The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-28

sau hat must either have been dreaming or drunk,
then England among all the nations of the earth is
pre-emnenty blessed. II is this very national debt
however that creates half the distress OF the coun-
try, half the commercial and financial embarrass.
ments, half the crime, and all the oppressive meas
ures of the government. The national debt caused
the corn-laws, the excise, the income-tax and half
the other taxes that continually making the rich
richer and the poor poorer. think | have heard
something said In favor OF debt the United
States. The idea being, that the people in every
part OF the country would be interested in it, IL
would consolidate union and insure ts stability. /
do not think go Whenever il got 10 be so great as
10 be onerous, il would endanger the Union instead
Of consolidating it'll mean when il got 10 be as
enormous and ms unmanageablc as the British ma
donal debt. We could stand debt Of from i've
hundred 20 thousand millions Of dollars perhaps
without hnching; but don't think we would carry
much more. don't want TO see public debt Of
any kind The true principle is to owe nothing,
and TO have but little 10 the tressury--much better
that il should be in the pockets Of the people.
Alter the procession was over and the crowd had
partially dispersed went To Westminster Abbey,
not far OIL, to pay it farewell visit. or the many
things In London worth seeing this venerable old
piie think the most SO, account Of It's antiquity
of It's architecture externally and internally, and
above Ill, Of the pumervus and increasing mona
ncnts TO the dead that II contains description Of
y has been published in two large octave volumes.
For me TO attempt, then, TO give any account Of it in
letter OF two sheets would be absurd. The Poets
Corner most attracted nv attention; and Of all the
efigies that are there, the bust Of Milton was my
favorite. That noble countenance shall never for
get. IL is calm, and serious, and meditative-such
a one as we may suppose the author Of Paradise
Lost TO hoe had. thought saw in 1t much firm
ness OF purpose and greatness Of soul. That man
had faith in himself ard In his principle s and have
faith in thom too. He was too pure and TOO great
for the age in which he lived. His Contemporaries
were SO far behind and below him. that they neither
could comprehend him nor appreciate him. Now,
how such man would be admired, and followed,
and worshipped But where is there such man }
When will there be another Milton! In tho course
Of two centuries England has had but one and
though in the mean time she has had many great
poets and great men, she has had none that was
near enough his equal to be thought worthy to be
his rival. Let 1t not be forgotten that he was
good republican, too, which should make his men,
DRY dear TO every American. .....#."
The bust that had next most of my attention was
that Of DR.. Wattsnot at all resembling that of Mil
ton none of the majesty Of oountenance--nothng
OF the great and heroic visible in the other but
yet most striking and attractive on account Of the
expression of piety and devotion by which it Is
And DR.. Watts was not only one of
the best of Christians, but one of cass of men of
which the list is perhaps shorter than that Of any
other for he gave a proof Of sefdenial and
Of good will to man that was perhaps never
given before. His hymns which contain much
excellent poetry, not known even to all the
admirers and readers Of good poetry, would have
been much more poetica, had he not wished to com
pose them IN such plain and simple language that
they would be easily comprehended by the most
ignorant and uneducated, provided they could read
Here, then, was a poet, and of the first order OF
poets too, renouncng fame, and jeoparding his rep
utation for the love Of the poor, the humble, and
the illiterate, who would never even know the
service he had rendered them, or the sacrifice he
had made, in order to do it, Pious Christian
cellent and admirable man Thou hast had thy re-
ward. .. r..gJ.v'
or all the faces in the corner, that of Oliver Gold
smith 10 tho greatest puzzle. 1t is very Irish and
very common, but not necessarily So because it is
Irish, for the Irish possess much personal beauty
perhaps as any other people. But in that face we
seek in vain any indications of the genius of the
man, which was great beyond all question. Had
he cultivated poetry he would have excelled in that
as he did in prose. The little that he made is as
near being faultless probably as anything in the
English language, and doubt if it would be pos
sble to alter single word of his Deserted Vllags,
SO as to improve it. / should regard him as bold
man that would attempt it. .
looked again at Milton for the last time, and
then left the Abbey to see it no more, l suppose.
And here will remark, that seriously think tina,
to a North American it is worth voyage across
the Atlantic to see it and the Tower.
am going to Liverpool to-day to embark for the
United States. l am done with London; and take
''Dcar, damned, distracting town, farewell.o
do not use the word dear in the sense in which the
poet used it, having no motive for doing SO, but
in which will be readily comprehended by
every foreigner who has had to pay his way in
London. That it is distracting, no one can doubt
who has been about the Bank and the Exchange, and
there witnessed the rushing and pushing, and jam
ming and squeezing, that is to be every day;
almost every hour. You wonder where all those |
human beings could possibly come from, and
whittier they are going, and the horses and the |
carriages almost without number. This being
all new to me, and wonderful as it was new, I
had the curiosity, being from Yankee land, 1--WE are
all Yankees abroad to make some estimate Of the
number of carriages that would pass in the course
Of "a hours; and acalculated'' that the number |
would be from Il, 900 to 10000. hha @ 22HAna
As 10 the city's being damned, now hereafter,
distinction to be good that of any other great
metropolis. " t." a@ Ha.H 't-f2 GfA
Last, though not least, saw the Duke of Wei
lington and his nose, which think magnificent
an appurtenance as man ever wore upon his face;
for it is not only prodigious, but il is well formed
and symmetrical, standing out like bold prom
ontory that has long defed the blow and the storm
] think there must be good deal in the head to
which that nose is an adjunct; and had Napoleon
seen it, he would not have attacked the English
as incautously as he did at Waterloo, for no man
in his senses could expect to come in contact with
peror had good nose hinself--handsome and
classical, but Il wanted the volume Of his antago-
nists: and ths lonsees nose .s,tied ei,e day. as
might have been expected. The Prussians say that
they won IL; but, in my opinion, had not the
Dukes nose been present, it would have been lost
battle for the allies. -u .s.r......t ...t E...nr
By coming to London have found out some-
thing which never should otherwise have known,
never knew what wealth was before, and doubt
il it can be known without visit TO this city; which
is the commercial emporium, not only Of the British
empire, but ofthe whole world. There are in Lon
don fifteen HUNDRED capitalists, who could them
selves pay the whole national debit and are worth,
therefore, on average, nearly three millions OF
dollars each. This had from the best authority;
otherwise il would appear TO me to be incredible.
Then the quantity and variety Of rich and mer-
chandise Of every description is astonishing Look
ing at the shop windows is All inexhaustibe source
Of amusement in itself those who fond Of look
ing at such things In Paris they NAV be little
more elegant and snowy; but in London you see
displays Of wealth. and proofs Of mercantile soiidity
that you do not find quite Paris, though there Is
good deal Of wealth there too.
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