Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-02-21
Correspondence OF the State Sentinel ]
From Washington.


EDITORS SENTINEL.--Now that the House
is organized and the struggle ended, let us
take n calm, brief review of the whole scene.
OF the Speaker elect it is unnecessary to
speak, save to say that he is the dearest
speaker that has ever filled that chair, having
cost the country five hundred thousand dol
lars, and sixty-two days of the time that
should have been devoted to the transaction
of the public business. / cannot see what
services he can perform to compensate the
country for these losses. His friends, the
Black Republicans struggled for him because
he was par ercellanoe the reflection and en-
bOdlment of their views on the slavery ques-
tion-in favor Of the restoration of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and other Abolition mea-
sures, including amalgamation, the equalizin
of the black and-Nyhite races, &c. lie did
not receive the first solitary Southern vote.
Yet, his friends, who are so lavish in chaFg-
ing the Democrats with being the pro-slavery
party, after struggling for him so long on the
antislayery issue. turned round aud voted
for man for Clerk of the House, who is the
owner of thirty negroes--a Southern man,
who, though he was opposed to the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, IS against ds
restoration, and this to in the face of the fact
that not solitary friend of Gen. Cullom,
from the South, even voted for the adoption
of the plurality rule, and all Of them voted
for Mr.. Aiken against Mr.. Banks. Yet, Gid
dings, Mace, Colfax, & Co., who rant so fu-
riously at home about the pro-slavery De-
mocracy, got down on their bellies in the
dust and crawled to the support of a thorough
going Southern man, the owner of thirty ne
groes, and an opponent of the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. Oh, inconsistency
thy name is Fusion,
The Doorkeeper elect Is strange sort of
an animal. lie is a full blooded X n, as
grum as bear, and as savage rs a meat axe.
In five minutes after he was elected, he dis
missed Two of tho employees Of his prede-
cessor, and from that time until now he has
welded the political guillotine with a savage
glee, and merciless vindictiveness, unexa1n-
pied and unparalleled here His first APP
pointment was James Nokes, of this District
"a man who not only owns negroes himself,
but has been engaged in the business of
selling and buying them on commission-a
dealer in human flesh, and bones, and mus
/ cles, for a price OH, Joshua r.. Giddings.
and Schuyler Colfax, where is now your
righteous Indignation Why slumbers your
holy horror of slave-holding Why sleep
your overaowing sympathies for the poor
slave =?
Another appointment is that of Jno Jones,
of Ohio, Welehman by birth as black an
AbolitiOnist as Ohio contains lie stands
side by side with Nokes, as keepers Of one Of
/ the doors-a Know Nothing and ID
/ furriner''-a STAKEHOLDER and slaveseler, and
an Abolitionist Such is the consistency Of
/ Black Republican Know Nothingism.
Another appointment is that of BENJAMIN
/ Beveridge, of this District-the son of lady
who keeps boarding house on the Avenue
This IS rather strange case. Capt Darling,
the DoOr.keeper, boarded at this house last
winter, and was rather roughly treated by
this Mr.. Beverilge for alleged misconduct in
the family. Beveridge threatened to shoot
him, and Darling, in order to save his scalp.
/ had Beveridge put under bonds to keep the
peace, and he is still under bonds. Pesb,0ll
sat-
These cases will suffice for the present to
show the kind of appointments made by the
present Door keeper. | venture the asser-
ton, without fear of successful contradiction,
that such--a brute-sO utterly devoid of the
feelings and proprieties which appertain to
the gentlemen-never before occupied that
position. Even the little pages-bOys of ten
aud twelve years of age-fatherless boys
J with widowed mothers aud large families to
support have fallen under the ban of pro-
scriptiOn. Such q scene | have never wit
messed before. l have been in Washington
fol. six years, but | never before saw such a
I rush for office, not even at the incoming Of a
new Administration. Such pack of hungry,
lousey, ill-mannered, ill-behaved ofiice-seek
ers has never been seen here since the
days of old Tippecanoe. There are actually
candidates here, white men, too, for even the
lowest and most menial offices now filed hy
negroesl The poor darkey that cleans the
Congressional priyy even Is shaking in his
shoes, as there are nine white men applying
for his place - Such is Black Republi-
canism.
There are about seventy or eighty places
) to ill, and do not exaggerate when | say
that there are, at least, five hundred appli-
cants for them. Indiana furnishes her full
: qnota, foremost among whom are Markell o.
Terre Hante, A. j. Harlan, ex-M. C. = Brad
! ford, from the first District, Dorner, iron
lloloway's District, Grub, Weaks, Triton,
nephew of Dan Mace, backed, of course, b,
the powerful influence of that distinguishe,
{ gentleman, AMI host Of others "too numer
e Ious to MENTION Enough for the present.
: will return TO the subject as it is a rich one
a PINCKNEY.
Il IL N.