Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Man and Brother in the Jury Box
One step towards Imperialtsm-Our Re
latIons with Mngiand-The Treasury
ent-RoRitVy.lI, &c, &c

WASHINGTON NlTI, -. u, June loOJ.
Dear JoanH -
The June term Of the Criminal Court of
this District commenced on Monday, and
Judge Fisher who presdes over its desti-
MES directed the Marshal to summon a
quota OF negroes to serve on the Jaries.-
! The Marshal did So and the consequence
is, that on the grand inquest there are five
and on the petit jury there are nine men
and brethern." The Marshal for more
properly the Deputy Marshal who does all
the business for his principaD wishing to
make the best Of the job, summonsed the
best and most intelligent darkies in Wash
lngton. Had he seleote from the rank
and file, from the thieving, brutal, stupid,
murderous bulk of our ignorant and de-
PRAYED negro population, their actions in
| the jury boxes would have been the anti
dote to the poison and probably we might
soon have been rid of the degradation
The Judge, in charging the grand jury,
entered into M elaborate summary and
exposition Of the law, intending it special
ly for the edification OF the colored ele-
| ment OF the inquest. In the outset he
cong atulated the negroes on their advan-
cement to thcposition of juros, and said: -
For the first time in the history of this
District, the tawny, brown complexion Of
race depressed and degraded by six gen.
erations of slavery, has at length, in the
seventh. made its appearance in the grand
jury box in The Capital of nation that
may proudly boast, and with more truth
and Justice than our mother country. that
the moment slave shall have set his foot
upon her free soil his shackles fall from
around him, and he stands forth redeem
cd, regeneratcd and disenthralled by the
genius of universal ,manci patton" With
much more truth and justice could the
learned Judge, (who is considered by the
bar as very far inferior lawyer to his CO.
adiutors on the bench, ana .initely below
the great Judge who preceded him, the
lamented Crawiord) have said, "for the
first time In the history of Washington has
an impious aud brutal fitnaticisn, hypo-
critical III it's conception, sacrlligious in
it's tendencies, and doomed to violent and
bloody death, succeeded in proetitutiug
the sacred bulwark Of Anglo Saxon iber-
ties into degradation so vile and infa
nous, that century must elapse ere the
pollution shall be wiped away, and men re-
gard it with the reverence OF DID,"
Alas for the country under Radical rule!
Striving to engraft the institutions and
the customs of the Latin Race upon the
genius of the Anglo-Saxon, the Yankee
Puritans are doing all in their power to
make the people disgusted with the insti
tutionS Of our fathers.
The introduction of negroes into the
jury box Of Washington is a step towards
forcing it upon the people all over the
country-a step towards gaining the con-
sent Of the masses to the substitution of
an Imperial dynasty for the Republic of
our fathers. They are advancing to this
end with tearfulty rapid steps, and the peo-
pie are apparently so apathetic on the sub
ject. because unsuspicious, that [ don't
think can sound the alarm too often.
learn from the State Department to-
day that tho next steamer from England
ter Motley. The information was given |
me too readily, and was promulgated to
other newspaper correspondents with too
much officious promptitude for me to think |
there was much in the news. Minister |
Motley has no important dispatches to |
send. If there be anything important
which be felt necessary to communicate, |
the cream and substance Of it would long
since have been known in this country
through the agency of the Atlantic Tele-
graph. This is not the age for diplomats
and politicians to keep important news Sc
cret among themselves. Such items will
be known, if necessary, to the intelligent
and acute fraternity who run :" the news
paper press. Mr.. Fish, however, is on
cold fogy," and the State Department for
years is famous for being composed of fos-
they think to impose upon the
country in the interest Of Radicalism, with
such antiquated nonsense.
The Treasury Department is closed to
people having business with it's officers
at two O'Clock p. m. All those who are
to &C in after two must get
s. pass from the Superintendent of the
building. Boutwell, has gathered this idea
from the cotton factories of New England.
He especially detests the press. In fact
one Of the door-keepers told NE to-day he
had orders to keep all newspaper men off
the steps of the building after two o'clock.
What do you think of this step il the pro-
gress of Imperialism ?
Tnhn Ch:n O mon