The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Ills - the uay nAeu, IOI DOIl
Houses of Congress to convene in tn
Chamber of the House of Representa-
tives, and accept for the government
the painting by Carpenter, represent
ing Lincoln in full Cabinet about t
sign the Proclamation of Emancipa
tion.n 1t was presented by an enthu
siastic negrOphOlist, by the name G
Thompson. She gave Carpenter S25,
900 for it. 1t is about seventeen fee
square, with a heavy rosewood frame
Lincoln is sitting in the middle-th
central figure Of the group with hi
pen in his right hand, in the act 9
signing the paper of cOntiscatiOn
whereby millions of property were t
be stolen, by the men whose ancestor
had stolen the negroes from Afric;
and sold them to the South. Chas
stands up behind him like a chief but
leF ut n first class entertainment. Sew
ard sits Immediately in frOnt-witl
l<iidee legs and nose that looks lik,
the semi-circle of a .Teaper'S hook
Stanton Is there "organizer of victory, ,
as his devotees called him. The 9th
eFs are there. The staging was f1XeC
behind the Speakers chair, for the
massive "daub," as Edmunds calls it,
10 rest upon. The Stargemmed Ban
ner, OF country, whose agents stole
these negroes and win not pay for
them, WIS spread over it, TO hide it,
from vulgar eyes, until the ''hour and
man" should come.
About two o'clock, the Senate with
the defactO head made their appear
ance. The galleries were packed and
iammed to their utmost capacity. The
artist, the donor and the members OF
the families of Lincoln's Cabinet were
given the privilege of the floor, under
a resolution of Sunset Cox. Directly
Wheeler opened the ball and stated
wherefore the Senate and House, had
gotten into fraternal hug, as it were
Garfield arose and commenced read.
ing his speech. He is an er-Reformel
preacher and has become so immersed
i'm politics, that he spends his whole
time in visiting Louisiana, to aid and
abet the eut-thrOatS and pirates, who
forged and altered the erelatiOns of thai
State, so that its votes should be given
to Hayes and now il engaged with
HAYES and Sherman in writing letters
of coincidence to Anderson, who is in
prison for stealing the property, that
these men are now in possession of
No wouder he quit preaching. II
would be a gay and lively tea party ol
a church that would hire any such O
creature TO break the bread of life to
them. However, he is finished and
cultured scholar and a fine talkeF. He
stated that the discovery of America
was the first great epoch in our cOun-
try's history, the Declaration Of indie
pendence was the second and he was
about 20 detail the glories of the third.
BY this programme, it was evident
that New England and Plymouth
Rock were left out I'm the moisture. IN
gilded rhetoric he pictured the gran
deur of the moment, in which the
Shaclxles Of millions were stricken
from their limbs. ] didn't see one
1f the unshackled present OH this tll6iI
grand fctc day. ! don't know why.
II was strange scene, to see this
uainting uHe0Vared in the presence OF
an audience, composed largely of the
men, who had periled lie, limb and
property, in the vain epdeay0F tC
make the proclamation itself nIlllity
f!ut, matters were destined TO assume
a tr&Ieerer shape, before the ceremonies
closed, y As soon as, Garfield finished,
Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia
wheeled his chair around Oh its rollers
facing the presiding officers, and said
in tone, very similar 70 that of John
Randolph, "Mr. President ana Mr..
Sneaker Wheeler and Randall bow
ed. and then this weird, cOrpse-lii<e
looking man, began a speech, the
most remarkable, in human history,
when the circumstances surrounding
the speaker arc all taken into the con-
sideration. Stephens was educated by
charity and after he got able, never
having any children of his own, edll-
Gated many young men, to repay tht
Kindness bestowed upon him. Ee was
a Wing lender, young in life. Be.
fore the war he got so afraid of Lin
coin and Seward and the abolition
lists that he forsook his Old party anC
rot at the head Of the Democratic par
". In 1850, he went for Douglas
niI,l fought Secession afterwards, in
words that sent his name on the wing,
of fame, TO the uttermost parts of thC
Union. War came and he was tho
half.hearteSi Nice-president of the Con
federacy-neVcg connected with his
chief. and had mortal dislike for the
capital OF the cause, which had hoisteC
him second in command, The las
tine he had seen Lincoln was ia tn
Hampton Roads conference. In tha
consultation the everlasting negro wa
the burden of their songs. To-day
wrinI1led with age-emaciated witt
disease with eyes Us fierce in thei
glariug aS a nlaniac's-iG Rn invalid!
chair. this historical old man, sDok,
coin and pretermitted any discussion
about the rightfulness Of Emancipa
k1n. Never have ! seen such eager,
1lcs> on human countenances as tha
displayed by the Republicans wheI
this sperch was ringing out. They
,raned their necks and sough
to catch every word. They
were delightea with it, As for my
self. Unjust confess, that there wa!
nothing of the heroic, or patriotic II
it to me. 1t sickened me, to see tiih
old man, evidently desirOus TO placat'
ili,. worst enemies his country eve
had.
Stephens has lived too long, for hi
fame. Since the war he has been al
gush-quick as powder TO pour ou
fulsome complinlents, upon the mos
hateful men i'll our whole hiStO
~. To him we are indebted for the
information, that Grant * Il seeopt
William, of Orange, silent and gPanC
"A most wonderful intellect. TO hin
vreurc indebted, for the information
that Hayes title is the best one in on
historV-mdeed better than Washing
TOMS. because il had been tried an,
she verdict rendered ina his favor
This arrdut lie and idiOtIc baldepaasl
is of OF the same piece of cloth. as ths
policy. 80 llluu>lTlOuSlN DtiTSueu ~,
IHilI, Lamar, Butler and some Others
0f .on eternal daliiaHce with the Radi
rals. 1t has been carried so far witt
yhcsc me-, that neither one OF them
could be inouced 10 support a nleasuR
which the Republicans violently op
pose; nor could they be induced t
lake hold of the Tebber rascals anC
shake them until they looseqed thei
grip upon the nations property,
stephens has lost his teeth, and s.
have theY. Not from age, bat the
will not bite the oppresS0rS OF thRi
country They are emascUiased
They are of no use here. In the gFea
battle now raging for relief 60
bankrupt people, they are on the sid
of money and pluLder. They ougl
TO bc called henle. Oh how the hol
csl soul, yearning fer relief for I'll
people and the overthrow of fraud an
hypucrfsy, hates these half-heaFte
lickspittiex--these apologiZers for frau
and meanness. There are true me
in Georgia and Mississippi and
South Carolina. who oaght TO |
here. so soon as Stephens gQttlFodSl
two young men IN tine gallery, nea