Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-02-18
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. -, 1870.


pensive practice of printing in the Globe,
at Government expense, speeches that were
never delivered. A member gets the floor
to read speech, which probably is of no
earthly interest to any one except his con-
stituents, and at the request of another
member he will give way if permission is
granted to have his remarks printed in
the Globe, which is always accorded. Ii
is doubtful if the effort will succeed, as it
is so pleasant to see ones name in print,
and in the Globe, too.
The President is flooded with petitions
to make exceptions in favor of this one
and that one of the army who has been
assigned to duty on the frontier, according
to the order sending officers West and
! Uice rcrsa. Turn about is fair play"
and the Washington army strappers have
had jolly good time, most of them have
been here since and before the war, and
| those who have been roughing it on the
frontier are entitled to some of the sweets
of civilized life. The people will be
hugely benefited by the change Those
who come have been used to O Democratic
mode of life, and will not, at least for u
time, feel their superiority to the civilian.
Those who go only find ont in the act of
going that the army don't quite own the
country and that the Government is not
organized solely for them, as their inso-
lence while in the different Offices here
indicated they thought. With all respect
for West Point as a nursery for officers
and very necessary. the quicker the
people are awakened to thorough dis
trust-hatred, if you hke-of the army or
its officers out Of their sphere, the better
it will be for the permanence Of our pres
ent, or rather, that form Of Government
prescribed by the Constitution.
Mr.. Clapp las placed three negro girls
to work in the government printing office,
Of which he is the superintendent, as press
feeders. The female employees don't like
il, but as the " bottom rail is on top" in
THIS place, they viii have to grin and
bear it - Or leave, which the poor cannot
ado at pleasure. Ga ! we are progressing.
This man ClapD has been accused of using
large amoun6 of the Bureau funds i1edis-
7eeHy, an an effort has been made to GUST
him, but he is sustained by such negro
lovers as Sumner. Wilson and Drake, the
advanced guard OF Miscegenation. If
these appoiuIoes are at all cOmely and cof-
fee colored, the explanation might be made
why they were appointed, as some CT our
Radical Legislators and officials are quite
epicurean ia their tastes and their morals
are equally as DIRK color.
Last Sundays Philadelphia Mercury
gave picture of the immortality existing
here II high Radical circles 4 sort of
| free love Mormonisnl-for which / have
no name yet-has been drawn so plainly
that all who saw the peLciling, at once re-
cognlzed the parties a lady is SAID to
have witten the expose, and more is 0rom-
iSed tomorrow.
Senators have stated openly that the
President says that whoever is confirmed
to fill the two vacant places on the Su-
preme Bench must be pledged in advance
to unite with the minority judges and re-
verse the decision Of the Court lately rem
dered in regard to Iegal-tender notes.
How quick the President jumps at the
bidding and in the interest Of the capital
lists and the bond holders. They fear from
the last decision of the Supreme Court
that the other questions may be settled ad
verSely to the interests OF capital, mOnOp-
oily and the bond holding interest. Even
if there existed no particular danger it is
we'll that the Supreme Court be rendered
harmleSs-especially as political questions
striking at the very foundation of the
Radical party will probably come before
it for ad Indication. leave this action of
President Grant stand alone as an ever
lasting monument of infamy, which, were
he an Alexander, would tarnish his laurels
and leave him stand boldly forth among
the mean tyrants on history's page.
Ben Butler has been in bad luck lately,
| While Sumner the emasculated was being
belabOrcd in the Senate by Conkling,
| q L. 1,
gated in the House by S. S. Cox, of New
| York. Mr.. Cox defended Butler from the
attacks of his friends in a humorous and
| keenly sarcastical manner Butler, COM
pletely fiabberdashed, answered after some
remarks by saying 'sShoo fly, don't bod
der me-" Laughter. Mr.. Cox, in reply,
spoke Of the economy of the administra-
ton being like saving candle-ends and
cheese parings He then turned to Mr..
Butler and said: ''And when I made those
remarks Mr.. Butler came over here and
| disposed of it all by jocose remark from
the negro m1nstrelsy-"Shoo! fly, don't
bodder me-" Laughter. In answer I
will say it is the first time IN my history
ever alluded to as an animal [ was never
considered bete raoir, nor any other kind
Of beast. I am not blessed by Provi-
dence with pachydermatous hide like a
rhinocerous, ana therefore flies may trou-
|
| tleman is not blessed with that sort of GU
ticle, and il is not possible for him to be
''bothered" by any insect. Everything
will glance from his rhinocecial hide. He
does not hnoec Aoo0 the people regard HIM.
When his Republican colleagues plainly
intimate to him that he be a thief or rob-
Der he does not take it up and it is left for
me to defend him; but because I do it in
all good nature he makes his covert negro
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attack his colleagues. He ought to make
them call a conan2ittee of Investigation on his
past alleged rObberies. We do not make
such charges. Why does he stand here a
condemned man? Why is he prescribed po-
AhcalIy and socially? Why does he reserve
all his fire, most of his fire, as he did in
the war, for his own friends in the army
and when attacked why does he retreat
like ''homb-proof soldier" and hide him
! self. as he did tho other dav in another