The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-01-05
Washington CITY.
From the Newark (N.J) Evening Jourr

OonSre e'sreaSSemb'ed-the 80 rump COngrss:
of disorganized nationality, broken
land, an impoverished and corrurtei peo
pie. There Was another Congress assem-.
bied there, body which has been growina
gradually by the regular process of accrc
tlon as filth accu nulates in unpurgc
sewers. rs fostering matter accumulates IN
; an unwashed wound, since March 9Th
1861. A Congress delegated from the
sweeplngs OF the kennels of al nations
from the enlptyings Of The suks and iakes
and foul places Of all large cites: from
the otfscourinSs Of the dirty linen Of eve
ry people. \ Congress Of fou! things en-
gendercd by fcvcrish disease, and fed up
OH ruruient corruption \ Congress
made up Of idle and shameless vilIainy,
purveyors Of scandal anal fosterers Of les;
true children Of Bselzcbub, filthy go1 ci
the blow n:cS place hunters, time servers
Dirt caters, dung-raker.. carrion-prohers
half renny bufioons and ballet masters Ia
monkey dancers; players Of firo and oi
sweat; horse jock e., hor> Q thieves. and
chiffon erS, masters Of muscle; and mas
ters OF the art of living without muscle;
Rangers in, buffers. bummcrs. tramns;
killers OF their own time thieves Of the
time IF others; braves and pan 'erers; he
roes Of ue lauch and lulios for kent wo-
men: blatant fanatics who substitute lou /
ness for sincerity. anl prur;cncy for IN
nGcence; tie whole class Of those d9ugh.
ters OF Eve ho have fang away the e.,
eafaDd have chosen 10 stand n ked N the
market lace; courtesans and panel thieves
prostitutes AMI mistreSses; kept women
Who be'ray their keepers. and wives who
betray their husbands; maiicus whose only
hlushes are painted on To make them du-
r4b and nations with harpy claws and
eyes OF hvenaS; confidence men. hotel
thieves, biudsconers. bounty Jumpers. ho-
niackers. knucks poke, book suffers. body
snatchcrs. asSaSsins aud prisoners. This
Congress and that Congress are hoain.
their joint sessions It Washington. This
Congress and that Congress are legisla-
t.ng lo. the government, and Gecidia- up
on the welfare of America.
1t is a ritiatle thought fer nee harry
and innocent people 70 reflect upon; that
their capital city is at this moment the
most corrupt place in Christcndom The
slulns ot london the quarters OF Paris.
the sinks of Rene. She siews of Naples.
the ba@nois OF Venice. arc outdone and
hide their diminished heads. To find a
parallel for Washington in the world. We
must rake among the sweltcring lanes ana
alleys Of Lu know; we must ransaci, the
feculent wharvcs of Canton, or hold our
noses in the ioud sinking pur;eus Of
Hong Kong. 80 Gnd a parallel in history
we must 90 back to Rome under Nero or
Borgio; we must visit Avignon when
Aretine wrote his letters; we must 90 to
the powdered Paris of the rcaent dor
leans, OF the blool beslobberci Paris of
the Jacobins; or we must visit l.ontlnn
when Charles H. held his court ut White
hall. when Roches'e er played mountebank.
and buckingham murdered Shrewsbury.
and Granmont robbed al faro. while the
king nistrcs>es Guarreici IN his palace
and the X ng's ministers b'acieuarled
one another in the Council Chamber. and
the King himself diSsected the bastard
babies of h, maids Of honor en lin
conr.
Under the old regime there usel :o be
certain degree of corruption ani filth
ness about Washington. but it was the
mediocre CORP ion and fth that waits
u 'on commonplace Congress faro banks
assignation houses, and a certain attend
ancc of pre- latory wire pullcrs log rollers
and claim againts-a state Of tllinps disa-
grecablc enough, yet quite to'erable be
c,u~e always hid away in the dark and
never suffered to become rampant Bur
nDw, Il e mass has see,hcl and sweltereG
biyon1 control, 1t has quite br ken through
tic crust of decency. it has swe!el up and
boiled over, and pervadcd the whole lace
with lava tlux. the sulphurous vapors
whereof have spread abroad such an I'M
retiginous leprosy that every mans skin
iichcs and every mans face is rs white AS
Gchazi's. The false, jeering, seurvey,
goddess rroliga.'y has attained to asublim-
ity of hight and depth, an allabsorbiaa
pervasiveness never before known. It's
traits are written in bold, staring type
upon the whole city, from one end OF the
avenue to the other; from the licensed
Jester in his palace, deyi>ing plans, for
carrying elections. over bottle Of Dour-
born whisky, to the salaried roguos and
fanatics who jaug'e in the national halls
over the nations dead body, embrutiny
themselves Ike followers at Connauyht
wake, and quarrcfing for their shares of