The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-05-06
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cop,ds CIap. Calhoun, Webster, and other
Gentlemen OF the old regime have stepped
INFO the House at Washington on Weunso.
dav they would have been overwhelmed ey
the spectacle of Niger In the chair OF lns
Speaker! What Jackson would nave salu,
or the venerable James Buchanan Wouio
nave thought, or Bully Brooks would aave
done. could they have witnessed TINS AIT.
can thus darkeniDg the seat OF the cnlei
officer, passes the power Of imagination.
Undoubtedly the announcement carried
ioy to the heart Of many old-line aoolltlon-
isis who read the inspiring news. IL Is one
of the fruits of their labor. 1t Is TO them
compensation for the murder OF LoVeJoJ,
the 1uffianly assault on Sumner, the hanging
of John Brown, aud all the contume'y Whlcn
chung about them from the organization OF
the abolition party down to the SURRENDER Oh
Richmond. A negro in the CHAIR OF tne
House is q symbol of victory over which
Ivory abolitionist may finger III triumph:
ahoIitionisn recognizes grand benefit and
a matter of profound qualification IN the
event: but how is it with the country! Is 8
:. nirger" in the chair Of the Speaker OF the
House rs much q matter Of qualification 10
The country as to the old:line abolltionistf
Somehow it would seem not. The ATT
can is free all over the South. He is Tree 10
lie in the sun; free to organize predatory
excursions on his white neighbours cnie I
roost and smoke-house; free to run LOT III
oress and the Legislature; free 10 osoer ~
the chair OF the Speaker OF tne nouSs "a
Representatives. In fact ana tTu1 H., n' 70
free of all moral restraint, OF I'll iesA,
straint. of all responsibility, taaation' 80
tion. and difficulty. lie IS the Lno's
ousIy free creature in cxlsteLce.ieo,U o op
of decent garments, OF euuGatl9p' eI.T'
plosae< arc for his own future, or the rights
o,hers. Such another case OF ecstatic
vi en,.,or, exists nowhere outside the South,
or of Paradise. ,..,.
VI IN the other hand, there are some little
drawbacks. TO confer this inestlmable boon
If freedom upon this inestimable creature,
~ enable him to sit in the Speakers chair ut
Washington, to enable him to progress from
q Scnerambian to a legislator, we have H. !
cured some expense. Notably DEBT OF
several thousands of millions. Notably, also, |
the loss OF some two or three hundred thou !
sand lives. We must also chalk UP as an offset
,rainst putting Rainey in the Speaker chair
TANNER rs President, with Ben Butler rs
his RIGHT bower, Morton as his left bower,
and I,oyan. FarYell, and company for trumps.
sanborn. JAYNE, Count Fosco, Boss Shcp-
nerd Kirkland, Leet, Stocking, Northern
Pacific railway bonds, moieties, the whiskey
steal, divers and sundry defalcatlons on the
mart of postmasters and collectors, an ire
lecmabe currency, the late panic, a high
ariff. and 4 few thousand other similar
hings, including Kellogg, Durell, and Bax-
must also be charged up against
lie pleasing spectacle of seeing the dusky /
member from South Carolina occupying the
hair of the Speaker.
Were one not too much thrilled with the
glorious vision Of kinky hair and ,blubber
ips, topping the speakers seat, he might re-
Iect that the. glorious labor Of getting Rainey
hither, of freeing his sable compatriots, has
educed all southern white men to worse
layery than that from which the Afric has
ust been rescued, commonwealth going to
uin. once wealthy and populous cities gone
II going to the devil, half nation PROSTATE
lnder negro ignorance and federal criminal
ty, usurpation everywhere, and peace and
prosperity nowhere. These are some more
incurred in boosting Dir.
,ainey from the plantation in South Caro-
ina TO the speakers chair at Washington.
Whether or not all these expenses have
zen met by the triumph of seeing Mr. Raj
ey at the head of the Committee OF the
Whole is calculation which will reach dif.
erent answers, according as one happens to
e nigger, abolitionist, or patriot Chicago
Tines.