Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-01-08
A BRITISH NoBLEMAN IN AMERICA

With those who wait at Gods right hand,
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BRITISH NOBLEMAN IN AMERICA.
Lord CartsIe's tlate Morpeth) Lecture in Eng
land, on America, &c.
BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, RICHMOND. &c.
Earl Carlisle Qately Lord Morpeth,) recently
delivered Lecture at the Mechanics Institution,
in Leeds, England, in the course of which he gave
sketch Of a visit paid to the United States. He
was passenger in the steam packet "Columbia, j
and arrived at Boston on the 2lst of October
1871. Abiding to his first impressions, he SAYS:
81 am not aware that ever again experienced
during my whole American soiourn, the peculiar
feeling Of the stranger. 1t was indeed dspelled
at the moment when therfag ship Columbus gave
our Columbia distinguished, and thought rathe,
touching reception; the-crew manned the wards
cheered and their band played first, God save the
Qeen,' and then Yankee Doodle | spent alto.
gether at two different intervals, about month in
Boston. Hook back with fond recollection to its
we'll built streets-the swelling dome of its State
house--the pleasant walks, on what is termed the
Common, park, in fact, of moderate size in the
centre of the city, where made my first acouain-
lance with the bright sunsets of America and the
peculiar transparent green and opal tints which
stripe the skies around them"
To Boston he is most partial. 'it is" he saws,
"on the whole, the American town in which an
Englishman of cultivated and literary tastes or
philanthropic pursuits would feel himself most at
home"
He pays handsome compliment to the Ire
mont Hotel, and says that the Americans beat
the English ALI hollow. He visited Ex.presi.
dent Van Buren, at Kinderhood, and says
"The house was modest and extremely well OF.
dered, and nothing could exceed the courtesy
and fullness of conversation. He was full Of
anecdotes of all the public men of his country.
in his dining room were pictures Of Jefferson and
Gen. jackson, the great objects of his political
devotion. On my return through Albany had an
interview with Mr.. Seward. then for the second
time governor ofthe State of New York / find
that noted at the time that he was the first per-
son had met who did not speak ightngly of the
abolitlonists; he thought they were gradually
gaining ground"
New ork he describes as a very brilliant
something of Il fusion between Liverpool and Pa
ris.
Philadelphia is also complmented FORTS neat
ness and good order His visit to Baltimore,
WASH ngton and Richmond, are thus described
in succession, with his views on slavery, &c.
Ny next brief pause was at Baltimore At a
halt on the railroad on my way thi,her, heard the
conductor or guard, say to negro, 81 cannot let
you 60, TOR you are slave !" This was my first
animation that had crossed the border which d.
vdes freedom from slavery. quote from the en-.
try which l made upon noting these words that
evening :--"Declaration of independence, which
read yesterday pillar of Washington, which
have looked on to-day what are ye? 2"
must now give myself some little vent. II
was subject which, felt during my whole So
lourn in America, as feel it still to be paramount
IN interest to every other. 1t was one on which
intended and endeavored to observe sound dis.
cretlon. We have not ourselves long enough
washed OFT the stain to give us the right to rail at
those whom we had originally inoculated with the
pest; and stranger, abundantly experiencing hos.
pitality, could not with any proprety interfere
wantony upon the most delicate and difficult point
of another nations policy. could not, however.
fail often and deeply to feel, in the progress of
my intercourse with many in that country, "Come
not, my SOUL into their secrets; to their council.
my heart, be not thou united" At the same time
wished never to make any improper compromise
OF my opinion; made it point to pay special
pect to the leading aboltonists--those who had
'"cOiOu "a ouuCISu III tllo CduStT-WileA 1 CAME
within reach of them.
At Boston committed the more overt act of
attending the anti-slavery fair, which then was
almost considered something of measure.
was much struck-in the distinguished and agree
able companies which I had the GOOD fortune to
frequent, with few honorable exceptions-at
he tone of disparagemeni, contempt and anger
With which the abo)itionists were mentioned
ust as any very patrician company in this country
would talk of socialist or red republican. lam,
i course, now speaking of the free Northern
'tates; in the South an abolitonist could not be
nown to exist. My impression is, that in the SUBJ
equent interval, the dislike, the anger may re-
nain, and may probably have been heightened;
ut that the feeling of slight, of ignoring, to use
urrent phrase, their very existence, must have |
cen sensibly checked. There were some who
Did me that they made it the business of their I
yes to superntend the passage of runaway slaves
trough the free States; they reckoned at that
me that about one thousand yearly escaped into
anada. doubt whether the enactment and ope-
ition of the Fugitive Slave law will damp the |.
rdor of their exertions 1t may be easy TO speak
screetly and plausibly about the paramount duty
not contravening the law; but how would YOU
'el, my countrymen, if the fugitive was at your
et, and the man-hunter at the door? Iadmit that !
70 majesty of the law is on one side; but the t
ng, deep misery, of a whole human life is on the
her. What you ought to feel ia fervent graft y
'de to the power which has averted from your /