The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-12-14
GOING TO WORK IN EARNEST.

GOING TO WORK IN EARNEST.
Among the 6rstacts of the Rump, when it met,
was to appoint Committee to visit New Orleans
to investigate the riot which took place in that
city the past summer Now it would save the
country some expense, and themselves some trou
BILE, if the committee would write out their re-
port in Washington, and without going to the
Crescent City at all. 1t would be all the same
thing; the good people would know just as
much about the New Orleans riots, by reading
Tho ,erort -rritton in Washington Or vn the top
of the Allegsnies, as if it were written in New
Orleans. 1t would not require an ordinary
thinker to be prophet or the son of prophet,
to enable him to guess the result of the investi-
cation.
As the Senate has relieved Senators Cowan,
Doolittle, and Dixon of the burthensome duties
which each of them have heretofore so ably and
faithfully performed, on the committees of which
they were respectively chairmen, and forasmuch
rs they have been put at the tail end of other or
the same committees, where it is intended they
shall have less labor to perform, and consequent
ly may have much leisure time, it perhaps would
have been better that they had been manufac-
tured into an investigating committee, and sent
to New Orleans, to investigate the disturbances
which occurred there not long since. Had they
been sent there, there is nothing more GER
tain than that their report would command the
respect of every man in the nation who loves JUS
tice and respects law. Besides, if the amend
ment of Mr. Niblack had been adopted, directing
the committee to stop at indianapolis on their
passage south, and find out who struck ''Billy
Patterson" on the occasion of the Presidents
visit to that city, the above named gentlemen
would have been the very men to report on this
disturbance too. If the Summers of the Senate
wish to disgrace them, they will have to adopt
some more effectual mode than depriying them
of their places as chairmen of certain commit
tees.
1t seems to be unfortunate that SO much of the
time of Congressman is taken up in looking after
these weighty matters. 1t was hoped by many
well-meaning persons, that they would continue
the manufacture of Bureaus for while longer,
or at least until they finished up one or two for
the orphans of white soldiers, as well as the vast
number of INDECENT white children in the coun-
try. But while it is to be regretted that the
United States Senate has sunk so far below its
former digni6ed position, as to NEEDLE in little
petty tyrannies, such as the reno val of two or
three heads of committees out of revenge for
what they call political delinquencies, it mnst not
be forgotten that MesSrs. Cowan, Dixon and
Dooittle were for years aiders and abettors of
the very party which are now and have been for
years aboring for the destruction of every right
and security which belong to the people in virtue
of Constitution transmitted to US by the men
of other and better days. 1t is true that these
gentlemen have not followed their party into oil
the extremes to which it has gone, and are not now
perhaps considered or recognized as even men,
bers oft; but they aided it in its weakness with
their counsel influence and their talents and it |
was by the aid of just such men as these that it |
gained the power that it now possesses. True
these men did not expect it to run into the ex-
tremes to which it has gone, and when it did
they left it; but how any other result could
have been looked for, seeing the material of which
it was made up, passes our understandings
Look to the North, where every fanatcism which |
ever existed in this country was born and nur-
tured until societies were formed and had grown
from pigmies TO giants-all, oil were leagued
with and looked to Aboitionism for aid. How,
then, could thave been expected that any thing
else could have grown out of such an element,
other than what we have SEEM We are far from
believing that the masses of the Republican par
ty Joined this congregation with any intention
of bringing about the deplorable results which
we have seen; but we do say, that every person
who acted with them heretofore, either WHITING
ly or unwittingly, lent his aid and influence to
this end. 1t is creditable to many, that when they
saw to what lengths the Republican party was
tending, they left it but it is greatly to be re-
GREETED that such wel-meaning men ever attach
ed themselves to it. There are yet many good
men, in our opinion, acting-some entirely and
others partially-with the Republicans, who are
doing 80, simply from the fact that they have got
into it, and dislike to change Positions and not
because they approve the course of the leaders,