Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-12-31
OUR WAsHINGTON LETTER.
[Correspondence off the Spectator.

Correspondence of the SPECTATOR
WASHINGTON, Dec 81, 1867.
q To the most casual observer OF political affairs
sit's plainly perceptible that the Radical desruc
Ationists are now on the anxious seat as to
Iwhat precise time it will bc advisable to admit
ASouthern representatives to full fellowship in
Fathe Rump Menagerie, sometimes signihed into
sathe Congress of the United States" Pre-
svious to the recent elections they were indiffer-
Gent as to what time it might be the good pleas
Cure Of the most potent, grave, reverend sign
Gers to allow Southern niggers to send to their
4loody men of their own kidney, politically and
,5otherwise But, as delays are dangerous,
land political change has come over the North
Germ and Western mind Of the sovereign people,
S5Sumner, Stevens, Butler and Company are full
aIy determined to force Southern representation
Unto Congress, whether they will it or not
8 They are certain none but men of their own
sjalive to the necessity of having their votes to
sacounterbalance the Conservative power that Is
Blooming down in the distance like an avenging
alNemess. The fourth Of July is the time spo
aken Of as the furtherest period In which Oid
sdMother Dixies rebellious children are to be
zdikept out OF this blessed Union of wooden barns
aand nutmegs, greenbacks aud negro equality.
Suppose the dear people, down South vote
3down the pic-bold colored, loyal Republican
s3Constitution? How then? Will they be ad-
united on the purely white Constitution as Ii
=3now stands? This is a contingency Mr.. Yank
s1aas not thought Of, and one which may put HIM
.dto his wits ends to overcome, In order to COOK
dup the reconstruction pudding to his own liking
s5Vote down the nigger constitution if you have
ssto remain 'out in the cold until Gabriel blows
sjhis horn
4 The Washington correspondent Of the Boston
s I 0St usually very reliabie) makes great blum
15der when he asserts General Hancock was a
& 3member of the military commission that hung
Gan innocent woman, Mrs. Surratt. He only
asaw that the sentence was executed; the find
lalng Of which he had nothing to do with Since
3(1eneral Hancock assumed command of the
Fifth Military District and the message Of
sSsPreSident johnson to the Rump Congress in
q 5regard to his administration Of affairs in his
4glcommand, he has made himself immensely pop
5ular here with all parties except the Jacobln
Radical Republicans. Mr.. johnson makes no
q secret of General Hancock's being his choice
stor the Conservative candidate for the Presi
salency. OF course, the Radicals damn him be
a3cause he does not put the niger on the top
:arai and the ''poor white trash at the bot
5tom.
q General Grant, since the publication Of his
saietter to the President against the removal OF
gold Granny Stanton, and clustering, swearing,
.sirunken Phil Sheridan, Che stole two OF my
zahorses) he, Grant, has fallen like the mercury
Din barometer before a storm as popular war
:anorse candidate for President Conservative,
ssa1and Democrats are damnng him 'on this line
s5|to their hearts content; and Tecumseh Sher-
sgnan ruined his Presidential prospects by his in
Atemperate speech at St Louis, with the late
zisaveholding States, by saying, he did not see
slhow any Southern gentleman could think of
s3the Lost Cause than with mingled shame and
ainJanlyP It's very evident Tecumseh never
studied Locke S metaphysics, or be would not
slhave made such speech. It's not very likely
s3that heroes who fought, bled and yielded up
/! a!their hearts blood on many a hotly contested
5aoattle field, from Williamsburg to Gettysburg,
3 alfor principle which they thought to be right
and just, and still think so, are not apt to ruin
sSGheir conduct, or the cause for which they un
3sheathed the sword, in the light Of shame or
sdiiJamy!' Tecumseh Sherman? and you know
q land feel it, though you speak otherwise.
d Spoony Butler, IN response to remark OF
8 Mr. Chandler, of New York, admitted in the
dHouse yesterday, that he was not the hero of
New Orleans, but that that high honor be-
s3Ionged to admirable Farragut. The announce
ament produced boisterous laughter in the
s1House
q Some days ago, Secretary McCulloch sold
q aone million dollars of gold, and strange to say
apartment appear to be entirely Ignorant Of the
33fact.
4 A petition from the ourang- outanges of the
a 50 called Virginia Convention, headed by Hawk
Iaurst, this fellow sleeps with negroes: | have
1proof OF it, Williamson, Bayne, (negro) Hun
q licutt and others of such ilk, to empower them
do remove all Instructions to their reconstruct
1lng the State after their own fashion, and re
amove officials obnoxious to their negro kissed
d ips, has been presented to the Rump Congress
q The petition has IN view such legislation as to-
a egaIize any constitution which they may patch
q lp, and to pass a law SO that by some ''tocus
. pocus, means it may be ratified by Radicals
5no others. This is the full intent and meaning
q If the petition as is a petition. God save
q he Commonwealth
1 As Mr.. Wilson stopped all debate by calling
4 The previous question, before he sat down, when
= 3replying to Boutewell on the impeachment
question, thus causing the envenomed speeches
f Logan, Schenck, Stevens, Butler and Julian
] TO sting themselves 1t will be taken up again
4 alter the holidays in order to allow these woI-
4 Jhies to deliver or relieve themselves of their
Ipoison, though it will be voted down by larger
j majority than before
j On the floor ofthe House, yesterday morning
[ noticed Fayette McMullen and Colonel
IJohn W. Forney, alias dead Duck, y GOMEZ
N to announce to the House the passage of al
Senate bill, and after he got through, Fayette
3 lanced up to the dead duck as gaily as a
5young rooster to an old hen when she comesl
4 Iown from roost in the morning, and grasped'
!" Colonel Johns hand as if he hadn't laid
D eyes upon him for month of Sundays, and
twas cheek by jowl'' with him in less time
Ethan it takes me to write it. Poor Fayette |:
yyour doughnuts are overdone!
4 Both bodies Of the Rump took recess yes-ll
9terday until the 9th of January.
1 The veto message of the President in regard
Ito the word white in this District, was near
3y completed yesterday, but Congress having
aadjourned before the ten days allowed by law
55the allotted time for, Its consideration by the.