Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-25
Letter from the Editor.

BosToN, Friday Eve, Sept. 10Th, 1851.
This, the third and closing day of the Rail
Road Jubilee, has been great day in Boston.
The city has been alive with people ever since
Tuesday and to-day it has been literally swarm
ing like an overstocked bee hive, the usual pop
ulation being doubled, and, perhaps, quadrupled,
by the great influx of visitors not only from the
popnlous towns in the vicinity, but from all parts
of New England and Canada,
The first day was mainly occupied in the re-
cepton of distinguished guests from abroad,
such as the fine looking, accomplished, and re-
publican Lord Egin, chief magistrate of the
monarchcal Canada, who would not have APP
proved or signed the Fugitive slave bill, and
the Chief Magistrate of the republican United
States, who did both. The second day was Ia
ken up in Regatta or boat-ride in the harbor
by the guests, city and State authorities, Presi-
dent Fillmore and suit, in visiting the Navy
Yard receiving salutes, and witnessing the brill
liant display of fireworks in the evening. And
day has been devoted to the browning part of
the performsRce--the grand procession of the
military, bands of music, notables from abroad,
Governor and Legislature. City officers, Fire
companies, Schools, and all manner of trade
associations. And, what with the long and gor-
geous military array, composed of the best uni
formed Companies Of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, the strains Of martial music, the long
line of barouches of the great and distinguish
h., (o1l 4bo
came next, each representing some one of the
multiplex trades, arts, callings of land and sea,
by specimens of rare workmanship, or men ac-
tually at work at the printing press, the hatters
board, &C., &C., in their moving shops or ships,
surmounted with appropriate notices, and lastly
the various fire companies and benevolent asso-
Citations, all moving in procession two or three
miles long, through the streets wedged and
throDged by sea of human forms, and over
arched by thousand flags and banners of
"quaint devise" it made up pageant seldom, if
ever equalled in this teeming city of men and
notions.
But the passing pageant is not all that attach
es to the celebration. 1t was to commemorate
the completion of the long chain of rail roads
connecting Massachusetts with the Canadas
the Ocean with the great lakes and rivers Of
the West, involving a commercial object of
great Importance and this great gathering of
all the leading men of both sections, before, lit
tie known to each other, will prove, doubtless,
fine first step towards the reciprocal trade and
intercourse these improvements were designed
to facilitate.
Daniel Webster is here, but has not appeared
in public at all, | think, except at the reception
of the President, when he made short speech.
which some call spirited Webster is feeble
thin, od1Ookng, broken down man, and his star
is evidently on the wane, with the mass of his
own party while that of Fillmore is brightnng
At all events the latter seems to have made
much more political capital out of this occasion
than the former Fillmore is in the full vigor
Of life, has noble yet afiabe bearing; compli-
ments adroitly, and extenuates his own acts in
genously and pausibly, and has the whole pat
roaaVa of Gnuarnnant on his side and. as the
South will not, as is thought, agree to the nom
nation Of Gen. Scott and as neither South nor
North can draw the masses into the support of
Webster, he stands, probably, better chance
than any other man of being the candidate Of
the Wing Party for the next President.