The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-25
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Tho Grail Road" Radical Oonsressmen. with
their Sergeant-st-Arms, who favored our conn
munity on Tuesday night with four sermons OF
she true Radical ring, srs having good time
OF il. These especial Committees. Of Com
sress, which arc quite the fashion under the
Republican regime, arc very convenient poiisi-
cal engines. The party receives the full bene-
8t Of their services, end tho people have the
pleasure Of footing the bills. What are ahe
duties OF i Congressional R. R. Committee :
who knowst We fear not even the quartetse Of
Aoporsblss themselves, who ihnerate through
the sorth under shis oognomsn. We were PR +;
sent IL The meeting on Tuesday night, end
heard the speeches, al tho while wondering
what those harangaes had TO do with Railroads
The only allusion 10 this para Of their duties,
made in the course Of the evening, was by Mr..
JOSEPH ". McCtuno, Of Missouri, the f'rs'
sneaker. who quoted Railroad oehcial Of this
city who had given testimony under oAth BE-
iore the Committee. Mr.. MoGLURa protested
20 feel great surprise at the declaration OF this
sSstk Aaq ssia thai in the xasls sss!s e. q
a single officer connected with any Railroad
who was not di,loyal This is the only clue
we have of ths legitimate labors Of this Com
mittse during their recent abode in Charleston.
What practical bearing This important informa-
ton has upon the question Of reoonstruction,
we are at loss to divine. Moreover, it strikes
US that the widespread prevalence Of what
Mr.. MoCLuna calls "disleyalsy" In South Caro-
lima during the war, was q fact, which had BY
this time become pretty lerslly established,
and could have been ascertained in Dr.. LIE
DER's "Rebel Archives" in Washington, quite
as we'll as in private parlor at the Mills
House.
However, all this pretense Of Railroad inves-
tigation is mere bosh. The Congressional jun
to vas here for quite different purpose. The.
election for Convention is coming on. There
are many hero, both white and black, still
weak in the faith, who need "big talk" to
make them feel that they are right. These
Radical missionaries of course do not expeot
by their harangues to convert any reprobatc
'.rebs" No, but to taunt and abuse them is so
grateful to the colored heart, and is rewarded
with such rounds Of hearty-though we cannot
say very intelligent-applause, that the good
feeling of "all-overishness, induced by up
roarious cachinnation,, is deemed worthy the
vocal e1srtion. in that il tends to titillate Jali
cum Cesar into thorough Radical orthodoxy.
Whether or not our Radical Railroad breth-
rem did not likewise take hearty pleasure in
telling disagreeable, bitter, taunting and in
sulting things to their white auditors,
We are net prepared to say. Mach Of the
speech making was prefesssdly directed to the
whites, although they constituted, perhaps,
not over ons-tsnth Of the audience But every
wsrd that was spoken was, In fast fos the be-
nett, II not the amusement Of the negroes.
Oas of the speakers referred patroniEinsly
to such Of his hearers 40 entertained ''7ebel
sentiments" What he meant BY this, We can
not conceive. wo know Of not . single indi-
vidual Of eur Acquaintance who comes under
this category. Have we not ell submitted to
the decree Of war! Have We not oil taken
the oaths Of amnesty, and even registered, as
invited to do by shres Acts Of Congress, and
agreeably TO General Orders No. 66, from these
hsadqsartsrs? And yet, aftsr having dsns all
these things, We are still spoken Of as "psr-
sens entertaining rebel sentiments"
As = matter Of course, the late ''reverses"
in Ohio and Psnnsylvania received large
share OF attention from oar Radical orators,
and if we Ooald gain oar consent to allow our
selves to be amused BY the tortuosities of po-
litical sophistry, and the thousand different
shifts resorted to to hide the truth, We could
have found much food for merriment on Tues
day night. II was funny to see every one Of
thsoe asrobats take q running start to vault at
one bound over this molehill (which "the De-
mocrats," they said, vsinly have been endea-
vering TO make into = moantaial but when
they came plumb up to H. they very wisely
10 walk assund II. Why, Il We ere
to believe Af. Aocsuss, these slsstisna vsre
DUo OcuLoo4Sho AUSS o-N hSSi1N-o
sultiHg Ia Rspablloau Victories. Hs toek good
care not TO say single word sboas the defeat In
Ohio Of negro suffrage BY majority Of nearly
sc, 900 votes. II that b nothing, we sre surs
.4hose vile s,es4asea, the Democrats, will
have no objsssioa whatstsf to SEQ The ReRub- |
icans take their defeat with aseA philssopAia
equanimity.
Judge MEnovn, Of Philadslphis, talked In |
similar strain. ga Supreme Judge" quoth |
he, "what is that" "Fhs people Of my State |
lid net deem that ft oeession to turn out In |
heir might" etc. Singular, that the acidity
If The grapes was not discovered au after the
,lsotion.
MIR. WAsHDuHNa made still greater drafts
lpon the credulity Of his audience. From the
ate at which he was 'telling Is to the ma
ines" we should say that he was quite at sea.
lie said the present Congress had clear Radi-
al majority of about ninety; that in the re-
ent elections the Democrats had gained two