SUNDAY HERALD.

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

The Difference Between the Doctors-Colored Question Again-The Capitol Removers' Plan-The Tax on Women-Udds and Ends, Etc.

[FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.]

nothing but the fear of voting to increase the public debt would prevent the West from going almost solid for a removal of the Capital. Washington has got a brief lease of life. Let it cheapen the cost of living, improve its streets, and make it attractive for resident and stranger, and the constant growl in and out of Congress against the Capital of the country will be heard no more.

The House, in its discussions on the tariff bill seem disposed to place the highest taxes on 'ladies' finery and "women's gear," as one member expresses it, on the ground that these are luxuries and should be taxed. Mr. Brooks of New York came to the relief of the ladies, the other day and moved to reduce the duty on imported hair pins. In the course of his remarks he said that "the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means says that this rise

removal of the Capital to the West has been lost sight of, but it will probably be brought to the surface again before the session ends. The fact of it is, the Western members do not intend to abandon the scheme to take the Capital to the Mississippi Valley, but the most they hope to do this session is to get a commission appointed to examine and report upon a site, Gen. Coburn, of Indiana, has already introduced two bills for an inventory of all the government property here, with its estimated value, which he hopes to have submitted to the next session as a basis for legislative action. The terrible municipal muddle, the bankruptcy of the city, the want of good places of amusement, etc., all have a tendency to add to the prevailing dissatisfaction among Congressmen. If the vote were now taken,

"The meeting of my brother after nearly forty years separation is an event altogether too affecting for words to describe. How unutterably accursed is slavery; and how unspeakably joyful are the results of its overthrow! The search now being made and the happy-reunions now taking place all over the South, after years of separation and sorrow, furnish a subject of the deepest pathos.

It was this man who wrote the Fish-Moran letter, which Mr. Fish signed, and in which he calls Mr. Sumner the "venerable Mr. Sumner from Massachusetts," whereas Fish is four years older than Sumner. Here we see the eleven-foot of Davis sticking out behind the perspective of Fish's sticks.

### WHO IS BANCROFT DAVIS?

Davis is the son of one Mr. Sumner's predecessors in the Senate, and he went out with the legislation of Abbott Lawrence to London, in Fillmore's time. Returning to New York he was there the correspondent of the London Times, and many of his letters are said to exhibit as much malevolence towards its country as he has lately shown towards its most honored senator. He tumbled into Wall Street, affected the law, got mixed up with the Fish-Gould Tammany "ring," and by such processes, common to the rough-and-tumble of metropolitan life, he has acquired a fortune. The country will do well to understand, therefore, that the state papers signed "Hamilton Fish" are the emanations of a London Times correspondent; and curiously enough, the administration organ is the New York Times, a decayed paper, edited by Jennings, another London Times correspondent. These two facts, associated with the other fact that the President has taken the back track on the Alabama claims, show that the United States, in its State Department at least, is an offshoot of the London Times, which in turn is a superservicente of offshoot of the British Government, like its American namesake. No wonder that Mr. Fish, through the letter of Mr. Davis, gushed out in a facile the Evening Post, last week, denying the story of Mr. Scott Smith, that he had turned out Mr. Sumner because the English High Commission demanded it. If it were not true he had a perfect right to be true, the circumstances considered, for Bancroft Davis, the London Times correspondent, conducts the foreign relations of the United States.

### FISH BEGUELES SUMNER WITH THE ENGLISH MISSION.

Mr. Fish and Mr. Sumner, as we have said, never personally disagreed even about the San Domingo matter, until the military ring around Grant resolved to go into this job: then the President made the point with Fish that the Senate committee must be manipulated through its chairman.

Accordingly, in the first week in June, at nine in the evening, Mr. Fish went to Mr. Sumner's house, and after arguing with him for three hours, or until after midnight, to cease his opposition to San Domingo, he said:

> "If you cannot please the President in this; if you cannot cease your attacks upon San Domingo, at least get out of the way. You need not stay in the Senate. There is the English mission; I offer it to you; it is yours! Go away, and we can carry this San Domingo business behind you."

For this attempt to bribe Mr. Sumner the latter should have led Mr. Fish out of the front door by the fins; but he waived the matter off as the mistake of an old and blundering friend, and replied:

> "Oh! Fish, we have the best man we can get now at London, and you want to make no change there."

Mr. Fish left Mr. Sumner's house a baffled,BOROUGH, CALDWELL, CHANDLER, Cole, Chandley, Corbett, Elmunds, Fenton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Frelinnguyens, Hamlin, Harlan, Hitchcock, Howe, Lewis, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Osborne, Pomery, Poole, Ramsey, Robert-

Mr. Fish can read the ingenuous, malicious letter of Davis and Fish to Moran, the whiffet of our legislation in London, without seeing that it was addressed to Mr. Sumner's sensibilities. He is recited there as capable of double-dealing and treachery: these charges doubtless referring to President Grant's stupid effort to tiekle Mr. Sumner into abandoning his convictions on Santo Domingo by the compliment of a personal visit. Mr. Sumner is never flattered like the President by visits from rich or potent men, and he adhered to his position.

Mr. Fish stands acquitted, by fathering Davis's mendacious bulletin to Morn, with being the least gentleness of all the secretaries who have filled the State Department. Had he exerted himself half as much to obtain our due from England as to insult an American senator, his term of office might not have been barren in its results and drivingly in its direction, as he has made it. He is the Necker of American statesmen, only rich and weak.

### THE FINALE.

While these confederate dispatchwriters, aided by the San Domingo and the military rings, were

gladiating over their verbose pettishness, disguised as state letters. Mr. Sumner, unsuspecting, was paying more than the usual courtesies to the Secretary of State and his family. Mr. Fish, whose mental courage appears to have derived its mettle from the fatted terrapins which make so great a part of his *pia mater*, seems to have lost all his intrepidity as the time approached to "spring" this insolent Moran letter upon the public and his friend. When it did appear, he dared no more face the old Bay-State lion, but sent Senator Patterson to fathom the shoals and ascertain what his Fish's, reception would be. When some days ago Mr. Sumner was asked why Fish did not come in person to attend to public business, and why he sent Patterson, Sumner replied:

> "Because he feared the rebound of my heart!"

Mr. Sumner replied, through Patterson, that he would see Mr. Fish at the State Department, at the Senate, or at the house of either, freely, fully, and at any time on the public business; but, he added, "tell him that I feel he has done me a cruel wrong."

At this Fish was the more distressed, but still he mustered up enough Dutch courage to go to Mr. Sumner's house on the occasion of a conference with Sir John Rose, the courtier and pioneer of the British Government—on the terms of a new settlement. The evening was passed as Mr. Sumner only could make it pass in its perfection, pleasantly, intellectually, profitably.

But after midnight, when Fish had departed, Mr. Sumner, calmly sitting down in the quiet of his library, resolved that his self-respect would compel him to discriminate between Fish, the steward, and Fish, the friend. Therefore, when some time afterward, they met on a private occasion at Hon. Robert T. Schenck's, and late in the evening Fish addressed, across some ladies, a frivolous remark about duck and partridge to Mr. Sumner, the latter merely looked at him and made no reply, having no wind for such piscivorous matters. Fish's weak nature felt the shock. He dared no longer face the Nameless lion. And he arranged with the crew of Chandler, Nye, and the other "boys who fight for bitter apples," to complete his cowardly way by driving Mr. Sumner from the head of his committee so that he might no longer meet him.

This is the story. Whose is the victory? Answer, New Hampshire!

### CONGRESS.

The great excitement at Washington for the past few days has been the action of the majority of the Republican Senatorial caucus in substituting Senator Cameron for Senator Sumner as Chairman of the important Committee on Foreign Relations—a position which the Massachusetts *senator* has filled with distinguished ability for twelve years, and for which he is eminently qualified.

Early in the week a caucus of Republican Senators appointed a committee to revise the standing committees of the Senate. This special committee was reported to have substituted Senator Morton for Sumner, as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. That report is different; the committee having dropped Senator Sumner and promoted Senator Cameron, therefore second in the Foreign Relations Committee, to the chairman-hip, and added Hamlin, of Ma ne, vice Sumner dropped. This arrangement of the committee was sustained in the caucus—26 to 21. After several very earnest discussions both in the caucuses and in the Senate, the change was consummated on Friday, the vote on the resolution adopting the Committees as reported being, ayes 33, nays 9—as follows:

> Ayes — Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Caldwell, Chandler, Cole, Chandley, Corbett, Elmunds, Fenton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Frelinnguyens, Hamlin, Harlan, Hitchcock, Howe, Lewis, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Osborne, Pomery, Poole, Ramsey, Robert-

Nays—Messrs. Blair, Casserly, Cooper, Davis, Kentucky, Davis of West Virginia, Kelly, Stevenson, Thurman, Vickers—9.

