Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-06-05
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THE MARRIAGE OF NELLIE.

THE MARRIAGE OF NELLIE.
A wedding at the White House
certainly was a real novelty, being
the first one that has occurred there
in generation. Our Presidents
have been singularly unfortunate in
respect to daughters, either having
none, or having parted with them
before they came to reside in the
National Mansion, and thus has the
nation been cheated of a great felic-
ity.
1t was q national affair-yes, an
international affair, and came very
near being centennial also. How
strange that old England should
come in and ehare half the glory,
and carry off all the game! Are
we coming under British rule again?
desire to know. Time was when
the pesky Britishers couldn't come
up the Potomac and take prizes
right under the guns Of Fort Wash
ington. They burned the White
House once to be sure, but didn't
get away with anything valuable,
as Sartoris has done, aud not one of
our young men ever attempted to
fly to arms.
But this was because Miss Nellie
80 willed it, exercising her woman's
right, and it shows that times have
changed, and we are no longer
afraid of the British. We are rath-
err ahead, perhaps in the affair, as
we shall furnish old England with
a sprig of our Casarism as the New
York Herald would call it, and they
may need something in place of
their effete royalty. The wedding
itself was like others in high life,
splendid in all the appointments,
and honored by the presence of the
rich and powerful. 1t need not be
described specially for none Of our
lady readers will ever be married
there, and Of course will have no
occasion to copy the programme;
and the splendor of the marriage is
Ia ridiculously small factor in the
Happiness which follows or fails.
The girls will please remember this;
and that it is better to go up in the
scale of happiness from the starting
point, than to 60 down.
Every body of course is afflicted
with reflections in consequence of
the wedding, and all the young men
feel as Towlinson the ccachman OF
Mr.. Dombey did, when that gentle
man selected Frenchman to ar
range the wedding cortege, when
he led Miss Skewton to the altar,
and are ready to declare that s'no
good ever came of foreigners there
was Bonaparte the head Of 'em and
see what he was alus up to-"
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The civil rights bill passed the
Senate after long discussion, and
by nearly party vote. Mr.. Thur
man and Mr.. Stockton opposed it
with considerable earnestness, as
unconstitutional, and as interfering
with purely State matters, while
they believed that no good conld
come to the colored people by fore
ing the question of mixed schools.
Frelinghuysen and Howe led the
-debate on the other side, arguing
that equality of rights Must he main
tanned, and consequences would take
care OF themselves. There was a
fair sprinkling of colored men in
the gentlemens' gallery, and deci-
ded lack of white listeners during the
debate, and it was found impossible
to create any large degree Of interest
In the question. II needed the voice
and enthusiasm of Sumner to arouse
feeling, and without him in the play
1t became almost no play at all.
And thus the great agitation,-
which seriously began with John
Quincy Adams about forty years
ago retires from the Halls of Con
grcss, with its most eloquent cham
.pion-departing without making
ripple.
And with this agitation and Sum.
ner, it was also apparent, that the
prestige Of Massachusetts in the
Senate had departed also. There
was no leadership by the Bay State
on this occasion-she stood behind
Wisconsin, and behind New Jersey
her glory manifestly gone, and not
so much as the ghost ofdead states
manship to grace the OCCASION
Boutwell,, it is true is not very well,
but had it been otherwise, the result
would have been the same, as he
lacks the power to electrify the Sen
ate. Thurman predicts that the
Supreme Court, will find the bill
unconstitutional, and as lawyer,
he is one of the ablcst in the Senate.
MONDAY IN THE HOUSE
On Monday Butler tried to get
the Senate bill referred to his com.
mittee, but failed. Assistant Sec.
rotary Sawyer put into the commit
tee of Ways and Means, sharp
document defending his course in
the Sanborn business. The paper
is able, and will attract attention.
Old Rear Admiral Shnbrick, the
senior officer Of the u. S. Navy,