Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-22
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
WRATHFUL KENTUCKY RADI-
GALS.
Cold Comfort for the Place Hunters
Young Mr.. Speer's speech Some
Highly Poetic Flights - Colonel
Blacks Illness The Tide of
Sympathy.

WASHINGTON, March 20-The most depressed
and unsatished lot Of people in the country are
the Kentucky Republicans. When President
Arthur came in he found large number of
expired commissions in the Kentucky Federal
offices. / make no very wild statement that
for every Office then vacant there were at least
twenty Kentucky Republicans who wanted to
fill the places. They also thought that changes
where there were no expired commissions
would be made at an early date. 1t is unneces-
sary to enlarge upon what followed. The city
swarmed with Kentucky Republicans for a long
time. Then they began to go home but would
every now and then return to the charge.
They keep this up now. They have harrassed
the President and have swarmed the White
House. Very often it has been predicted that
the President was going to do something in a
few days s. But, bevond filling one or two minor
offices under the Post Office Department he
has done nothing. This is why the Kentucky
Republicans are so dissatisfied Their dissat-
isfaction is increased because it has cost them
q good deal Of money in their journeying
thither and back. Their board bills while
they have been here. is not condu-
Give to a placidity OF feeling. But
very few of them have withdrawn. They
evidently Intend to stick it out, each hoping
for every vacant post office In the State there
Is female applicant. There is nothing to in
dicate when the President will move to their
Eellof: @ he goes slowly; even the pressure OF OF
stir him an inch.
MR.. sPEER's SPEECH
Representative Emory Speer has made an
other set speech. 1t was Saturday. and the
speech was on the Chinese bill. which has pass
ed the Senate and which will also pass the
nTrf 70 40 Got Howvs
1t was good speech in the main It was by far
better than that set speech which he had print
ed in the Record a couDle of years back which
contained lots about the falls of Tcccoa, and
was regular run of sophomore rhetoric Five
times in his speech Mr.. Speer, like Silas Wegg,
d ops into poetry He opened with verse
the popularity of the Chinee's dark ways and
vain tricks are set forth. Farther on he gave
the House q line or two of Coleridge, then a line
from the Laureate OF England, and then Shakes
peare on the bad man who has mo music in
his soul" Here is what Mr.. Speer in his really
good speech said about the colOred people and
the Chinese, as compared. You will observe
that he gets a little poetic himself:
II do not know the Chinese; but / do know
the colored people from my Infancy. come
from country where they have been known
for more than hundred years typical ne
gro is Infinitely superior to a tVpical China
man IL the evidence of witnesses and the ex-
perience of travellers with regard to the latter
be entitled to belief. The negro is deeply emo
tional; the Chinaman is as cold one of his
ugly stone idols The negro is sympathetic
an kind-hearted; the Chinaman caIlous and
Indifferent. The negro is susceptible to the
kindly influences, to poetry and to eloqueuce;
but the e'oauenee even OF the distinguished
gentleman from Ohio (Ar. Taylor would have
no influence on the phlegmatic Mongoliau.
The negro is intensely religious in his nature.
Perhaps sometimes he backsides, as the best
Chinaman has no love of God Whatever; his
religion is the fear of the devil. Bayard Tay
lor tells us that the Chinamsn manages to pro-
pitiate his neglected satans By terrific thump-
ing of tom-toms and fizze and splutter OF fire.
works, and with fearful din Of goDgs and long
hollow bamboos which emit ShriekS that make
your nerves quiver. 1 doubt, said he. If the
word harmony is to be found in the Chinese
language. Not even the sense of a rhythm
could be extracted from the dreadful discord,
but each instrument of torture raved in its
own way, regardless of the others What must
be the nature of those who delight in such
sounds?
"Sir. no people on the earth have sweeter
sense of music than the cOlored people of our
South lana. Their simple melodies are sweet
to the soul like the memory of joys that are
gone. In the moonlit Sabbath nights at my
home in Georgia have listened to them as in
congregation they sang the Old familiar hymns
OF Watts and Wesley; and as the notes of
praise and thanksgiving died away on the soft
Southern air, l have wondered if more
triunphal and melodious strains were ever
raised in the temple in Jerusalem of old.
Sir, you will never see the spectacle of the
entire South rising up against the negro as
you see the entire West rising up against the
Chinaman."
Mr. Speer closed with maintaining it to be
the duty of Congress to protect the working
man-and with another poetical quotation. His
closing quotation was that Of Goldsmith,
wherin the Importance of the maintenance of
"a bold peasantry" is sung in eloquent and
triumphant metre.
REPRESENTATIVES, BLACK.
When this reaches you the popular, con-
scientious and able Representative of the Sa
v7nnah district in Congress may not be alive.
He has this prayers of numberless friends He
is as well liked as any man who ever sat in
Congress, His duty to his constitu-
ents is ever before him. The express
sions Of sympathy with him and
his family are countless as the leaves Of
autumn. His noble wife is by his side con
stantly. There has been many more volun-
teers to sit up with him than would be neces-
sary in years illness am sorry to say that
a new danger has developed in his case-water
on the lungs has appeared 1t would be almost
miracle If he should recover. 1t is nothing
new to the people of Georgia that his loss