Maryland free press., 1866-06-28
BOSTON {!

Boston is the cradle of Lib The place near
where Mr.. Warren fell and hurt himself. The
place where Wendell Phillips, the ''silvertongue
ed' (what gag y orator doth hide. 1t is the
hub of the universe and the dwelling place of tho
big organ. Boston thinks she is the largest
place in this world or the next. Boston is a very
compacent burg-ncar by is the home of Bos-
toms pet, the sirerware stealing Ben We rath-
er like Boston, for there is no village like unto
it from the fiddling OF Nero to the Revelation OF
st. John, n. B
Half way between Providence and Boston-for
Poston is long ways from Providence rs we
were riding in a car, a still small voice like the
whistle OF an engine broke upon the air. A gen.
tleman in the scat with us uncovered his bald
head and with smile bade US listen
"Wh hat that ~ said we.
"The big organ in Boston !' said he, with u
funeralic ware Of his hand.
"The devi! l'' said We .r'.
'"Thou shalt not proflne!' said the spokesman
from the hub !
'lIast been to Boston 2'' asked he fthe silver
tongue.
I'VE hast notist" replied we then there to
him.
lie looked-"poor heather - He said we
must visit the Cradle of Liberty. We asked him
If Fred Douglass and Anna Dickinson had enga-
ged that cradle YETI He didn't see it: He said
we must visit Faneuil Hall. We asked him what
nigger troupe was performing there now? lie
looked bewildercd. THEN he said we must see
where Warren fell. We asked him if Warren
ever got over 1.-THE place where he fell. He
appeared demoralized. lie said we must hear the
big organ before we left Boston.
We went 10 hear the big organ II is held in
several buildings. 1t is one size larger than Bos-
ton.
Boston is the hub around which the organ re-
volves
The organ is a revolver.
Like the organ this is big play on words.
People in New York and Buffalo hear the moan
1t is used in mass
lthas a sort ofiong island sound.
Boston people go to Heaven through the big
organ.
That is when the niger is out SO they cannot
go through him.
There are but few gambling houses in Boston
No such felloes are around that hub.
They don't play ''straits" in Boston. Not in
the streets.
Harvard college is just beyond reach of the big
organ.
Cambridge University is always in session. 1t
is a law school: The pleading is done at the bar
OF the Parker House.
The Studies at Cambridge are said to be very
dry. The studies affect tie pupils. Pleading
at the bar affects them likewise-or more like than
wise.
No one ever gets lost in Boston. The city is
SO well organized. Like the big organ, Boston
has numerous stops Some of the streets are
nearly as long US fsh-pole. But not SO long rs
POLK message. If a man don't like one street
II is easy to get on another one.
After four days trial we could go from the
Parker House to the City Hall without getting
ost. This is a fact And in five days ws learn
ed the route from Scollay's Building TO Engine
House No. 4.
The business blocks in Boston are in shape like
Norwegian shoes.
The streets of Boston are like hop poles struck
by lightning. Some of them are so wide that a
cow could be MIXED in them by turning her on
her back and sitting astride her brisket
small horses are driven abreast-large horses
tandem in Boston. The fat woman was exhibited
here once-in the big organ. Boston streets are
not SO crooked as they might be. The sun has
warped them straight. Very clean in Roston. 1t
lady drops Il pin from her clothes policeman
makes her pick it up. fla man shoots an apple
seed out OF grocery he is fined. Boston is very
nea;-.-especially near the big organ and cradle
OF Liberty II man drops a remark he is made
PICK II up. And Boston people are SO modest.
They under-rate themselves terribly.
lhe streets OF Boston must have been thrown
IN at the time Of some big fire. They are so reg
uar. lfyou would find any place, start in an
opposite direction. If you see policeman COM
ing towards you, he is going the other way. II
ne NJ! runs from You he II be where you are in no
time. Up hill is down, and 'iover there" is
''back here"
One day we started from the office of the Bos-
ton Post, to the Boston post office, seventy feet
distant. We walked straightforward around sew
en- blocks, saw policeman standing in a'door-
way on eack block-~asked each one the route to
the post office. Saw the eighth polceman-asked
him politely. Said he: 'Look here this is the
leigbt time you've asked me that quesiion-move
on or up you go p' ...
Thought the policeman nipst be brothers-they
looked SO much alike? Rather than 90 around
the block again we went 'tother way, began to
unwind, and got into the post office by mistake
The front Of the building is inside-n the
courts
Except the big organ and the cradle
Ben Butler spoke while we were there on the
restoration policy.
Went to his meeting expecting to see him Civ.
ing to see him giving back silverware and other
ylpables. Was mistak,n. That kind Of rsstor-