Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-03-06
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Times.
MASHINGrnN ID G March 1874

| WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 4, 1874
| There is one thing the Republican mind can
not comprehend; the Republican mind can com
prehend good deal, especially there is money
| in it. The mysterious calamitieS of death and
| taxation are within It's compass; but it cannot
make out satisfactorily to itself why the Demo
cratic party should be immortal. Seasons come
and go, empires rise and fall, even Susan b.
| Anthony must die, at least | think so, but the
Democratic party blooms on in perpetual youth.
| As once said to my Republican friends of the
Ohio Legislature, 1t is hard to realize, never
| thelcSS it is a fact, | was at one time member
of the Ohio Legislature, it seems to me a hide
| Gus dream, a sort of nightmare, lasting two
yearS-nevertheleSS it was reality. | was
known aS the member from Hamilton elected in
Logan, and supposed to be troubled with spinal
meningitis, or dyspepsia, or some other horri-
| BILE disease, and whilst in this condition re-
member assuring my Republican hrcthren-my-
self n Black Republlcan-that they need not
| tiatter themselves with the fond deluSon that
the Democratic party was dead. The W ander-
| ing Jew may die, even, as | have said, Susan
B. Anthony is liable to dissolution, but the
| Democratic party is immortal. On the last
great day, when the nations OF the earth ar,
called to Judgment the Democratic party will
come up whooping, swearing that IL Will vote
the ticket, the whole ticket nothing but tn,
naked ticket and going for the Constitution as
il was, and the Union rs it is.
| Onjy think of it. In lSGI the Democratic
party went under; il suffered too much Doug
| las and Buchanan, ami retired to the shades OF
private life. The war came on and the Demo.
cracv went in 10 fight the enemy FROM force OF
habit, aud to Keep its hand in. aud from that day
to this il has suffered nothing but diSa>trou,
defeats. 1t ran Mcclellan on a war platform
and failed. 1t ran Seymour on a peace plat
| nd tallp Il ,I,.Ip no Il Ia
whatever, and failed worse than ever. Every
| BODY, almost, except Allen G.. Thurman aud
| his uncle VIM. B. Allen, who - supposed 10 be
buried near Chilicothc. said. now surely tn,
| Democratic party is dead; let us put il in the
ground and build monument taller than the
! " aShinEton Monument at the national capital,
| that lis once existence may Toe CommoTatei III
perpetual marble before the echo OF these words
died out, OF the grave could be dag. the Demo
cracy aStonished the world by getting up aud
electing the aforesaid Allen, supposed 10 tt
buried near Chilicothe, Governor Of Ohio; not
content with this, it returned Allen G.. Thur
man. nephew once more 10 the Senate.
Allen G. came back with his snuff and his
red bandauna handkerchief. and proceeded 10
make hiluse.fdisAErccAblc As a Democrat; hen
.. ?. Morton saw these things. he said IN his
proflnc way. well, II he ID. 1t Was not
necessary for O. 7. 10 have said that, for ): the
i
tachcd. is correct in his plan Of salvation. Nor
ton has been counted out ion. ago.
And now in the House. properly known -
| the Cave OF the inds. and IN my Old iu-,- bank,
the Democratic party. numbering less than ever.
/ is greater terror than ever. There j. one ms
chief that il Is doing: II Is cooPcru- up thss
| Republican beer barrel bv continuing TO exist.
But for this outside pressure the Republican or
! ganizAtsou would tall 10 pIccvs; not even the
attractive oohcSlvene>S O; plumber could Keep :,
/ together. 1t is made up Of such il.-As>ortsi
materials, such anita EOnIst.c elements that even
/ the one feeling in common, selfish greed, could
not hold il together.
have been laughed al for the assertion that
the Democratic party WAS the governing &C
meut Of the country. The Republican oTEaHt-
zatiou. so-cailci. Is only an I'd IatSriH aiiaIT--
| 1t has been al raftrIna precious long time, II
| Is true and. as Mark Twain fellow said. when
| he had been kicked fifteen times, 1t was Ecti!aG
| 10 be monutonous. But sooner or later. and
let hope sooner, the people will rise up and
run these thieves out. There IS but one pa.t1
| ,n ,ite ~urld Standing upon = platform that i
| as good in one part Of the | uitcd States a. an
| other. 4 genuine Republican cannot cHis, out
Of New Eu-iAnt-l.hc the Snowman Gaa-ts-
cutus. that wouliu.i live on land aud died n
| the water. his health was good any - here
when he undertakes to represent the South. he
Is CarTct-tA -EcT or a scAlla"a-, and ontt
| STAYS long enough TO MI h.s pockets It'll plum
der Then he disappears and the place that
| knew him once is very glad never - Auow him
any more; or, a the frcnchman would say.
HerJrrS ncrcIr>.
\ commission has been sent up here recently
from South Carolina 10 express the Hocs and
m, .nrtuucs Of that hcAyil y-buriencd State the
showing is perfectly fearful the State Is bank
rupt. Everx thing tina. could possibly lie cart
ed away. even 20 the GUdd,> OF Liberty and
| the gilt eagle in the State Capitol, '1S peg"
stolen the debt j. more Than was that OF Ia
{ nitrd States previous 10 the late war " hi.
the taxes amount simply 10 conhscatlon. The
negroes rule every whore and il i believed that
the scallawags and carpet-baggers seriously in
tend. through their taxation. TO Couhscate the
property OF the State so that II can be divide!
up among the negroes even the colored Elliot
who so asroGudel the House by fair delivery
of one OF Sumner speeches. has turned upon
them and threatens diretul results II some sor;
of reform is not inaugurated.
Speaking about their stealing, not long since,
when an appropriation was made to repair and
refurniSh the State House AT Columbia, all the
old carpets were taken up. the chairs, desks,
and tables were moved out, and made up into
lots 10 be divided among the members, mostly
negroes and then they were actually shipped
TO the several homes of the African law makers.
One day during the session OF the Le-isla-
ture. white member moved 10 reconsider the
compensation, whereupon four colorcd brethren
| sprang TO the floor, and the heas est-tongued
one OF the lot roared out
MIR. Speakah, if dat member moves in dat
matter. mash his ugly mouf"
| This was considered not only parliamentary.
| but conclusive. The gentleman gave me a deS-
cription of a levee held by the Governor. The
| house was crowded with IA mi ed aSsembl V,
mostly black. There was II Sprinkling OF " hi Il
women, mostly wives of scallawags and carpet
| bag officials, who promenaded on the arms OF
their colored brethren. The refreshments that
were prepared and paid for by the State, had
an unlimited supply of liquors and the best
Havana cigars. These last were smoked on the
premises and when a colored statesman re-
freshed himself with the wines, he would take
| them cigars by the handful and ram them in
his pocket.
Talking about turning on the party, Senator
| Carpenter electrified the Senate, and maddencd
| O. p Morton, by a speech in which he gave the
past history and present status Of louisiana
The picture he drew of the bay onet rule i'll that
unhappy State surpassed anything done in the
darkest despotism OF Europe.
But cannot in one letter, nor in Il hundred,
my friend give you anything like an account
| of our deplorable condition. Grant has lately
set up a carriage and four, driven by lackeys in
livery, aud riding along with the assurance Of
a former sovereign. There is nothing but his
extreme vulgarity that keeps alive TO the fact
that he is a President and not a King.
DIP.
s-A lady in our neighborhood who had