Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-25
written expressly for the Dayton Emprel
A SUMNER In EUROPE
NO. VII.

1t was long ana not very interesting |
ride from Dublin, north, through the counties
Of Meath, Louth, Armagh and Down, to Bel
fast, but its tediousness was very much allevi-
ated by the sociability of the little party, com
posed of a gentleman three ladies and two
children, with whom it was our fortune to be
boxed up in compartment of the railway
carriage. The little girl was exhibiting with
great deal Of pride, her collection Of post
stamps, and my offering to contribute to it
ten-cent bit of United States postage currency
which was great curiosity, occasioned her
great delight, and served TO introduce a gen
eral conversation, which lasted until we
reached Belfast. OF course we talked of but
little save our great civil war, about which,
coniessing their Ignorance they exhibited
craving hunger for information. They were
possessed Of the idea that it was curse
brought upon us, from our completely with
Slavery--on the South for cherishing it, and
on the North for tolerating it in the country,
and, although they listened politely to my at
tempts to explain the limited powers of our
Government in regard to the domestic insti
tutions of the several States, l thought it was
evident that they still considered the long
continued existence of it in our nation owing
a great deal more to a lack of disposition
to destroy it, than to lack of power. In
Eng land Parliament is omnipotent within the
limits of possibilities in legislation. Delolme
says, at can do every thing but make man
a woman, or Il woman man, and the idea
of Parliament or Congress, which is only a
servant of the sovereign power, is ours is un-
der the Constitution, as one which an inhabl-
tant of Great Britain is very slow to compre-
: hend confessed to them that, until the be-
: ginning of this war, there had been no dispo-
: sition on the part Of majority of our citizens
, to interfere with Slavery where it existed, and
gave them some facts in relation to the condi'
ton of the black race in Africa, as slaves in
, the South, and as freemen in the North, which
T. iustifes the reluctance OF our people suddenly
= to change their condition, and obtained from
9 them at last the acknowledgment that the sub
i iect was full of difficulties, and that it was
+ hard to decide exactly what duty required
They would give the North their sympathy in
+ this struggle they said if they could believe our
& Government to be now sincerely anti-slavery
= | assured them, that although l was no friend
g or admirer of the present Administration, and
y held it guilty of many abominable things,
y was bound to say that being too kindly dit
n posed toward Slavery is not one of its crimeg
y It is said to be "treason" to call this struggle
y of ours an abolition war" in America, butft
n is patriotic to do so in Europe.
d Belfast we found to be the most hourishihg
city in Ireland Not so large nor so we'll
g built, nor 30 handsome as Dublin but full
OF of tall chimneys, which testify unhis-
takably TO great manufacturing proper
ity The linens for which ireland has
so long been famous, are chiefly manufsttur-
IN ed here, and the wide meadows in the vicinity
70 we're covered with the material, undergoing
n. a publication and whitening from ths rays
N of the sun. The city is young one, com
es paratively speaking, but it has a vigoroAs life
re and healthiul prosperity possessed by vht few
of the cities of the old world
Three hours by rail still to the nath oi
g Belfast, brought us to the little Staion oi
a Portrush, where, leaving the train, wamount
ID ed jaunting car for the Giants Canseway,
nine miles distant We found the rad, like
nd all the roads in Ireland, perfectly supoth and
pleasant and as it led along wild nd rocky
of coast, against which the waves of the North
Atlantic broke with a hoarse roar II be that Of
air fierce and hungry monster the rqe seemed
none too long Frequently we caled to our
air driver TO stop, that we might aligh and look
over the edge of the cliffs az the iayes dash.
re- ing against their bases, rolling pver little
bit Of a milk white beach, or pbr into the
7 many darksome caverns which Hthe waters
have worn into the rocks,
Half way to the Causeway we topped to ex
anime the interesting ruins of Dc old castle
of Dunuce. Sir Walter Scott isAny authority
se for saying it was built by the hacGilligans
a but was afterwards taken fbm them by
ID, MacDonnell Seotchman, ~ ancestor o
an the earls of Antrim, aud destrQf led by Sir Johr
nd Perrot, Lord Lieutenant of ireland in tht
I'm reign of Queen Elizabeth 1t sands on the toE
nd of high rock, which is eIkrely separated
s- from the mainland by dep chasm more
=, than one hundred feet deept the only mean
lth Of access TO it being by li4e self supported
ly' arch or bridge about eghten inches wide
Ut, under which the waves forefr lash themselve
to into foam. The ruins occuly the entire sur
nd face of the rock which is albut an acre in ex
od, tent There is passage lbwn through II u
'ed little cave at the edge oathe water, whicl
eet was doubtless used as lalding place and har
ar Dor by the possessors OF te castle in centurie
gone by. Everything alput it is wild an
gloomy, and so difficult lid it seem TO cor
OF csive that men like Ourselves, should ever wi
,ad lingly have made it theft dwelling place, tina
md | was for the moment abelieyer in the Ban
the shee, who is said still ID occupy one OF tn
ce- towers, and if had b9n told it had alway
iet, been the abode of him and his supernaturf
INK kinsmen, my ereduliti very probably, woul
it have been sufficient d have received it as
in truth
to 1t was not until L had crossed, the littl