The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-12-18
A WALK ABOUT WASHiNT0N
Occasional Correspondence of the Daily Register
The Soldier and the Negro.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec, IA, 1868

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec IA, 1863.
Mr.. BAKER: have just come from Con-
gress. Found the House very busy doing
nothing-nor is it expected much will be
done till after the holidays. A few rsso.
lutions were to-day offered which clearly
indicate the an.mas of this body. First, one
from the Democratic side of the Fl ouss, look
ing to the increase of the pay of the sol
diers now, or hereafter to be, in the army,
from SIS to S25 per month. Unanimously
voted for by the Democrats, and as unani,
mously voted against by the Republicans
Let the soldiers take note Of who are
their friends and the friends of their
families.
Second; another from Gen. Schenck, of
Ohio, instructlng the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, to report bill giving colored
soldiers in the army the same pay as white
ones. Carried-svery Republican voting
for it-and every Democrat voting against
it, There is an evident determination on
the part Of the friends Of the Administra-
tion, to keep the white soldiers as
low aud as poor as possible. and then
raise the negro on par with him.
Gould youssee what have seen and hear
what have heard, you would most readily
and Justly conclude that the entire aboli-
ton ofslavery is what is now aimed at, and
insisted on by all here in sympathy with
the powers that be. Not word is beard
about restoring the Union" or supporting
the Constitutiou,n but abolition, abolition,
is the grand wstchword of those fanatics
A man in high place told me to-day that
for one lie was glad Meade did not route
Lee in the late attack across the Rspidan;
for said he, the longer the war fingers the
more certain it is to eradicate slavery, and
there is fear-that were Lee and his forces
destroyed that even this Congress might be
too iudulgent to this sum of all vilsniesr-
that he would be glad to see the war go on
for twenty years at its present expense of
life end treasure, rather than a single root
of this Upas should remain Indeed. said
he, it would be better for every Northern
man between the ages of l8 and 45 to be
killed Oft and our Government 70 60 CON-
pletely down, than to have restoration Of
the Union as it was before the war! This,
l can assure you, is no isolated case. 1t is
becoming sentiment here-sud yet such
men swesr to support the Constitution as it
is-aud profess all manner of patriotic prin.
ciples in their talk about the county,
Well, if freedom be such a blessing TO the
colorsd man, aud if the friends Of the Ad-
ministration, be his friends let US 20 into
"Contrabsnd Camp between 18th and l4th
streets North, and see The present condi-
ton both morally and phtsfesEy of the two
Or three thousand freedmen, who are there
IN quarters under the Government.
We enter the hospital-are introduced to
Miss Caroline Hancock, Of n j., an intelli-
gent, Christian, white nurse employed here,
to see 10 the wants of these sable invalids.
She Is, of course, an abolitionist and sup
poses Us to be so aso.
She Ia quite communicative. Tells US how
badly these poor negroes are treated; al
Cheated out OF their pay, forxork fhsT haze