Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-27
Letters Of Mrs. Swisshelm. No. !.
b'st'ng Wdshington-The CdpitoI-JMnz,-
tdnd-Ihe Sdre-Trdde-Rosss Speech.
Washington Correspondence of The Tribune.
IRvISo HOUSE. Wednesday. Anril 10.

tdnd-1he Sdve-Trdde-Ross's Speech.
Washington Correspondence of The Tribune.
IR1So HOUSE, Wednesday, April 10.
DEAR Mn. GREELEY: Away ont in West
cm Pennsylvania, where | was born, the
people used to talk good deal about Con-
gfess and the Capitol. They had news from
Congress-speeches made in Congress-and
wonders TO tell that were done there. One
could hardly get the men folks TO chop oy-
en-wood il there was any late news from the
Capitol, and when they sat down to smoke
nn' laid their feet up on the chimney-board
to dry, they twisted their cigars round to one
corner Of their mouths, held them in their
tech, and through the little aperture utter
ed great words of glorions doing or terrible
disasters ut Washington. Sometimes things
wouid get into desperate fix, and by the
words that curled up among the tobacco
smoke, one could learn the clouds were
about TO grow nignardly aud withhold their
raln--that the sun was to stop shining for
want Of gas, and amy bony lady moon" to
take permanent lodgings in a potato-pit,
forced TO suspend operations for want of
iuns's land all because somebody was going or
was not going to Washington. is il any won
der should get to think this same Washing
tona wonderful place, and feel very curious TO
see t5 AS the common consent of mankind
has assigned to Woman an extra quantity of
curiosity in lieu of other inaienable rights,
tile right to crafty that curiosity should be
included in the grant. for one take it for
granted that it is so; and hope you will not
object especially as this same inquisitve-
ness leads me to wonder how the crude ideas
OF western woman would look in the col
uinns of tho iar-famed .Neic York Tribune,
beside the finished productions of the mas
ter pninds of the ngc. You will respect this
luuonble curiosity MS womnns natural right
l ep sure, and so permit me to tell your
readers of all and sundry the wonderful
things in this wonderful place.
n the first place you know the Capitol is
sublime. Inever before saw anything the
work of mans hand that struck me with such
snbhmity, Coming by the Baltimore Rnil-
road, il suddenly starts into view, in the
midst Of wilderness, like the glorious
Visions of our prophet poets, on the desolate
wastes Of our present bleak and barren
la1ylandT poor Maryland! how disconso-
lai she lies, with shackled limbs and cold
INDY ycyless bosom. il rs yer.' wonderful to
Eilhe old Stnte lie inactive, with great
io5 ~ the Capitol 5 'sa sirsis9 cie9 reach, at the very
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tive Wilderness or exhausted barren WASTES.
wdndered much, but when l saw, an old
mani stand, with face as black as ehon, and
hair ns white as snow, with the cringing as |
pect of vassal, and the coarse and tattercd |
garments of a slave, knew that Maryland, |
like a second Rachel, was weeping for her |
children and refusing to he comtorted NOT |
that they" are not" but that they arc worse |
than IT they had never been. The poor, old, |
desolate mother! Ono would think that at |
this moment she held up her hands, like Ja-
cob of old, to plead, "Josepli is not, and |
Simeon is not, and will We take BENJAMIN
also" For long years she has lain in an
apathy of grief as the thousands of her chill |
dren have cast themselves upon her bosom
to utter their agony of prayer to the God of
the oppressed, who seemeth not to hear
Many thousands of them have dragged their
monacled limbs away, away TO return no
more; and as the mother lay, the springs of
her bosom have been dried up by sorrows
fires, and her children are torn from her,
and sent TO seek the sustenance she can no
longer give. Premature old age has come
upon her, and yet it is not enough. Those
who should comfort her who should give her
" beauty for nshes and the oil of Joy for
mourning" are seeking for another Egypt
where her Josephs may be sold Into bond
agc-a cattle-market for her sons and daugh-
tiers, where tlleir bodies and souls like those |
OF the craven Egyptians, may be exchanged |
for corn. *pl ff 'lHff sr
These thoughts naturally auggest them
selves after passing through the garden-like |
plantations OF eastern PENNSYLVANIA and then |
coming suddenly to an extended waste, re- |
minding one who has seen both, of the |
hackleberry districts of Butler County. As |
the locomotive sped along and set the trees |
to dancing, waltzing, whrling to the music |
of its railroad gallopade, sat watching for |
the overflowing barns, the flocks and herds, |
the troups of poultry, green fields, extensive
gardens, hot aud greenhouses, that sup
posed must extend far and wide for many
miles in every direction from so famous a
city as our great Washington, that Pandora
box from which proceeds all things good
and evil, and cannot well describe my sur
PRISE when, as we passed tract of soil ap-
parently too poor TO bring mullin and pen
nyroyal, and partially enclosed with rick
ETY. old post and rail fence, made with spider
leg posts and three thin rails, here and there
propped with rotten sticks, or inter woven
with brush and briars, suddenly rs thought
the great marble edifce loomed up in The
horizon--thc Capitol of this great Repub-
lie in the midst of desert
Here, MIR. Greeley, let me take breath,
and recover from the modification / have
Just now sufferedl When got thus far DIR.
Snodgrass called to say it was time TO go to
the Capitol, where had been yesterday to
hear Harris of Tenn. bedaubing the rem
nant of the Northern Democracy who had
y stood against the s-t-o-r-Bl-slood firm while !
the thunders roared and one after another |
had fallen victim" TO their great love for
the glorious Constitution and its immortal |
compromises. Poor fellows! how piticd |
them and felt beneyolently inclined TO offer
the loan of an umbrella, much as any one
dislikes TO lend that article. But il was pitt
iul TO think Of their standing in the rain, and
1t laundering! IIe appeared to think they