The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-07
WASHINGTON CITY, SUNDAY NOVEMBER I, 1858.

the Lord Mayor After pretending TO be seized with an
epepc m the old monster proposed to take of his
children in future, which offer spmned by the Lord
Mayor with energy that deserves haroneage from
the hands OF his Queen. No sir the British public will
provide for the children themselves but you shall so TO
prison as you deserve" AT FIRST though moved to
by this pathetic story of real life the NJ A. NJ feared
that this outburst of passionate Indignation only fore
BODIED provision for these Johnston children in of
those prson-like establishments called ''Poor Law
Unons but il has been with exceeding great pleasure
and constant desire to pat the broad shoulders of good
old John Bull that have noticed that the declaration Of
the magistrate has found the right sort OF response in all
classes of the English peopethc members of the Stock
Exchange who suppose have learned that the best
echo of good word is made by the ringing Of aguinea
promptly subscribed nearly eight hundred dollars and
every English paper have lately has contained
acknowledgements like the following;
Mayor requested press acknowledge his
recei. Of ihs following sums for Frances onsa g o.,
2. q s T. D. @. T. q 2s isrry segci = % AlisSd arrs
Mr. Fen IS ss Mis- Fen e. 2 penny snbcrpuons collected by
Mr. stevens 1866 Oxford street ia sirpenny subscriptions,
Weston, 81; L. n. l0@R
1t very natural for the Lord Mayor TO speak only
of the British public and yet he might, in all propriety,
have said These children belong all the people who
love virtue and wish to foster il in the young friends
in France in America, everywhere in short, win that
they provided for" There is reader of the Onion
who would not cheerully contribute such noble gift
if our help acceptable The best part of II is the
way in which The poor have shown how universally,
in the conscience of mankind the belief cherished that
virtue is better than vice person forwards twelve
shlngs collected by penny subscriptions which proves
pretty conclusiycly that there hundred and forty
four persons living in given neighborhood, each of
whom is too poor to give than penny, and all Of
whom desire to cheer the tempted into cnging to yir
that donation is good offset to whole page
of /" great social evil.
| How this reveals the undercurrent of romance
which runs through this practical age through all
others In the midst of rushing carriages and ca,t ts
within the sound of screaming locomotives and putting
steamboats, record in every curling breath the prog
ress Of humanity under the very shadow of the great
Christian temple dedicated to ST. Paul. with hearts beat
ing all around her. and the cheerful Sly her head
this poor painting deer seeks to escape the vile dogs by mad
/ y leapng into the foul stream bclowwho shall blame
her Her vanous parent would doubtless have chuckled
and bedzzened harots would have called her fool for reu
sing their way Of life, but think her soul though it had
found exit through the dark doors OF suicide would have
gone purer than any Of these into the Great Presence
God help the Etenities always about u.s. and life
| is much the same in London ms in Minnesota every
where people weep for and langh for JOY children
are born and the aged die the above and the earth
beneath hunger and thirst and struggle and quar-
rel and the hollow nnity last encloses the dweller
Of Pekin and Washington, of Bremen and Moscow. We
trcading always In the footsteps of the marvellous
and the commonest life, if 6 minds eye mi
croscopic would be found to be eeming with strange in
| cidents 1t great lesson which the poor girl when
she took that peous leap teaching English parents
and English society only thcm but my readers and
myself the MIDDLE-AGED MAN.
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