Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — The Washington Election. [ARTICLE]

The Washington Election.

The TVme* is sorely exercised because three negroes, a waiter, bootblack and barber, were elected to the Common Council of 'Washington. It thinks that “ as Common Council* average, the one at Washington will not suffer from the chari acter of its new members” So long as

negroes were chained in slave pens, the Bwt was silent aad satfefited. The negro was then fulfiMftg his divine mission, according ter theory. The TYmre consoles itself and friends with the reflection that possibly the good old system will came back again. ,&Khem’ r it* says, *’Jhe Dembcratio-party more be in power, it will restore these Washington bootblacks to their normal condition.” Such is the sfim and aspiration of the Democracy. There is no striving for the good which progress has in store for us. Oh the contrary, the members of that party are constantly turning from the results already attained,. sighing like a furnace for the vicious evils of the past. If they could they would bring back the old slave regime, with all its horrors and desstetiona. But there is no cause of apprehension, for such a catastrophe Is not in the raqge of tee possible.— Chicago