Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-18

WASHINGTON D. c., March 9, 1870.
Dear Journal The Committee on Re-
construction yesterday made an inquiry
into Tennessee affairs, with view of Con-
gressional interference, Ill order to guar
antee to that State, now represented in
! Doth branche of Congress, Radical form
of government. After Tennessee will
come New York, as Butler claims that
Congress has the power, and no doubt
will find the occasion.
Isaac Myers, negro, has been appointed
Special Agent Of the Postofice Depart
ment at large, at 81, 200 per annum and So
per diem while travelling. Good for
Sambo!
It is stated that the negroes in the dis
tricts lately represented by Deweese and
Whittemore Will nominate and elect negro
members with the understanding that the
cadets appointed to Annapolis and West
Point must be negroes. General Butler
has bid high for the negro vote. He has
appointed Charles Wilson Sumner, negro
lad to cadetship at West Point I think
Butler is playing sharp in this matter
He expects to get the favor of the "mokes"
cheap. First there is a very grave doubt
of any negro passing an examination, on
the principle that ''there is more ways of
killing a dog than choking him with
butter. And having passed he will have
jolly time remaining there. A white
boy who is obnoxious finds the weather so
warm chat he is glad to resign to enjoy
that Presidential-longing peace, and I
have grave doubts of Sambo ever being
"one of Them when everybody knows he
is lone of those" Still there is no telling
now that the ''bottom rail is on top"
Trustee Bashon has given tickets of ad-
mission to two more negro children to the
public schools in this city. Out of forty
white pupils who were in school the pa.
rents Of twenty three took their children
from the school. The admirable public
school system of this District is now brok-
en- up, and the poor no longer educate
their children in the schools which are
supported by their taxes, unless cheek by
jowl with the filthy offspring of contra
bands. Will the poor man ever learn that
the Radicals would degrade him and his,
simply on account of his poverty, to the
level and com partnership of the negro?
Mr.. Voorhees,, of Indiana, in the House
yesterday called attention to the New
York Evening Post, Of Tuesday, which
stated that the Military Committee was ex-
aiming the case against him MIR. Voor-
hees) on the charge of selling a cadetship.
Mr.. Voorhees, was not aware until he read
the article that there was any investiga.
ton pending against him. He most in
dignantly secuted any such thing and de-
nounced the practice of correspondents
misrepresenting members when there was
no foundation for il. General Logan,
Chairman of the Committee, said, in JUS
tice to MIR. voorhees,. that there was not an
intimation of suspicion against him in
the Committee. Thus the vile, lying SLAM
der is nailed at once. This was the DELHI
crate, studied effort of vile wretch to in
jure q most excellent gentleman through
the columns of paper which. if it does
not make the anse1sde honorable by denying
the article, must bear the stigma of base
partizanship in attacking the reputation of
a Democratic member, by making charges
knowing them to be false, as an offset to
the corruption and venality of their own
party. This fling at MIR. Voorhees,
falls harmless at his feet, even his
bitterest political opponents laugh
at the scribbler who was SO silly as to
choose for his lying statements one whose
reputation is sans reproche, but as ode
traction loves q shining mark" and the lie
has gone forth some of the poison may
accomplish the end proposed, the injury
Of gentleman whose sole crime ia that he
is friend of the toiling masses and de-
termined enemy of capital and monopoly.
The Committee on Banking and Curren-
cy have decided in The bill which they are
to report increasing the currency $50, OO0,-
0OO. that the new issue shall be in green
backs.
General Quesada, late General in Chief