The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-24

John Adams, 'the grandfather of the eminent
citizen who now reflects such honor upon our
country at the English COURT and whose
dismal lot, we may add, It is to be obliged to
invite casual Republican politicians to dinner.
He thought also of Lord Baltimore, and Will
liam Penn and the Pilgrim Fathers. "Would
il be irreverent, - he asks, "to say that most
of these men always felt that their country
was misunderstood and misrepresented in
England; that its asserted greatness was fire.
quently ignored and its claim as a free govern
ment set aside as presumptuous in the pre-
sence of the hated institution Of slauery, pro-
tected by our Constitution P' To which we
reply, unhesitatngly, that to say this OF men
who died century or so before our Constitu-
tion was drawn mp, would hardly be '1rreve-
rent, " though IL might be idiotic. II seems
indeed to have had the effect of destroying
utterly what slight conference ever exists in
the mind of Forney, who went straight on
into this astoundingly delirious outburst:-
! ~ soon answered this question to myself. As
the ubicund verRer carried us through these
stony aisles and with his routine voice gave us
our shilling's worth of British history, some
times asked who slept beneath the marble
noor and more than once ne etc t9ld me tt tnst the
subject itself forgotten. Almost involuntarily
! turned TO my own country, and remembered
house in which to preserve our best beloved
we had what was better, in the burial grounds
In an instant my last visit to the sacred
fields north and south OF Washington
moving Incidents. 1t was only a twelvemonth
ago-an evening in May, full of the flush
and perfume of an early Southern summer.
How different the feeling that thrilled
and filed me then from the cold surprise and
calculating Inquiry OF my visit to W Westminster
Abbey Isaw the graves of over five thousand
of the three hundred thousand that fought and
fell in the mighty struggle against slavery; and
awakened without tears, who will blame me?
There, as in this old Abbey, there were some
but whose very names had been lost in the din
of battle. What American VINO has paused be-
tween the silent streets of these cities of the
heroic dead, has not agonized over the inscrip-
ton that recorded so many OF the sleepers
| like the antique dust of the Abbey--the dust,
| doubtless, of some of the man hunters of the
tIwering piles, hew no colossal figures, carve no
| stony wreaths, trace no hollow praises, TO keep
their deeds fresh and fragrant In nations te-
Some may prefer spring, some may prefer
| summer; but as for me-give me liberty or
| give me DEATH The Star Spangled Banner
Both daily And advertisements accurately
inserted at the usual rates.
When Forney, on matters religious, falters
| from drivel into fiat blasphemy we decline to
follow him, as where for example, on attend
| ing service at st. Georges Chapel, he OBJ
| serves:-"I am frank to say that it seems to
| me God must give warmer welcome to the
| fervent Congregationalst than to the perverse
Ritualist." His conception of the Almighty,
| in fact as it daily shines out here and there
through his book, seems to be grotesque
compound Of the gentlemanly barkeeper Of the
continental Hotel, Philadelphia" with the
| President of a Loyal League Club.
Astonishing as FOrney is in England, he is
nothing to Forney on the Continent. Being
utterly unable either to read or speak. or
understand word of French or German, he
was unrestrained by any external influences
to the politics, the social life, and the religion
| Of the French and German people.
| Here is his way of studying" French poll
tics:-'The Emperor's Government being the
great political European problem, l tried to
get close view of it, and this afternoon visited
the Corps Legislatif, the same as the House Of
Commons in England, and the House of Re-
presentatives in the United States." ~ did
not understand what was said" However,
"Dr. Evans, of Philadelphia" settled in the
Rue de la Paix, is the best dentist in the
world. Forney dined with DR.. Evans, and saw
in the Bois de Boulogne ''the dangerously beau
tiiul demi monde and the fast men who follow
them into the valley and the shadows" Sc
he was enabled to form great many valuable
opinions in regard to the Corps Legislatif
and to thank God for the morality of his OWE
people, who would rather trap tipsy man
into betraying woman than suffer vice tC
flourish like green bay tree. He went tc
|
them severely; and having seen the Sultan
whose diplomatic title" as to our profound
amazement he informs us, is 'the Sublime
Porte" sitting side by side with ''the ModerI
Caesar" he was good enough to pray ''tha
the comedy might not, like that stupendouI
spectacle Of $780, end in a tragedy tha
would cover half the world with fire an(
blood"
Here is his way of enlightening himsel
about Germany
cat Coblentz stayed one evening and part o
a day to get q reasonable idea OF the extrem
PTussian Sentiment and of the vast preparation
ofthe Government"
But enough, and more than enough, of thi
dreary bosh. How Forney went to Switzer
land and made a speech about William Tel
and Governor Curtin; he who took Normandy
to be "Roman Duchy," and Grosvenor Il
mean "gubernatorial station" how he gazeC
in amazement on ''four hundred persons il
the British Commons, and two hundred in thu
French Corps Legislatif, not one of whom in
dulged in the American practice of spitting;'
how he was shocked by free trade, and pleaset
with the Tower of London; how he regards Mr.
Stanton as the greatest living statesman, ant
how he agreed with John Bright in the hop
that "ere long colored atesmen, the equal
of our white leaders, would take their place il
Congress-" all these things it were long to tell
longer to read of.
If any one, worn and weary with wadinI
through even his mitigated marsh of Forney
ask us wherefore we meddle Herewith, le
him be answered that this man is a Pharise
and Scribe in the Synagogue of the Republi
cans. He is type of their culture, of thei
character, of their intelligence, their teach
ableness their peneral fitness to deal with tn