The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-07-31
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Outo about150, 600 population, Wash
ington CITY numbers at least 90, 600 blacks
and 10000 carpet-baggers who lead them
aud share every element Of their degra-
dation except their ignorance. OF these
10000 negroes, at least 81 900 are former
slaves. OF the 81, 900 former slaves, at
least $4,000 are of the class that, in days
of peace, were called iield-hands-negroes
who worked in gangs ont in the fields,
lived among themselves, and did not pass
that lazy ordeal of house.serrice which
meHows the darky into an inofensive,i
quiet, dutiful animal OF these $4,000
feld-hands, four-6fths have drif1ed into
thls.unhappy city in the wake of the Fed.
eral armies, aud have come from all parts
of Virginia, Mary land. aud the Caroinas,
being the worst Of their race, whom tho
advent Of peace entailed upon the best
government the world ever saw as wards
political pets, aud virile voters. SO
A WILDERNESS OF NEGROES.
They live in that part of the city known
as . The Island" which is formed by the
Potomac on the one side, and a canal
which traverses the town lengthwise and
about hundred yards back from Penn
sylvania avenue, on the north. The canal
which, originally intended for purpo-
ses of navigation, has declined into an of
fal-ditch and draiu-receptacle for all that
palt of the district it bisects-marks, as
distinctly
As the boundary line
Between Gods patience and his wrath,
the confines separating the clean from
the unelean, the safe from the dangerous
portions Of the capitol. On the north
side of this sinUous sewer live the negroes
almost exclusively. The lines of location
have been locally named Murder Bay"
'' Fredericktown," "a Howardstown." and
Uniontown," all these being settlements
within the corporate limits of the city,
the first leading out from the Long Bridge
aud the others running in consuceession
and ending at the base of old Fort STAN
ton, across the Northern Branch of the
Potomac. These settlements contain ne
groes only The localities have been given
over wholly to them It is as literally
negro country as Liberia itself, or as any
other part of Africa.
seas NEST OF MURDERERs.
In this section of the city the white
people do not lire at all, SO far as | could
discover from many walk through it for
purposes of observation. Certainly no
white woman would be safe there in the
breadest blaze of noon. No white man
everagoes there at night who knows the
characteristics of this place. In the day
time a man-risks his life to go there alone.
IF he Is accompanied BY q policeman or
two. however, walks quickly along, and
is not tempted to stop and look round him
out of,euriositv, he may pass without yio-
lence, though not without insult When
strangers come to the city they are care
fully warned by hotel clerks, by citizens
and BY policemen not to venture on the
other side of the canal. They do not ven
,ture, OF least many Of them. The records.
however, Of the principal hotels since 1865
contain the names Of about 200 guests
who mysteriously disappeared-not to
.evade board bills, for they left behind
abundant baggage, and have been lost
generallYon. the very first evening Of their
arrival Il Is known that they have set
out for a walk by themselves and have
never come back. Notify direct evidence.
but by irresistible eircumstantial suspi-
scien, it is known that these strangers have
unWittingly ventured into negro quarters
and have been there Killed Tor what was
eon them, and their bodies put cut Of sight,
The Potomac on one side, and the canal
whereof long neglect has made the mud
ten and twelve feet deep IN parts---on tie
other, both afford easy and undiscoverable
means whereby the victims can be and
haYeb been buried cut Of 81 gIt. These men
have never turned up. Byvthevefy sim
plieity and bfeFIsY VfTthe means employed
to rob and murder thcIh. detection has
been bafied. It's elaborate slaughter
which leaves a>trace behind that leads to
conviction. For a-Regro, surrounded By
other negroes, who have no regard for hui
man life, and who are keenly appreclable
of division Of spoils, to mash out the
brains of a white man, to rob him to the
skin, and TO throw his naked body into a
swiftriyer, subsequently placating his con-
federates or his witnesses with a part of
the gains, is the easiest thing in the world
to do, yet the hardest thing In the world
to find out Apparently, two hundred
and more of these murders have, within
four years, been successfully committed by
the loyal black republicans Of Washing
ton City. The Rogers murder in New
York was a simple, open affair, bugnn on
the sidewalk, finished in doorway, and
all in broad daylight on public street,
yet it has not been found out = Hashing-
ton Letter.
President Grant vas the only man Who
ever smoked ia the Coliseum. He vas
the only man, May %, who smoked on the
" Official grounds" at Annapolis, and
when sentry told him it was against
the rules be said, Q have suspended
the ruies," and pufed on. 90 -1
How doth the little crockodile
s. Improve his shining tail ~ 81
And pour the waters Of the Nile
On every golden scale. sssx
Heg leheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads bis claws, s 49,
And welcomes little fishes in -~- -
With gently smiling jaws.
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