The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Our Colored Citizens Corrupted by
Congress-The Dead Duck 90 be
Stuffed with Greenbacks.
From the Worlds Correspondent

From the Worlus correspondent
Yesterday. there was to have been g
orand colored public pow-wow in the
CAPITOL over the abolition of negro sla
very land the consequent general intro
duction of negro pauperism) in the Dis
trict over the memory of Massa Lin
kum." and over the Radical victory
achieved by the repassage OF the civil
Rights bill. AS part of the pow-wow
programme, there was to be a procession
of citizens of color, of negro regiments,
ofnegro wenches-fresh from the Senate
reception room, and still redolent of the
odors of presentation bouquets, and fra
grant with other smells. Such a parade
of the saviors " with their glittering
bayonets such gathering of Senatorial
Venuses, with stupendous waterfalls,
water-wheels, and general water works
and fitting crinolines l am told that
Stanton ordered out two batteries to sa-
Lutte the procession as it passed. The
procession was to pass the White House
to enable the President to repeat the
speech he made to Douglass, Downing,
and the other oystermen and statesmen,
thus afording Forney and like game the
opportunity to reabuse the President
| Those highly colored patriots, Chase
| aud Butler. also expected TO address the
meeting, and the whole presented a com
bination of attractions 10 rural Radical
congressman not TO be seen in any other
show
All these things were to have hap
pened Yesterday, but the unexpected
gathering of thunder clouds in the air
prevented the expected gathering of
thunder clouds" in the streets. In
sprte of the Civil Rights bill, the poor
colored brothers and sisters were wronged
out of their holiday, and the poor Con
eressmen were cheated of their show,
A disagreeable and stormy sky, and
stormy and disagreeable sessions IN both
Houses. / am bound to say that the
| colored Christians did their best to com,
fort to console. and compensate thsir
| Congressional fathers, friends, and broth
ers The mountain could not come to
Mabomet, SO Mahomet went to the noun
tain. Congress couldn't come to see the
colored folks, so the colored folks come
in shoals to see Congress. They crowded
into the steam heated galleries, and sat,
and smiled, and sweated, and filled the
cir with the fragrance OF spice islands
In the Senate there was the remarkable
scene of the sudden and simultaneous
entrance of not less than fifty negro
children, ranging from four to fourteen
wears in age, quite little Sumner Sun
day school, most of them barefoot, some
of them frightfully ragged, aud others
enthusiastically tricked out IN fancy
Jockey hats and burlesque line
ry. These lite negro children
filled whole rows OF seats next
to the diplomatic gallery, and they must
have been hugely edited by the pro-
ceedings on the floor. Now, ! don't say
word against all this. It's all right
and quite appropriate The audience
was exactly adapted TO the capacity OF
such Senators as Sumner, Wade aud
Wilson. They appeal only to such in
tellects-to negro bantlings that are
many years from years of discretion aud
so long az Sumner, Wade and Wilson
control the proceedings of the Senate
the proceedings will mainly and only in
teresf very Young colored children, or
older gentlemen of color who have no
other or better business tO occupy their
leisure and attention.
But consider that there were good
many of the colOTed elders present, the
Senate set a very bad example yesterday
| 10 the negroes in the gallery One Sen
ator called another Senator a liar, and
| tbe other retoTted that the first was q
drnnkard. The climax was attained IN
q reference to a sonship of canine ori.
giu 1t will not be surprising if these
| naughty words are repeated, some tune
OF other, in the galleries.
It is as good place here As anywhere
10 say that Tanting radicals On the hoor
Of The Senate. and radical reporters for
the press. take special pains to tell the
! whole country that Democrat McDOu
yal and Democrat Salisbury are dis
Graceful drunkards suppose they
mean to convey the idea that Radical
Chandler and Radical Sprague are not
Nor did the House behave much better
Yesterday than the Senate But before
telling You ho,O badly the House he
hsyed let me call yOur attention 10 a
matter. which in itself would be scarce
" worth noticing, only as it affects the
public by the action OF old Ihad. Ste.
vyensr The Dead Duck uses his two pa.
pers, the Washington Chronicle and the
PHILADELPHIA Press to vilify and abnSe
the Presidentof the United States The
Secretary of State has notified Forney
that he need not send the copies, hereto
fore officially forwarded by the State
Department, to the legations aud cOnsu-
lates abroad Whereupen Forney re
double. his editorial abuse of Johnson,
and drags in Seward, and calls him
everything Billingsgate can suggest.
Old Stevens then gets up in the House
and moves suspension Of the rules
motion lost, but likely to succeed any
day-to allow motion to send three
conies of the Chronicle to eve
ry legation consulate, and CONNER
ciaI agency abroad, the expense to be
maid from the contingent fund of the
House. There are thirty.two legations,
and precisely five hundred and eighty
two consulates, consulates general, and
commercial agencies abroad, six hundred
and fourteen in all, to be supplied with
three copies apiece, at three dollars for
each COPY. This makes the pretty little
snm of 8 ,526, to be paid by the people
of the United States to John " Forney,
for abusing and ulack guarding Andrew
johnson and William H. Seward, and
! for the sake of securing another
triumph" for Congress [or Stevens, Who
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