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nati Enquirer.Ktgron at lh« tVutlr Hniutn V l(*w at the Pnaldrat'f llrrrptlun.A Washington letter giving an accountof (lie President's levee on New Years (.Ianunrjr 2d) i.nntnins the following:To the right of the President, the two private Secretaries intervening, stood Mrs. Lincoln, with lion. R B French doing the honors. Many persons, ilia majority evidently acquaintances, paid their res p»CI8 to her, after being | resented to the President; hut the crowd mostly passed her by with a stolen plnnce or a rude atare. Mrs. Lincoln is not popular either with men or women; and, of the hitter she probably haa lewer genuine friends than any lady that has filled her station before her. Parasites in crinoline attend ber, hut she is Uut Ion d by ber fi lends, and she is hardly respected by females in society near enough her own grade to know all about her.Among ihe crowd assembled in front ol the poilico, bedure tbo doors were thrown opi n to the people, were several hundred colored people of huth sexes—the wenches the most numerous, who ha i come to pay their n specie to the President. As a gen oral thing they were well and neatly dressed, some, both male and female, being with their white companions, lioth in lichnrss nod fusl.i.n.ible of attire, they irdir.-ctlt;y represent the Iton fun of negro socii ty in Washington: alloyed be a smart sprinkling of cuhred divines, who think they gaiu a victory over the devil every time they succeed in obtruding themselves in white society upon pretended terms of eqnr.lity; and a corporal's guard ..f r.egrj soldi, rs, who no doubt, thought themselves jns'ly smith d to the privilege of paying their New Year's compliments to thechcif magistrate uf the country they are light ing fur.The while people made no demonstration whatever on aeronii! of their preset ee, no doubt sir posing they would confine thtiuselves io the station assigned th»m by custom and bring tip the rear of the President’s visitors; but when, upon the doors being opened, it wi.g discovered they intended to seek ingress with the crowd hy their pressing forward shoulder to shoulder with the whites, a scene of excitement followed which did anything hut honor to the occasion. Many negroes had reached the portico and somt* had passed the door, when the demonstrations on the part of the whites, aroused to deep iudig-nation, wan ed the special police that trou ble was brewing. “ They are lotting the negroes ill, ciclninied a score of voices, male and ftmule; Put 'era out,'' was roared hy as many men, who looked willing enough to perform the the act them selves. “Goto the kitchen, (1—d d —n you I” yelled a rough hewn soldier, who ,-d forgot he wasn't in camp. Yet the noli. ; groee pressed forward and scented deter-,ii. ! mined to gain admittance in spite of these liis significant demonstrations and of the in-be tcrfbreoce of the police, who told themlie they could not enter By ibis time theol disturbance wss noticed by those inside ml the mansion, and its rnnse was soon inter pretrd by the inmates when they bccnine •ware of the presence of a score or more of negroes among llien-sclves The na-| lure of the ease was s- on made known to Marshal Lsmnn, who immediately instructed his deputies (|olicmen) to eject the to gn ts and prevent all fun bur ingress of the same. Afier some confusion this was d -tie, mid ijuiet was restored ; but, not before such a hubbub had been created in the reception room, Mis Linculu thought it consistent with her dignity to retire. Alter the reception of the whites i was over, such of the negroes as r mnlnrd weje admitted and received by Mrs. Lincoln. These were not ninny, as the major ily had gone off In high dudgeon.At a festival of Luwrera and Kdilnra
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Sioux City Register
Sioux City, Iowa, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1865
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