Absent or Not Voting—Messrs. Bayard, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Cragm, Ferry of Connecticut, Gilbert, Hamilton, Hill, Kellogg, Logan, Pratt, Rice, Saulsbury, Schurz, Spencer, Sprague, Stockton, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Wilson, Windom—23.

The debate elicited many harsh remarks, and the press has given utterance to many severe comments, which had better been left unsaid. The Democratic organs of course are in estaticies and doing all they can to get a breach in the Republican ranks.

It is stated that Gen. Butler, at the request of the Massachusetts delegation, waited on the President on Thursday morning, to ascertain if some compromise could not be effected and Mr. Sumner retained in the position he had so long occupied, and reported as the result of the interview that the President said the administration had made some very important matters to submit to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which would require that its chairman should be in full and free sympathy with the Executive and the Secretary of State. Amonst these vital matters were the report of the San Domingo Commissioners, and the Joint High Commission on the Alabama claims and the fishery question. Mr. Sumner's views on these questions were both very pronounced and very hostile, and a change was thus absolutely necessary.

In the debate in the Senate, Mr. Howe of Wisconsin, chairman of the caucus committee, in reply to a question from Senator Schurz, said he would briefly state the reasons for the change, so far as he knew them, and he certainly knew them as well as any Senator. No question was being raised as to the ability of the Senator from Massachusetts, and no pretension had been made that he was surpass d in any respect by the gentlemen proposed to succeed him; but it was known to those who proposed the change that the personal relations existing between the Senator from Massachusetts and the President of the United States and the head of the State Department were such as to preclude all social intercourse between them. In brief, the information was that the Senator from Massachusetts refused to hold personal intercourse with the Secretary of State.

Mr. Sumner—Just the contrary.

Mr. Howe—Continuing without noticing the remark—and the Senator does not hold any intercourse with the President of the United States. In view of these facts it was deemed best that the Committee on Foreign Relations should have a head who could be on the best speaking terms with the Secretary of State and the President of the United States.

Mr. Schurz replied that he was very credibly informed, and from the best authority, that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) sitting between them, had not refused to enter into any official relations, either with the President or Secretary of State.

Mr. Howe—I ask my friends not to change the issue. I did not speak of their official relations, I spoke of their personal relations.

Further on in the debate Mr. Howe said the Senator from Massachusetts had been Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations for many years. He had been elected to that position every two years, but was that a reason why he should be continued in that position? The Senator was not arraigned for misconducting the affairs of the committee in the past, but to be displaced for the reason that the personal relations of the Senator and Secretary of State were such that they could not communicate on confidential affairs. He (Howe) for this reason, if for no other, thought that Mr. Sumner could serve the country better in some other place.

Senators Wilson, Trumbull and others made an earnest and eloquent defence of Mr. Sumner and strongly opposed the change.

Mr. Sherman regretted that this spectacle had been presented to the country. This was a matter which ought never to have been brought into the open Senate; but it should have been settled among the Republicans themselves. He believed the act was utterly unjustifiable and without excuse, and was so well voted in caucus. But he believed it was had so voted in caucus. But he believed it was his duty as a Republican to obey the voice of the his duty as a Republican to obey the voice of the majority of the Republican caucus, and he should therefore vote to confirm the report.

