The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-08
Hannah TsIer,s Letter.

A letter from this lady will be found pub
lished below. She is a female clerk in the
Treasury Department at Washing gton.-
Whether Hannah is spinster OF a married
woman, young or old, handsome or homely.
We have no means of knowing. From the
vinegar tone of her letter. we ipcline to the
opinion that she is in the sere and yellow
leaf, and on that account mas been cast in
the shade by her more fortunate associates,
who owe their appointments and continu-
nnce in Office to their personal advantages
Be that as it may, her letter, although it
contains no disclosures which are new, is
still remarkable, and IS well calculated to
arrest attention. In one of her statements,
at least. she is fortified by that eminently
Shrewd juGge Of the hidden mysteries of
Congressional life, Thaddeus Stevens. As
the acknowledged leader Of tie radicals in
Congress it was necessary that be should al
ways be able to hold them we'll in hand and
have them prepare for any emergency. Of
him it is recorded that during the session of
1867 he declared that it was next to iupos-
sibe to preserve the radical ranks unbro-
ken when test vote was about to he taken,
for the reason that about one third of his
forces had their wives in Washington and
their women at home. whilst another third
had their women in Washington and their
wives at home.
If Hannah Tyler tells the truth, and she
protests that she does, then is ours the most
demoralized government on the face of
the earth. While the ''mistresses'' of Con-
gressmen swarm in the depart ments, with
nothing TO do, their liege lords at the other
end of the Avenue are enacting laws for
the people in the name of ''God and moral
ity."
1t has recently been announced that the
Secretary of the Treasury has appointed a
young colored lady from Philadelphia to a
clerkship in his department. This is as it
should be. and We hope he will appoint sew
eral more of the same sort Without at
all impuning the character Of this colored
female clerk, we insist that if Congressman
must have their ''paramoure and mistress
es" quartered in the treasury. or anv other
department, at the public expense, The Sc
lections should be made without any dis
tinction of race or color" This PROPOSE
tion will have at least one correct advocate
in the person of Charles Sumner To be
consistent he could not do less. No distinc-
tion on account of color is the head and point
Of the uew radical dispensation, as applied
to the political and social condition of the
two races, and there is perfect fitness of
things in pushing it to its logical result as
between Congressman and their questionable
relationship to their female proteges in the
different departments. In that way, to
certain extent, can the grand social milleni-
um by speedily ushe red in, when, as radical
reformers predict, we will be prepared 'to
see Helen's beauty on the brow of Egypt"
WOMEN AS CLERKS IN WASHINGTON.
SERIOUS cHARsEs By WOMAN.
The INDEPENDENT says: 1--WE publish the
following letter, bearing the signature of
woman-a clerk in the Treasury Department
though we have no personal acquaintance
with her. If her statements be true they
should arrest the attention Of the public If
fAlse' let them be exposed -