The Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper CorrespondentBriggs, Emily Edson
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The Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent
Briggs, Emily Edson
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933; Washington (D.C.) -- History
Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, is speaking. He plays the sovereignty
of the States like Ole Bull’s whole opera, on one string; but Senator
Anthony has tripped him by asking: “How can a State be ‘sovereign’
when she can neither make treaties, coin money, or go out to stay
all night without asking her father, who is all the time her Uncle
Sam?” Senator Eaton replies that he would answer that question to the
satisfaction of the Senator from the little State of Rhode Island,
but he is sick and cannot be interrupted in his patriotic argument,
and he again declares the sovereignty of the State, because little
Rhody, Connecticut, and pretty Delaware are the peers and equals of
Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio. Why? Because they are independent
sovereigns, and command the same respect.
It is now almost midnight. Behold the conquering hero comes. It is
Andy Johnson, the veteran warrior of Tennessee. For the first time
he arises to address the highest legislative body on the face of the
globe. There is an ominous silence. He is asked by a brother Senator
if Monday, the next day of the Senatorial calendar, will not do. An
affirmative answer is received, and the session of the night adjourns.
OLIVIA.
SENATOR SPRAGUE.
A NEW CHAMPION OF A PANACEA FOR ILLS FINANCIAL.
WASHINGTON, _April 14, 1869_.
A new music reaches the ear of Washington. It is the voice of the
workingmen, with brass instruments in their hands, saluting their
new leader. All hail! Senator Sprague of Rhode Island. The man who
touches the pulse of the invalid with an earnest desire to do the
patient good is called a kind physician. The man who feels the
feverish pulse of a suffering nation, sees the people rise in their
awful majesty, and immensity, echoes, “Here! Here!”
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