Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-07-01
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WEDNESDAY, JULY l, 1868.
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LETTER OF REV. DIR. LORD.


answer my own letter.
reached Oxford from London last Saiur-
day. ! was not unwilling to quit that huge
Babel. Aside from lis Parks and Regent
Street, it has nothing but densely populated
piles of brick, stone and mortar to interest
any one who is travelling for pleasure The
smoke and sombrcncss Of the city, with its
contrasts Of wealth and poverty, make up
picture not extremely pleasing or satisfying.
Perhaps in no city do the extremes 90 so far
as in London. The splendor Of wealth and
the misery of poverty are both pushed to their
limits The West End and the East End
represent the highest and the lowest phases Of
social life In this city too, there is the pov-
erty which comes Of vice more manifest than
anywhere else. Drunkenness both causes aud
increases the infinite misery whose evidences
are most obvious The thronged gin-palace
and gin-hovel reveal how much misery is both
begutteu and drowned in London. | have
never seen elsewhere such melancholy proofs
Of the blasting results Of drunkenness. And
yet | am told that but few resort TO the gin
shops till they have lost all .elf-rcspect It
is the end of a seli-indulgcnt and vicious
course rather than its beginning. do not
care to look upon such life again. II is too
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