National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-23
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cial Advertiser
Pinchback's case was brought up yesterday,
but its discussion was interrupted BY the obss-
Quies Of Hooper. To-day, on motion Of Senator
Morton, the Senate have agreed 10 goat "PInch, {"
pro and con, and sit without intermission until
they have made him Q skylArk in the air or
turtle in the mud. The contest will be fierce, but
briefer. than the civil rights fight In the House.
The Senators lack the fire and youthful vigor Of
the lower body. Their old bones won't stand the
strain Of eramped-up desks and sofas, and spas
modic snooEes In the cloak room. McCreery,
Senator from Kentucky declares, privately, in
that pastoral phraseology proverbially peculiar
to blue grass Democrats, that he twill give that
niger some sleepless nights before he gets bis
seat" McOreery, though an able man, Is prob
ably the LATEST man In the Senate, and about the
fftieth roll-call, or the fourth hour OF Maryland
i speech, would probably, Win Ken Ken
ing sooner than stand any more Of IL. Ptnchback
Rlldes around the Chamber like bronze Me-
phistopheles, smiling sardonically, and buzzing
He Is q trained politician, and If he does not
prove to be 9 statesman, and has counted noses
on full yote-and he is too good a "Whlp" not to
have all his friends on hand when 1t comes to a
vote. In fact the mad obstinacy and deVilish
Gently, have made Pinchback's support party
measure, and unless tndisputable evidences Of
fraud are brought against him BY better
traitors, the North will assuredly accept the
loyal negro In preference to the possibility Of q
white rebel. Aside from the political view OF the
question, Pinchback's presence In the United
States Senate is not open to the smallest obIeo-
tion, except the old Bourbon War-whoeps Of color.
He is about thirty-seven years Of ago, not darker
than an Arab, less 30 than the Kanaka. Like
Lord Tomnoddy, "his hair is straight but his
Whiskers curl" His features are regular, lust
Perceptibly African, his eyes intensely black and
brilliant, with o keen, restless glance His most
reIellant point is o sardonic smile, which, hover
ing continuously over his lips gives him an evil
look, undeniably handsome as the man Is. 1t
him, at sight OF the dirty ignorant men from the
South who affect to look down upon him on ac-
count Of his color, finds play imperceptibIy about
his lips.
His manner is reserved but polite exhibiting a
modesty rarely seen in @ successful politIclan-a
model indeed OF good breeding to those Texas and
Louisiana Yahoos who shout ''niRger, niger,
Pinchback Is the best-dressed Southern man we
have had in Congress from the South since the
days when gentlemen were Democrats; and were
he to walk into Delmonico's cafe he would be
mistaken, by even SO experienced an eye as Ad-
mlrRl Wenberg's, for wealthy creole island
planter educated abroad. 1t is curious fact that
while Welcker and other leading restsurateurs
here have been aYoWing their purpose to become
Alpine monks, and 20 TO making "Benedictine"
sooner than cater TO colored people, they have
been permitted as guests at Delmonico's, in Dem
ocratfc New York, for years. The only require
ments in that most fastidious OF restaurants kept
by gentlemen for gentlemen, are propriety of de-
able slacrity in the settlement Of accounts. Yet
any ardent son Of the South who accused the Del
monicos OF being "niRger" worshipers would ind
few believers.