Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-03-24
EVENTS or The WEEK..

Senate adjourned on Saturday after con,
tirming qnite batch of presidential APP
pointments, among the number being
tina, Of Fred Douglas for Marshal of the
District of Columbia. As is we'll
known, Douglas is mulatto, but with
al man of great talent, being an orator
of the highest order. Now there IS
nothing particularly remarkable in all
this, but when his lame came up for
confirmation by the Senate there was
quite breeze OF Indignation that the
President should have presumed to have
appointed negro to the distln gu;shed
post of marshal OF the District, and some
Senatorial noses were suddenly elevated
as if an unpleasant odor pervaded the
air. Now we are not particularly de-
LIGHTED 10 see . s'the man and brother
thrust into places that might be more
acceptably filed by white men, but this
sudden burst of indignation does not
seem to be at all consistent upon the
part of radical Senators, who, when 1t
suited their purpose, did not hesitate to
declare that the negro was to all iDtents
and purposes the equal OF the white
man, and should share with him in the
distribution of the public patronage.
We are not sorry, however, that they
themselves have been compelled to
swallow little of the nauseous physic
which they have been so ready 10 COM
mend to the lips of others: What Is
sauce for the goose ought to be sauce
for the gander.
Postmaster-General Key in letter
to Senator Merriman, says that in max
ing appointments to vacancies In the
South, he will give the preference to re-
puLlicans in all cases where they can
be found fit and unobjectiorable to the
business community in which they live,
but otherwise he will not hesitate to
appoint democrats who will give salts
faction. The true way would probably
be to look to the qualifications of the
applicants without reference 10 bis pol
itics. The old rule that "to the victor
belongs the spoils, has been one OF the
chief causes of our present political
troubles, and the sooner we get rid OF
it the better.
There is a speck of war at New Or
leans. Packard has taken alarm at the
conservative tendencies of President
Hayes, and seems determined by bold
stroke to compel federal recognition.
He therefore is about to inaugurate civ
il war, and to this end is calling into
the city of New Orleans hordes of igno-
rant negroes, whom, it may be suppos-
ed, are only too ready to obey his COM
mands. Now there is only this to be
said about Packard: he is only one of
the many who have made the South a
sort of political pandemonium, and if
trouble does come it will be great
shame if he is not made to feel the full
effects of the storm which he himself
has put in motion.
There was a disgraceful scene in the
Pennsylvania Legislature Monday. The
Sheriff of Philadelphia, who is demo-
ocrat, is possessed Of the power to ap-
point any number of deputies ON cleo
ton days, and this of course was mat
ter that required looking after. Re
publican frauds were interiered with by
the Sheriff's aids, and that was not to
be tolerated. A bill was therefore re-
ported to strip the Sheriff of his power
to appoint deputies. A struggle ensued
between two parties in the House,
which came near ending in blows. The
democrats, however, finally withdrew
from the House in disgust, and then
the radicals passed the bill. Thus we
60 under the rule Of the party of moral
ideas.
Don Cameron on Tuesday was elect
cd by the Pennsylvania Legislature to
fill the chair in the United States Sen
ate, vacated by lis father. lnquisitive
pDble would like to know the exact sum
paid the incorruptibie Solons of the
keystone State, in this little transac-
ton. 1t has long been suspected by as
tute politicians that the Camerons, faith
err and son, carried the Pennsylvania
Legislature in their breaches pockets,
and now plain people begin to think
that probably the politicians were cor
rect in their suspicious.