The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-06
Gen. Grants Reception.

ng we opine Is rarely seen in Washington. We
ecollect reading when quite young man
book, entitled "The pursuit Of knowledge under
Our pilgrimage last evening may
veil be called the pursuit Of reception under L
amenities. We do not often go TO receptions,
but We undertook last night to do Gen. drant's
and according TO our ideas Of |
such matters, and failed, signally failed. II isa
humiiiating confession, but we must make II
It hath this redeeming feature,
however, we could not help II. We tried hard
to gain ingress TO the mansion Of the great SOL
der, but II was no use. The crowd was immense;
psha, that Is no name for It. Boil down all the
descriptive adjectives which signify vastness, a.
applied to human throngs, and you may possibly
come near to coming q word significant enough
to indicate to those who were not present-if
anybody was at home in the city last evening
how many people were there.
The crowd inside and the crowd outside at one
time waged a pretty serious trial OF strength.
The outs desired TO get In and the ms desired to
get out, and both parties stood their ground val
liantly, for they were obliged to. When the
large mansion was said TO be full-full almost to
overnowing-largc numbers Of ladies and gentle
men filed as close as they could stand along the
passage-way leading to the door, along the side
walk and down the street for considerable dis
lance. Carriages lined both sides OF the street
LOT Two OF tnree 'quae'' many VI men u
Win ma.rohs anu maiaens, o,e men .au ,ouNe
such II II be admissible to apply these terms to
what Is known as the upper and lower circles OF
| society in America.
We stood and watched this struggle to get In
as long as we thought II safe to expose Our thinly
eiaa ieet IN 'he snow, anu 'neh .urnea upoh ouI
heeiiui'y resoNe".o sNeHup We haa nv s' ,'o
iar On our ie'ca'nB ns'oh ere new 'eso''
.ook possession VI U.s. anu We na s.,.S
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open space ATONE moheh' ,".on.oS
dresseu isuy Anu 'ae .oo' pos', ""u :"
siaste Hiend JUST oeh'na US sa'u, NV - you'
time 20 IN pem"ons IN. open"s .p".r "a'
we shouia Judge, aooul'~o inehess ue. oou'
| comprehension IL seemeu inPos'io,e .he' wv
hundred ana iory POUNDS Mo.,auPois snou'u 90
'hrough 'hat space, eAeep. 10 'he serious .neon,
venienee Of the pretty lazy oy our siae, Wnom =,
we aia NOT kho"' ou' why s'oou "vt sn !,
not ike MNor' IKE woman we aanne.
her courage but iei BACK ourselves IN sooa
order
One man came out JUST as we BNheu the Sue
walk, and intent upon knowing VINO was mere,
tell YOU who is not there than who is" "Is
Dickens there y, said we. "Don't know" said
he, and AWAY he went down street with as much
celebrity as though he rad just escaped from
prison. One gentleman, Of an inquiring turn Of
mind. outside-of course Il was outside, for we
| did not get in; and II this question had been
asked inside we would never have been able to
write Il down-wanted to know which was the
greatest man, Dickens or General Grant, After
some aseusoa among pn apnt =, IN,
| greatest captain Of the age and Charles Dickens
'hes,.A'. ''"h ""'"o' ""' "o''''' u ''''' VI
""y o So A.
was Dickens there Is the question: AT tht
present writing, we can't tell But we may find
| ont before We 70 to press Jenkings WAS there
sndJent,,gs Snows. and wba n. more he viii
inform US, II we can And him. We have put
three boys and man on the hunt for Jennings
and they will ind him, and we shall know al
aoou' ~
We remarked, in our disappointment, that VI
mo, see arsn,. ysssS,,en ,mpur,ars
S., ~, . -.
ele sen'leman py our sac, sa'a because ever
a being politician, we kept silent; but soon ief
0 Thus ended our ,ttemnt 10 Get a giimpse into IN
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