Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-02-22
10 the Editors ofthc Enquirer:

10 the Editors OF inc enquirer ~
BosroN, February IA, lS49.
Messrs. Editors: in my letter TO you IRON
New York, reference was made 10 Theatrical
treat. II is now 10 my power TO ailuce 10 an
o,her Of rare character, in the readings oil
Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler To these readings
of Shakespeare there is more attention paid
than 10 any thing of the kind that has ever come
under my observation. The tickets are all sold
two or three DAYS ahead, and the VISITORS aoso-
lutely 90 10 the hall by FIVE to o'clock in the
evening. to obtain a ticket for her reading of
Macbeth. had to send note directly TO her,
and 20 al six o'clock in order TO obtain seat
/, is true was not Disappointed but 1t IS also
true have not been The second time. whenever
an entire city gives up itself to such enlhu-
siasm, tits time for thinking man TO stop his
footsteps in that direction, and find some other
passion for the time being. In appearance
Mrs. P"tler is neither pleasing nor handsome,
and presents The outlines OF a strong temper, as
well as something Of the higher capacities OF
our race. great woman must be graceful and
soft in her manners. Simple genius Will to a Ger
tain extent attract lis admirers; but TO De ge
nerally admired and beloved, is neither the for
tune of the simply intelligent, nor OF the simply
handsome.
The frozen face of all things here al this Time
really presents the proposition in questionaoie
form, whether the Summers sun will ever again
shine upon this snow-ridden city. The iceoerg
of the sea flashes thousand reflections from the
sun upon your eyes, as you behold its monster
proportions rising and lumbing about on The
surface of the ocean; but hero almost world
spreads out before the eye, without one single
evidence that it will ever change from its snowy
barren whiteness 10 any other complexion The
Chinese have singular custom OF mourning in
white. How the ceestials come so nearly to
strike an emblem of Winters chief employment
in these cold regions we are not told; but 1t is so;
and hut for the many exhibitions that attend this
cruelty 10 US Of the sunny South, should be
disposed to say that they had gotten good idea,
| and had adopted custom which Nature itself
had adopted when she meant 10 attilct human
Is. and 10 draw over the earth the gloomIest
mantle that falls upon the residence OF man.
Since leaving home, have not heard sin
gle conversation about slavery, until the fact was
ascertained that was Southern man. Inc
recent meeting Of the anti slavery party here,
and the adoption of the disgraceful resolutions
which were published by the New York Herald
was not known of at all BY half the people Of
Boston; whilst have no doubt the people OF the
Northern States to some extent DO acqulesce IL
the course OF their representatives ID congress
Yet those men al Washington have no require
ments from their immediate constituency thai
demands the course which they have adopted
and am ready 10 assert that their action Il
adopted for the sole purpose OF getting 10 them
selves personally the good feelings OF these lana
tics. A. more fratricidal course was neSe
adop,ed. These Gains Of the country shoult
recollec, tina. the hsllucina,ioa under which tine,
labor had no existence in that body, from whose
wisdom we have our Constitution, and abou
which we clustered, in olden time, like chickens
to the wing of the hen. | am mos happy L
observe the ruling process which has been com
menced in Old Virginia against those men il
our representation, who failed to come up t
the 6ght at the proper time, and who, instead 0
retiring from their seats, if they could no! g
with the Soath, have lenaciously held on
their places, and must have themselves iaid u