The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-06
THE MARRIAGE OF NELLIE.

THE MARRIAGE OF NELLIE.
A wedding at the White House GER
tainly was a real novelty, being the
first one that has occurred there in a
generation. Our Presidents have been
singularly unfortunate in respect to
daughters, either having none, or hav-
ing parted with them before they came
to reside in the Nation al Mansion,
and thus has the nation been cheated
of a great felicity.
1t was national affair yes, an in
ternational affair, and came very near
being a centennial also. How strange
that old England should come in and
share half the glory, and carry of all
the game! Are we coming under
British rule again7 I desire to know.
Time was when the pesky Britishers
couldn't come up the Z otomac and
take prizes right under the guns of
Fort Washington. They burned the
White House once TO be sure but didn't
get away with any thing valuable, as
Sartoris has done, and not one of our
Young men ever attempted to fly to
arms. =
But this was because Miss Nellie so
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 rather ahead, per-
haps, in the affair, as we shall furnish
old England with a sprig of our Cp-
sarism, 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 the pow
e1ful. 1t need not be described spec
tally for none of our lady readers viii
ever be married there, and of course
will have no occasion to copy the
programme, and the splendor of the
marriage is ridiculously small factor
in the happiness which follows or
fails. The girls viii pleaae remem-
Der this, and that it is better to so up
in the scale of happiness from the
starting point than to go down.
Every one of course is afflicted with
reflections in consequence of the
wedding, and all the young men feel
as Towlinson, the coacliman of Mr.
Dombey, did, when that gentleman
selected Frenchman to arrange the
wedding cortege, when he led Miss
Skewton to the altar, and are ready
to declare that no good ever came
of foreignors-there was Bonaparte
the head of 'em, and see what he was
allus up to-"
TIE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The civil rights bill passed the Senate
after long discussion, and by nearly
a party vote. Mr.Thurlnan and Mr..
Stockton opposed it with considera-
BILE earnestness, as unconstitutional,
and as interfering with purely State
matters, while they believed that no
good could come the colored people
by forcing the question of mixed |
schools. Frelinghuyseu and Howe
led the debate on the other side, ar
gued that equality of rights must be
maintained, and consequences would |
take care of themselves. There was
a fair spr;nklihg of colored men in |
the gentlemen's gallery, and a de-
cided lack of white listeners during
the debate, and it was found impos-
sible to create any large degree of
interest in the question:. It needed |
the voice and enthusiasm of Sumner
to arouse feeling, and without him in
the play, it became almost no play
ut all. Aud thus the gfeat agitation,
which seriously began with John
Quincy Adams about forty years ago
retires from the Halls of Congress,
with its most eloquent champion =
departing without making a ripple,
And with this agitation and Summer,
It was also apparent, that the prestige
If Massachusetts, in the Senate has
departed also. There was no leader
hip by the Bay State on this occasion
she stood behind Wisconsin, and
behind New Jersey, her glory mani
estly gone, and not so much as the
:host of dead craftsmanship to grace
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