Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-13
4 SERlOUS FALLING oar SIMMER
PLAYS FALSE TIT THE NEGRO.
"NIack," in his letter of the 9TH inst

Mack, IN ms letter OF the Ith inst. TO
the Cincinnati Commercial, tells the follow
ing story
Probably the last two persons in the
world man would expect to hear of as
quarreling are the Hon. Charles Sumner
and n respectable colored man from Bos-
ton. If were asked TO name any where in
this bleak world of ours "two souls with
but single thought" | should name in
the first place the Hon. Charles, and in the
second place the respectable colored gen
tleman from almost any where, but espe-
ciallv from Boston. But Scripture and
poetry warn us of the instability of human
friendship, and though history gives us a
few exceptions in favor of men lovely and
pleasant in life and not divided in death,
regret to say that Mr.. Sumner and the re-
spectacle eolored gentleman from Boston
can not be inclnded among them. Till
within a week they might now, they can
not. How it canIs that the unbiblical cord
which bound the Hon. Charles to the re-
spectacle colored gentleman from any
where, but especially from Boston, was
broken, never again to be united, it is the
object of this paragraph to relate The
OAhNC VI NAACl IOulHdA VI tue OtiidlS
was vacated a couple Of weeks since, by a
power which disregards the tenure of Office
act, and makes removals without 'the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate" 1t has
long been one of the unwritten laws of that
great body to allow Senators, in regular ro-
tation, the privilege of naming candidates
for clerical vacancies under the Secretary.
This time it was Mr.. Summers turn to
name the individual who should fill the
gap which death had created. There was
Joy among the respectable colored gentle
men of Boston--difused among several for
a while, but finally concentrating into To-
tense and ecstatic rapture upon one, who
was assured BY Mr.. Sumner that he should
be chief journal clerk of the Senate.
[ News of the intended selection reached
the Capital very soon. Senators remon-
strated with the Honorable Charles, whose
respectable colored gentleman was, to their
eyes, nothing but-a niger And niger
must not be chief journal clerk of the
Senate The backbone Of the Honorable
Charles stood stihy up for the respectable
eolored gentleman awhile, and the respect
able colored gentleman came all the way
from Boston to Washington in fnlI expec-
office. Senatorial remonstrances increased
in vehemence and multiplied in number,
until it was soiemnly asseverated that no
"nigger' should be clerk of the Senate, and
Forney, with all his fierce devotion to
the colored loyalists, had 10 yield to a re-
qest under no circumstances TO appoint Mr..
summers respectable colored gentleman
from Boston to the vacant clerkship. Here
was q dilemma. The respectable colored
gentleman from Boston was here, with
Summers written promise in his pocket,
and yet he couldn't get the place because
he was a niger"
Mr.. Sumner finally yielded to the pres
sure and named white man for the place.
The respectable colored gentleman went
heme TO Boston, perhaps a wiser, certainly
not happier man, swearing vengeance
against the Hon. Charles for not making
more Of a fight in his behalf, and more
than doubling the sincerity of that great
mans attachment to him personally, and
10 his race collectively. Henceforth no
more forever viii that respectable colored
gentleman from Boston sound the praise Of
Summer as the champion OF equal rights.
Gone is his admiration for the Hon.
Charles, whose sempiternAl oratiOns ON
universal brotherhood will fall upon his
eymbals, full of sound and iGry, signifying
nothing; or, as the respectable oolored
gentleman from Boston, who wears specta-
cles and hath classic air, for saw him
with mine own eyes, will doubtless put il,
Tor a prefered RiAa. oh, Charles, who'd
have thought it?