The Daily Phoenix

A Sensitive Government.—The account we print this morning of the interview between the President and the representatives of the South Carolina tax-payers may afford some further information, to any who are in want of it, of the strictly private and personal character our Government has assumed. This body of gentlemen, representing the intelligence and decency of the State, all of them people who have honestly accepted the results of the war, and who are striving with a patience and energy worthy of all praise to save something of their State's existence from the thievish hands which are rapidly destroying it, sought an interview with the President on Friday last, to lay before him the deplorable state of affairs among them, and to ask if any aid could be given by the General Government. They were treated by him with gross rudeness and discourtesy, for a reason so trivial that it is almost incredible. During the recent session of the Tax-Payers' Convention in South Carolina, an obscure and rattle-brained delegate got the floor, and made a speech personally disrespectful to the President. There is no pretence that he embodied the views of the convention, or that his harangue met with their approval. But this speech, dexterously thrust into the President's hands by one of the ring politicians, just before the delegation called upon him, was enough to make him forget his own duty and dignity, and insult an important body of citizens, who were no more responsible for it than the President himself.

[New York Tribune.