Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-05
FEMALELoBBY MEMBERS.

FEMALELoBBY MEMBERS. |
In classifying the lobby members
Of Congress, writes correspondent,
the female representatives of the
third house occupy no unimportant
position. indeed may say that one
experienced female lobbyist is equal
IN point Of influence to any three
schemers of tbs other sex with whom
| am acquainted. Every session
draws to Washington a number oil
these feminine birds Of passage as
we'll prey, and you find their names
at Wizards, Browns and The Nation
al, or wherever members most do
Icongregate; and not great meas
ure comes before Congress that they
do not have an important if not CON-
spicuous, singer in the pie" Their
interest is secured for schemes private
and public for lobbying through
private bills and public acts, for the
extension of patent or the grant
ing Of an indefinite number oil acres
Of public lands for private specuia-
tive purposes. Women's influence
has often secured the attendance OF
a member when bis vote was sure
and needed, and her destinations
have been exerted when it was nec-
essay, that an opposition vote should
be absent from the House. Many a
poor member has braved the censure
of his constituents and neglected his
duty for the poor recompense of an
hours tete tete with an empty smile
from pretty, persevering, fast and
fascinating woman. Be sure the
female lobby member deserves con-
sideration while treating upon the
system which affords her stage to
act upon.
! The female lobby member is of no
particular age. Age is not consid-
GRAFTON: but she must have tact,
talent, and thorough contempt fol
the conventioDalities Of society,"
She must be easy, affable and accom-
modating in her disposition, and il
: matters not whether she be sweet
sixteen, or fat, fair and forty maid
wife, or widow. Sometimes the
female lobby member is a strong
minded woman, an advocate for no.
men, rights; again she is a litera-
, teur, whose incipient effort is slowed
: away upon the shelves of some
prudent friend from sheer regard
for the taste is too crude for the de-
lectable food furnished through the
travail Of the spirits medium. |
know of such. But whether strong.
minded or gifted, the female lobby
! member has a good share of strong
practical common sense and keer
perception of human nature. With
, out these qualities, she would bi
!. . naught. Widows form the majority
Of the class | am treating. Why
this is so ! am not able to say, bu
= that it is SO is the fact. Perhap:
they understand better, from previ
Gus trial, the springs by which th'
, male animal is calculated, and cal
: manage the machine to more advan
tage from knowing its complications
! Be that as it may, the widow is TIM
most powerful of the tribe to which
: she belongs, and many a member ha
au abiding regret that be has neg
lected Sam Weller's caution t.
. ''beware of vidders.' Now and thel
a belle finds herself in the ranks 0
the lobbyists, but does mol stay ther'
: : long. She goes the way Of woman
kind generally, and probably marriel
a good deal of money attached to al
= official Of some grade, nearly twice
. her age. But all play their par
alike, which is to mystify and perple,
: the peoples servants, and the enc
= is accomplished most perfectly, ant
. to the entire satisfaction of all con
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