Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-05-02
A Flying Trip to Washington.
Correspondence Of The N. y. Tribune
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Correspondence Of The N. y. Tribune
| tUt FRIDAY. April 10. 1851
/ In these days, great deal of exper;ence
and wide range Of emotion are condensed
into very short space Of time. The pulse
of the nation is throbbinu at feyer.beat
prelusiye to the approaching crisis. which
shall result in either death or renovated
strength. This moment returned from
Washington, the incidents of the day
spent there remain 50 forcibly in nv mind.
that feel justified in repeating them as 4
contribution to your daily chronicles.
i left New York on Wednesday evening.
Just after several obnoxious newspapers had
been compelled to raise the American fao,
The feeling Of the crowd was las / Judged
from the remarks / overheard. IiAlI Who
are not hearty with us are against u.s.
which is emphatically true. On the train
to Philadelphia, the same feeling prevailed.
Strangers conversed without reserve: the
usual conventionalities were forgotten the
newly aroused sentiment of patriotism an.
swered as a general introduction. If any
sym pathizers with treason were aboard, they
kept discreetly silent.
At Philadelphia, there was crowd in the
Camden depot, at the foot of Prime street.
and all along the route through the city
They were apparently gathered in expccta-
ton Of seeing the first installment of volun-
teer troops pass through. A few persons
recognized the colossal figure of Col. May
among our passengers, but he was not in
uniform, and therefore unnoticed by the
crowd l heard one rough-looking fellow
say, with many oaths "Ivoied for Breck.
but Lincoln is President, and he represents
the country, and I'm a-goin' to stand by
him !"-whereto several responded, ''That'
so! Once comfortably extended in the
sleeping-car, / knew nothing more until
somebody pounded on the door, and yelled,
''It's O'Clock! We were quietly lying
at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot,
in Baltimore, which we had reached too late
to connect with the first train to Washing
ton. A defective locomotive, Ibelieve, wa:
the cause. .t
The next train did not leave until $40, 50
1 went to Barnum's for breakfast. Balti-
more was peaceful enough, at that early
hour. The Plug-Uglies were still in their
dens, and could have chanted 80, say can
you see by the dawn's early light, as the
sunrise disclosed speck of red, white, and
blue over Fort McHenry, without fear and
without reproach. The clouds sank again,
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seats for Washington. Ifell in with stauncll
Union man from st. Louis, who gave good
report from that city. In the excited dis
cussion of the prevailing topic, the red, ex-
hausted fields passed by, the peach-tree:
changed from bud to blossom, and, as
began to realize that we had gone far enough
South to meet the Spring the huge. unfn-
lished dome of the Capitol came in sight
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and was therefore an entire stranger to the
later improvements. In the imposing ex-
tent and superb natural elevation Of the
incongruities: the general effect is very
grand. But, as from Pennsylvania Avenue
/ saw the double colonnade, of the new dome
still awaiting its crowning hemisphere, only
the central mast and skeleton stairway rising
markedly against the sky, and then turned tc
the Washington Monument, with the huge
two objects struck ME as fit Representations
of the American Republic. That, also, i.
unfinished. The Easements are laid broadly
and splendidly: massive. proud and males
! tic. the edifice towers aloft; but the crow
is still wanting. External foes-storms from
without-have beaten upon it, but the
SUTCDpUU Vi us lOuuudtiOuSiS ID ycb W Dt ttsJCN
by exploding forces from within. Wash
ington's true monument is his Republic, ant
until the destructive doctrine of the Righ
of Secession is buried too deep to be eve
unearthed again, that monument will be in
, complete.
!, These were symbols either of sadness o
hone, according to ones temperament. Fo
me. thank God and the People there wa
no depression in sight. Everywhere arounC
me the flag of the Union was waving; troop
! were patrolling the streets, and yonder thu
, watcliful Marshal Lamon was galloping, Oh
) the second horse he had tired out sine,
, morning. Everybody seemed to be wide
| awake, alert and active.
: On reaching Wizards Hotel, the seen
changed The passages were SO cramme,
: that [ had some difficulty in reaching tn
Office. To nv surprise, half the faces wer
t Southern-especially Virginian-aud tn
| conversation was carried on in whispers
friends, and heard their loud, out-spoke
5 expressions of attachment to the UnioI
s The whisperers near us became silent, an
0 listened attentively. I was earnestly que
!; toned as to whether the delay of the mai
was occasioned by rails being torn up {
2 bridges DESTROYED. Every one seemed I
suspect that treasonable demonstration ha
taken place in or near Baltimore. The mo
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