The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-21


cratic Association by their friends Of Philadelphia This
will indeed prove object Of interest inasmuch as will
bring together the northern and southern democracy in
the presence Of the President aad Vice President elect who
have sgnsd their inefton 10 honor the csremcrle b.
their presence The whole affair will be the most mag
n6cent SCALE the supper being under the control Of Mr.
Poenn SO well known in the epicurean world Of WASH
ineon city, The night of the sd Of March will prove "a
note in the pleasurable "reminiscences Of our citizens
LETTERS TO DR. o. A. BROwNSON, ON THE IN.
COMING ADMINISTRATION.-N0 8.
DEAR eur The first modern travellers that left the chores
Of southern Europe to explore the continent of Africa
saw, nike Raleigh in the western world, nothing but
BEAUTIFUL Ell Dorado Algeria burst upon their sstonishod
rood of her son halowed by the blood the
mar and rich with the ashes OF the Slaughtered brave
fragmentary remains of stupendous walls spacious cis
terms and magnificent aqueducts covering the site Of Con-
Stamina eloquent memenoes Of former grandeur
Casarea still remained clothed in the apparel Of the grave
but an unmpeachabc witness Of truths weghty as all
the varied interests of this world and grand all the In
spring hopes of that which is TO come. Tunis, tho
proud capital of Cartbagnan power brought mind the
glory Of Hannibal and the world-renowned achievements
Of the southern hero upon the plains Of Italy Tpo FASH
cd upon the classic vision as the byau Pentspo the
ruins Of whose five celebrated BARGE Poie
mas Berencc and Taukerastill exist and land
marks to the wayfaIing pilgrim, who readily locates
among them the famous gardens OF the Hesperides Tbs
spirit that made its home in the sounding aises Of the
Temple Of Jupiter Ammon still signs among the crumbng
fragments and mourns the lost dominion Of the ancient
deity
But as traveller after traveller examined more cioey
the new theatre upon which he had entered and ut length
forced his passage beyond the Atlas mountains into thS
terrific desert the picture began to change He found
more treacherous than the tiger fierce than the lion
more poisonous than the deadly upas-a very monster
which the Almighty had suffered through uunumbered
epochs the very soil he trod The beautuviion
which, the shores of Greece the Tarean rock had
almost maddened his brain, vanished in the and
dreadful reality He found indeed the eryhrna the &C.
casla ana The adansona ourishiDg in the arid des
e and the citron the mon the orange the pomegranae
the melon and the banana growing in unrvaled profuson
upon the torrd rivers He charmed by the elegance
and biancy Of the cerheas resting at sunset petals
of the splendid corollas Of the proea melea and rega
ling them upon the choicest Birds OF the most
beautiful pumage and Of almost every variety sported their
lives away native beds of the lovelies flowers But be
found man. the last and nobest Of the creations of God
sunk in the lowest depths of degradation.
In the gn of Edward III the Euglish employed the
compass upon the open sea but until the middle Of the
fifteenth century Of the modern Europeans had
tured 10 sail far beyond their coasts Like the ancient
Greeks and Romans they possessed material knowledge
unbroken extent OF water Down to the period Of which
we have spoken the moderns had sailed further south
than the twenty ninth degree of north latitude The prom
ontory at this point termed Cape Non, being as
supposed the utmost limits Of the habitable globe
The Portuguese were the FIRST mariners Of the world
to break the spell Of darkness which hung the
continent Of Africa. John 4 King Of Portugal, in tho
beginning Of the fifteenth century cent force to a.
tack the Moore, settled the coast of Barbary and
despatched, Mt the TINA, few vessels along tho
western coast of Africa charged with the double task Of
exploring the country and melting the inhabitants which
might be discovered TO take up arms against the Moors
Cape Non doubled, and the expedition proceeded to
Cape Boyador, within two degrees Of the ropc Prince
Henry, the of King John, and young Of great
talen,e becoming fred with the spirit Of adventure at
tempted, with single ship to double Cape Boyaior but
such the general dread among his sailors and his coun
rymen Of The southern endsupposed increase in heat
and to extend TO tie south polehe compelled to re-
turn without accomplishing his mission The systematic
philosophers says writer alarmed lest their IA
vorite theories should be perverted by the acquisition Of
real knowledge; the military behed with impadence the
Increase of fame that obtained by profession they
had always considered inferior to their the nobl
y dreaded opening of wealth. which might equal
ze the aseendency of rank and the ndoent and penec
argued that presumption to search for passage to
the southern extremity of Africa which the wises eeog
raphers ha1 pronounced TO be npaccable II even
passing certain latitude would be changed into blacks
aud thus retain forever dsRracefu mark Of their temer
y's Bat the energy Of The navigator finally triumphed;
and in few years his sailors passed the Senegal and
gased with mingled feelings Of and asonhment
upon the ebony skim the wooly hair and the IT Of
the genuine Ethiopian The bull of the sovereign Ponf
handing the regions between Cape Non and the
continent Of India to the Portuguese, condition that
Christianity should extend with the prospective decove-
les increased the ardor of the adventurere aud made them
feel confident of smiles Of Providence upon their enter
prise Under the reign of John III, and few years
sfr the death Of Prince Henry the Portuguese fleets adj
vnnced to the coast OF Gnnea aud returned with
gold dust ivory gums and other valuable products of that
still further to The SOUTH aud, in 1910, yssco de CANA
doubled the Cape of Good Hope In the latter part of tho
fifteenth century the Europeans first gazd upon the souh-
hemisphere. Its beautiful consultations had
cheered the shepherd upon the plains Of Palestine been
traced and named by the scholar OF the Mediterranean
From prmeya time the beautiful Antarctic heavens had
been sealed volume 10 all the inhabitants Of the eastern
hemisphere except the miserable beings of Congo and Csbo
Tormentoso The advance Of the Portuguese along the
the shores of Arabia opened the eyes and
excited the cupidy Of the cvilised world all attention
was directed to Africa, and tie low type of humanity
which she had nutured in her bosom was by almost the
unanimous consent Of nations declared united to enjoy
equal privileges with the Caucasian race.
1t is not for to discuss tho question OF the trade in
African slaves whether right wrong IL belongs to an
age gone by. We responsible for the out
RACES against humanity which often characterized 1t than