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l»y the passers by at his expanse.— Cmein naii Enquirer.Ktgron at t !• tVulte Houno V Haw al the Prtililrat'* Ilrrrpiion.thA Washington letter giving an aeenunt ' rof the President's leree on New Years 0 (January 2d) Lontnius the following: 1 •'To the right of the President, the two •'private Secretaries intervening, stood Mrs. 1Lincoln, with Hon. R R French doing (lthe honors. Many persons, the majority ■,ievidently acquaintances, pai l their res ltipect* to her, after being presented to the I President; hut the crowd mostly pissed P!her by with a stolen glance or a rude at.ire. **'Mrs. Lincoln is not popular either with men or wotueu ; and, of the hitter she I”probably has lewer genuine friends tbsn 11any lady that has filled her station before niher. Parasites in crinoline attend her; rrbut she is uot loviil by her friends, and *(lie is liurdly respect.d by females in soci- ieety near enough her own grade to know all wabout her. j Among ihe crowd assembled in front of P*the poitico, before the doors were thrown *■ptn to the people, were several hundred *'■colored people of both sexes—the wenehes i '‘l the most numerous, who ha I come tj pay their respects to the President. As a gen l*;oral thing they were well and neatly ' e: dressed, some, b'th male and female, bo- eJing with their white con pauions. Roth in lclichness and fashionable of attire, they irdirectly represent the ton tun of negro in socit ty in Washingto n : alloyed bt a smart sprinkling of cuLred divines, who think mthey gr.iti u victory over the devil every time they succeed in obtruding themselves in white society upon pretended terms of *equality; and a corporal's guard ..f negro 1“soldi, rs, who nodoiihl, thought tbeinsalves justly cntith d to the privilege of paying ^ tbeir New Year's compliments to the chcif r( inaeistratc of the country they are light ^'ing for. |The while people made no dcmonatra- J*lion whatever on account of their pres-tl ee, no doubt su; p.-sing they would con- *'fine themselves io the statior. assigned *them by custom and hrirg up the rear of the President's visitors; but when, upon ! K' the doors being opened, it w;.s discovered they intended to seek ingress with ihn acrowd by their pressing forward shoulder to shoulder with the whites, a scene of ex- ^ cilemeut followed which did anything but honor to the occasion. Many negroes had l'reached tho portico and so rat. had passed *'the door, when the demonstrations on tie j ,upart of the whites, aroused to deep iudig* i b'nation, wun.cd the special police that trou 1 ble was brewing. “They are lotting the negroes lit, exclaimed a score of voices, Rtmale and ftmtile; “Put 'em out, was glroared by as many men, who looked will* j wmg enough to perform the the act them ai selves. 44 Go to the kitchen, (I—d d — n I jyou I yelled a rough hewn soldier, who ,.id forgot he wasn't in camp. Yet the no „II ; groes pressed forward and seemed deter- jjm. i mined to gain admittance in spite of these c.Iiie significant demorstrnlions and of the in- i olbe tcrfareoce of the police, who told themlit they could not enter lly this lime the | 0ol disturbance was noticed by those inside trml the mansion, and its ennse was soon inter s,j preted by the inmates when they became nhe aware of the presence of n score or more Keil °f negroes among themselves The na- ),p'e j lure of tho enso was s. on ruado known to 1 C|ed Marshal I.noun, who immediately in- uIris | strutted his deputies (polic. me n) to eject wsi- the in gri t-a and prevent all further ingress priCe 1 of the same. Afier some confusion this ube was d tie, and quiet was restored | but, y,— not before such a hubbub had been croii'ed o'lid in the reception room, Mis Liucolund thought it consiatsnt with her dignity to *'I,... retire. Alter the reception of the whites pjt,j i was over, such of the negroes as r mttlnrdw.-pe admitted and received by Mr*. Lin- -coin. These wore not many, n« the major Cl f«*v . ity had gone off In high dudgeon. i.At a festival of Lawyers and iidilnrs, a lawyer gave a toast—“The lvluor, heal- C' ways obeys the call of the devil. An , editor, responded—4,'l\e Kditnr and the J' Lawyer —the devil Is satisfied with the . J copy of tho former, hut rrtpiii-ea the oti- • j' giual of the ItdUir.”
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Sioux City Register
Sioux City, Iowa, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1865
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