Columbia Democrat And Bloomsburg General Advertiser

A careful reading of the proceedings of Congress up to this time would create the impression that this was a special session, called for the purpose of considering matters exclusively appertaining to the "colored folks."
The interest of the white man appears to have sunk into insignificance. Every Abolitionist is loaded to the muzzle with negro resolutions. Henry Wilson wants them all let out of jail. We shall soon expect to see a proposition that no negro shall be punished by imprisonment.—Columbus (Ohio) Statesman.
If Congress was composed entirely of negroes their legislation could not be more for the race than it is now. No proposition is received with any favor, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, unless it proposes to do something for the black. A foreign stranger would suppose, from the deliberations of Congress, that the whites had no question of their own for deliberation or discussion. The members had hardly taken their seats before a dozen of them sprung up and pulled out a batch of resolutions relating to some negro grievance or disability, or directly proposing negro emancipation. The more violent the proposition for the negro—the more extravagant and absurd—the greater favor of its reception. Congress seems actually to have become stark mad, and the performances which have been enacted there in the shape of resolutions and propositions have excited the astonishment and indignation of the country.
The members—the practical, useful members—who wish to do something for the country, can not get a word in its behalf. Unless there is some improvement or reform soon the Congress will be voted a political nuisance of the worst character—an intolerable affliction upon the patriotism and good sense of the country.
After all, the negroes are but five millions to the whites' twenty-five millions, and we insist that the former shall not monopolize the whole attention of the National Legislature. If Congress would try half as hard to restore the Union as it does to free the negro, it would undoubtedly accomplish the task.