Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25

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GEN. J. NJ. CoMLEY, editor of the o.
! $. Journal, who has recently been on Il
visit to Washington City, in letter to
his paper gives pen picture of the new
Senator from Michigan also his i'm
pressions of the reconstructed Southern
gentleman in the following words:
had the good fortune, also, to wit
ness the debut of Senator Christiancy,
who comes to us from Michigan, since
| Zaccheus he
| Did climb tree.
To say that l was disappointed, eX-
presses it but feebly. Everybody was
disappointed. The new Senator is a
tall, slender person, with about as much
juicein him as a dessicated bean stalk.
BE looks as if a slight flush on the tip
of his ear would make his feet cold.
He has sharp, pinched up, querulous
face, with ferret eyes, angled by sharp
eyebrows; thin, pursed up, conceited
lips; about six-and-a-quarter head,
thinly clad with straight hair of fee
bleadrab color. He looks like dried
man. A more thoroughly insignifi-
cant figure never crossed your vision.
He struggled to his legs with an odd
mixture of cOnceit and nlauUdise honte,
and after tremulous effort to deliver
himself, drew forth printed slips of his
speech, which trembled very much in
his hand, as he proceeded to read them,
with a acharge-tO-the-jury manner, and
in little senile voice like old Granny
Smallweed's. The Senators who we're
lett in the Chamber gathered over into
space of ten or twelve feet around
him, and strained their ears to listen,
with polite attention. The only words
that reached the gallery were those of
one sentence where the Senator evil
IDENTIFY thought he had said rather a
neat thing-where he says several regi-
ments might set up such a government
as that of Louisiana in Michigan, "but
the whole army of the United States
could not make them love such a gov
ernment. This is the one drop of ell
oquence in the whole speech worth
Quoting for any purpose, as 1 think
from pretty full report in the morn
ing papers. That such report appears
is proof that Mr.. Christiancy knows
nv" ~ iOdSu 1S POi hSio Will q NOii piO-
pared summary, when acoustics are
failure.
1t is alleged, with every appearance
of earnestness and candor, by the bet
ter class of Southern Conservatives
here, that they have abandoned every
issue of the late war, or growing out of
the war, which could create variance
between sections, or between the State
an6 National n n
conversation these gentleman adopt
most charming manner toward North
ern men, and Republicans. They pro-
gentlemen" who come among them
themselves to developing the rich re-
you that it is only ''carpetbaggerS" who
form of contempt in the South. A
that 'carpetbagger' is any Northern
man who dare accept Office or take any
prominent part in politics and North
ty of money into the South, and de-
votes himself wholly to paying taxes
and making the South prosperous in
Duoihcoo, lcdNiuS pOiitiCo W tHC
Southern gentlemen, who are especial
ly endowed by Goddlemighty with all |
those attributes, airs and graces which |
mark ruling class, everywhere; who !
are the only custodians of power; and |
who ask nothing more than that Others
shall grub and hew and draw water,
and leave affairs to the only true friends
of the South, the heirs, successors and |
0f ftn al Il
You may turn it and twist it, upside |
down and inside out, and it always |
comes to just that. You are surprised |
at the beginning of the conversation
with one Of these Southern politicians,
by the mellow radiance of the good
will and 6o1altOmie which (as Curran |
says) 'butthers you up and you WON
der what room there may be for differ
ence of opinion with gentleman of
such persuasive aspect and such toler- /
ance of the rights of others; he assures
you that he has no disposition to inter-
fere with any Northern man, IN any
thing whatsoever, who comes to the
South with bona file intention of be-
coming citizen, and uniting his inter-
ests with those of the South. Then, be-
fore you know where the line has been |
Steppeu over, you ulScOVeT all AT once |
that having 'butthered you up he is
'slithering you down with accounts of
the outrages and .infamies of the beg
carly carpetbaggers, who have done
nothing in this world but contest the
claim of the Southern gentleman to
rule by divine right, and hold all the
Offices by grace of God.
Every Southern politician will tell |
you, we accept the situation; we in
tend that the negroes shall have their
rights; we have no quarrel any longer
with the Federal always Federal |
government; we make no distinction
between Northern and Southern men |
Lord bless you sab! We have no
prejudice against anybody on account |
of sectional feeling any longer, sah-
that's played outv why don't you
send Longstreet TO Congress" L in
quired, as my reply to some pretty |
talk of this kind. 'Oh, Longstreet |
hasn't been a true man to usP impul- |
sively exclaimed my interlocutor. And