["Mr. Morton also argued in favor of agreeing to the action of the caucuses, for otherwise all party discipline would be at an end.", "Mr. Cragin decried this whole discussion, for since the day that Andrew Johnson was inaugurated Vice-President, he was never so much pained at any scheme that had occurred in this Chamber. It was not here to hear his consent. The majority of his political colleagues had brought it here, and while he thought the act of the caucuses was one which the Republicans would soon regret, he felt bound to obey the voices of the majority of the caucuses.", "Mr. Wilson, in reply to Messrs. Sherman and Cragin, said he had been taught to do right, in spite of party domination. Right was above all party. He believed a great wrong was about to be perpetrated, and so believing he could not act otherwise than to do all in his power to defeat the report. He therefore renewed his motion to postpone action until to-morrow morning, and let Senators sleep over it and consider the question calmly. The motion to postpone was defeated by a vote of 16 to 32.", "After some further discussion the vote was taken on the direct question of adopting the report, and it was adopted by a vote of 23 to 9, as above stated. All the negative votes were Democrats. The following Republicans, who had opposed the report, declined to vote: Messrs. Buckingham, Cragin, Ferry of Connecticut, Gilbert, Kellogg, Logan, Morrill of Maine, Pratt, Rice, Schurz, Sprague, Tipton, Trumbull and Wilson.", "The Philadelphia North American, a very able and judicious Republican paper, says that \"an important consideration in causing this change, doubtless has been the pronounced opposition of Senator Sumner to the San Domingo annexation, that is strongly favored by the President and advocated by an influential portion of the Senate of both parties. Another consideration as patent is that the Joint High Commission are now in session in Washington, to arrange matters in dispute between this country and England, in which Mr. Sumner has committed himself strongly. These considerations are probably those to which the", "President adverted in his interview with General Butler. If so, they affect the desirability of Mr. Sumner in a very important position, while questions of a controlling nature, that it is desirable to have pleasantly and speedily adjusted, must come before the committee of which he was chairman—on which his opinions had been so strongly pressed. Fortunately, the ripe experience and parity of General Cameron who succeeds, as we say, that the efficiency of the Committee will not any way lessened, while the personal considerations involved by Mr. Sumner's retention are removed.\"", "This unfortunate difference among the Republican Senators is to be deeply regretted; but that it is to have the serious consequences predicted by some and hoped for by others we do not at all believe.", "Mr. Sumner's Dinner Party.", "\"Geo. Alfred Townsend, Ben Perley Poore and L. Q. Washington, died within Senator Sumner a few days ago.\"", "\"We are not certain as to Mr. Townsend's politics, but believe he is one of those men who is independent in all things and neutral as to none.\" Everybody from \"the rock-ribbed coast of the East to the ever-riveted waters of the Pacific,\" as Vice President, Colfax would say, knows that Major Poore is a \"red hot\" Radical, and that he is to succeed Gen. Butler as the Representative from Essex when the gentleman is a warhorse of Massachusetts.\"", "Mr. L. Q. Washington is an eminent journalist, having seen long service on the Richmond Enquirer and the National Intelligencer, and is a correspondent of that American-looking paper, the *Alton Telegraph*.", "He was Assistant Secretary of State of the Confederate States. He is one of the old Tombs, Mason, Slidell and the like, and for the last ten years, a rising star of the American correspondent of that American-loving paper, the *Alton Telegraph*. He was Assistant Secretary of State of the Confederate States. He is one of the old Tombs, Mason, Slidell and the like, and for the last ten years, a rising star of the American correspondent of that American-loving paper, the *Alton Telegraph*. He was Assistant Secretary of State of the Confederate States. 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["IN DASHBELL in Rochester, the other evening, Frederick Douglass, in referring to the veto power, said: \"We are told that the veto is needed as a check on the fanatical majority. If as my theory that majorities are not fanatical, what is the reason for the veto?\" The answer is, always sensible. If we cannot trust him, let us give up our republican institutions.\"", "so good a record.", "## SUMNER ON SUFFRAGE.", "If it be true, as the telegraph reports, that the President yesterday expressed to the delegation of colored men who waited on him, his apprehensions that Impartial Suffrage would lead to a war of races and perhaps to the extermination of the Blacks, he bore harder on the Whites of our country than facts will warrant. We have entire faith that, as well as the Blacks, they will generally obey the laws of the land, even though they may not entirely approve them. Nobody imagines that the Colored People will be impelled to initiate \"a war of races\" because they are enfranchised—they will have no conceivable motive for so doing—and we have that faith in men of our own color that fixes us in the belief that they can obey equal and just laws as well as negroes. We shall not yield this faith to anything but absolute demonstration.", "The Express says that Mr. Sumner \"finds perfect government in Negro Suffrage,\" That is a very unfair and essentially a false statement. Mr. Sumner finds a true government to be one wherein ALL the people are fairly represented. His authorities for this are the Declaration of American Independence and nearly every writer of note in opposition to Oligarchy and Despotism, from Plato down to Mill. Is not this the manifest truth? Is it not clear that either Democracy or South Carolina is radically wrong in the matter of Suffrage? And if so, is it not natural that a believer in republicanism should hold South Carolina to be in the wrong? Mr. Sumner", "Mr. Sumner's speech is an elaborate exposition and defense of Democracy, or Government by the People. If it is right to be a Democrat, then Sumner cannot be wrong. If you are a rational being, you must agree with him or with Hobbes, Sir Robert Filmer and Louis Napoleon: there is no middle ground.", "Surely the ghost of Tom Paine must smile at the spectacle of the fundamental radical truths he taught when among us concerning the Rights of Man being quite as thoroughly, and even more elaborately, set forth by a representative in Congress of Boston—a successor of Fisher Ames, Joseph Quincy and Harrison Gray Otis. Tom may have averted his gaze during our four years of struggle and carnage; but if he hears that democracy of the most radical type is inoculated by the leading representative of Massachusetts in our National Councils, he must realize that our world moves, even though he has left it, and, that the spirit of Sam Adams \"still lives.\"", "for their organizations, on a turning to duty, their new conventions will not be lost.", "## A Tribute to Col. Shaw.", "The following beautiful tribute to Colonel Shaw appeared soon after he so nobly fell. The lines have a special interest at this moment, after the publication of the correspondence between the father of the brave officer and Gen. Gillmore, and might be carved upon the monument which is to be erected by a grateful people:", "### TOGETHER.\"", "Oh! fair-hated Northern hero,\nWithby the guard of dusty hor-\nUp from the field of battle,\nFrom the last review!", "Sweep down holy angels,\nIn legions dazzling bright,\nAnd bear these souls together\nBefore Christ's throne of light.", "The Master, who remembers\nThe cross; the thorns, the spear,\nSmiles on the risen freedom,\nAs their rahsomed souls appear.", "And then, young, generous spirit,\nWhat will thy welcome be?\n\"Thou hast aided the down-trodden,\nThou hast done it unto me!\"", "Base Ball—Excelsior, of Rochester, vs. National, of Oswego.—Of the match game Friday, between the Excelsior Club, of this city, and the National Club, of Oswego, the Oswego Commercial says: The return match between the Excelsior Base Ball Club, of Rochester, and the National Club, of this city, came off in the West Park yesterday afternoon. The weather was delightful, and the playing spited. It was a general expression that better playing was seldom seen that was displayed by the Excelsior Club. Whether in catching, pitching, ball- or fielding, they seemed equally at home.", "There was good playing on the part of the Nationals, and many individual feats which were received with great applause, but early in the game the Rochester men took the lead, and although the match was manfully contested, they maintained their advantage to the end. Throughout the game the best of feeling was manifest, and at its close the Excelsior Club was entertained by the Nationals.", "The following is the score:", "NATIONALS", "H. L. R.", "SABATH", "H. L. R.", "<table><tr><td>Shley, 4d.</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>Sabin, c.</td><td>3</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Parker, 1.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>Campbell, 3d. b.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Potter, 1.</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td>Stevens, 1d.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Kerr, c.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>Stevens, 1d.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Wright, 1.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>Stevens, 1d.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Farewell, B.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>Goughnall, 7.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Likens, 1.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>Stevens, 1d.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Havl, 2d.</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>Douglas, 2d. b.</td><td>3</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Wedd, 1d.</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>Studley, 1st b.</td><td>3</td><td>2</td></tr></table>", "Total.", "21", "SYNOPSIS.", "Total.", "47", "<table><tr><td>Excelsior</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Shley</td><td>3</td><td>19</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>10</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td>Parker</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td>Shley</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>21</td></tr></table>", "Excelsior.", "Left on Bass—Excelsior—David J. Campbell 3. Enfermer disease, and 1, Sabin 3. Goughnall 1. National—Shley 1. Parker 1. Farewell 1. Plac 1.2. Hств 1. Wedd 1.", "Left on Bass—Excelsior—David J. Campbell 3. Enfermer disease, and 1, Sabin 3. Goughnall 1. National—Shley 1. Parker 1. Farewell 1. Plac 1.2. Hств 1. Wedd 1. Passed Bills—Excelsior 10. National 1.", "Home News—Shley 1.", "Score—H. A. Coxton—National.", "M. H. Oylatt—Excelsior.", "Umptoe—Clerk Morrison.", "—The Commercial is wrong in one respect; the game was not a return game, but the first that the Excelsiors have played with Oswego—The latter Club played with the Ontrio Club last year, the most of whose members now belong to the Mutual Club.", "The Excelsiors left here on the boat, Friday evening, and were most hospitably entertained during their stay, throughout.", "## INNESS OF SENIOR SUMNER.", "Senator Sumner had two serious attacks of angina pectoris, which was a consequence of his alarmed his friends. It is, therefore, of his former disease, and is thought to have been brought on by his recent efforts in the Senate Chamber. Senator Sumner was at midnight sleeping quietly with several friends watching at his bedside.", "1874 OTHER DIVORCE.", "1865", "## CHARLES SUMNER,", "### chronicle", "## HIS DEATH YESTERDAY.", "### march 12", "## THE END OF A GREAT MAN.", "1874", "## His Last Hours on Earth.", "### Closing Scenes in the Senate.", "### HIS LAST DINNER AT HOME.", "", "", "### The Terrible Attack at Night.", "### SCENES AND INCIDENTS ABOUT HIS BEDSIDE.", "Efforts of Physicians and Friends to Restore Him.", "THE COMING OF THE KING OF TERRORS.", "A CALM AND PEACEFUL END.", "PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL.", "### Sketch of the Senator's Life.", "HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED ELSEWHERE.", "The announcement of the death of Senator Charles Sumner carried grief to the hearts of thousands of our citizens, and on all sides expressions of regret were heard. In order that our readers may be fully enlightened as to all the facts connected with the last hours of the illustrious dead, we have treasured upon the kindness of Major Ben. Perley Poore, the life-long friend of the Senator, and who was with him at his death, and to-day print the very full dispatches which he telegraphed last night, and will appear in the Boston Journal to-day. The Major goes fully into detail, and his account is written from actual observation.", "## THE LAST HOURS OF THE SENATOR.", "To narrate the last hours of Charles Sumner's life is a difficult task for one who, after having been honored by his friendship for many years, has witnessed his departure for eternal life. He returned here at the commencement of the present session apparently invigorated by his summer holiday, and it was hoped that he might be spared for many more years of usefulness. He was especially interested in the success of the civil-rights bill, which he introduced on the opening day, and which stands number one on the calendar. The publication of his works—or his book, as he used to call it—also employed much of his time and attention, and the only wish to which he gave expression was that his life might be spared to complete it. Often he has remarked that while suffering last year the agony of the complaint which has to-day proved fatal he would have welcomed death had his book been completed. Those works, which he has so diligently and laboriously edited, will be the grandest monument to his memory, for they record his devotion to human freedom, to equal rights, to national honesty, and his antipathy to fraud, to injustice, to inequality, and to corruption. They are beacon-lights along the eventful pathway of the American Republic during the past five-and-twenty years, which will remain in coming years for instruction and for encouragement. Alas! that he was not spared to complete them.", "The recent action of the Massachusetts Legislature was of the deepest interest to him, and he read with evident pleasure letters from friends at home narrating the progress of the rescinding resolution. He declined, however, to supply the material for any defense of his action in presenting the battle-flag resolution beyond what had been published, and waited, like a Senator of ancient Rome, for justice. I wish that occasion could have been given him, not to defend himself, for he needed no defense, but to have explained the motives which prompted his original presentation of the battle-flag resolution, the indorsements which it received, and how he came to offer it again, with his civil-rights bill, to square off his work. How fortunate it was that it was he spared to hear, on the last day that he was permitted to visit the Senate chamber, his colleague present the rescinding resolution, which proved that he again enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens and constituents in the good old Commonwealth of Massachusetts!", "Soon after the rescinding resolution had", "## Another Fleet After the P. 1874", "Benson", "The Boston Post, 1874. The Boston Post, 1874.

lie and a number of private buildings in Brooklyn are at half-mast to-day in honor of the late Senator Summer. The United States courts of the eastern division will meet to-morrow and take action on his death. The colored population will hold a mass-meeting for the same purpose.

In New York the flags on all the public buildings and a number of private residences are at half-mast in honor of the late Senator Summer.

### THE PEELING IN NEW YORK.

New York, March 12.—The flags on the public and a number of private buildings in Brooklyn are at half-mast to-day, in memory of the late Senator Summer. The United States courts of the eastern division will meet to-morrow and take action on his death. The colored population will hold a mass meeting for the same purpose.

In New York the flags on all the public buildings and a large number of private residences are at half-mast, in memory of the late Senator Summer.

### ACTION OF THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.

ALBANY, N. Y., March 12.—The resolution was offered in the Assembly to-day, bringing the loss to the nation and highly eulogistic of the late Charles Summer, which was made the special order for Wednesday evening next.

Resolutions eulogistic of the late ex-President Fillmore were adopted in the Senate to-day.

New York, March 12.—The clerk of the Common Council, by direction of Mayor Havey, this afternoon telegraphed Mr. Dawes to know if the remains of Mr. Summer would lie in state for some hours in the Governor's room here while passing through the city. The Governor's room has been draped in draping, in anticipation of the body remaining here for some time.

