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During the year 1858, in Boston, nine colored persons were married to white women, exactly the same number that! i occurred in the year 1857. There is not an instance reported of the marriage of a white man with a black woman.One of the editors of The Tribune has been visiting the United States Supreme Court at Washington, and says of the jnine Judges he saw there, “eight of, i them looked for all the world like a row of worn out nurses sitting in an ‘Intelligence Office/ waiting to be hired.”Eli Thayer, a republican member of Congress, has a poor opinion of his brethren. He^aysof them :| “Some of the republican party areal ways uneasy. They are never satisfied. When they get to heaven they will not be satisfied. Instead of tuning their harps to heavenly praise, they will be getting their opera-glassea to look over the gulf and see if they cannot descry a Dred Scott decision or a Supreme Court, and they will be wanting a Wil-mot Proviso to keep slavery out of heaven.’' m - I • , *1
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Augusta Evening Dispatch
Augusta, Georgia, US
Fri, Apr 01, 1859
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