Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Potency Of Women in sbapipc thu
Affairs Of q Great and Pros
porous Nation.
How the State Of hississippi Escaped
Negro Rule Through It's Inter.
venuOn Of Woman.
A Glimpse Of Washington Society In
Ante Beilum Times = Two
Fashionable olques.

THE PosTHAsTER-oENt RAJ ABAsHed.
SPECIAL.
WASHINGTON. March 10 The story
current that Pos,master.G, neral Villas.
when the oaih OF office was adminlst.
cred, being somewhat abashed, held
the bible IN his tr.mulous hand aud
kissed his astonished wife, VINO was
wa ching with tesrfui | tensity Of IN.
terest the induction OF the husband
into tfilce, relniuds me OF Incidents
showing that women In Washington
nave often SHAPED the coIriIyis for
tun,s
Tu will remember that the conati.
tuition u N'ssi sippl. ~ a aped nv TIA
II mer II 1865, In conformity Win 10.
Curt, uctiou .cts, coutain ~ clauses
diSfr-nc s ng every citizen OF that
hapless "'tun NV alth who had held
civil or mi itary Office under the
/ Confederate gov -rnin.nt. When
THIS organic 'Uue WAS sui mittrn tir
The app val ~ tine people 1t was re-
Jecttd, and SIMPLY because OF the ;, x.
l-t.nce VI this provision, by eight
thousand majority. But The carpet.
baggers resolved TO retain mastery,
aud through the intervention OF the
n gr''es appealed 10 Ben Butler and
the recon-irnotion committee, II was
agreed by this potent body IL STA es.
men OF the period, hat the -tat, should
he forced, nulens volens, accrpl the
constitution FIX Gov Albert G.lla.
tin Blown a. d Gen. james Dugan
the latter a Uuiun soldier, cane 10
Washington 10 prevent this aei lou by
congress. Buffers committee wss 10
max. i,s report the next morning
af'er their arrival to the lsWlesz fsnati.
cal congress, whose purpose IL was To
suhjec each OF the Southern states TO
the absolute
DOMINATION OF BLACKS.
Ad istd, during The eveuing, OF
Buffers purpo-es, Gen Dugan aud OK
United State ), mater Brown, hurri, a
TO the residence of Judge Dent
Grants brother ln.law. Mrs. Dent,
an admirable womap, Is "a AiissisAil,-
plan by birth Tue two selfcoustitut. d
representatives Of the p' ople of The
state reach d Deut's res dence at mid.
night. The hon.ehOld was aroused,
ard Dent nj last came down STARE.
His wife, In the hallway oveih
listened intenily when she discovered
that the fortunes Of Mississippi, were
discussed. Brown and Dugan urged
Judge Dent To accompany them. ev, n
Mt that late hour, to tho White House.
Dent insisted that IL VAS wholly i'm.
| possible. The Or, sident would resent
their intrusion. H. must not be dis.
turbed, Brown and Digan, con. cious
| that Tim ma a h.at ~. l.f. a
that all was lost, were ab,us taking
their leave, To renew their eptieatt. y
in the morning, when Mrs Dent, lean
ing over tue railing above, intcfposed /:
100 ~iih th,m, judge serve those
gentlemen and their st te aud mine y
Dent htsiiated a mnment; then.
turning 10 Dugan snd Br iwn, tsid (:
1T shall be a sue wishes"
They soon gaiued access 10 Pr sident
GraLt, who prepared that Night q
special message To coDRr, ~, Insisting
that acti, on the Mississippi con
stitutiDn be def rred until he could
investigate facts incident TO It's cren.
Iiou. He then advised the resubmis-
sion of the prop aed coretitutiJn tn
the people, enabling them To vote
separately upon this instrument and
tn clauses diafranchising Confederate
army and civil officers. The consiitu-
tinn as 1t exists Today WAS adopted,
and the oble tionable suffixes an
| nulled This result was de TO The
intervention Of Mrs Judge ID at, the
memory OF whose virtues Mississippi
should IA test In monumental narbls
FORTUNES or STEPHEN Dou aLAs
| II = ephen A DJuxlas, h cd become
| PRESIDENT In 1901 the Tut er-sta,e war
would have been at lea.t indefinitely
osiponed, aud slavery perhaps more
| chesply terminated by rests less In
| cursions OF railways aud at the
world's opinion. IL had already be-
come African servitude or serfdom,
rather than slavery us shown In the
conduct of blacks, while hosiilities
rAged They were then practically
free The whole arms bearing white
opula'i N Of the richest distrle OF
the south were drafted into armies,
| while women and children, aud the
aged and incapable, and these negroes
produced fod and clHhinR fnr sol
oilers. There were no crimes then, as
nov, committed by blacks, aud their
presence aud action were the
HAsIs or CONFEDERATE STRENGTH
AND POWER
10 1855, when the D-mocratIc ma
tioual convention sat la Cincinnati,
Douglas and Buchanan were rivzls,
seeking the nomination for the pr-si.
dency. Each was given, through sew
ersl DAYS. abnut the same number Of
halI0's AT length Douglas advised
hla friends hat Buchanan, because OF
his life long service OF the party, was
entitled TO the nomination, and that
he himself sas young enough TO win
honor, n he continued IN deserve 1t,
after the lapse OF nresideniial term
of office Douglas came 10 Washing
Ton the forem, 81 staie-man an sena-
tor of his time, aud soon was wor-
shipped as the rising, ~ Buchanan
w.s the setting-snn. Dongias's
wife had died. Ambitious wO-
men s0ught 10 win his smiles
for themselves or daughters or kins-
women. society 10 Washington was
divid. into
NORTHERN And SOUTHERN cLioUES,
and there were brIl iant and fssclUAt-
i.