The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-30
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-The policy
which was to consolidate the Repub
licau party in the South, and divide
the conservative votes there, is not a
success. Its first appreciate effect
was to stimulate one set of Republic
ans in Alabama against another set,
and its next to produce dissention in
the party in North Carolina. From
the latter State came to Congress a
dissipated and ignorant negro nam
ed Hyman, and the. President pro
ceeded to conciliatc by promising to
make Hyman Collector Of Internal
Revenue for the Second District of
North Carolina. But now came the
white Republicans of the State, and
raise the color of the question and
protest against the appointment of
he "nigger' and yesterday the Presi-
dent promised not to appoint him.
In Alabama the Republican quarrel
seems to be between the scalawag and
the arpet-bagger; in North Caro-
lima it is between the whites and
blacks.
If President Hayes considers the
humiliation of the Republican party
in the South necessary step towards
organizing his new party he has met
with eminent success so far in car
rying out his plan. Fred Douglass
visit to his old master few days
since, at st. Michaels, Nd has been
made the subject of prose-and verse
to an amazing extent. Fred found
out that his name was Bailey, and
that his age was SO. There was a
great deal of feeling between the mas
ter now over eighty years old, and
the negro who ran away from him AZ
years ago.
Douglass is only half blood. He
is very smart and ready, and when
aroused is very eloquent He was a
member of our District Legislature in
1871, and at an informal meeting of
the members-such a spiritual meet
ing meeting as metropolitan legisla
tors will have at times-another mem
Der, born in the same Maryland
county with Douglass, pleasantly al
luded to the antecedents of the color
ed orator Douglass replied with as
much humor as he ever displayed,
tracing the rise of his race in the old
Maryland county, from the blackness
of darkness, to its present more en-
lightened condition, and attributing
all these benefits to their intimate as
sociations with the best families in
that part of the country.
The change of editors and proprie
tors in The Nation, morning daily
published here, is substantially the
starting of new paper, as The Ma
ton did not attain circulation or in
fluence under it's former management
There is capital in the new firm, and
and Albert Rhodes, who assumes ed
itorial charge, has experience and
popularity as literary man.
In former letter / mentioned the
evident intention of the Secretaries
of the Interior and Treasury to sub
stitute men for women as far as pos
sible in their offices. There is no
concealment of such design on the
part of Mr. Schurz. But this is the
most wonderful cabinet ever con-
structed, and Mr.. Key is increasing in
stead of diminishing, the number OF
ladies employed in the Post Office De
partment 1t is not wonderful that
such withered anatomy as Sherman,
or such an unbeliever in christian
civilization and progress, as Schurz,
should wish to remove from their of
| fees all that is heretofore made them
attractive, and reduce the service to
the mere processes of addition and
subtraction. I should expect it OF
them. Mr.. Key is entitled to the
thanks of everybody, from the very
old and plain ones like Miss Antho-
ny and Gail Hamilton, to the young
and beautiful, who are receiving APP
pointments at his hands, for his more
| liberal course. DEM.