Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-12-18
SUMMERS HOBBY.


There would be no Senator Sumner if there
were no negro. He thinks negro, he talks ne
gro, he seems only to know negro Mark his
!. conduct in the Senate on the opening day OF
1.-The present session. he was the first Senator
uDon the aoor after the President had an
/ nounced his readiness to receive motions, and
his first act was to can the attention of that
BODY to the fact that he had received infOrma-
ton from Richmond that about $50 negroes had
been discharged from employment in that city
of Virginia, by their white employers, for hav-
ing voted so the negroes stated-the Radical
ticket; and he Sumner, asked that the Senate
should at once adopt measures for the interpo-
sition of the National authority, for the pun
ishment of the white employers, and the relief
and benefit of the discharged negroes The
white employers were disfranchised citizens,
who owned property or transacted business,
and from whose pockets were extracted the
taxes which went to support the local, State,
and Federal (Military) governments under
which they live. The discharged negroes own
mo property, pay no taxes, in nc way sustain
the burdens of government, but by means of
Radical legislation, they are permitted to am
ply enjoy all the blessings of government.
They had voted not only to maintaia themselves
in this unreciprocal blest condition, but they
had also voted to hold their employers, upon
whose wages they were daily feasting, in po-
litical subjugation, and to actually Cypress and
plumber the very men upon whose bounty they
were subsisting. YET because their white en-
plOyers dismissed them from service, the model
Senator of the Radicals demands that the con-
stitution, the rights of a State, the laws and
usages Of our Government, shall be trampled
upon and disregarded, and that Congress shall
usurp the authority to step in between the en-
ployer and employed, in private business affairs,
ia order that $50 complaining negroes shall be
favored, and as many white employers shall be
punished for simply exercising a prerogotiye
which belongs to every person who employs
another at day service The model Senator
offers this as the first business in the Senate,
at time, too, when, in foreign dungeons there
languish, feeble and outraged, white American
citizens who have been made to feel the crush
ing tyranny of monarchical power, and whose
precious lives and whose liberty this Govern
ment of ours stands pledged and bound to pro-
tect and guarantee. This model Radical Sem
ator brings up this negro bill first, when thous-
ands upon thousands of white people in our
own land are cruelty suffering for the want of
just and wholesome Legislation in their behalf;
when, likewise, the political and financial con-
dition of the country is in most perilOus strait,
and the wisest, highest, best craftsmanship is
required to safely carry the nation through the
crisis. But all these considerations have no
weight or influence with the leading Massa-
chusetts Senator. He has no sympathy with
the whites who are not Radicals; he will aid
in no cause which is not calculated to harass,
Cypress and degrade the South he will ex-
hibit zeal and sympathy and activity for no
person who is not negro. He represents the
negro, not the people.