The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-06
= ~ ICorrespondence OF the News.
Letter from Washington.

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with the prevalence of gray hair, and
next to this the liberal sprinkling Of
bald heads that prevails. If these
bald heads chaneed to have lived in
regions infested with "she bears, y
and naughty children, whata slaught-
er of innoeents would have taken
place, if the old patriarchal require
ment had remained in force.
Surveying the body with an eye to
chronological manifestations, it will
be noted that New England has the
preponderance of brains. To this
rule probably a few exceptions may
be found. Listening to the debates,
one must also be struck with the
fact, that to this Section belongs su-
perior culture and classic polish
The grave inquiry suggests itself, is
this ascribable to their long estab-
lished system of Public Schools
which the Catholics would lay ruth
less hands upon, or is it to be ascrib
ed to their hard soil and austere
cline? Does their granite base give
hardness of muscle, and are we to
credit their Goldfish diet with the
growth of brainl We leave the So
luton of these things to casuists,
contenting ourselves with noting the
fact.
The South gives us flash oratory,
the West plain common sense but
deep learning, calm, philosophic
thought, comes from the mountains
of New England.
Our grave Senators are not attired
in the toggery of the Romans, nor is
it always words of wisdom that
fall from their lips. He who forms
his ideal of Senators from books of
ancient history, will find himself
much deceived on entering our Up
per House. Carlyle says this coun-
try has thirty millions of fools, and
we opine some of them may be found
in our Senate. But if old Rome
could make Senator of horse,
why not permit us to confer a like
rank on an ass
Going from the Chamber at the
north end of our Capitol to the Hall
at the south end, we find it occupied
by a Junior class-Sophomores-
nay, Freshmen, many of them. This
body has not near SO many heads
silvered Ger, nor such a percentage
of shining pates. 1t is better for
hair, but not SO well off for brains.
Evidently this House is too numer-
GUS. 1t is unwieldy, noisy. No
wonder that laws coming out of such
a Bedlam are confused, and SO very
difficult to understand. It is a won
der that anything they do is under
standable.
But the strong point against the
large number of the House becomes
painfully manifest, when you observe
what miserable sticks we have to
pick up in order to get our number.
One-fourth of them have all the
brains that amount to anything, and
would do all our business better and
quicker. 1 have seen country school
debating societies that compared
favorably with them in their discus
sions, and almost any village church
can turn out a congregation that
looks as well as they. 1t is matter
of surprise how some of these 'hood-
lums" ever found their way here,
and / doubt not many of their con-
stituents will be glad if they fail to
find their way back. If it be true
that the representative is q reflex of |
his constituents, all the worse for
them.
Coming out of the Halls of Con-
gress among thecanaille, and listening
to the lingo, you will be struck with
the prevalence of African pronuncia-
tion- The ''chivalry" is here in full
force, and our letter r is sacrificed
to II. Every way you turn you hear
the nigger accent: "Wah," ''dooh,"
"sah," 'mistah," 'whah,' "hoss,"
''mah" are the sounds that
greet you, and leave no doubt about
our erring brothers having returned
to their allegiance. When Virginia
went out Virginians went with her
Georgians followed the fortunes of
their State. Soon as those States
had Representatives here again, they
swarmed like carrion- crows, and ask /
all the ofices-beg that old mother
that they reviled, abused and tried
to strangle, to take them to her
bosom and give them pap againl
The annals of all nations, savage
and civilized, Jew and GENTLE, an
cient and modern, will be searched
in vain for parallel for this in cool
The impertinence has such
an air of daring that it almost wins
you in its favor. The abandon of
is more likely to win us
than trembling repentance. So i'm
mense has been the influx of unhunS
rebels, that it is said that the inevita
BILE "bacon and green's the national
diet of Dixie, has supplanted baked
beans and Goldfish in most of the
restaurants. The odor that strikes
your olfactories in those crowds ad-
monishes you that fine field for
missionaries is to be
found around the Capitol.
A LOCKER ON.