The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-03-29

Gen. GRANT sent FRED DOUGLASS ~ one
of his Commissioners to- San Domingo, to
mai whit'washng report on that scan
daluus job. When they returned to Wash
lugiou he invited them to dinner, but omit
ted DOUGLASS from the number Of his
guests. HAYES in turn appoints him Mar
shall OF the District OF Columbia. one of
whose traditional duties has been to act as
chamberlain OF the White House, and to pro-
scnt the visitors to the President and his
family at the public receptions But now,
this old usage il To be abandoned. DouG-
Las, * considered good enough to serve the
processes OF the courts, to minglc with the
Judges. and to deal with the bar; but when
the White House people are concerned. then
hr is cihoNcl out cOolly, in order that So
cirty may not Toe shocked 10y the presence of
a "man and brother" whose complcxiun is
lighter and VIII ,so blood is better than that
uf some am M the Ministers from South
and Central America.
1hs same social difficulty was one Of the
most powerful elements with which the Illus
triOus PGNCliBACK had to contend during his
three years siege Of the Senate. At various
times he WIS on the eve OF admission to that
bvd,, but when the crisis came he was al
ways postponed. until finally the Republic
can majority voted nearly seventeen thou
sand dollars a. II balm To- his wounded feel
inSs, and dismissed him incontinently.
PINCHBAcK was suspected of social ambi-
ton A shade brighter than DOUGLASS, he
easily passed for a white creole, and had
good looks and afable manners to rccom-
mend him. There was also Mrs. PINCH
BACK In the ease. Now, in these late years
of ~hoddy rule, the Senate has set up for ex-
ccptional privileges, to which of course,
every member l. equally entitled On DAYS
of grand gala like an Inauguration. or a
great reception, Mr., senator jostlo- Mrs.
Justice of the Supreme Court. and looks
loftily over the head of the "wifc Of mcm-
bcr.' Indeed, an actual collision of female
caste came near happening ON the 5th Of
March for precedence to the Presidential
platform.
If Mr.. PTScH and Mrs PINCH were admit
ted to the Senate. they must he invited 70 tho
Presidents dinners. 10 the official cutertaim-
m"nt-, and to the diplomatic houses. or else
there would bc a row, and the representa-
tive of his race would demand to know the
reason for drawing color lines. Mr.. CArAcAZY
was at war with the Department of State
when PINcH first appeared, ON another So
cial question Official society was conyul-ed
from centre 10 circumference. FISH was
bomhardng the Russian Legation with
notes, and spry little CATACAzY wa. shout
ing IN an unknown tongue that the Amcri-
can Secretary of State looked like an English
butler who had served himself better than
his master
Thus two social questions wore disturbing
the peace OF the capital at one time. Mr.
FISH Wd~ not equal 10 Russia and Mixed
Aillca together. The Cabinet ladies' and
the Senators. wives held caucu, To- set
tie both. The pride OF their order WIS
touched. They decided to give CATAcAzY
his passports and not to admit PINCHBNCK.
Then ali the Washington snuhs and shpddy-
ties hreathed frccr. while MORTON and his
followers shouted with renewed vgor for the
equality Of the colOred race az the South.
and denounced the ostracsm by which the
late slave was denied the social privilege of
his former master, just As HAYES mourncd
over the fate Of the black man when he
heard uf IILpLN > election.