Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-10-20
From the ~ Y. Independent.
From our Washington Correspondent.
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rsH WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct 8, 1890
In returning to Washington after sum
mer absence, notice, as standing out prom
nently among the changes, different sen
tlment amonge the people Of the District
respecting Slavery, Republcanism, and Re
publican Administration. The prospect Of O
new and to n certain extent an anti.slave'
ry ADMINISTRATION, has had a very marked
effect upon the inhabitants of Washington
buchanan Office holders not excepted. Nc
longer ago than last winter large proper.
tion OF the Department clerks were furious
disunionisls in the contingency Of Repub
Ilcan triumph ; but as the expected success
OF the Anli-SIavery party grows near, lhesc
ldential gentlemen grow more and more re-
signed to such an event, and begin TO dis
cHss the probabilities of general turn out
at the Department ais Mr.. Lincoln very
bitter party man ~ "Will he dismiss faith
fnl clerks from Office for 20 other reason
than the fact that they received their ap.
pontments from Democratic Secretaries y
these arctic everyday questions of Demo
cratic clerks at the present time here.
They are straws, and indicate the current Of
the wind.
But lnotce an important change, in more
dsinterested persons Prominent Southern
gentlemen begin TO utter more freely their
honest opinions of the Pro-Slavery Demo
cracy. The speeches Of Henry Winter
Davis at BllimOre, and j ohm Minor Bolts
at Richmond, are striking illustrations of the
truth of this statement. Mr.. Bolts, in the
midst OF the excitement of the Presidential
contest, boldly declares that the South is
wrong in claiming thot slaves are property
under the Constitution and common law,
like horses, houses, and land. Thare is no
property in the slave, except under the local
state law, says Mr.. Bolts, and the Repub.
lcans ore tight in saying so in their platform
of principles. He goes further, aud ex-
presses the wish that if John Bell cannot
he elected President, Abarham Lincoln may
MS letween Lincoln and Donglas, or Breck-
inridgo So with Henry Winter Davis of
of Baltimore. What these men Sau, tens of
thousands will vote, within four years of
Lincon'S election. Here we have, in ad-
vance of Republican triumph foretaste
of The good to be accomplished in the slave
states 10y such a result "How will the
election Of Lincoln affect slavery ?" In this
way-it will take the paddock from Southern
lips, and the men on slave soil who would
speak but at present dare not, will utter
their honest sentiments respecting the in
stliutions of slavery. And this will be "the
beginning Of the end"
The startling incident of the weak jnst
closed is the visit Of he Prince of Wales to
the President. do not speak Of it as q
piece OF news, or to follow iu the wake of
the adulator Scribbers who chronicle every
word the Prince utters, and the precise
number OF times he sneczcS. Il is the NOR.
al character Of the extraordinary event
which / would notce-an event which will
take It's splace on the page of history solitary
and alone, for there is none other like it.
When Kings visit Presidents, when royal
princes visit the graves Of rebel democrats,
may not the Millennium be dawning
There is nothing like the visit of Prince
Albert Edward TO the grave of Washing.
ton in the history of any other prince or
potentate. Men have risen from lowlness
to splendor-from corporal 10 be emperor
from prentice boy TO be prcsidcnt-but
when before has the heir to the proudest
throne in the world made pilgrimage to
the tomb of q rebel general ? The man
whose humble tomb the Prince reverenty
visited was the chief instrument in the
hands Of Providence, in wrestling its most
brilliant gem from the very crown he is to
wear
The day chosen for the visit to Mount
Vornon was one Of October'S finest. Scarce
Il cloud dimmcd the sky's azure. A few
yellow leaves in the forests which line the
broad Potomac, were the only indication
of the melancholy days The Prince and
his suite, accompanied by the President
and few Of his friends, went on board the
Government steamer, Harriet Lane, at ten
O'Clock OF the morning of Friday last, and
Steamed down 10 Mount Vernon. For
more than two hours the royal party re-
maned on the Vernon estate, the most of
the time eagerly searching the Washington
for every relic of the great and
good man who once occupied it, No Ame,
rican traveller in foreign lands ever display
ed more enthusiastic curiosity or reverential
awe, at the grave Of royalty or intellectual
greatness than was manifested by this Eng
lsh party of dukes and earls, and the fI.
turo King of England at the grave of
Washington.
The place where the patriot wrote, the
room in which he slept, the couch on which
he died, were sought out and pondered over,
and as the party approached the tomb each
Que almost invOlHntariy uncovered his head.
One cut cane to carry back to England
as a relic of the place another plucked a
flower as memrnto Of the day aud scene /;
and the Prince planted a tree by the side
of the grave, taking with him a companion
acorn 10 plant in Windsor Forest
Meantime the day was in the very midst
of its splendor--a Virgnian October dnyl
1t seems as if Nature smiled at the happy.
peaceful occurrence, and pnrposely added
every charm of her own, that hanging for.
ests, the calmly flowing river aud the beau.
tiful sky, made up picture the like of
painter never put upon canvass.
Few were the words uttered Ly the visit.
ors, for thought overpowered speech, and
after more than two hours spent at Mount
Vernon they again took TO the boats, and
were rowed back TO the steamer. 1
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