The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1866-04-06
Sights about the Capitol.

Having a few leisure hours ia Wash
ing,on. 0rc day last week. We devoted
them to n stroll through the Capitol,
now one IL the most magnificent bullI-
ing, in the world
One Of the first gentleman we mot n
.hs rotun,la WAS Mr. Douglass aho
wa making his accustomed visit % the
halls Of legislation We had never
seen Fired nor ever read q deserip
ton Of his person, but felt sure 4 was
no eaaHun niger we saw, and
must be Mr. douglass lleis O stout,
vol built man, with kong grey hair
c0inhcd behind hir ears dresses In Il
ncat suit Of black, with silver shoe
buckles sports % handsome cane gold
headed doubtless wears q high cloth
cap with q heavy roll of fur about six
inchos bFuad around BE- gni seems 10
have Ms the lrishmau would say, q
gocd rnasafe Of himself Fred j. not
Niger. but indging from his com.
plcxiou. wc should say that he b. about
two.thim- white Fred has Inherited
his ambition from the Anglo saxon
not the negro race He comes By j.
lawfully, and is intellectually, much
above The race Of which he is paraded
no a fiir typc The admiy'ura Of blood
with good natural endoRments, has
made him what he IL Fred il not a
fRllbloodod negro Let that be remtlh-
borcd
We stepped into the supreme Court
room. lthe ia -enatf Chamber a fsv
moments whore ~ was orderly md
Quot as OF yarc Within the bar sat
" Judge Underwood, Of Virginia, "a
spectator. Of course William 4. Ora
ham, Of North Carolina, and the great
"bottled Of For, Fisher no,oriety We
took n good look at ola Ben and t,!t that
Nature had depicted hi. character in
his face II Is the most yillninnus We
over heheld such compound Of
meauuess and malignity was ue'ormore
accurately portrayed in physio-uouy
that has not one rtieeming feature
about H. Bearcyed, hook noscd, and
with great Gabby jaws, be sat the i'm
pcrsonation of all that was vile No
man sat near him. for the instincts of
honor aud true mnnliness forbade II
We passed through the splendid cor
ridors leading to the ~enHte-t the mag
niiieent room Of the President the
marble chamber on the Same lloor and
asccndcd to the gallery OF the senate
Chamber Mr. salisbury, of Delaware,
was speaking, and in the course of his
remnks, referred % the sable friends
Of the Vice President. whose shadows
darkcn this chamber every day, We
turned inyoluntarily in the direction in
which he pointed. and, snre enough,
there were hundreds Of American clt-
izeus of African descent iazily loun-
ring about in seats where We had never
seen them before some Of them were
ccn.rrlly dressed bat many others pre-
scented a very unseomiy appearance, and
suggested tho thought that they might
have been much better employed in
useful labor, TO enable them to procure
hablhments suited 10 the place and to
their new positions as freedmen
Vending our way to the Hal Of the
Representatives, and ascending to the
gallery. We looked down upon the busy
crowd below They seemed to be do
ing something, lu. we could not tell
what We saw but heard nothing.
save q confused murmur of-oar<e III.
cordaut notes proceeding from the many
voices below How the reporter. man
age TO find out what is going ON, the
Lord only knows, They must exercise
their Imagination and guess At
great dr,l - Jyarbbpry G...j4alH