New Orleans Republican., 1877-05-16
Washington City Mad at Fred DovrIa,,

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A Washington letter says that Washing
tonians are indignant at the recent speech
of Fred Douglass in Baltimore, in which
he INDUCED sharp comments upon the old
residents there, some of whom have here
tofore approved his appointment as mar
shall of the District. Columbus Alexander,
one of his Democratic sureties, says his
name must come off Douglass bond. He
will not indorse such an migrate. An in
dignRtion meeting to denounce Fred and
request his removal is even talked of
among the Democrats.
The Baltimore Gazette publishes The fol-
lowing account of that part of Mr.. Doug
lass lecture which has excited SO much
indignation:
Washington was not good city. 1t
had good many clutches, but it was
some distance from the spot to which
their spires pointed. 1t had bad begin
ming and had never produced any great
statesman or philanthropist. The descend
ants Of its old families make nomark. 1t
sided with treason against loyalty and its
| selection was great mistake, being sand
wiched between two slave States, and the
headquarters Of the slave trade, where
boys were sold like swine. 1t was cruel
without reason and indecent without
shame. Freedom of speech and of the
press was unknown, and its idea was
slavery. John Quincy Adams was
threatened with death for advocating the
right of petition. Drinking and gambling
were prevalent under the dome of the
Capitol. The dueliss was in repute, and
the place filled with poisonous weeds an d
| serpents. Moral life was q shame All
was fair without, but foul within. It's
boasted chivalry was to challenge North
ern man to fight and to whip q negro
with his hands tied. The people ap-
| plauded Breckenridge in his treason, stood
between Andrew johnson and impeach-
ment, and in their midst was hatched the
devilish plot that robbed Lincoln of his
lite. During the war JEFF Davis would
have been more welcome than Lincoln,
Lee than Grant and the stars and bars
than the staT-spangled banner. TAp-
| plause. Parson Brownlow made an apt
remark on his way to Washington. He
said that he felt he must be getting near
the city as he began to feel as if he want
| - ~ beSN4 pSAAASNAAAAEs lAAAuEAt1As Hd5u-
| ington society famed into fury the pas
sions of men, and much of the old spirit
was left. The portraits of Giddings, Ger
rit Smith and such men had no place on
| the walls of the Corcoran Art Gallery, but
the Calhouns and McDuffies were numer-
Gus. They knew how to make Northern
men vita Southern principles, and that
class was reappearing now. II was again
| getting dark for the colored race, but the
shadow would ultimately pass away. ZAP
plause.l The old Maryland and Virginia
families always had the best pickings and
| the offices and the slaves. But Virginiats
| glory has departed. Instead of the
mother of States, she is the grandmother;
and occasionally one of her sons appears,
chewing James river tobaeco-his dignity
| gone, masters without slaves, lords with
out lands. The Washingtonian is indo-
lent in all his movements. Step into a
store and you will wait five minutes be-
| fore you are noticed. Every one of them
has been or expects TO be great man.
| Laughter They walk slowly, but not
measured, their arms hanging listlessly
by their sides. He excels all other Amer
leans in sitting, and can remain in an easy
chair longer without fatigue than any
other man. Laughter He is fully equal
in this respect to the Turk. He carries a
cane. He walks with it, sits with it,,
stalks with it. Like the swords of the
knights of old, they are more for orna-
ment than support, They wear hats
pulled down over their eyes like thieves
and robbers. They think it gives them a
Congressional look. There is class
called ''poor white trash" who never held
Office. These were the slave overseers,
catehers. whippers and watch dogs. They
make some-sort of living by hunting and
fishing, and yet they are not happy.
Laughter. They talk of the lost cause
as if they had had millions in it. The
city is filed with schemers of all kinds
and both sexes, who strive to get some
thing for nothing. To be honest is TO be
fool. The place is filed with duplicity
and seryility. The change in the con.
dition Of the eolored people was remarka.
BILE. Their schools were among the best,
and when he visited there and found
bright and intelligent children doing the
most difacrlt mathematical problems, ht
felt there was q future for their race