At a meeting of the Board of Assistant Aldermen appropriate resolutions were adopted in regard to the death of Senator Summer, and in inviting the committee having charge of the funeral arrangements to allow time for the remains to lie in state in this city, so that the citizens could view the face of the distinguished statesman. The Board then adjourned in respect to his memory.

At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a call was issued for a special meeting to take action on his death.

### THE ARRANGEMENTS IN PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, March 12.—The joint committee of the Select and Common Councils, appointed to-day to make the necessary arrangements for the reception of the remains of Senator Summer, met in the Mayor's office, and after organizing directed that a letter, of which the following is a copy, should be transmitted to Washington:

### MAYOR'S OFFICE.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, March 12, 1874.

The authorities of the city of Philadelphia have passed a resolution, tendering the use of the independence Hall for the reception of the mains of Senator Summer in transit from Washington. Should the Congressional committee accept this mark of respect on the part of the city of Philadelphia be pleased to communicate the fact, in order that proper arrangements may be made.

Very respectfully,

S. A. MILLER, Chairman.

HON. GEORGES. BOUTWELL, Washington, D. C.
The following dispatch was received to-night in response to the above:

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12, 1874.

### To the Mayor of Philadelphia:

Nothing could have been more grateful to Senator Summer's feelings, can be more gratifying to his friends, than the truth that his body should rest in Independence Hall on its way to its last resting-place, but the funeral arrangements will not permit it to stop at Philadelphia. Many thanks.

HENRY L. DAWES,

Chairman, Massachusetts Delegation.

### ACTION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, March 12.—The colored people of this city have arranged to hold a mass meeting to-morrow evening to take appropriate action with reference to the death of Senator Summer. The flags on many of the public and private buildings are displayed to-day at half-mast, in honor of the memory of the deceased Senator.

### SPECULATIONS AS TO SUMNER'S SUCCESSOR.

BOSTON, March 12.—Among the names most prominently mentioned as Senator Summer's probable successor are Hon. Henry L. Dawes, ex-Governor A. H. Bullock, Hon. E. E. Hoar, ex-Governor John H. Clifford, Governor Washington, General Banks, General Butler, and Speaker Sanford. The election will probably take place on the 26th instant.

### THE "COURIER-JOURNAL" UNTIL HIS DEATH.

LOUISVILLE, March 12.—The Courier-Journal to-day contains a long and detailed double- leaded notice of the death of Charles Summer. Among other things it says: "Fifteen years ago the news that Charles Summer was dead would have been received with something like rejoicing by the people of the South; ten years ago they would have hailed it as a mes-

senger: from heaven telling them that an enemy had been removed from the face of the earth. To-day they will read it correctly, and their comment will be, 'He was a great man; he was an honest man. As he has forgiven us, so have we long ago forgiven him.'"

### THE ENGLISH PRESS ON HIS DEATH.

LONDON, March 12.—The Times has a laudatory obituary article on the late Charles Summer.

LONDON, March 12.—The Times to-day publishes a laudatory obituary article on the late Charles Summer. Referring to the dispute between England and the United States, the Times says Summer was not able to judge us dispassionately, and we probably have not understood all the influences which made him apparently unjust. It is better to forget these

differences, and remember the strong impulse for good which first brought him from private life to oppose that great national wrong, slavery, and which, in spite of his many weaknesses, remained his guiding principle even to the end.

The Standard, in a leading article on Summer, says he was a fine speaker and personally honorable, but he was utterly wanting in statesmanship.

## OBSEQUIES.

### Chronicle
*America's Greatest Statesman*
*March 14* 1914
*Services in the Senate Chamber.*
*1874*

The Body Lying in State.

A Nation's Capital in Mourning.

The Funeral Procession and Departure of the Remains.

Thousands View the Dead Body of Charles Summer.

The Arrangements Made for the Funeral Elsewhere.

At the hour of 9, Thursday night, the stillness of the elegant parlour, wherein the Senator had so often entertained his friends, was broken by the entrance of the bearers of his confined body, which, attired as in life, and in his worthy final resting-place, lay through the night in death's sad and utter quiet, upon a center-table, while sorrowing friends kept the last night-watch in the house of the statesman and scholar, and bitterly thought of the changes soon to sweep away the beautiful tokens of artistic taste and splendid erudition which adored the masterless house. At an early morning yesterday morning monitoring friends, among them many colored people, called to take a parting look of the familiar face, while a detachment of Metropolitan Police, under Lieutenant Greer, officiated at the doors. Before the hour of 9 A. M., that determined upon as the time for removal of the body to the Capitol, the chosen pall-bearers, the Congressional Committee of Arrangements, and the Massachusetts delegation, with others, arrived at the house, and united in their sorrowful duties, while the ladies from Massachusetts present made a delicate expression of memory and grief in a tribute of beautiful flowers written into a large cross. Sergeants-at-Arms French and Ordway and Captain Blackford, of the Capitol Police, were also present.

At 9 o'clock the closed casket containing the body of Senator Summer was transferred to the hearse, borne from the house by a de-

tachment or Capitol Police, Lieutenant Boyden, Messrs. Wood, Irving, Lillibridge, Seaton, Atkinson, McNel, and Jones. A detail of mounted police marked the college, which was led by a carriage containing Sergeants-at-Arms French and Ordway, followed by a carriage containing, as pall-bearers, Senators Anthony, Schurz, Sargent, McCreery, Oglesley, and Stockton, preceding the hearse, drawn by four horses, and guarded on either side by the body-bearers. Then came a delegation of colored men, noticeable among whom were Fred. Douglass, J. F. Cook, W. U. Saunders, of Maryland, Professor Wilson, James Wormley, C. A. Stewart, Perry Johnson, Mr. Casey, K. S., and carriages containing Dr. J. Taber Johnson, and Colonel M. A.

Johnson, formerly private secretary of Senator Summer, S. F. Summer, a relative; E. L. Pierce, of Boston; the committee of arrangements of the House, the Massachusetts delegation, and numerous personal friends.

Through a Fifteen-and-a-half, street, on whose flags the proudly-stepping presence of the dead Senator will long seem a living reality, down to Pennsylvania avenue, and on along the wide and beautiful street which has echoed his manly tread during all the years of its enlargement and improvement, on to the Capitol, where the tones of his voice have not yet utterly died away, the long and mournful procession wound its way past thousands of people, white and colored, who crowded the sidewalks and sought entrance to the Capitol. At 10.20 o'clock the hearse stopped at the eastern front, in view of the mourning emblems which overshadowed the grand building and betokened a nation's grief for one of her strong ones struck down. The columns and entrance of the east front were draped with black bombazine, as was the rotunda, whose entrances, pictures, and cornices were also draped with somber folds. Here in the center, a low catafalque received the funeral casket of Senator Summer, and a police force, under Captain Blackford, holding positions near the catafalque, conducted the passing crowds of people, who had long waited for admission, entering from the western doors and those leading from the Senate chamber. During the time intervening between the arrival of the body and its removal

### FROM THE ROTUNDA

to the depot it is estimated that at least 10,000 persons availed themselves of the privilege of a final look at the Senator's remains. The appearance of the body was not free from traces of decomposition, although perfectly natural, and the face, although slightly spotted upon the left cheek, wore a look of peace adverse to an idea of extreme suffering across the hour of expiring. His right arm, crossed upon his breast, held a pure white camelia; his left reposed at his side.

The rich suit of black cloth with which the body was attired was purchased by the Senator in England during his last visit to that country, and never worn by him while living. The casket, of richest walnut, covered with black cloth, and finished with massive silver handles, and lined with white silk, had an inner lid of plate glass, which, before the application of the walnut lid, exposed the body nearly the entire length. Floral offerings completely covered the casket, and surrounded its foot, with a large, broken column stood, the base of which was formed of violets, surmounted by fine azaleas. Other broken columns were made of lilies, and a profusion of Barbadoes fern, called "Maiden's Hair," made a delicate addition. A large cross of

CAMELIA'S AND LILIES bore a card marked, "The ladies of the Massachusetts delegation." A magnificent wreath at the casket's head bore a card inscribed, "From Louise C. Butler and other heart-broken friends."

An assemblage so numerous as that convened in honor of Senator Summer's death yesterday since been before seen at the Capitol since the occasion of President Grant's inauguration. All the galleries of the Senate chamber were crowded, and in

the photo copied, illustrated, and illustrated by the pens of thebers of the General and General and major of the House of the spars. The space for the display of the closet was

with bluish-greens, gilded, and gilded all the Sultans from both hemispheres, and the General and General and major of the House of the spars. The space for the display of the closet was

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113

Salem Register
An Anti-Slavery/Reminiscence.

May 1875 BY REV. DR. FURNESS.

The most memorable occasion in my anti-
slavery experience was the annual meeting
of the American Anti-Slavery Society held
in New York, in May, 1850, I believe it was,
I accepted an invitation to speak on that oc-
casion, holding myself greatly honored
thereby.

