Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
DAILY Life and Habits of Texas Con.
gresSmen at the Capital.
The Gazettc'S Headquarters -Iugersoll
aud the Civil Rights Decision.
Sambo's Occupation Gene The New
Cotton Picking Machine.


! Washington, November l.--Rcpre.
sentatives of Texas and most Southern
states have their Washington houses
In the vicinity ofthe GA8ErrE's head.
| quarters. The GAZETTE selected
I apartments most readily accessible
TO the greatest number of Southern
representatives and senators, Northern
and Eastern members of congress
Affect the vicinity of the White House
and OF the treasury; representatives OF
the south lind dwelling places as near
the capitol rs possible, and especially
are they accustomed to sit about the
! tables of the Metropolitan hotel. A
/ lew Southerners, rs did Alex I'll
/ stephens, still imagine that Wash
! ington City Is all to bc found In
the old National hotel made famous
rs Henry Clay's abiding place, and ms
! the scene of his death. Ever after.
wards when in Washington, and
until his demise in Atlanta, Alex H..
! stephens occupied the apartments of
Mr., Clay, aud used % think that Mr..
| stephens proposed to die lust where
| Henry Clay brealhcd his last. hut
! now that Mr.. stephens no longer at
/ tracts men from all the states 10 the
! National, and David Davis has
| gone of after strange gods.
! and Judge Reagan has found that his
constituents and colleagues most APP
| prove the cuisine of the Metropolitan,
and there he would meet many wan.
| dcrers from the Gulf statcs--even
Judge Reagan, ordinarily IA immov-
able ~ Pixies peak, was transported
during the last session toihe Metropol-
! ital. He is anchored there forever.
! There too, Culherson, Well
born, Reagan Coke aud all
! the rest sat about tables
assigned To Texans and there each
evening did newsgnthcrers, represent
ing the few Southern papers having
correspondents here, busy themselves
in buttonholing and bus2lng repre-.
sentatives of the South.
/ HOW uNIuSTLN THEY WE'RE DEALT
WITH.
! You have observed that the press de.
! fines the position, in the couniry's
estimation, held by each con-
gresham and that Northern
congressman monopolize the attention
of the Northern press. Representa-
! tlves of Northern newspapers, and In
fact of many Southern publications,
are Northern men. Their sympathies
| and associations are, of course, with
| those they have known best and
longest. They gather news cXclu-
| sivcly from Northern congressman.
They represent the South and It's law
givers and orators and thinkers In
nothing. The press makes the cOun-
try's great men a.d, you
viii observe that Northern
reporters never discover aught
TINT L.. tynpI snnltlD mn If
reth Therefore did the GAZETTE
wisely locnte its headquarters in
Washington Ia the midst OF the homes
of Southern congressman. Therefore,
TOO, most wisely and properly do
Northern journalists have their offices
about the treasury and the Riggs and
l1bbitt hotels.
TEXANS IN WASHINGTON.
state these facts not ruorc for the
purpose of serving the GAZETTE than
the people of my state. IL IL well that
they should know, when visiting
the capital, that having found the
Metropolitan they can SEQ Mt once al
most every Southern sojourner in
Washington. Failing there the rural
Southerner need only call ut the GA
zETTEis headquarters aud Waahing-
ton Publishing Agency. Here every
Southcrner calls, records his name and
city address, aud resulting advantages
are palpablo.
AUTONOMY or TENAs.
There Is the same necessity
for this meetiDg-place for
Texans In Washington as the New
York Herald discovers for concentra-
ton of Americans at it's Office in Paris.
Texas is the only state that has not
become n county of the United
States. Texas alone maintains ith uu-
tonomy practically and theoretically.
Even railways fail 10 effect perfect
commercial ABSORPTION instead of tan
nexation" and the centralized imperi-
alism sought TO be established by Ham
iltonian doctrinnaires and by all the
forces of the revolutionary party in pow
or have utterly failed To obiiteratc the
dlstinctiveness and Integrity of Texas,
or violate its statehood. Texas IL as
foreign in its modes Of political think
ing, In its pure democracy, and IL: the
individual independence of its citi-
zens, TO New York city as Paris or
that kingdom of Europe having least
affinity for republican institutions and
least sympathy with free states. The !
OUluU WAS lDslllutcu ny Tree anu III |
dependent states, having widely di- |
vergcnt interests and faiths and habits |
of Industry, and ii IL 10 this Union |
that Texas adheres and not the CON
solidated empire.
THE DIVERSION or NEGRO GENIUS. |
Bob Ingersoll is only mad. He Is
the dupe OF generous, sympathetic
nature. He Is honest and earnest, but
none the less at fault. Little as he /
confesses 1t the Sunday school book
and cranky old danes in breaches and
old men in petticoals made him look
upon negro servitude as The crime
OF the continent, when, In fact, IL was
Gods choicest boon 10 Africa and
greatest curse to America. But lnger-
soil is typical radical or
sRepublican.n His love for Sambo
the best aud kindiiest and most gem
erous Of all dai8ots, is the exact neas-
ure ofhis hatred OF ex-slayeholders, of
whom his father was the most exact.
ing and most brutal. They were the
of the African slave trade
When framing the constitution every
Of 80 voted 10 exterminatc