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The CITY OF WASHINGTON ITS
GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT

The New York Express has letter from a
Washington correspondent, who, until recently.
has been absent from the national capital for
nearly two years. The writer is delighted with
Its growth and improvement, and saws:
" 1t grows as Western towns grow, as Eastern
towns have grown, and, in the fact alone that
1t is the capital of the country, it is destined 70
be one of the largest interior towns of the ma.
ton. Washington to-day, compared to Wash
ngton twenty-five or three years gone by, has
had wonderful advancement. Its agriculture
its horticulture, its manufactures, all have kent
pace with the best towns of the country: while
the Government patronage and the distribution
of places have increased almost beyond belief
Between the Patent and Post Office buildings
In the centre OF the city, 1.-TWO Of the most sub.
stantlal buildings in the world the new Treas
ury building at the west end, and the new Cap
ltol buildings there has been very equal geo
graphical distribution of favor. As improve
ments, they are each and all visited by hun
dreds daily, and by class of persons who gen.
orally rank as taxpayers. Among this class,
it is very rare, indeed, to hear one word of
comp amt against the vast expenditures of pub
lie money upon these enduring monuments of
the soidity and growth of the Republic"
The writer, after finding fault with what he
conceives to be the bad taste exhibited in the
chief ornaments of the new House of Repre-
sentatives, adds:
he new Senate Chamber is, in all respects,
superior to the Representatives House. but.
IKE At, suffers from too much gold and paint.
Some OF the committee rooms, too, are ridicu-
iousIy excessive in their designs and colors.
1oung Italy may well laugh at Young America
Tor consenung to the use of so much paint and
gold. The room designed for the Vice President.
however, Is perfect, and the best taste has been
displayed In its arrangement 1t is grand in
architecture, imposing in its length and height,
and in all respects beautiful. The walls and
ceiling are of solid marble, and, what is better.
of American marble, that no country can sur,
pass in purity or effect. 1t is almost worth a
journey to the Capitol to see this room. 1t al.
ready has, however, several and too many SPLEEN
did mirrots, and it is to be hoped there will
not be added gliding or paint, to mar the har-
mony and simplicity which now distinguishes
this room from all the rest. There are also
some imposing and spacious entrances to the
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WASHINGTON, D. C..
REPUBLICANIsM IN VIRGINIA.

The following articles from the Wheeling
Lltellige1lcer demonstrate the fact that the Re
publican party has permanent organization
IL the Old Dominion and voice in her coun-
els. Mr.. Caldwell, the State Senator from the
Senatorial district which embraces Wheeling, is
not only Republican, but member of the
National Republican Committee. 1t will be
seen that he stands out boldly as Republi-
can.
We also call attention to the significant re-
bake which the lutelligencer, Virginia paper,
gives to Northern abettor of Slavery and the
Slave Power. We viii add to what the Wheel
ing paper says on this subject that but for
Northern doughfaced apolOgists for Slavery,
The Republican party would have an organized
existence in every State in the Union. 1t Ia
these Northern apostates to Freedom who sus
tain aud uphold the reign OF terror in the South.
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E, ANCIPATED NEGROES TO BE RE-
ENSLAVED.

seems from the following article, which
wss6nd in Mississippi newspaper, that Mr..
Sar 'uel Martin emancipated his slaves by will,
on ondition that they were to be sent to Ohio,
or ONE other free State. But the administra-
tor was not permitted to execute the will of the
tee .ltor, as would be the case in any civilized
potion of the world, and the negroes have
be q seized and thrown into jail on claim of
tn State that they have escheated. 1t seems
tn there is general law which assigns es-
oh, ats in the county to an institution called the
Br shear Academy. The trustees of this in
sti ltion, with laudable desire to conserve
the interests of learning, will employ the best
counsel in the State to arrest the negroes in
the r unnatural desire to be free. We appre-
heed that it will not require the resources of
leaning and ingenuity attributed to the late
RI JUS Choate, to accomplish their object. We
arf.pleased, however, to infer, from the tone of
the, artice, that considerable portion of the
community take sides with the negroes in their
str,nge desire to lay aside the blessings of Sla-
verg. No fact could more clearly demonstrate
ta6eous outburst of popular Indignation against
whGt the people regard as an act of tyranny
tos9rds few helpless negroes. If the Missis-
siraians are unable to conquer their preju-
dies with the light of the bred Scott decision
AM the daily teachings of the 6re-eating orators
au1hewspapers to help them, how in the name
OF common sense can We poor Free-Soiers and
Abolitionists be expected to do so ? Judge
Ta1ey with one foot in the grave, decided that
"b,ack men have no rights which white men
ara bound to respect" The sentiment was
az lauded from Maine to- Texas by the Ma
teal Democracy" and we supposed that Mis-
sis -lppi would be the last place in the Union
wl-re men would give practical evidence of
le,1g skeptical as to its truth. What is the
go7ld coming to?
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Washington, d. C., April, 1889
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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. @, SEPTEMBER g. 1859

freedom is Justly due than our miscalled slaves
enjoy? Jefferson Davis, when he lately de-
clared Slavery to be misnomer, took the high,
safe ground. Let him, or, better still, let Gov.
Brown, take that position in the Senate, and
thus become historic character. And if, in
law, the courts now, as we fear, lean towards
emancipation, let the Legislature of Mississippi
correct the laws, and let justice to all be done.
After calm and thoughtful consideration of
this whole subject and after being possessed of
all the facts, these are our conclusions. Good,
in the end, we honestly believe, will come from
the discussion of the Sam. Martin negroes.
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ne, ); halls, each with elegantly -carved pillars
an. marble ceilings, which add very much to
the-r first effect @
II cannot leave the Capitol, however, with
out expressing the intense admiration feel for
the splendid pieces of statuary designed and
WI ught by the gifted Crawford. have seen
tn, h before, but behold them again with new
de,sght. If the Genius of America which
nos temporarily adorns the grounds on the
gr( m in front of the old Capitol-and all the
atogndant illustrations of art and commerce,
lalsr upon the sea and on the land, in the for
est and in the workshop, in the schools and in
the laboratory, were intended to CRAFTY the
COZ anon mind of America, they also give
pls sure to the most accomplished minds. See
in. in marble so much that is truly of the
a erican type, and adding to them all the fine
r. dictionary figures which recall the. earliest
an hardest struggles of our forefathers for lib
ert and independence, the whole group will
no. only be seen with delight, but treasured in
eys.y thoughtful memory with intense gratitl-
Cd IN. All honor, then, to the memory OF
CfSwford, and ere long may Powers, Gait,
P .ner, Stone, and the new lights that are
et sy day springing up in our midst, share, In
thts new Capitol, in the glory which everywhere
at nds the name of their lamented and dis
tn lished brother"
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