The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-02-26
A Serious Falling Out.

A Serious Falling Out.
Probably the last two persons in the
world a man would expect 70 hear Of as
quarrelling are the Hon. Charles Sumner
and respectable coloured man from Bos-
ton. II were asked to name anywhere
in this bleak world Of ours "two souls with
but siugle thought should name in
the first place the Hon. Charles, and in lie
second place the respectable cooured
gentleman from almost anywhere, but es-
pecally from Boston. But Scripture and
poetry warn MS Of the instability Of human
friendship, and though history gives us a
few exceptions in favor Of men 10, ely and
pleasant in life, and not divided in death,
| regret to say that MIR. Sumner and the
respectable cooured gentleman from Bos-
ton cannot be included among them Till
within a week they might; now they
cannot. How it came that the umbilical
cord which bound the Hon. Charles to the
respectable coloured gentleman from aLy-
where, but especially from Boston, was
broken, never again to be united, ii is the
ohiec: of this paragraph to relate: The
office of chief journal clerk of the Senate
was vacated couple of weeks since, bya
power which disregards the Tenure Of
Office act, and makes removals without
'the advice and consent of the Senate
1t has long been one of the written laws
of that great body to allow Senators, in
regular rotation, the privilege of naming
candidates for clerical vacancies under the
Secretary. This time it was Mr.. Summers
turn to Iamc tie individual who should fill
the cap which death had created. There
was JOY among the respectable coloured
gentlemen OF Boston difused among sever
al fnrawhile, but finally concentrating into
intense and ecstatic rapture upon one, who
was assured bv Mr. Sumner that lie should
he chief journa clerk of the Senate.
News of the intended selection reached
the capital very soon. Senators remonstfa'
ted itlthe Iionourable Charles, whose re-
spectacle coloured gentleman was, to their
eyes, nothing but nigger. And nigger
must not be chief journal clerk of the Sen
ate! The backbone of tie Honorable
Charles st..od stifiy up forthe respectable
coloured gentleman awhile and the fespec-
table. coloured gentleman came al the way
from Boston to Washington in full expec-
tatiun of being installed in the promised
office. Senatorial remonstrances increased
in velemence. and multiplied III number,
until it was solcmnlv asseveratcd that no
.'niegcrr should be clerk of the Senate,
and Forncv, with all his ''ferce devotion"
to the cooured lcvalists, had to yield to a
request under no circumstances to appoint
Mr. Summers respectable coloured gentle
man from Boston 10 the vacant clcrkSiiip.
ere wa dilemma. The respectable
colourcd gentleman from Boston was here,
with Summers written promise i'll his
pocket, and yet he couldn't get the place
because he was "ngger.'
Mr.. Sumner finally yielded to the press
ure and named white man tor the place.
The respectable coloured gentleman went
home to Boston, perhaps a wiser, certainly
not happier man, swearing vengeance
agains, the Hon. Charles Tor not making
more OF fight in his behalf, and more than
doubling the sincerity Of that great mans
attachment to him personally, and to his
race collectively. llrncctorth no more
forever will that respectable coloured gen
tlenlan from Boston sound the praises of
sumner as the champion Of equal rights.
Gone is his admiration for the Hon.
Charles, whose sempiternal orations on
universal brotherhood will fall upon his
cIlagrincd and disappointed ear as tinkling
cymbalS, full of sound and fury, signitying
nothing; or, as the respectable colourcd
gentleman from Boston, who wears spec
tacIeS. and hath CLASSIC air 4or sa~ biz;
with mine own eyes), will doubtless put it,
ror 1T prnt. rea hihH Oh, Charles, who'd
have thought it p Washington tor. Cnci@-
nnati Commercial.