Having no gift of extemporaneous speech,
I prepared myself with the utmost pains. I
went to New York the day before the meet-
ing; saw Mr. Garrison and Wendell Phil-
lips. Mr. Garrison said there would be a
riot, as the press had been doing its utmost
to inflame the public mind against the aboli-
tionists.

When the meeting was opened the large
hall, said to be the largest then in New
York, capable of holding some thousands,
was apparently full. The vast majority of
the audience were doubtless friendly to the
object of the meeting.

Mr. Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Edmund
Quincy, Isaac Hopper, Francis Jackson,
Frederick Douglass, and other faithful ser-
vants of the cause, were present on the plat-
form.

I saw friends here and there among the
audience. I was surprised to recognize
there a son of Judge Kane of this city (after-
wards Col. T. Kane.) I had some previous
acquaintance with him, and knew him to be
a young man of ardent temperament, open
to generous ideas. I supposed then, and
still suppose, that he was drawn there acci-
dentally by curiosity. After a prayer by
Rev. Henry Grew, Mr. Garrison made the
opening speech, strong, bold, and character-
istic.

He had spoken only a few moments when
he was interrupted by what sounded like a
burst of applause; but as there was nothing
special to call it forth, and as it proceeded
from one little portion of the audience, I
asked Wendell Phillips, who sat next to me,
what it meant. "It meant," he said, "that
there is to be a row." The interruption was
repeated again and again. A voice shouted
some rude questions to Mr. Garrison.

Mr. Garrison bore himself with the seren-
ity of a summer's evening, answering: "'My
friend, if you will wait till I get through, I
will give you the information you ask for.'"
He succeeded in finishing his speech. I was
to speak next. But the instant Mr. Garri-
son ended there came down upon the plat-
form from the gallery which was connected
with it, an individual, with a company or
roughs at his back, who proved to be no less
a person than the then well-known Isaiah
Rynders. He began shouting and raving.

I was not aware of being under any ap-
prehension of personal violence. We were
all like Gen. Jackson's cotton-bales at New
Orleans. Our demeanor made it impossible
for the rioters to use any physical force a-
gainst us. Young Kane, however, leaped
upon the platform, and, pressing through to
me, in a tone of great excitement, exclaim-
ed: "They shall not touch a hair of your
head!" Mr. Garrison said to Rynders in the
quietest manner conceivable, "You ought
not to interrupt us. We go upon the prin-
cipal of hearing everybody. If you wish to
speak, I will keep order, and you shall be
heard." But Rynders was not in a state of
mind to listen to reason. He had not come
there for that, but to break up the meeting.

The Hutchinsons, who were wont to sing
at the anti-slavery meetings, were in the
gallery, and they attempted to raise a song
to soothe the savages with music. But it was
of no avail. Rynders drowned their fine
voices with noise and shouting. The chief
of the police came upon the platform, and
asked Mr. Garrison whether he desired him
to arrest and remove Rynders & Co. Mr.
Garrison answered: "We desire nothing of
you. We can take care of ourselves. You
probably know your duty." The officer did
nothing. In this scene of confusion young
Kane became intensely excited. He rushed
up to Rynders, and shook his fist in his face.
He said to me with the deepest emphasis:
"If he touches Mr. Garrison, I'll kill him!"
But Mr. Garrison's composure was more
than a coat of mail. Rynders, indisposed to
speak himself, brought forward a man to
speak for him and his party. Mr. Francis
Jackson and I were, the while, holding
young Kane down in his seat to keep him
from breaking out into some act of violence.
He was the most dangerous element on our
side. Rynders's substitute professed a will-
ingness that I should speak first (I was down
on the placards to follow Mr. Garrison),
provided I did not make a long speech.

Accordingly, I spoke my little, anxiously-
prepared word. I never recall that hour
without blessing myself that I was called to
speak precisely at that moment. At any
other stage of the proceedings, it would have
been wretchedly out of place.

As it was, my speech fitted in almost as
well as if it had been impromptu, although

a sharp eye might easily have discovered
that I was speaking memoriter. Rynders
interrupted me again and again, exclaiming:
that I lied, that I was personal, but he end-
ed with applauding me! Rynders's man
then came forward, rather dull and tiresome
in speech. It was his own friends who in-
terrupted him occasionally, Mr. Garrison
calling them to order.

His argument was that the blacks are not
human beings. Mr. Garrison whispered to
me while he was speaking that the speaker
had formerly been a compositor in the office
of the Liberator.

He ended at last, and then Frederick
Douglass wrts loudly called for. Mr. Doug-
lass came forward, exquisitely neat in his
dress.

"The gentleman who has just spoken,"
he began, "has undertaken to prove that
the blacks are not human beings. He has
examined our whole couformation, from top
to toe. I cannot follow him in his argu-
ment. I will assist him in it, however. I
offer myself for your examination. Am I a
man?" To this interrogatory instantly
there came from the audience a thunderous
affirmative. Rynders was standing right by
the side of Mr. Douglass, and when the re-
ponse died away, he exclaimed in a hesita-
ting way: "But you're not a black man!"
"Then," retorted Douglass, "I'm your
brother." "Ab,—ab," said Rynders, hesi-
tatingly, "only half brother."

The effect upon the audience need not be
described; it may readily be imagined. Mr.
Douglass then went on, complaining of
Horace Greeley, who had recently said in
his paper that the blacks did nothing for
themselves. "When I first came north,"
said Mr. Douglass, "I went to the most de-
cided anti-slavery merchant in the North,

A correspondent writing in the Evening
Express, Rochester, New York, said that
Douglass, that having at the request of Mrs.
F. E. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F.
No. 13, Rochester, located in the district school,
Lewis, Reed, and Charle, "that known, Reso-
n, who has been the leader by the association,
but who does not, and does not intend to
act upon the order of the association, but
by the acquisitions attained in the search of know-
ledge."

PERSONAL.

Mr. Douglass then goes on to give his
idea of what is needed for the elevation
of the colored race. He says:

"One of the most unpleasant features of the situation for us is in ourselves. We are a divided people, and have no men among us, I fear, whose counsel will be headed in the right direction. It has been our misfortune to be educated by two hundred years of slavery to respect white men and despise ourselves."

"Now, just this is the thing we are to outgrow. We have got to find out that a people to be respected and powerful must have men among themselves and of themselves whom they must trust and respect. White men have their great men, and are respected in the scale of being because they have them."

"The burden of our demand upon the American people shall simply be justice and fair play. We utterly repudiate all invidious distinctions, whether in our favor or against us, and ask only for a fair field and no favor."

In reference to the latter paragraph we think that Mr. Douglass oversteps the mark. The negro of the South, at the conclusion of the war was invested with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship, for which he was then about as much fitted to exercise intelligently as an ouang-outang. Since then the negro has made giant strides toward fitting himself to properly meet the demands upon his citizenship; but we think he has had rather more than his share of "fair play" at the expense of the white man of the South, under the auspices of the leaders of the Radical party, whose interest it was to coddle the negro—the very men whom Mr. Douglass now charges by innuendo, if not directly, with falsifying their promises to the negro.

As an evidence of the fact that the colored race are beginning to find out who have been their robbers, the remarks of Douglass on the swindling manner in which the affairs of the Freedman's Savings Bank were conducted are exceedingly pertinent. The lesson that one "may smile and smile and be a vilain" has been dearly learned by the colored race. The satellites of the Administration, aided and upheld in their iniquities despite the protestations of the honest press of the country, have patted the negro on the back with one hand, while the other was grabbing for the hard-earned small savings in his pocket. This is what he says about these gentry, these good friends of the Administration:

"We have had a Freedman's Savings Institute; but we don't want any more. Our white friends told us that if we had cents to bring them to, they would take care of them, and if we had dollars, or hundreds, or thousands, also to bring them. They told us they had a goose and a golden egg. Yes, we put our millions there, but where are they now? The men who went into that bank a few years ago, poor men, are now domiciled in beautiful homes, and drive their fine turnouts. It makes me feel badly to think how we have been robbed. Just enough honest men have been put into the bank to insure its success. But while they put in two pound apples, they slipped in five or six spoken ones, and were sure to turn the specks down."

This speech of Mr. Douglass will have a good effect upon his race in the South. It will teach them to feel that the Northern people on whom for so long they have leaned for support can be of no real further service to them. Their political and social progress must depend for its extent upon a union with the whites among whom they dwell, with whose prosperity their own is identified, and whose good will or the contrary advances their interests or retards them. There is no reason why white men and black men should not dwell in the same country in political unity where there is a community of interest. And it will be well for the black men if they cultivate the good will of

the intellectually stronger and materially more powerful whites of the South. An opposite course can only redound to their detriment.

integrity.

