The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-10
Exit pinchback.

BELSsAp and PrNcaBACK are companions
In misery. Both owe their downfall TO the
fascluations of the society Of Washington.
BELksAp's wife aspirea to the leadership OF
the fashionable circles Of that city of shoddy
and pretensiop. Several OF the Cabinet OH
GERS and good many congressman are Inn
menseIy rich, and their familiesspe money
freely. The salaries received By these men
do not pay Que half of their expenses. MRS.
BELKsAP's husband being poor man, sue
was compelled either to forego the unspcaK'
able pleasure OF being leader OF the
most brilliant circles Of the metropolis OF
find some way OF getting more money to
spend than her husband was able TO give
her. She found, and she fell. On the other
band, PMcHBAcK is o mulatto. He has q
mulatto wife. He is wealthy and she is
stylish. = The senatorial circle in Washing.
ton is a charmed one. There are enough
members in IL TO make It select and at the
same time not too few to permit 1t to be con-
trolling. The senatorial ladies'" COULDN'T
bear to have it said that In their charmed
circle q nulatto woman had found place
And so PNcHBAcE was voted out OF the
Senate. We give the Republican mem.
bers no credit for the deed. 1t was
a good one and the Democrats voted
solidly for it from principle. Repub'
lcaas enough came to their assistance te
insure the success Of the ladies' movement
to keep negroes out of the senatorial circle.
Wcrejoice ut the result. 1t secures Demo
cratic senator from Louisiana, and at the
same time sets the seal Of reprobatioD upon the
KELLOGG government. The illegitimacy oil
that government stands confessed oil all
men. The very Republican senators Who
voted 10 uphold GRANTS interference With
the organization of The Louisiana Leglsla-
ture 10 1874. and TO sustain SHEKIpANs
infamous orders and still more dis-
graceful conduct whilst temporarily In
command in New Orleans, were some OF them
forced BY one consideration or another.
good or bad, to vote to keep PIScHgAcK out
of the Senate. The country will get the ben
eft OF the set, whether it was due TO honest
Intentions or TO some less worthy motive.
PIHcHBACx will almost certainly hsVe
soothing plaster applied to the wound which
he nas thus received at the hands Of bis own
friends. He will be paid five, ten, or PeIh'ps
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars for pre-
tending TO have u claim to y seat in the
Senate.
MoEToN will explode with rage. BE de-
clared that party considerations had entered
into the contest from It's beginning; that
the Democrats would vote as unit for the
exclusion of P!cHBACk and that the Repub-
Leans ought TO vote solldy on the other side.
He has made m4uy friends amongst the ne
groes OF the country by championiDg the
cluse Of this negro, and will no doubt re-
cciye nun Der of votes in the National Re-
publican Convention as q consequence Of bis
eiror,s 10 bis behalf. lie failed to seat bis
friend, but his reward will be none the less.
Not that be stands any earthly chance to be
nominated for President =; we mean to say
ONLY that be will receive some votes in con.
vention.
Let all these things be as they may. how
ever, the facts stand. PIHcHBACK IL voted
out. KELLOGG i. voted to be usurper. The
Louisuua S ate Government liz voted te
be one existing by sufferance. And
everything shows that State governments
are very contemplate affairs nova days
30 contemplate that the President who
connyts at the formation of bogus
one, ans the Federal judges, gene
rails, and other officers, whom he uses as
tools ia this behalf. are not considered by
Congress as having done anything for which
they should he called to account. None OF
them are guilty of crime. President,
judges, aud generals, may make State gov
ernments when they will.