The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-02-03
Fer the EAGLE.
From the Capital.
TOPEKA, January 81, 1876.

TOPEKA, January 81, 1876.
TINE WORKS WONDERS.
The scene presented in the House of
Representatives last Thursday morn
ing was one calculated to impress the
mind of the political student and care
full observer of passing events, with
the fact that there is compensation in
this worl,i, and that slime makes all
things equal" Speaker Haskell was
absent and his place was filed by that
lifelong Democrat, Gee. w. Click.
By his side stood one of the Democra-
cy's ex-chattels in the person of Rev.
j. II. Hubbard who opened the pro-
ceedings of the day with q prayer for
divine blessing upon the labors OF
those before him who were "guilty of
skin not colored like his own"
Twenty years ago the idea Of such a
status for the negro could not have
found place even in the widest ran
cies of democratic political doctors,
whose theory of the ''nigger" was that
he was but thing to be bought and
sold. Twenty-one years ago next
March was elected the first Territorial
the first border-rufiian Legislature of
Kansas, the members of which, with
the exception of one, being all pro-
slavery and all elected by voters who
came in from Missouri to carry the
election against the blue-bellied Yank-
ees sent out by Pomeroy and Robin
sons New England Emigrant Aid So
ciety. Verify time has its revenges!
Pomeroy, for long time United
States Senator and prominent in Kan
sas and National politics has fallen
''like bright exhalation in the even
ing" Robinson, the first Governor.of
redeemed Kansas, has cast his lot with
the Democrats; has been by them elect
ed TO the State Senate and now, while
at Topeka, occupies a portion of his
time in mailing to his constituents cop
les of Ben. Hills speech in Congress in
justification of JEFF. Davis confedera-
cy including the horrors of Anderson
vile and other atrocities. DIR. John
II. Stringfellow, who was Speaker of
the first Territorial House Of Repre-
sentativcs in 1855, has become a
staunch Republican; and twenty-one
years after his Speakership in a pro-
slavery Legislature he comes down to
do the hard work of a clerk for a rail-
road committee in Republican Leyis-
lature of 1876. Better be "a door
keeper in the House Of Republican
Legislature than Speaker in the Demo-
cratic tents of wickedness." Hubbard,
the representative of the "nigger,"
over whom the ten-years-war-inau-
gurated by these very men OIL the
plains of Kansas-was fought out to
the bitter end, is now called on to im-
plore Divine Providence to forgive the
transgressons of the sinners in and
about the State Senate-includin2
some of those just mentioned, whom
charity forbids our denominating a.
''the chiefest among ten thousand"
AN AGONY SooTHED.
Political circles here and elsewhere
in the State were for ten days agitated
over the rumor that Gov. Osborn con-
templated the appointment of some
other man in the place of Warden
Hopkins. of the State Penitcntiary,
whose four years term of Office was
about to expire. Newspapers took up
the rumor and some of them scored
the Governor and warned him against
the error of removing long-tried and
faithful officer from place demanding
peculiar qualifications, such as expert
ence had proven Warden Hopkins to
possess, and take up an untried man.
Those who had settled down to the be-
lief that the Governor intended to do
such thing were, on Friday evening
taken very much by surprise when ii
was announced that Major Hopkins
had been nominated as his own sue
cessor and had been unanimously con-
firmed by the Senate. A few more
acts on the part of Gov. Osborn like
that of the recent appointment of State
Treasurer Francis and like that have
just mentioned ought to be sufficient to
establish, even in the minds of the
most distrusiful, a moderate degree of
confidence in the good judgment, as
well as in the good intentions of our
present Governor in respect to the fill
ing of important offices in the State,
THE DAYS OF &c.
Imean 1776. A substantial success
was achieved here during the week