The event of greatest political significance among the celebrations of the Fourth of July was the gathering of the colored people of the District to hear addresses from the two most prominent men of their race, Frederick Douglass and John M. Langston. The former, however, stands alone and far above any of his contemporaries. He is wise above his fellows and an example of honesty to many of his betters, for we believe in the inherent superiority of the white man over the black. When every opportunity was offered Frederick Douglass to go South and reap the benefits which the disorders of that section rendered an easy task, he did not pack up his carpet-bag, but staid at home, teaching his people by his acts, as well as his words, that temporary political aggrandizement was not the aim and end of their new existence, but rather the establishment of fixed and unalterable relations to the white man, wherein the political freedom of the negro should bear the most prominent part.

The speech of this distinguished colored man was earnest, able and eloquent. He told his hearers substantially that permanent peace between the divided ranks of the whites was gradually advancing; that as the two waves were coming together it was the duty of the colored man to look out for himself; that they represented seven hundred thousand voters, a power when well organized which no political party could despise, and he appealed to them to assert their manhood by not being led any longer by false friends. We do not understand his remarks as referring to a desertion from the Republican ranks, but rather as an argument for this element of that party to contribute to its purity and elevation. His audience is said to have been deeply affected by his address, and we have no doubt but that they were, and have as little doubt but that nine out of ten forgot all that he said the day after.

A Narrow Escape.

CITIZENSHIP.

The sovereign people in governments like ours are so absolute in their potent possession of the ballot that the importance of their service of this prerogative with vigilance, intelligence, and a high order of patriotism, cannot be too strongly recommended.

Thoughtful Americans appreciating this fact are ever active therefore, by example and precept, and by counsel and deeds, in demonstrating to their fellow-citizens the necessities and duties of their sovereignty. "Eternal vigilance as the price of liberty" is comprehended by loyal Americans with a fervor and devotion second only to the zeal with which they guard every approach to its security.

Thus the recent earnest words of counsel by Hon. Frederick Douglass at Hillsdale. Estimating as he does all the necessities of our people's position, Mr. Douglass took care to announce such views as should the more speedily contribute to the intelligence and independence of the colored voter. The advice given may well be heeded. It is that of the patriot, statesman, and the thorough Republican he so eminently is. Observed, as the signs of the times indicate to us it surely will be, a new departure attesting strength and future success to our people will be had and Republican principles and measures in the South inviolably secured.

THE MENDACIOUS TIMES.

The New Orleans *Times* is nothing if not ridiculous. Its efforts from day to day to obtain a status worthy of respect from any class in our community is commensurate only with the unblushing effrontery of its editorial managers to impose their stenographic and hypocritical professions upon the public. A few weeks since we had occasion in our columns to defend Hon. Frederick Douglass from the unjust aspersions of the *Times* relative to Mr. Douglass' connection with the Freedmen's Bank. In the instance mentioned the *Clintonian* organ had with all the graciousness of an Utah Heep sought to patronizingly champion the cause of the wronged and defranded Freedmen's Bank sufferers in imputations upon Mr. Douglass. The LOUISIANIAN'S statement of the case, and defense of the grand old leader of our people then, effectually silenced the *Times* mendacity.

Perplexed with the continued trial of the State Auditor, its owner, and caused to see its columns daily in his defense, the *Times* has avoided other effort of its editorial brains, especially in connection with the affairs of our colored citizens, until Thursday morning. Then again it takes occasion, commenting on "the political independence of the negro" to patronizingly commend Mr. Douglass address, and thereby read a political lecture. Of course, the *Times*' motive is thoroughly understood; as well appreciated in fact as it is known that the editors and proprietors of the very journal preaching such a homily to the colored people are of that class, "broken down missionaries, preachers, and lawyers," against whom Mr. Douglass so ably warned our people in his Hillsdale speech.

Of the American Missionary Association and one of that very class who are the chief winders in the Freedmen's Bank, the owner of the *Times* came to Louisiana and traded upon his religion for political place and preference. Obtaining this through such notorious embrace, at the hands and by the votes of colored citizens, the Christian statesman who was thus promoted to place and public trust has never ceased to abuse those by whom he was uplifted.

A year since, the possession of money—how obtained the Attorney General proposes to show—and a brother-in-law solicitor with a handsome salary and “large margins,” gave him control of one of the daily papers of this city. It is needless for us to relate the conduct of that journal. Its contemptible, dirt eating policy towards “this people,” and sneering references to Republicans and the colored people, are too well known to need additional comment. The negro’s political independence is secured for all time to come against the hypocrisy and the wiles of this class; and any further attempts, whether in invitations with special reference to our French Creole colored citizens to the establishment of an organ other than that now doing service in behalf of all our people, or would-be contemptuous allusions to the able colored leaders so justly in the confidence of the masses, will prove of no avail. Remembering the source from which such advice as the *Times* thrusts comes, every colored citizen will as carefully guard against its pernicious influence, as in future they will take care to protect their pockets against such advocates and managers.

VOLUME I.
*The Washington Letter.*

Fred Douglass's Speech—A Reply to Mr. Langston—Colored Man's Newspaper, &c., &c.

Fred Douglass, reading the signs of the times, has taken occasion to declare his grave apprehensions of the future condition of the colored race, in an address on the Fourth of July at Hillsdale, a suburban village near Washington City. He did not say “I shall not be eloquent,” but spoke with an eloquence he does not command, and in tones of more than usual sweetness.

The address has been admired generally, and no words of Mr. Douglass have been shot with more rapidity all over the country than those of the 4th. That part of the speech bearing some-what political aspect is, to not a few, enigmatic, and has called out various comments and various interpretations.

The Washington papers are no wiser than their distant neighbors as to what the real and intrinsic meaning is, but they shield their own ignorance by a bold ridicule of such clippings in the way of comments they get hold of from other papers.

The Democratic ones are indulging in a hearty guffaw for having got hold of the “true idea. (?)” They seem actually to be hugging, embracing, and rolling over each other in perfect ecstasies at having at last received the long wished for views of the colored people's descent to the Republican party. The papers of the Democratic party that have commented on Douglass's speech enjoy such an illusion! This only serves to illustrate how a “drowning man catches at a straw.”

Whatever hidden meaning underlies some parts of Mr. Douglass' address, one thing we are safe to say for him, that nothing is counselled tending to mislead the colored voter in any deviation he may hold for the Republican party. It cannot be forgotten that Fred Douglass was leader in the front rank against even so honest an adviser as Charles Sumner, when the colored voter was asked to forsake all and follow Greeley. It is well known that Mr. Douglass was quick to advise against such a suicidal act, while another prominent colored man vacillated and temporized between Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and at last, unlike Douglass, only chose the latter, rather than from personal considerations, than from race, love and high principles.

Concerning the fruit the wise counsel of Mr. Douglass may be expected to bring forth, it would be hard to predict. A poor harvest must be the natural consequence of seed casually strewn. Not only may the birds of the air altight and pick them up, but the plants that grow may soon die for want of depth of earth wherein to take root. This is a simple that may be readily understood; for the question is whether those of the colored race to whom the wise sayings of Mr. Douglass should in an especial light go, will ever read, hear or say them, so as to profit thereby. Newspapers, the most popular means of instruction and information, the colored people of the South are sadly destitute of. Lessons of wisdom taught at the capital do not reach them. Teachers with this special mission really go among the people of the South. In the United States; so that when the poor uncultured man is led captive at the will of some political strategist, the first impulse of his better-off brother, perhaps, at Washington, is to cry, *fle for shame!* and his shock, he may well claim extenuation, and cry “How can I understand, unless some one teach me. Pity that the address of Mr. Douglass did not reach the ears of the colored people of the South from his own lips, people it should not meet the eyes of every one who there can read. In the present condition of this people, unless there be better and increased facilities for implanting and disseminating useful political and moral knowledge, the idea of such an independence as that wished for and shadowed in the “Declaration” advanced by Fred Douglass and lectured by him, will be invested with the gloom of impossibility.”

Mr. Douglass took occasion to hold up to shame the class of men who derive a livelihood by asking alms for the colored man, and who, while they serve to perpetuate his independence, do little or nothing to ameliorate his condition. It would ceriainly have been unlike Fred Douglass if, in denouncing the bold effrontery of these persistent beggars, who, while they ask in our name, malign and curse us, he had not made honorable exception. This he does. Speaking of benovolent societies, he says: “They originate with and are

organized by some good men, but they invariably fall into the hands of a peculiar class of men—men who combine shrewdness with religious zeal, and who, whether they sing, pray or preach, always mean business.

Such a class of beggars, it is to be presumed, those of the Colonization Society and others of its like are. They have failed in their purpose of expatriating the colored American, and failing, still persist to beg in his name.

While on this subject it is well to mention names high up on the roll of honor of men who have done, and are still doing, in the greatness of their heart, real hearty service in the cause of the colored race.

