The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTEERF.
WAsENeToS, D. c., Feb'y 10. 1876

lsrcciGl correspondence.
With tie iaw-bone of an ass Toombs
has politically slain them thousand
Democrats thus demonstrating the mar
velous progress that has been made i'll
the use of that novel weapon of warfare
during the eges that have elapsed since
the day that the brawny son of Manoah
smote the Philistines with such sapgai-
nary effect at Lehi ; and The signal abil-
ty displayed By Jefferson Davis in his
cooperative efforts has SO demoIalized
the ':spared monuments" Of the ''Lost
cause that the rock and mountains
could not do a more charitable deed
than to hide them alike from the face of
friend and foe. Every breeze that
sweeps up from the cities and savannas
of the South is impregnated and saturat-
cd with The poisonous exhalations from
its White Leagues and Ku-kiux-Klaus,
and every paper arriving from that sun
ny land is a winding sheet for Demo-
cratic aspirations so that the shadow of
House, whose chiefs have been doing
their level best to do away the ugly I'M
pressions made on the public by the
arrogant, biGgoted, and reasonable ut
terances of their more incaudous breth-
ern in and out OF Congress and the
Democratic press, particularly OF New
DO oL
now despair of success by their dissem-
bling course is evident by the nervous
trepidation marking all their move
ments by their frantic appeals to their
iInDetious brothers to bride their
unluly members, and by the scour-
gings administered to that garrisous old
imbeciIe, j. Davis by a few of their
more worldly wise papers. ga whip
for the horse "a brittle for the ass) and n
rod for the FOOLS back.
La the interest OF national unity and
brotheIiy love they implore the loyal
masses TO make no further reference to
their mad assaults against the life OF the
Republic for the perpetuation of human
slavery with all It's barbaric ana savage
conmitvants, and ask rs to oblierate
{
famous AndersonviIle lest the serenity
of our centennial year be disturbed by
irritating illusions to their wanton tor
lures Of wounded and disarmed captives,
they (nany Of them at least) never loose
an opportunity to SANDER aud revile our
honored dead who cheerfully gave their
lives that onl centennial anniversary
might become q possibility and the
man who dared to interpose against the
rebellion who defantly reitirates his
impenitence, who sbamefully parades
the names OF prominent traitors as pat
riots and complacently refers to their
treason against the Government, as
/ their Country's cause, has become the
| target for the YenOmOus Shafts OF every
rebel Democratic sheet and orators from
the ST. Lawrence to the Rio Graude and
| from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
| The g1iaf which invaded the preecor-
dial region of many Democrats by the
collapse Of the rebellion was largely
mitigated by the fendish act OF j.
! Wilks Booth, and the admiration and
gratitude of one Hambleton toward that
! drunken murderer was Of such a perma-
Een5 character that months after he
| sought to perpetuate that infamy by
/ nameing his child after that eminent
| patriot and martyr Of radical intolerance
! The services of this heightened gentle
man were recognized by his appointment
as clerk to Mr. Morrison committee
! OF course the ieuth-hounds and ghouls
Of the Republican party gave him such
! notority that after many preyarlcatlonS
on his part the committee was reluctant
| ly. compelled to unload him and he is
now lying prone in the ''last ditch, CO.
gitating on the mutability of Official life
The Democratic cauous, called for
Thursdays evening to discuss Il
currency bill and unite into homgen-
eversness its incompatible clements 50
that some financial policy might be
agreed upon wherewith to capture way
faring votes !; but the heart burnings ex-
listing between the Representative from
different sections rendered discussion
so perilous that the meeting was indefi-
| niteiy postponed to the infinite amuse-
ment Of Republicans who laugh at their
calamities and mock when their fear
cometh. This keeps them always
cheerful. They have still further dis
concerted by the nomination of I'M
compromising inhationist by the Indian.
Green Back Convention. The majority
in the House have SO tinkered our Dip
/ lomatic and consular service that III its
crippled condition il viii prove entirely
inadequate to our commercial needs.
Il is asserted that the PSEUDO reformers
composing many of the investigating
committees have become thoroughly
disheartened by their want Of success Ill
looking up nlisdemeanss among Republi-
can officials. The most prominent sins
Of commission by the Democrats this
y T,Dv-o b.,oT, two - AIa .a-oe,-o
priation bills passed'and pending. lola
l'robabiiiti es' has earned the everlasting
gratitude Of Society" by its ccmplais
ance III the matter Of weather. The
Yeneerings and Podsnaps aud other
favcrites have indulged themselves to
lie top Of their bent IN the various forms
OF fashionable forms of dissipation af
fected here but the dark shadow OF
Lent comes 2pace and when it strikes rs
the accumulated sins OF a fashionable
season viii be put on q low diet and
vigorously starved, buffeted, wrestled
with, gone to church with and otherwise
IllaltEeated SO that by the close OF the
penetential season 1t is expected that
they viii have been 50 reduced IN vital
lily that they can be readily wiped out
and enable the DEVOTED 20 start IN next
winter with a clean bill. The committee
on Pacific Railroads will report
of The Texas ard Pacific and there is
little doubt but that the bill guarantee
ing the interest On the bonds Of that
road VIII pass. SPANS characteristic
manner of evasion and misrepresentation
was so marked in its late note in reply
that of liz. Fish that it has deservedly
incurred much uufavorahle criticism in
Europe. Ii is reported that ~ case that
Turkish insurgents refuse the overiures
made By the sublime porte's ainbass
who IS 20 be sent to them with assuT-
ai.ce> Of redress for grievances. Austria