The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-01-17
From the y. Y. independently
A Woman's Letter from Washington
EY MARY CLEINER.

I err contestants, was sworn in as senator
of the United States lie took his scat
without opposition, and, after taking the
oath, the first man who congratulated
him was Wadleigh, Of New Hampshire
He was followed by Mitchell, OF Oregon
ingalls,, Of Kansas; and Allison, Of Iowa
all who strcnuously opposed his admis-
sion till the last moment Was there
not the hint Of Judas in their ardent
handshakes2
Eustis is a fine looking man in middle
life. lie looks like q Southerner, which
Ben Hill and even Butler do not His
skin. well bronzed by Southern suns, on
I his checks bears pomccranatc bloom al
+ most crimson. His features are regular;
\ his eyes arc dark. open, and direct in
I their gaze his hair iron gray. He looks
I like powerful man Of action, who in the
open air had drawn into his very life
some Of Natures finest tints, rather than
a man Of indoor intellectually. His
father was chiefjustice OF the State Of
Louisiana; and he himself, since leaving
/ the ConfedcraCy, has been successful
I lawyer in his native state His brother
married the only daughter Of Mr. Corco-
ran, the famous banker of Washington.
His sister; the foster mother in the stately
home Of Mr.. COrcoran Of that brothers
orphan children. witnessed from the di-
plomatic gallery her brothers admission
as q senator Of the United Stqtes-her
first visit, | believe. to the Senate gallery
in seventeen years. Through the entire
war the family were intensely Southern
in their partisanship, and IL is a comment
on the political status Of the other new
Southern senators that the Republicans
regard Eustis az among the most liberal
and fair-mindcd Of all the old school OF
fiery politicians born again into the SEN
ate. They are fairly seated now-Lamar,
Of Mississippi; Gordon and Hill Of GeOr-
gia; Butler, Of South Carolina; Eustis,
Of Louisiana. People who relied upon
such senators as Foote and Collamer, Fes-
sender and Trumbull, Wilson and Sum
nor, will need considerable time to get
used TO the presence Of such men in such
place. II is not altogether easy to for
get that these men, now bound by solemn
oath to support the Government Of the
United States, did all in their mortal
power for many years to destroy IL. We
are bound 20 accept, as given in good
faith, their protestations of fealiy, their
promises Of patriotism, so literally made
now. mans opinions may change, his
preiudices fade out; but the intrinsic
quality OF his nature forever remains the
same. He rarely outliyes the influence
Of the traditions Of his ancestors, the as-
sociations Of his youth. and never the
fixed habits Of his mind. Thus the final
influence upon national legislation Of
these Southern men-of their passions
Of their feelings. far more than Of their I
intellects-cannot at once be measured
The years viii unfold il. That il may
not be again to the destruction Of free l
government, 70 the upbuilding OF tyranny, ,
to the eternal degradation of the slave |
we may at least pray. But even within
lew days the whole country must have 1
been conscious Of the old-new element in /
the Senate. Was il not quite like the I
distant days we read about the last /
weeks rumor of a duel between Gordon /
and Conkling2 Conkling has forded il /
in the Senate 10 these many years He /
can say as many insulting things in the /
same space Of time as any man that ever 4
lived, and be can look more insult in 4
second than any man ever uttered. Yet !
no one ever heard before that he was 4
challenged, because Of these insults, TO 4
fight q duel. No one will be surer than l
the dominant man Of the North that the \
long absence, has got back to his old /
stronghold, and, despite bullets, losses, \
and defeat, is more eager than ever to
fight anew his old battles The end is not \
yet. IL is not in human nature that q
Northern Republican Of the best type can
look with equanimity upon the reappear-
ance Of men who at heart regard the
Union as an Irishman regards England.
who have done all in their mortal power
to destroy it, and who to day regard it
only as n political compact out Of which
they intend to see how much can be made
1t is impossible that such men as Blaine
and Conkling should be pitted against
such men as Gordon and Butler, without
the country seeing sheet lightning, if it
does not see small words and hear pis-
tolls.
Patterson is at last down with the YER
tigo. | should think his backbo would
have given him vertigo weeks ago but
he drew il inward till Congress closed,
then fell. Till the last moment his strut
grew more imposing. lie had embraced
Butler, and knew that it was well with
him. Ii IS not so well with the Negro
Smalls, of the House, who for the same
crime comes back sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary. Of course, justice
between the white and colored race, as
justice between men and women, is some
thing We have ceased to expect. Yet in
this instance the discrepancy is too broad
to pass without protest. The white bri-
Der remains a senator Of the United
States; the colored briber goes to the
How about Wade Hamp-
toms guaranties2 a South Caroliniau"
in The Atlantic for January says: NO
whites have been prosecuted in the state
courts for the violent crimes of the cam
paign" When the Ellenton rioters were
tried before the United States Circuit
Court, at Charleston in June, the chief
Justice presiding, the whites on the jury
obstluately declined to find a verdict
against them, and n mistriGl was ordered
But hundreds upon hundreds OF Negroes,
accused Of participation i'm the arsOns, the
burglaries, the riots, and the murders Of
the Republican rule, are now being pros
ecuted in the state courts, by the insti-
CATION of either grand jurips or indiyidu
ais As many as two, three, and four
Negroes are hung at n time. As we read .
on, we are told by South Carolinian
that the whites in South Carolina wish .
to restrict the freedom Of the Negroes in
going about nights; wish to keep them
from attending public meetings, attend
ing day schools, or any schools az all
And the white legislature has decreed 4
that the cOnvicts in the penitentiary shall 4
hereafter Be fcrmcd out to contractors for /.
labor on railroads and farms and, as IL .
is Negroes who are chiefly sent 20 the .
peuitcutiary, this makes q limited return
to slavery-which, with the re establish I
meut Of the whip?ingpost is about sla .
very enough for one state even If that \
state be the State of South Caroline, with I
Wade Hampton for its governor.
The old elements beginning anew the I
old. old war, for which so many were .
slain. but whose final victories are yet to .
be won, at what cost Of life and human I
treasure only the future can tell
On Tuesday the morning journals an F.
nounccd that that would be "Womun's 1
Day in the senate. The announcement .