New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-28
SENTIMENTAL. SUMNER.

SENTIMENTAL SuMNEh. ra
On the 10th inst. the juhilant negroes Of Wash
ington celebrated their recently acquired freedom
On the same day the bill for the admission OF Colo
RADIO came before the Senate for discussion. na'
relation the question of the admission OF hem
State to the coveted companionship OF tne ioyai
members of the Federal Union bore 70 tle ceiepra-
ton of negro emancipation does not at hrs'' seem
very clear. The name OF the prospecsisYe os"te
does indeed seem to connect it in some sort OIL YER
bal way with the rejoicing demonstrators OF tne
gentlemen and lsdies of color, who thronged 'he
streets Of the political metropolis on that aaspi
eious day. There is something similarin " coloredp
and Colorado, There is some genealogical
relationship between the two words which may
have suggested to the gifted and eloquent Sumner,
logical and political affinity. Atall events, that
model statesman, that pink of rhetorical pertee-
ton, discovered mutual dependence which he
could by no means overlook.
When the Colorado bill came up, the punctlous
Sumner proclaimed two objections to considering
it at that time. The first objection was that the
Senate was not full. The Massachusetts Senator
did not, of course, mean that the Senate as now
constituted was not full of vndictiyeness, full OF
malice, full of radicalism, even full of the break
fast which had been furnished by the hotels ana
boarding houses of the capital. Had the grave
and honorable Senators been respectively interro
gated on these points, they would, quesnoniess,
have answered, g that finishing testimony Of sreoei
ex-yice President Stephens, and that last piece
Of roe-herring, quite did the business Tor me-
But this was not the sort Of repleon to WHICH sno
| polished Sumner referred. When he said lhas INC
Senate was not full, he simply meant that the non
orable body was not full of members "nioh
would seem to be asurperfuous piece 81 ihtorina-
ton, in view of the fact that the Senators from
eleven States are pertnaciousiy eAcluuea iroiii
their seats. Moreover, shortly after utteflhS tis
complaint, the Massachusetts Senator introduced
a resolution for tile expulsion of Mr.. McDougal.
Hence we find that his method of securing full
Senate, is to exclude some Senators from their
seats and to expel others. The process is not very
satisfactory, and would certainly lead to negative
results; but it is eminently worthy of the logical
and consistent mind which conceived it.
But beyond this Mr.. Sumner had another objec-
tion-the absence of a number of Senators
might have been obviated. In fact neither the
petite New Highlander nor any of the radical asso-
ciates have ever scrupled about turning an honest
partisan penny, while the backs Of their political
opponents happened to be turned. But the 18th
was, in the classic phrase of the gifted Sumner,
Hday dedicated to the freedmen The thought
infused an unwonted degree OF sentiment into the
heart and the oratory of this graceful rhetorcian
The streets Of the metropolis were filed with al
animated and African crowd. The gentle verna
airs which breathed through the opened windows
were replete with Ethiopian odors, more grateful
to the nostrils of the refined and intellectual
Senator, than the perfumes of jasmin bowers to a
iovelorn maiden, or the delicate fragrance Of Lu-
bins extracts in the boudoir of Partisan beauty
| In his rapt imagination he saw the joyous pro-
cession wend its way along the avenue the crisp
aud curling tresses of the sable matron crowned
with the gay bandanna and the obscure counten-
ance of the noble freedman contrasting admira-
bly, with the glistening worries and the expanded
whites of his curious and wondering eyes. The
astonished air laden with unwonted odors, and
tremulous with unusual noises, pervades the in
most reeesses of the Senate chamber. The eman-
cipated bondmen are celebrating their freedom
freedom to beg, freedom to starve, freedom to
sicken, freedom to die-with all the feryor of Da-
honey and all the ecstasy of Congo. This" ex-
claims the enthusiastic, but polished Sumner,
this is no day to recognize inequality of rights,
and to insult public sentiment by admitting State
recognizing distinction on account of color ~
Truly not. The day was consecrated to African
freedom. Let the freedmen hold high court in the
avenue, and dance Congo in Capitol square; but
do not insult their Ethiopian majesty by legisatng
for the toiling whites who have founded a new
State in the heart Of the continent. What are
their rights, what are their claims to the newborn
privileges Of these princes of humanity, these
thiekpped, fat-nosed, kinky haired arstocrats of
the earths Give them not only their day. but their
year; give them not only freedom to rule in Wash
ington, but license to govern in the country; let
them dance Congo not only in Capitol Square, but
over every cotton field and sugar plantation of the
South. BY all means let not the delicate suscepti
bilities of the refined and elegant New England
Senator be shocked by a proposal to legislate for
white men, as long as a negro can be found on
whom to lavish the rhetoric and the votes of a
radical Congress. HGaE 4.ts, sis-Hr"@
THE SUPREME CouET.-The radicals insist that