The Columbian fountain., 1846-05-02

to lambs. Then, instead Of our city being
deserted during the summer months, stran-
gers would flock to it from all parts Of the
Uuion as 10 paradise, and in our midst
there would be one continual scene of pur-
est JOY"
The delivery of these remarks produced
such an effect upon the meeting that the
plan was about being adopted by accama-
ton, when another gentleman arose and
stated that, observing the feeling of the
meeting, he would not object to the plan
just proposed, but he would humbly ask
leave to submit few remarks that he had
prepared, and which he thought would
show not only what was best to be done,
but what was most feasible. The plan
proposed by the gentleman who had just
taken his seat he admitted was an excellent
one, but he feared that, under present cir
cumstances, there would be some difficulty
in efecting it. What he was about to sug-
gest was not any particular plan for rem
edying the evil at once, but rather scheme
by which the citizens Of Washington could
gain such an influence in Congress as
would enable them hereafter to carry any
and every measure that might be for the
benefit of the city.
Here several members drew closer to
the speaker, and the gentleman who was
reading the newspaper laid it down..
"My plan, Sir" he continued, "is to
organize society to be called The Society
for the Moral and Physical Improvement Of
Washington. twill consist of seven classes
of members. The main design will be to
persuade as many enterprising, industrious,
and intelligent young men as possible to
remove from Washington into the States,
they first giving pledge to use every
effort to be returned from their respective
States as members Of Congress, and ,ve
pledging ourselves to aid them by our pens
and purses. By following out this plan
with energy, we can soon have representa-
tives from every State in the Union. They
will come among us, not as strangers in
strange land, but as to their own firesdes,
their heart overfowing with desires to do
us good. Instance several who are now
in Congress. And thus we will have so
large number there, all feeling the deep
est interest in the welfare of the city, that
whatever may be for our benefit will be
easily adopted. Then, indeed, will Wash
ington prosper. 1t will at once arise as
Phoenix from its ashes, and will tower
aloft till lost in the efulgence Of its glory"
AS soon as the gentleman had finished,
the members pressed around and shook
him heartily by the hand, loading him with
thanks for suggesting SO admirable and easy
relief from thraldom.
One member was about to question the
practicablity of the plan, but he was told
that that could be easily attended to in a
supplementary bill.
have already taken up SO much room
that | am compelled to stop, though would
like to send you an abstract of more of the
proceedings of this interesting meeting.
On the conclusion of the remarks relative
to the organization of the new society, an
appropriate song was sung. The sheet up
on which it is written is SO defaced that the
words are scarcely legible, but as near as
can ascertain, one verse reads thus:
Dust-dust-dust-
In kitchen, parIor, and store.
And dust--dust-dust,
AT every breath draw.
It's oh, to be at sea
Scraping away an anchors rust,
Where man may at least breathe full and
free,
If this is Washington dust"