The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-12
HIGH JINKS.
From the N. Y. World.


From the NJ Y World
In reading the Southern papers, one comes
occasionally across some very remarkable
things in the way Of Legislative discussions,
told by the papers with q certain grim quiet
ness, as though they were nothing unusual,
which deepens the effect. The report more
Immediately in question is that describing
the closing proceedings of the upper house
of the South Carolina Legislature, which ad-
journed on the LIST inst. The closing hours
of the session were devoted to the holding of
species OF experience meeting, " in which
divers of the piebald brethren disooursed of
the effects of the reconstruction gospel upon
them; and, after sundry of the sooty
statesmen late promoted from the rice-feld
to the forum had talked in the longest
words in the dictionary about the glorious Of
dis ting, MIR. Leslie, a Senator of the now
unfavored white blood, takes the floor.
Being loil, it will not surprise the reader to
hear that Mr.. Leslie is carpet-bagger-
rogue eg o6lcio, of course, but, like most of
the peripatetic generation of vipers to which
he belongs, not ungifted with a species of
dirty shrewdness. AS the reader must know,
the negroes in the South Carolina Legislature
number within fraction of two-thirds of the
whole body, have the Secretary of State, and
one of the two associate justices of the Su-
preme Court of the State Of their own hue
poor ''plains." The harlotry of Mr.. Leslie's
politics having not quite debauched out of
him the recollection of his white father and
mother, he rises to a suggestion that it is,
after all, somewhat possible that q white
man may be as good as q negro even
in South Carolina, and mildly hints
his doubts as Republican whether the
reconstruction of the Palmetto State can
be deemed an entire success. The intima-
ton of these heresies excites indignation in
the breasts of those colored citizens who rule
South Carolina, even as their tawny compeer
in the Senate at Washington rules us of tho
North, and their just indignation finds utter
anoe in colored Senator who not SO long
back rejoiced in being lifted out of the grade
of common nlgger by reason Of driving his
masters coach. This honorable Senator says
| to Mr.. Leslie, these being the words of the
| verbatim report:-"H you don't like the
party get out of it. This kind of thing Mr..
Leslie deems an infringement of free speech,
and proceeds still further to express
his apprehension that a spirit is aris-
ing throughout the Union which threatens
to bundle such bodies as the one he addresses
neck and crop out of doors. Here again are
what the French parliamentarians term ''vari-
GUS movements" accompanied with words
more or less unsavory but, disregarding the
same, our honorable Senator continues his
peceaoi dwelling especially on the i'll opinion
he has of the person who now exhibits him.
self as living forgery on the name of Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and intimates that
in his Oeslie's) minds eye he sees this per
son appealing to the worst passions of the
black race for his own ends. "Various move
ments" ensue. What they are, report
states:- ...... --.
First colored Senator-You're liar.
Second colored SenatOr-Youre O thief
Third coored Senator-Hod your tongue, or yol
will be IN the penisentiary IN less than ninety days
Mr.. Leslie~Mr President do not mind these in
| terruptOns.
But he does mind them That white blood
which is better than any black, or brown, o
red, or yellow blood that ever was spawned
stirs in the veins even of this poor carpet bal
rogue, and in feeble way nature ferces hin
to strike at his African owners. He tell
them:-
"You are trying 70 run this machine with so man
imp0ssibities and impractcabities by mixing u
color and corruption, that 1t is like an old WACO
running down hill. Ii wibbles and wObbles, and yo
don't know whether you are going to the bottom 0
to the devil"
What follows is soon told:-
Rainey (colored Senator)-The Senator is speakin
disparagingly OF the party
MIR. Leslie-Go ON with your Interruptions, but
Swails (coiored senatOr)-Is this political NEE
ing or not ? should like to know.
Mr.. Leslie-rm only bidding farewell TO N
friends
Wimbush (colored Senator)-You have none.
Maxwell (colOred Senator)-I am disposed to tel
the sense OF the Senate to the right OF this man
proceed.
, Hayne (colored Senator)--I hope the Senator vi
not make any motion at all. The person on the fo
Is doing all he can for the support OF the Republics
party and his speech viii be the best eectioneerlI
document we can have for the administration OF
Excellency Governor Scott
( Were we not right in saying that, in readir
the Southern papers, one comes at times c
some remarkable legislative proceedings2