Year: 1866

TO stand solid and press onward to victory.


Al half past six the vote was called, and
the clerks proceeded, amid breathless silence
with busy pencils tallying the result. Nor
gan responded aye in clear voice. Doubt
was removed and instantly the spectators
rose in the galleries and made the Senate
chambers echo with applause. On the floor
the scene was but little less exciting. Sew
eral Senators rushed up and congratulated
Mr. Morgan, as did members of the House.
Ga went the roll to the end. Mr.. Wright,
who appeared in the chamber few minutes
in the early part of the day and then retired
to the committee room, was now supported
to his seat 0y friends. The result WAS then
announced by acting Vice President Foster,
and perfect storm of applause followed,
handkerchefs waved hats went aloft, with
cheers and shouts such as the Senate cham
ber never witnessed before. This scene was
of long continuance and during it the oppo-
stion gathered up their hats and canes and
retired


A Scene IN CoNaREss.-Th Republican
newspapers are in ecstaces over the passage
of the bill giving every miserable, ignorant,
greasy negro in the District of Columbia the
right to vote. We may expect their columns
to be adorned with the most graphic descrip-
tions of the grandeur of the scene presented
in the magnificent Hall Of the House at the
moment of the passage of the bill Imagi-
native imagery will no doubt be exhausted.
Poetry will be called in where plain prose
halts, and all the Tyres in the land of New
England will be newly strung 10 sing paans
of praise to the white men in Congress who
were bold enough solemnly to vote that ne-
tber they nor any part of their race were
whit better than the horde of negroes who
filled the galleries OF the House of ReDresen-
tatives, and sat trembling with delight as the
sonorous aye of each Republican delegate
was recorded against bis own race and in fa-
vor of tha. which many of them delight TO
laud as the superior one. The scene presen-
ted on the occasion was one just suited to
the style and the capacity of modern Yankee
poets, and it will no doubt be sung in straAs
of fitting melody. By and by art will, as in
her custom, come to the aid of poetry, and
painting and sculpture will be taxed to their
utmost to pe-petuate the glories of the ever
occasion. Itwas uuq1estionably
a strong and stirring spectacle. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Her.
aid sends to that paper the following tee-





House. and tie conduct of the Republican
members at the moment when they had sue
ceeded, by legislative enactment, in placing
the negro on an equality with the white man.
Here is bis sketch taken On the instant aud
forwarded by lightning:


The galleries were filed by anxious spec
tators and listeners OF both colors, the blacks
however. The passage of
the bill was hailed with such boisterous and
prolonged applause on the foer that Speaker
Colfax lost his temper, aid said that in future
he would not attempt to suppress the CALLER
les unless members behaved themselves. Ju-
bilant radicals rushed into the lobbies, the
halls and the barber-shops, and grasped the
greasy hands of every thoroughbred freed
man they found in those localities. Coming
down from the galleries big darkies jostled
loftily against the high born DANES of this
District and trod upon their drapery with an
air of divine right. In the street cars they
hobnobbed with successful Congressmen and
grinned famlliarly in the faces of the hereto
fore ruling race.