Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-17
SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF
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contemporaries for expressing the craven opin-
ion that inasmueh as Congress has the sole
sovereignty over the District, and is bound to
DO as il pleases here, il may be as well on the
whole for US TO let il. This Is Seryile. saws the
EzPrsss; IL is Base, 1t is Venal, 1t i. UnmanIy,
It Is Unworthy of Freemen, it is Foreign to the
Genius Of Our Institutions! Perish the
thought! To Arms! District of Columbians
never. never, never will be Slaves Where
whore, where will you find Greener Graves
than in the City Hall lot ! Let us perish in
the First Breach! Let us perish in the Last
Breach
certainty BY 0eans. If we must die let
rs die decently- pair OF breeches! But
why die at all, and so tender, so CAV
and so fair. And l. pose we do die. what
will IL amount TOT Will Congress relent over
Cur eloquent remains, Will II incontinently
cave and everything be lovelyl will an indig-
nant country rise TO the rescue OF the enthralled
District Of Columbians and Hurl the Tyrants
from their cane-bottomed arm-chairs! This
We admit would be something like. We
wouldn't mind sacrificing few of our latest
and most unseryiceable City Fathers for such
noble ends. But seriously and soberIy, we
should like TO know what is proposed to be
done suppose our two dozen Councilmen of
the al interim persuasion resolve not to sue
cumo 10 the Tyrannical Capital tt Jacobini-
cal Capital J. See National IateQigs soer) Con-
gress, what them What are they going to do
about II. Traipsing up to the City Hall
nd back again the hot sun don't
help the GAUGE, it seems to us. The
sight of brave man bearing up uncom.
plsiningly under adversely is said TO be a noble
and eleyatIng one, eliciting admiration and
sympathy even nom the gods. We have seem
our noble od interim City Government sitting
-Or many hours OF several afternoons on the
cold, hard, unswept steps of the City Hall
waiting patiently for keys that didn't come
The gods doubtless looked on with moist ewes
bu: man was obdurate-
Up stairs and down stairs wearily they wan
der,
The Major says nay; mustn't break in the
Chamber.
And when that noble army OF martyrs, weary
with much waiting, stretched their stiffened
joints and filed in solemn procession to the Law
Bulldings, bearing the traces of ignominious
adverse fortune on the seats of their summer
pants, in the shape of largeish stains of dust
and tooaSeo-Juice, doubtless the gods cried
sCme more, but was the great cause of District
Rights advanced thereby! Was it cal.
culaied TO make the Jacobin Congress wilt
II isn't every set of cd interim City Fathers. 10
De sure, that would trudge up to the CITY Hall
these suiiry days, and sit around ON cold door,
steps ike so many Spartans, exposing them
selves without the slightest regard to conse.
quences, TO catch the rheumatism or the niles
or we don't know what all. Were proud of
EN-. We don't believe the country could pro.
ddce such another set of I'D intsrims And vet
though il is doubtless foreign to the genius of
our institutions, and unworthy of a freeman TO
express such an opinion, really we can't see
that this Is the way to make Congress wilt
AlmfrfinC he
zens imperilling their lives sitting on cold
door-steps is an elevating and ennobling one.
vill II produce practical results And can we
Keep up an united front Will not some he
cropping on from WEAKNESS or illness
hcCatnran says be can't stand II much longer
Larman Is nearly tagged out others may be in
the same hx. To De sure one can but die for his
country. We are not prepared to saw that
death from bowel-complaint or cramp-co,ie
incurred from exposure sitting on the CITY
Hall steps in the bet sun opposing Jacobin,cal
Congressional Tyranny, may not be intrinsi.
cany rs noble and glorious as death at Their.
mopyle. A Washington Alderman stoically
citing out bad attack of gripes, a quarter OF a
mile from whisky cocktail, may be to all in
tents and purposes as heroic a character as the
spartan boy with the fox gnawing at his yitals.
but II must be admitted that these instances
isck scenic effect. The tragic result to be effec.
i've must be sudden. simultaneous. Two dozen
Councilmen stretched out in a row. cut off IN
theiryouthful bloom, would be a subject To make
the stones cry; but drIbbling along at the
rate OF funeral a month won't answer
But the non-succumbers say they Will fight
out the whole year, or the whole two wears
IN me City Councils. To newspaper men,
with an eye 20 Extras, this idea has some at
uacuve points, but we can't see just where the
her eft the cif n,
deadlock for year the whole municipal ma.
chine must come to a stand stin The Public
Schools Fire Department, Police Department
" alter Department. &c, must necessarily Re
closed; but the school children, fremen DO
licenen, and all the others will have plen
" OF time 10 enjoy the amusing and in
s;rUetiye performances at the CITY Hall.
They can witness nightly the roaring farce
OF 1.-The Loggerhead Councils" performed
BY double company, with Alderman Moore
and Alderman Richards in their side-split-
ing performance Of playing President; -four
tshlng their gayels over each others bald
sconses, boring their sharp elbows into each
others short RIBS, treading on each others
eorns, ard doing their aerobatic best TO crowd
each other OF the Presidential dais All this
shouting AZ the top Of their voices and with
Two sets OF aldermen aiding and abetting to
Complete the pandemonium. In the Lower
Bears we may count upon a similar perform
aace, headed by President Fowler and Presi-
dent Nalley, at least once a week for fifty-two
nights engagement II we keep this up year,
ne city and is interests Will have gone 10 the
dogs, but we shall have astonlshed everybody
and establish he'd the great principle of District
Kignt-to make itself an intoIerable nuisance
We reiieTate the opinion that this is tom foole-
~ ana know that the business people of Wash
IngJon heartily agree with us We don't
believe that the volume OF the Tiber would be-
greatly ~ ollen ny their tears If the Charter
vas taken away altogether: and if Congress
chooses TO take part OF the legislation for the
District into its ewn hands. they are disposed
% grln and bear II, even If they don't like il
altogether. Anyhow they are not disposed 10
JOin IN any silly warfare upon the power that
has sole rol in the district
THE EIGHT Hour MOvEMESr-About 2 oo
b-icklsyers held a meeting in New York ON
Monday night 10 consider the propriety of de.
handing eight hours 4 day instead of the nrss-
ent rae of ten hours. After a lively discus-
sion. II was resolved that on and after Mona.,