The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-01-29
Washington, Letter.

Washington, Letter.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. %, 1880.
The National Bank reserve bill got
its quietus. Democrats, Greenbackers
and Republicans united in demolish-
ing it, and it is dead as a doornail, in
so far as the 46th Congress is concern
ed. Weaver, of Iowa, paid his respects
to General Logan during the course of
the debate, in trying to get even with
Logan, for asserting that the PROPOSE
tion of Weaver to pay the soldiers in
gold, was demagogical. If go much of
these personal attentions was not to be
would say Mr.. Weaver fairly skinned
the swarthy sharer in the salary grab
sleal. The Senate still labors assidu-
ously from II to 1 80 o'clock from
Monday till Thursday, and then adj
journs over to Monday, while the
House pegs along at its Revision of
Rules; :" hence, legislatively speaking,
all is quiet on the Potomac. Sam Cox
fairly outdid himself in real wit and
humor in his recent reply to Mr.. Horr,
of Michigan, who assumes to be the
Republican jester, and who, a few days
since, attacked Mr.. Cox with great
sarcasm and ridicule upon some trivial
question. Nothing equal to the re-
joinder ever came from Sam, and for
an hour he kept the Housein roar of
laughter with his witticisms, directed
at the ponderous gentleman from
Michigan, whom he compared to Fal-
staffin safety from eternal punishment,
whom, as Shakespeare said, the devil
would never have damned lest the oil
in him should set hell on fire.
The outrages committed by negroes
upon the persons of our citizens con-
tinue to a fearful extent. In our last
we chronicled the cold-blooded MUIR
der of Mr.. Hirth by four colored men.
Since then a prominent lumber dealer
Mr.. Libby, was dangerously beaten
while attempting to save a policeman
from deadly assault. Another, a Mr..
Harmon, was knocked senseless with
brick thrown by one of two negroes
who met him in one of our crowded
streets. A stranger was also severely
hurt while passing through Lincoln
Park, and it does seem as if, between
offences against person and property,
Sambo is holding a carnival of crime
in our midst which, unless checked,
may lead to serious consequences, yet
the radicals are moving heaven. and
earth to secure the right of suff rage for
him in order that he may rule here
again through his votes. Pandora's
box and negro suffrage are kindred
evils and the District would be as pros
porous under the one as the other. We
would as soon entrust our interests to
ghouls as to the average colored voters
who live and swarm in our slums and
hells. i'i
Virginia made short work of the ne
gro who, a month or two since, came
here with white farmers daughter,
of Fauquier county, and married her.
He was warned not to return to Vir-
ginia, as he would undoubtedly be
hanged if he attempted to face public
opinion there. His offence against the
law of that State did not merit hang
ing, but no one doubts the necessity
which exists here for the free use of
hemp among his colored brethren,
who. comprising one-third of our pop
ulation, commit three-fourths of the
indictable crimes against society.
The Grant boom is on the wane
here. The dead beats who have been
out to grass, and have grown lean
since 1877 sent Grant out of the White
House, are losing their influence.
The Women's National Suffrage
Convention has been in full blast here
since the 21st, and presents a greater
array of feminine talent than any of
it's predecessors. Miss Susan 3. An
thony is the presiding officer. and she
performs her duties with the utmost
self possession, and apparent fullest
knowledge of parliamentary law and
the responsibilities of her position.
She seems born to command and to
preside. Every angularity of her
physiognomy, form and charac ter
and no single point seems rounded
with an atom of the line of beauty and
symmetry-displays that force and de-
cision of mind requisite to enable the
control and direction of others, while
her tongue moves as rapidly and in
cisively as that of Katharine before
Petruchio. tanned her belligerency. Our
Mrs. Sarah Spencer is the secretary,
and though she lacks Miss Anthony's
angularity, for she is handsome and
graceful, yet she has vim and intel
lect that fits her also for leadership,
which she never hesitates to assume
whenever congressional committees
are to be addressed, or bodies of men
harrangued. Mesdames Gage, Stanton,
aud score of other prominent suffrage
advocates are among the delegates, and
as Misses Phoebe Cozzens, Devereux,
and other talented spinsters, assist in
the pow-wow, your readers can readily
appreciate that the wondrous suffrage
question is being ably and fully ham
died. They promise us, as in past con-
ventions, the millennium whenever
granted the ballot through their de-
sired Constitutional amendment. Not
a speaker but has told us that, given
the right to vote, women would put
down the infamous national traffic in
whisky, and reform all the evils Incl
dent to our political institutions. OBJ
servation in Wyoming Territory,
where women vote unrestrictedly, has
rendered us perfectly skeptical upon all
these assumptions. But the fact re-
mains that no convention, of either
sex, ever assembled in Washington
which exhibited more talent and gen.