John G. Fee and E. H. Fairchild. We waive the long devoted service of the former to speak of Mr. Fairchild's recent defence of the colored race to the “Advance,” where Dr. Thompson, like Mr. Langston, cried: “The blacks should be taught to defend upon themselves.” Mr. Fairchild replied: “So they should, like any other race, but when the sons of New England emigrate to the West, they are followed by constant streams of money, provisions and clothing to start them in their pioneer life. Missionaries and church building societies rush to their aid, and pour in hundreds of thousands upon them, till they are able to depend upon themselves.” This reply has the true ring, shows that Mr. Fairchild understands the situation. Such deep reflection is worth volumes written or spoken by verbose men, because there is a realization of the condition of the masses who are real sufferers, and outside of the exceptional ones who are enjoying good luck, speak as though they were intoxicated thereby. We could quote more of the excellent defense of the colored race by Rev. E. H. Fairchild in reply to Dr. Thompson's insinuation of their dependence, but reflectfully enter the reader to the American Citizen of Feb. 6, 1875.

This address of Fred Douglass may be considered the news of the week in Washington. It is still spoken of and commented upon favorably. A “revised edition” has even appeared, everybody wishing to know whether it was exactly what he spoke.

It is true that Mr. Langston addressed the people at Hillsdale also, but it partook of little of the polish, none of the grace, high intellectual essence and high tone of that Mr. Douglass. If what others said may be quoted, “it was a speech by Langston, for Langston, and nothing more.” A violent fit of love for “my race” overtook the speaker, and never was heard such an impassioned pleading that they might select a good colored “Moses,” who should be Langston. Said a hearer, “That was the whole of it.” Be this so, or not, it passed away with the vapor which composed it, and ne’er a word is heard or said.

Dr. C. B. Purvis has replied in the New York Evening Post to a letter written some days since by Mr. Langston, in which Dr. Purvis claims Mr. L. greatly exaggerated the affairs of the University, with no other intention than destroying its usefulness, because defeated in the election for President. Dr. Purvis speaks plainly and strongly, and in measuring swords with Langston overmatches him in the plausibility of statements. It is no secret, but is current, that every means is to be used to destroy the usefulness of the University because Mr. Langston was defeated. A more diabolical revenge cannot be conceived of. In our own knowledge, men who are now spurring the defeated candidate to wreak vengeance, privately spoke of his unfitness for the presidential chair. Yet J. P. Wilson and others profess to be malignant at his defeat as though they were at heart sorry.

In the lecture room of the 15th Southern Presbyterian Church, a meeting was held to institute measures for the founding of a colored newspaper. Among others, there were present Hon.

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Nash. Rep. Mar. 17, 1877

THE COURTS.

What the Lawyers Say of the New Marshal
—The Appointment Not Well Received—
Setting a Day for the Trial of William H.
Ottman.

The unusual animation observable about the
court-house yesterday was attributed to the in-
terest manifested in the appointment of the new
marsh. Mr. Frederick Douglass was not there
in person, but it was evident that numbers of his
friends were on hand canvassing the situation
and watching his cause with a vigilant eye. The
news that came down from the Capitol was
eagerly received, but was of such an uncertain
nature as to heighten the excitement instead of
allaying the troubled waters. The subject did
not, however, interfere with the operations of the
respective courts, and the judges plodded along
over the civil and criminal causes as expeditiously
as the circumstances would admit.

The Trial.

Nash. Daily News
Mar. 17th 1877

The National Republican, speaking of the
nomination of Mr. Douglass to be marshal of
the District, says :

Subsequently, it is reported, Mr. Doug-
lass sent for and informally appointed one
Arthur Shepherd as his deputy in the event
of his confirmation. The selection of Shep-
herd is far from popular, and will tend to
enhance the opposition to Mr. Douglass' con-
firmation.

The italics are our own and are simply meant
to express surprise at the language used. As
Mr. Arthur Shepherd is a brother of ex-Gov-

Shepherd—is very well known in this com-
unity, and was at one time the editor of
the National Republican, we can see no no-
cessity for substituting "one" for "Mr."
especially in the columns of the Republican.

THE *National Republican* of this city,
which has supported every fellow like Spen-
cer and his kind, who have disgraced the
Republican party, and done their best to ruin
the South—this paper now opposes the con-
firmation of Frederick Douglass. Even the
Democrats take off their hats in respect to
the brave old men who/or so many years
defended the rights of his colored brethren.
The Wheeling Evening Standard, (Dem-
ocratic,) says :

If the report of the Appointment of Fred.
Douglass to the nomination of the District of
Columbia be correct, it is not only a solid
recognition of the merits of one of the
most deserving colored men in the country,
but in addition to this it indicates that the
claims of competent and reputable negroes
are not to be overlooked in the new admin-
istration.

## Marshal Fred. Douglass.

The President has appointed Freder-
rick Douglass, the well-known colored
orator, and who stands at the head of
his race in this country, Marshal of the
District of Columbia. This position
was lately occupied by Grant's brother-
in-law, Sharpe, and is considered the
best in this District. Indeed, it is
ranked immediately after that of a
Cabinet officer, and for the last forty
years the District Marshal has, at le-
vees at the White House, been in the
habit of exercising functions of a
Grand Chamberlain, such as introduc-
ing visitors to the President, etc.

When it is considered that but for
the colored people the Republican
party would be nowhere, the appoint-
ment of Douglass must be regarded as
a great stroke of policy. The intend-
ed non-intervention policy in the
South by the President might have
been considered by many—the New
York Sun included—as inimical to the
colored race. But Hayes certainly has
by that appointment at one blow de-
stroyed all such suppositions. He has
out-done Grant entirely.

When Douglass returned as one of
the St. Domingo Commissioners to
Washington, Grant invited all the
Commissioners to dinner—except him.
For social equality has never as yet
been accorded by the leading Radicals
to the negroes, and to that fact Pinch-
back must ascribe his non-confirmation
more than to anything else.

The National Republican says in re-
gard to the appointment :

> "The business men seem dissatisfied
> and the members of the bar are almost
> unanimously against it, and will send up a
> delegation before the Senate committee to
> show cause why Mr. Douglass should not
> be confirmed. * * * They claim that
> he is too theoretical. * * * Chief Just-
> ice Cartter remarked yesterday, 'The Mar-
> shal of the District should be a man
> thoroughly practical and business-like.'"

Well, was Mr. Sharpe, who during
a whole year never was eight days
present at the court-house, and en-
tirely left matters to his deputy, more
"practical and business like" than
Douglass?

That will not do! Douglass is as
good as any of you! And what be-
comes of your Civil Rights bill?
Where is your love for the negro, with-
out whose assistance none of you
would be in office? Down with your
aristocratic notions, and up with the
colored brother, who has always been
so dear to you !

The National Republican further
says that "Mr. Douglass need not
necessarily be an adjunct of the re-
ceptions at the White House."

Why, brother Murtaght? Is not
Fred. Douglass as good and respect-
able as you and your friends, Shep-
herd, Babcock, Belknap, etc. Is that
the language of a Republican organ?

Frederick Douglass was once a slave.
So was the present Grand Vizier of
Turkey, Edhem Pasha, whose biogra-
phy we publish to day in our foreign
news column. The "former state of
servitude" ought to have no weight
with our Republican brethren!

In short we believe that President
Hayes is sincere in "wiping out the
color-line, and the sooner the Radical
aristocratic ladies and gentlemen ac-
quiesce in that policy, the better it
will be for them. We hope that our
Democratic Senators will not commit
the blunder of voting against that ap-
pointment. If Mr. Hayes desires to
put colored men into positions for-
merly occupied by Grant's relatives
and friends he will only have given
another proof that he is earnestly in
favor of civil service reform. Besides,
the President ought to have the privi-
lege of selecting his own household
—and the District Marshal almost be-
longs to it—"independent of race,
color and previous condition of servi-
tude!"

FLOYD'S
CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Mar. 18, 1877

FRED. DOUGLASS CONFIRMED.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
The United States Marshal for the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 1877

The nomination of Fred. Douglass as Marshal for this District was the subject of considerable discussion during the last week, and among the legal profession the cause of more than ordinary excitement, which culminated in an organized opposition to his confirmation; but, fate, with the aid of a few Democratic Senators, will ed otherwise, and the distinguished colored orator was confirmed.

A Mr. Douglass' abilities few, if any person who
knows anything of the man, will question, as well
also, as his being one of the most advanced spec-
imens of his race living; but whether his capacity
is suited for the position to which he has been
appointed is a matter of considerable doubt to
a great many gentlemen who profess to know all
about its responsibilities.

