The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05
SENATOR PJNCUBACK.

Unless we are mislead by our Wash
ington advices, the protracted contest
over the admission Of Senator Pinch
back will come to IN end before the
close Of to-days session. He has been
kept out Of his seat for three years,
though not one, not even diffuse Thur
man, the hazy Bayard, the unintelIigi-
bic Stevenson or the fossilized Sauls-
bury, has ever given q reasonable cause
ling, Howe and other prominent Repub-
lichn Senators begin to think they have
yielded enough to courtesy, and have
announced their intention to push the
question to vote. Mr.. Stevenson wishes
to repeat what he called speech which
he delivered last year on the subject
We do not know Of any other Senator
who wants to hear It again; but the all
compelling courtesy" which the Sem
ate is In the habit Of extending to the
members. will enable him to get his
work In. OF course it will not affect
| the question, us 1t will not be listened
| to. nor read. even In Kentucky or any
where else, except by the proof readers
poor fellows) In the Record office at
Washington.
We have little doubt, therefore, that
Senator Pinchback will be seated to-day,
as the private reports from Washington
inform us that he has four majority on
careful count. This will end the mat
ter, so far rs tho Senate is concerned.
But according toa special dispatch in
an evening paper. Speaker Kerr has in
timated that the Democrats in the
House threaten to take umbrage IL the
Senator from Louisiana is admitted, and
will rend the Wheeler compromise into
innumerable pieces.
The Republican anticipates time and
events little, when 1t styles our once
accomplished mulatto barber, and peni-
tertiary prisoner, as it Is said, Senator
Pinchback. Whatan evidence OF equal
ity" and "brotherhood"--of the PRO
gress and humanity" Of theage Senator
Pinchback Of Louisiana, or rather Sena-
tor from the stews and slums Of the Rldi-
cal or Republican party in New Orleans
The Republican or Radical Senators at
Washington have just found out, after
three years OF investigation, 1t seems,
that Pinchback was elected, and In their
anxiety to exclude a gentleman from
q seat In the Senate, Morton and
his colleagues are smiling a
welcome to Pinchback, as being
a more congenial comrade. Everything
that the Republican party has ever
touched has been rendered SO nasty and
contemplate Morton's own character
Is so black on account Of private vices
and public indecencies-tha we think
Pinchback will be rather an improve
ment OF the situation. He Is at any rate
by nature and education more than
half-irresponsible manumitted negro
slave, while Morton and some Of the
same sort claim to have been white men
entitled to education and freedom. We
really think Pinchback has morally the
advantage in their Senatorial compan-
ionship and intimacy.
What q good, benchcent, equality
loving, progressive, humane, Christian
organization the Republican party is Us
it exhibits itself in the Southern States
Ames and Kellogg are pattern Cover
nors Of States, Hawkins Is pattern
Judge, and 50 is Billings should Grant
and the Senate make him one. Pinch
back, West and Spencer are It's three
model Senators, all admired OF men as |
Well, these are, we admit,
suitable representatives Of the Republi-
can party, ignorant and depraved no
groes and political blacklegs, scheming
always how to make a felonious living
by cheating honest. people with their
false dice, and clustering, sometimes
with bullying oaths. Let it be known,
rs we know the course of the wind by
,he weathercock, that West, Spencer
md Pinchback are the fit opponents of
he Republican party South.