The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-12-03
A DEFILED CAPITAL.


The strongest argument yet advanced
in support of the removal of the Capt.
tai from Washington City, is in the
fallen and wretched condition of the
city itself. There is no instance where
such swift, terrible and irretrievable
ruin has overtaken one of the Capitals
of the world. It's municipal govern
ment has fnllen into the hands of ne
groes-the worst specimens of their
race who have swarmed abont the Cap
ital, drawn by the attractions of the
Freedmen's Bureau and the sympathy
of their patrons in power. This popu-
lation reaches 10000, of whom two
thirds were formerly field hands, and
neither war, pestilence nor famine
could have been such terrible visi-
tation to the unhappy City as this in
undation of wards, political pets and
voters. From Virginia, the Carolinas
and even the romoter parts of the
South, they drifted with the closing
events of the war, like tho scum upon
the tide, to become moral stencil and
n political scourge in the precincts OF
tho Capital. And it seems a proper
dispensation of events that it should
be SO. For here was generated the
evils that grew into the monstrous
events of the war. Here these curses
were Matched, and few of the most
promising specimens have come back
to roost.
In the destruction of Pompeii, many
of the relics of its greatness and glory
were morcifully preserved to posterity.
It's wonderful works of art, its Tenn
pies and it's chaste Images have mar
velously remained to challenge our as
tonishment and respect. The citizens
of our Republic can cherish no more
patriotic hope for the future of Wash
ington, than that no relic suggestive
of it's present character shall survive
its ruin.
Some time since, we published n
description of that part of Washington
City, known as the Island, which il
formed by the river Potomac and the
canal which traverses the city. This
canal has been graphically described
'As the boundary line
Between Gods patience and bis wrath"
On the North of this is the negro
quarters, where no man can go in day
light without endangering his life. The
different localities have suggestive ap-
pellations, one of which is murderer =
Bay. The records of the principal ho-
tells in Washington City since 1865,
show that over 200 guests who have
set ont alone in this direction for a
walk, have never returned. Here lar
ceny, rape, murder and all the revolt
ing crimes known in the catalogue
hold undisturbed sway.
An exchange comes to us with the
> following portraiture of the place, e.
, tracted from the Baltimore Gazette:
"Crimes which will cnrdle ones blood
are of such frequency, that in the sub.
urbs of the city mothers are afraid tc
trust their daughters. even infants. be-
. yond she protection Of the parental roof
Notwithstanding the swift justice which
has lately followed the perpetration oi
; such outragcs, they are on the increase
I In this week two scascs are recorded
where white children under twelve years
, of age, were tho victims Of negro outrage
Indeed, there is scarce day passes ID
! which you are net shocked by the
: details Of such outrages by the brutal
freedmen" with which the city il
infested, and who arc drawn here tC
keep in power by their votes. men more
! debased than themselves. There il ne
attempt made to arrest these wrctche.
and mete out to them the justice due
their crimes; or if there is, the police of
ficcrs who have the manlincss to do theil
duty arc beaten off and the guilty parties
rescued by their comrades, as was th.
case on Monday evening, when negro
named Pool, against whom there wer.
> three bench warrants, was taken from the
officer oy a mob of negroes armed Will
knives and razors. This state Of thing,
: is but the legitimate effect of Radica
teachings upon the ignorant and unem
ployed freedmen in our midst, and tc
the Radical party should be charged the
responsibility for their crimes. Robber
les are committed in mid day, and tho
thieves invariably escape into some one
of the negro quarters provided by the
" Freedmen's Bureau" where they are
protected from arrest by bodies Of negro
men armed with pistols and razors."
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+ aid transfers the following tit bit into
$ its columns from the Moumaineer:
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