The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-11-07

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| oflove and esteem.
Correspondence Of Tie Boston Mercantile Journal.
WAsHINaroN, Sept, 3d. 1887.
MIR. SLEEpER:-- | am so thoroughly disguised
with the heartlessness of politics, that can hard
| ~ compose my nerves to write about it lin any
strain but one which my sober state disapproves)
so entirely and thoroughly all those refined
and religious personal and social qualities, which
you and call VIRTUES" set at defiance by pol
iticians, particularly the dominant party land
confess have found ittoo much so with all dom.
inant parties) that am not only Disguised with
the subject, disnclned to its contact, but almost
ready to despair of our public liberties. To see
how completely successful hypocrisy and char
laansm, parasilism and protligacy are here, when
ever brought INTO competition with unsophistca-
ted TRUTH simple Republicansm, and uupretend-
ing moral wortl--is enough to sadden The stout
est heart of true Democrat. To see all those
personal vices which have so long rendered-no
which once rendered the monarchical and aris-
tocrntc Courts of Europe the "hye word and re-
proacll" oial true Repubticans-or at least, which
seemed TO me so hated and hateful, when l went
TO school, and read of I" the sneakng crowd OF
Hattercrs false, who are in their turn abused,"-
70 see the men who have most of these qualities,
the only men who can at this boosted ere, and at
this proud capital, successfully compete for any
distinguished public empoymentls indeed chill
ing and APPALLING! There are are a few, (Heaven
be praised Il few such men as John @. Adams,
Daniel Webster, Richard Fletcher, John Davis,
and some others of great talents distinction and
attainments-Who are to be seen and heard yet
in our Congress; but how little influence have
such men compared with TIE class TO which |
have referred How totally and entirely are
they thrown into the shade in social life here
10y the coxcombical card playing, wine -bibbing
tribes.
religious world, here too, not the meek, and hum
BILE aud simple, and modest, and quiet, unassum-
ing practical Christian, is the influential church
members but your dogmatlcal diclatorial, conse
quentia, controversial, declaiming sectaran or
propagandst-he is the man whose zeal for the
Lord" is illustrated in fashionable imitation of
the pomp and pagcantry Of an aristocrac Court.
Had dropped here from another Worldwide
my opinions, feelings and habits formed TO the
best models Of Christian and Republican sentiment
and character that n lite of industrious investga-
ton has enabled me to obtain sight of-aud were
to look around in these circles and hotels, board
ing houses, public offices and Halls of Congress-
for information as To the nation had got among.
the religion they protested, and the government
they had adopted: | should have little suspicion
that this was the capital Of a people protesting
to be the disciples of JEsUs-and affecting the
of iREPuBLICANIsM; l should think
il probable that their theological ami moral code !
had been derived in part from Mahomctan and
pagan sources-tnged somewhat with the nflu- |
ence of an Ignatius Loyala, but pretty well run !
be my first impression, till had become acquant-
ed with some of the common people," visited
their families, and conversed with their pous wo- |
men and out-o-office citizens
Our New England people, did they know Of
the corruptions and abuses, by which their public |
money is squandered upon panders to power
men who refuse TO pay their Observation-Disclosures
gamblers, and their kindred tribes, they would
do something more than petition Congress for
the abolition of Slavery in the District of Column
bia. They would form societies for the moral
rnd political reformation of their Government
and its public officers and for the restoration of
The olden- time uirtueS of republicanism. Depend
OH it my friend-the imitation of European Court
etiquette, style of living manners, fashions, and
bauchery-ntroduced into Washington, and
Increasing every years. more thoroughly I'M
iermnng our free, social, and political system,
han could have been directly effected by all the
alents and power OF Votaire Meternich or
IN Imperial Nicholas Nothing is wanting but
he union ofthe youth and genius of Napoleon,
he tact and cunning of Talleyrand, to the cour-
lge and disposition of Jackson, to overthrow
his government, in fact, if not in form; and to
establish IN this metropolis, perfect Arisoc
acy or Monarchy, as ever existed in Europe or
Asia. Fhe members of Congress are paid in S
officers can command the rich
,st speculations in public lands-won3en of GER
am accomplishments can obtain favors for their
avorites-while the laborcr, working man and
i.'liiie' 10 tulleu OH Will Snlip!lstelS anu
'ther rags for his industry, and insoent repri
nand for asking his dues" ,
And when an officc-seeking visitant wants to ,
acknowledge the favors of the public, or to illus
rate his own distinction in the world, he goes to .
keeper of hacks and horses-hires him to make |
'ut list Of such persons his lordship ought to
'Is't-tlrnshes him with requisite number of
ards, (pieces of pasteboard, honest citizen, with
as matchleSs name neatly inscribed thereon,) and S
his stable-keoper sends his haclmen around to {
he doors of these listed ones-and leaves with I
heir servants each, one of these cards This is .
listing "respectablH" in Washington City, the
'apital of your AMERICAN REPUBLIC z
From such fountain, verify how pure the +
treanlets What capital place this for the :
chooling of young Democrats You may breed
hem of any color-from milk to moasses, you }
nay train them to the pistol, the dirk, the billiard
able, the lottery office, the cockpit, or the race
course: for all of these and many more Republi- c