The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-02-02
Correspondence of The Cecil Wing.
ketter from Alexandria, Va.
ALEXANDRIA, VA, Jan, 1876

DEAR WIG Snow bound in this delec,
table town of the " Old Dominion shall
attempt to while away the slow moving
hours by noting down and setting i'll order
incidents likely to interest your readers, oc-
curing during flying visit and short so
iourn in the cities of Baltimore, Washing
ton and Alexandria.
The most interesting feature Of our visit
in the first mentioned city was the attend
ancc upon course of lectures, at the Pea-
body, on Astronomy, delivered by Prot
Alexander, of Princeton, N. D., in which
instruction and amusement were most hap
ply and ably combined. The various skat,
inc rendezvous in and around Baltimore,
before the last heavy fall of snow, presented
q gay and hilarious scene picturesque cos
tomes, cnlivening music, and graceful move,
meats thereunto, which in gazing upon, we
clog pond" in memory's eye, did grow
small and beautifully less.
Southwark bound, waving "the cues.
iion, we anticipated a joyous meeting with
friends long unmet, remembering that speech
was silver, but silence was gold were not
dsappointed, though our Radical blood did
occasionally boil in our veins and Jingle at
our finger ends.
''Thcres the house where Thing e-me
was killed." said my reconstructed friend,
as we passed the Marshall House. The
resolution had taken on the other side OF
the Potomac passed through my mind, and
stayed the taunting reply which rose to my
lips. The next morning we came across
aaothcr aluson to Citing e-mc" in a
volume of % Southern Poems on the war;
q poem son the Death Of Jackson" killed
by y. y. Zouave, from which we beg
leave to quote the following startling lines:
Yes. he hath won name,
ucahess for aye to fame,
tHr iing, batled in blood,
Always with Hood,
Shall sweep the tyran. band
Whose feet polute or land
Hope they returned to Ianheedom with
clean clothes after the aforementioned
sweeping. We inquired very cautiously il
our friends knew of any colored schools,
conducted by white ladies, and were in
formed in tones Of lofty Indignation that no
luelies kept "nigger" schools III those parts.
A Yankee creature in the guse of woman did
teach young Africa on Wolf street. We
wondered the question we'll and the result
was that the forlorn offspring of Yankee
philanthropy on Wolf street remains unvisit-
cd by yours truly. On IL certain day, while
sniourning in Dixie, pacards were diatri'
butcd along the streets, by IL venerable mig
announoin. lecture BY Horace Greeley, IN
the NJ. Il. church, at /! clock r.M The
subject of the discourse WAS not announced,
> Niger ology, Of course cried the re
constructed, CRASHING their teeth to think
that the day OF IT tar and feathers > was CONT
forever. On their brain seemed to rest tht
mmovablc impression that the "rhiloso
pher" could in nowisc open his lips bat !li'
words - euIled brother would voluntarily
and instantanoog.,ly proceed thcreiiom --
The next incoming, the Alexander Gn2cH'
stated that ''t'le lecturer WIS INTRODUCES
10 his audience Of about 100 persons. in
Guiding many distinguished gentlemen lat,
nndor Gen. lees command, b. Ju.lg,
Underwood. The subject Of the discourse
teinr self made men. Whether the dislin
raishcd orator did or did not, cite the Hon
T.. Douglass as a commcndabe example o
n conouercr of adverse circumstances TIT
reporter to the Ga.cttc neglected to mention
The negroes, VIC are informed, in their hat
condition Of slaves, were the most affection
,to do,l, ,u,I al ~, Iln ,.rnaturps Ia,
no sooner, under the transforming power o
the dabolical ankees placed on the high
way to the enjoyment of the commoncs
Fights of humanity, than they immediatcl
became the most yillianous Of dcspicab
miscrcams.
Yesterday we spent in Washington, visit
ING The Smithsonian" the President
House, and the Capitol. Ascending tn
Dome and enjoying the beantifusview Of th
snow clad landscape, and admiring the his
torical paintings in the Rotunda Althoug
you cannot expect from me a lucid report @
what was transpiring around or rather be
meath rs. We did gaze upon the man
vacant seats, and breathe the drowsy air 0
more animated in the lower House
where progression philanthropy, and chri,
tanity, are battling sternly with pride, ARC
glncc and oppression, where came TO on
mind the beautiful lines Of the Quaker poet
Mot unto those whom Thon hast led,
As with The prlard cloud before,
But unto Thee ia fear and drell,
Is praise ioFeVermnrr. Is u