all phases; but our sufferer
in the White House finds his disease only
better in South Carolina. There he gets
rest. Tincture Of Africa water of the Rio
Negro" afford solace to his aches and pains
Really, the interviews above referred to
are rich. They disclose the yearning to-
wards the third term. The President scouts
the idea of injury from the third term.
" What does it all amount to ?" says he; and
he attempts to show That where it was ia
vored by the party 1t has done good for the
cause Of rcpu olicanlsm. aud where it was
denounced the Republican losses have been
marked.
So 50, General GRANT. How now?