This, we understand, had a great deal to do
with the opposition to his confirmation, while at
the same time no doubt the old prejudice played
a very prominent part, and we are not of those
who are ever ready to attribute this feeling to il-
legible ideas of the colored people, for we do
not believe there is a white man living to-day,
properly impressed with the superiority of the
race he belongs to, but what shows this prejudice
to some extent. He may deny it, as a matter of
policy, but there is no man who knows that he is
lying better than Mr. Douglass himself, and who
will deal more charitably with it than he. We
have no fears of Mr. Douglass, even should he
fail as United States Marshal in this District, be-
cause we are well satisfied he will never disgrace
the office by any act that will reflect upon his in-
tegrity as a man or honor as a gentleman.

President Hayes, however, could have recog-
nized his services and his race in many other
positions less embarrassing to Mr. Douglass, and
his friends than the one to which he has been
called, and as one of his early and present friends,
we think he has made a mistake in accepting it.
Mr. Douglass deserves a position in which his
surroundings would be a good deal more congenial
than we fear they will be here, and for this reason

["178", "Rochester, N.Y.\nDec. 17, 1874", "Asia.", "FREDERICK DOUGLASS.", "Our townsman, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, lectures on the Athenæum Course in Corinthian Hall this evening. But not for old acquaintance sake only does he deserve the great audience which will probably gather to listen to his lecture. He is a man of noble powers and almost peerless genius as an orator. His lecture last winter in this city was profoundly thoughtful, and in many of its passages thrillingly eloquent. Mr. DOUGLASS possesses in a high degree the imagination and magnetism of the genuine orator. His subject to-night is \"Self-Made Men,\" and the speaker will by his own distinction and attainments, as well as by the vast distance between his present position before the world and that lowly condition of slavery in which he was born, illustrate more impressively than any other living American what it is to be a self-made man.", "In behalf of his thousands of admirers and friends we welcome FREDERICK DOUGLASS back to Rochester.", "Colored Artists.", "It is said that the African race have great powers of imitation, and that is often applied to the present colored inhabitants of the United States. Whenever colored persons show any proficiency in musical or histrionic art, it is generally said they are imitators, deriving their ability in these arts from their African lineage. The fact, however, should be remembered, that by this time the African blood must be nearly extinct in the colored American. We do not believe that one in twenty of the colored population can trace their descent to African parentage. There may be that proportion in the Southern States, but at the North the per centage is much less. All the mental attributes have long since disappeared, and the physical peculiarities are fast wearing away. We possess in a greater degree than any other race the power of absorption; in fact, we are completely Americanized.", "We have before us two instances of the display of great histrionic and musical ability by colored artists. The Hyers Sisters' Tronpe have made the tour of the Eastern States, and have received high encomiums from the press wherever they have appeared.", "These young ladies, Misses Anna and Emma Hyers are of California birth. Their father, Mr. Samuel Hyers is a competent musician, and they received a thorough training from the best instructors before leaving this State, some five or six years ago, and they have since had the advantage of studying under eminent professors in the Eastern States.", "Mr. Hyers has organized a company consisting of his daughters, Mr. John Luca, (of a renowned musical family of Connecticut,) Mr. King and Mr. Sam Lucas. They recently appeared in the Academy of Music in Buffalo, N. Y., and the Sunday Morning News of 17th ult., speaks of them in the highest terms of praise, awarding them unqualified merit, not only as vocalists, but also as actors.", "The News says:", "In a word, this combination heartily deserves the lavish commendation bestowed upon it by the Eastern press, and we shall be only too happy to receive a visit from its members upon a future occasion. They are an immense card for any manager, and their rentree upon our boards during the ensuing season, would be attended with a degree of success they so richly merit.", "Mr. P. Molyneaux Hewlette, a colored gentleman, performed Othello on Monday evening, June 4th, at Union-Hall, Boston. Mr. Thomas Downing, [our Tom] son of Geo. T. Downing, Esq., of Newport, R. I., writes us that the performance was a decided success. The entire cast, except Mr. Hewlette consisted of white actors of recognized ability. The house was crowded, and Mr. H. was pronounced by the best critics of the \"Athens of America\" an actor of decided ability. A Boston paper says:", "OTHELLO.—A very enjoyable performance was given in Union Hall, Boylston street, last evening, the tragedy of Othello being presented by an amateur association, assisted by several professional ladies and gentlemen. The title role was assumed by Mr. P. Molyneaux Hewlette, a colored tragedian, whose impersonation of the Moor was very favorably received by the audience. The support was, as a whole, very good, and the performance a decidedly entertaining one.", "Mr. Hewlette, we presume, is a son of Aaron Molyneaux Hewlette, professor and teacher of gymnastics, whom we knew well, years ago. The son, doubtless, inherits the qualities of his father, who was not only eminent in his profession, but a learned, refi'l gentleman; an entertaining conversationalist, of varied accomplishments and fond of music and the drama. Our knowledge of the father leads us to anticipate and desire the success of the son.", "CONSUL DOUGLASS.", "The steamship Tybee, commanded by Captain Kuehl, which cleared from this port yesterday for Turk's Island, Hayti and St. Domingo, carried on her deck upward of sixty thousand cartridges for Puerto Plata, in St. Domingo. According to the last reports from that republic of chronicle revolutions, a strong effort is being made to upset the government of President Baez, who is accused of being a traitor to his country on account of his annexation proclivities to the United States. Among the passengers by the Tybee was Charles R. Douglass, United States Consul at Puerto Plata, son of the United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass. A large number of colored men from this city and Brooklyn were present to wish him \"God speed.\" Several impromptu speeches were made, and the affair was evidently a most enjoyable one to Mr. Douglass' friends.", "Another American Consul who went out by the Tybee was Mr. J. W. Darrell, of Turk's Island. The Tybee took out an immense cargo, principally of provisions, much of which is understood to be for the Dominican army. On her last trip out she took a large quantity of rifles.", "THE SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT", "The\nRevolutionary\nघন্দোল\nস্থাপিত", {"bbox": [1011, 1365, 1036, 1376], "category":

Chattanooga Daily
Commercial, Tenn.
March 3rd, 1876

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with these multiplied victories slavery was still not safe—still not content. Behind it, however far in the distance, still within constant view, was a conviction that had followers, and it was steadily climbing up the steep of time to reach its grand consummation. It had poets, and orators, and pulpits, and newspapers, and it had brave men and brave women who faltered not in their devotion to the cause, nor did they lessen their faith in their victory. At last, just when slavery seemed to be supreme, when it had entrenched itself in every citadel of authority, it turned against itself. It made war, and in the flame of battle it was blotted from existence. In the fulness of time the red-handed reaper came, bidden by slavery, to establish freedom through bereavement and desolation, and thus the greatest crime of the nation was effaced through its saddest atonement.

It was a strange story to hear yesterday, and a strange spectacle to behold. There were agitators there, of course, but the names presented most conspicuously were those who did not ride on the tempest. The Vice-President of the United States presided, and hard by him were the marked African faces of Douglass and Still, and the Saxon and scarcely dusky face of Purvis, to speak for the elevation of their race to the full stature of citizenship. There was the stillness of the grave when the sweet face of Lucretia Mott, itself a picture of philanthropy that no sculptor could idealize, came to the stand and uttered the healing words of generous triumph, and when the once forbidden songs of the Hutchinsons rang out even the prevalent Quaker attributes yielded to a reverent applause. It was a day that will be memorable within the circles of the actors and their descendants, until another century shall have rolled up its record of enlightened progress and freedom.

## The Vice Presidency.

In the hunt for presidential candidates, the fact seems almost to have been lost sight of that there is to be nominated by the national conventions candidates for the Vice Presidency. The Republican party can not do better than to nominate for this position Mr. Frederick Douglass. This nomination should be made, not because he demands or even asks it, but because he deserves it; not as a trick of keep the colored vote faithful to the Republican party, but for the reason that his nomination would be practical evidence of the sincerity of Republican faith in the rights of man. His genius, his attainments, his broad patriotism and his neverquestioned integrity command respect wherever known, and would increase the attraction of the strongest presidential name.

Mr. Douglass is now about sixty years of age, physically robust and intellectually vigorous. For his race he has done much, especially in presenting them the example of his well-rounded character and well spent life. He has shown that poverty, slavery, the hostility of social prejudice and the repression of partial laws can not prevent the honest, capable and persistent colored man from becoming a notable member of an enlightened community. He has put at rest forever the assumption that negro blood is a bar to high civilization. He has done great service for the Republican party. He has labored, at the sacrifice of time and money, to spread knowledge of its doctrines among his people, and to prepare them for the better discharge of their citizen duties. He has done most for his country. He was, perhaps, the first to advise the arming of the blacks in the service of the Union, and to urge the emancipation of the slaves. The effect of these two measures upon the results of the war could scarcely be overestimated. Viewed from every point, whether party consistency, availability or personal desert, it appears right that Frederick Douglass should be the Republican candidate for Vice President in the Centennial contest.