Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-30
WAsHINGT0N NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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Travel-It is indeed true that ftrayel''
makes wondrous changes in a mans ideas
wonderful changes, indeed. This ancient
truism is capitally illustrated in the altered
tone of our friend, Horace Greeley, of the
New York Tr'JaRs, upon politieo- moral topics,
since he left home to start on his last trip to
Europe. For twenty years before, he had been
1--WE ask his pardon for having to write the
truth bluntly) well nigh run mad on two
points First-on the alleged crying Injustice
Of social distinctions on account of color. He
regarded American prejudices against the So
cial equality of the negro as national sin, to
be punished in time by some great national
calamity which would surely grow out of the
universal prejudice in the United States against
the African aroma. He was, besides, the
deadly foe Of the loose women of New York.
Hundreds, if not thousands Of columns of his
journal had been devoted to warning the COM
munity against the terrible consequences of as
sociating with them; and time and again were
We told how his untainted heart sickened at
the proximity of ole Of the poor unfortunatse,
even in the street.
We have him at this moment in our minds
eye, as We naturally picture him--running.
white coat tail almost in straight line, across
Broadway, from opposite the Tabernacle-run-
ming TO kill two birds with one stone To escape
the proximity of a bevy of over-dressed and
highly painted ones, and to meet and frater-
nally greet Brother Sambo, Uncles Ned and
Tom, and Sisters Dinah, Juno, and Mehetable,
standing with clerical and matronly decorum
before that hall door, as is their wont; their
very black cCuntenanees, coats, broad -brim-
med hats, and coal-scuttle bonnets being duly
set of with the customary very white neck or
shoulder kerchiefs, according to the sex of the
wearer. Who SO happy as our friend Greedy
used TO be, In first escaping contact with the
decidedly naussating ones on the two shilling
side Of Broadway, and in meeting, greeting,
and luxuriating in dreams of universal equal
ity and brotherhood with the black ones stand
ing 30 demureIy on Broadway's shilling side ?
Horace Horace . thou art fallen from grace,
or thou never wouldst have penned the follow
ing paragraph, from one of the last published
London letters from thy prolific pen. Thus,
In giving m account of the visit he paid to
the Cremorns gardens lin London) he says
there were over three thousand persons there,
including a thousand women, the majority of
whol, were manifestly lost to virtue, if not
dead to shame. Continuing, he says:
"The Esglish are not skiIlful in vanishing
yice-at least have seen no evidence of their
tact in that line L have endured the specta
Gle Of men dancing With women when rather
beery and smoking, hut ct last The sight of q
dark and BIZ no means t'tegant mutatto 1caitz.
sng Uih deeenf looking shits girl, while
putting away at rather bad cigar proved too
much for my Yankee predjudice, ard start
ed"
Ii ever q man seas entirely changed by trav-
ell, that individual is the identical Horace
aforesaid. Travel has actually made all his
pet sntipathies-strong drink, tobacco, and
the familiar presence Of hundreds of such
females as ne describes-more agreeable to him,
far more agreeable than the sightof social co ual.
atty between the white and African races
tie very utopia of the philosophical dreams
of nearly al, his previous life Horace Hor.
aceti Horace, We blush for thee ,!ii
Something Fit to b Done.-The Demo-
cratic convention of the Frederick district of
Maryland have nominated Mr.. Hamilton
for Congress, with really inconsidsrable oppo.
sition, We spprehend. Mr.. Hamilton is al.
ready a member Of much experience, and
being proverbiaiiy one Of the most attentive
and industrious gentlemen in the Hall, he is a
representative Of great value to his country;
being remarkable for his quickness Of appre.
hension, IA qualification of great importance
amid the confusion-w COMPOUNDED 80 often
existing in the House, with integrity of pur.
pose in all he does rs a representative second
10 that Of no other man who has ever been in
Congress, and possessing, in an eminent de.
gree, that 50 rare Congressional faculty Of