Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-12
Washington Letter.

scenes and incidents worthy Of fgrephic
detail connected wish the present as
sembling. Speaker and Clerk were
warm ia their places, and the CONS
mittees were on hand ready to take
| up business just where they had left
it only short time before. All busi-
ness holds the position in which it
stood at the adjournment last summer,
| whereas at the opening Of a new Cons
gress everything starts at the founda>
ton. Unfinished measures, originate
ing this session or last, fall entirely on
the 4th Of March and must take a
| new start to obtain further hearing.
It was little interesting to the look
er>on in Venice to watch the greetings
of members with each other, congratu>
lations for those who had been re-
elected, and coincidence for. the less
fortunate who must step down and out
when this session closes. s'ButIer
luck next time" was the best word for
them among their colleagues. Hale
was on hand endeavoring to impress
the galleries with the idea that he
isn't as dead as represented; but he
looked gloomy and forlorn, and tear
stole silently down his cheek every
time he met the eye of a sympatbizing
radical. Sam Cox was as fresh and
chirrup as a squirrel in nut>gathering
season. He looked over towards Hale
and Garfield and Snarley~yow Conger
in tone of voice that seemed to say,
"you fellows keep still now Or I'll
make it lively for you" Alexander
II. Stevens also answered to the roll
call. The little Georgia giants IS
pounds Of skin and bones occupied his
familiar rocking chair with an air
cushion to prop him up. This coun-
try has never seen an instance Of such
wonderful mental power maintained
in such a slender broken down phys
ical structure. Yet he seems better
now than at any time for three or four
years, and promises much usefulness.
The bloody>shirt war which we
have been assured is to be promi-
neEt feature in this session, was be-
gun in sort Of skirmish along the
outpost on the very first day. The
acting Presidents message was the
signal. What MIR. Hayes sayes on
the subject Of elections in the South
is not all that the shriekers desired,
but it is good deal too much in view
of the fact that the whole thing is a
partisan out~cry raised to serve the
basest of partisan ends. Mr.. Hayes is
undoubtedly out of humor with the
South. In return for the discharge of
his plain duty in Withdrawing FEEDER
al interference with their local govern.
ments, and permitting them to man
age their own affairs as the other
states do, he expected the South to
fall into line and sustain the Republi-
can party. But the Southern people
have not been guilty of the political
in6delity hoped for by trading politi~
clans of the Hayes stripe. Removed
from the coercive influences of bayo>
nets and corrupt returning boards, the
South is Democratic. Hence these
Radical tears. A few years ago when
there were only two Democratic mem>
bers of Congress from that entire Sec
tion, a ''Solid South" had no terrors
for these Radical marplots. Then
! carpet>baggery had full swing, and
reconstruction was working according
to Hoyle. Things we're booming and
the the goose hung "altitudelum."
But the gradual enfranchisement of
the whites and the winning over of
the better class of blacks restored a nat>
ural> condition of things. Republi>
cans say that Mississippi, South Car
olina, etc, should be Radical by 3d.
900 majority. The argument is that
there are so many thousand colored
voters and consequently so many Re-
publican votes should appear in the
boxes. That would be good logic if
all the blacks voted the Radical tick
let; but they don't. The fact that six
colored Democrats have just been
elected to the legislature in South
Carolina is pretty conclusive evidence
that tolorably lively sprinkling Of
blacks vote and act with the whites
Your correspondent spent four mont tbs
Fin. the South last year, and saw on
every hand ample, unmistakableS evil
dences that the more intelligent col
. ored men were earnest active Demo
Gratis. It is the most natural thing in
the world. Their interests, instead Of
being antagonistic to the whites as the
lying, scheming carpet.baggers long
made them believe, are Identical and
inseparable.@ Neither one can prosper
without the other, and left to them