Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-16

men who have seen in the flesh the man who
gave his name to this capital.
GIVE stood upon Achilles tomb
And heard Troy doubted-Iime nnay doubt of
Romeo
To the Americans of the north it is little
short of hasphcmy to doubt OF the Union,
which is now dissolved by rebellion, and can
only lie cemcntcd again by blood. The motto
OF Belgium is ~ Union fit Ia force" the
motto OF the Re.Uniled States ought TO be
ala force fat Union" | would sooner out
rage all the orthodoXies in Boston than declare
my belief, in that city, that Great Britain will
oltlive tile great Republic, though it may not
be better to be basphemous and live than TO
be honest and be pelled to death. Ihe real
northern Union man probably believes III his
soul, as he takes down his musket to fight
against the citizens Of eleven confederate
states, that when the famous New Zealander,
with an eye for the picturesque, takes his seat
on the broken arch of London Bridge to sketch
the ruins of St. PauPs, United States pass
port will be in The pocket of the enterprlsing
member of the Hakodadi Travellers, and that
a New England policeman will be Ill attend
ance to show the visitors over the remains OF
the British Empire, Arlington Heights, to
which we are proceeding, was the property
of Mr.. Gusts, a son of Mrs. George Washing
ton by her first husband, and it belongs, if not
erignty OF the United States, to Gen. Lee, who
is now in the confederate armies. Follow the
train of thought, and you may become as
perpleXed as | am in reference to the probable
status of the pater pdtr{p, whose family man.
sion, not very many miles lower down the
sane bank OF the Potomac, belongs to a de.
scendant, who is also in arms against the
north. 1t is easier to follow the broad, dusty
road over the long bridge which connects
Washington city with the Virginian shore and
the road to Alexandria, the spires OF which
appear above the tree tops.
ARLINGTON HOUSE.
TIE approach to Arlington House bears
marks OF rough usage, and the mansion itself,
very ugly edifice, which looks as if the arch
itect at first intended to build Methodist
meeting. house, and had got as far as a Dorlc
portico OF stupendous dimensions, when he
was suddenly moved to continue his designs
with view to found lunatic asylum OF the
side of Hanwcll type, may not be the better
for the presence OF the military. The rooms
inside are lofty and comfortable enough. Some
of the walls are decorated with remarkable
works by Mr. CustiS who evidently did not
possess the advantages of drawing master,
and had a limited natural capacity for art c; but
the true patriot has a soul above color or form,
| and as the works in question are intended to
| immortaliZe the overthrow of the British rule,
and destroy tyranny "aLaost as bad as that
| which the north exercises over the south
| according to the confederate orators and writ
ers), criticism may hold its tongue. For me
| was proud as an Anglo Saxon to behold the
stuicism of my countrymen, who were meet
| ing death OH every side with an unvaryng
| expression of countenance, mouths shut, eyes
wide open, and cooked hats at the same angle,
! and accepted the uniformity of their attitude,
demeanor, and general deportnnt as a tribute
! forced from the enemy by the regularity OF
their death and the sternness Of their disci-
| pine in which even the immortal Washington
himself appeared to participate, as poised on
quaint Beerophon, to which the gods had
! given the head of goat and the name of
lion, he smiled blandly and admiringly on the
slaughter, and took occasion to keep his eyes
well on the field by directing them to opposite
points OF the compass. By way of anlidote,
one could step out on the portico, and, looking
across the Potomac, rest his eyes on the soft
landscape dotted with tents and broken by the
white ma SEES OF the public buildings of Wash
ington which sweeps along by Badensburgh
towards the undulating horizon of sullen Ma
| ryland.