The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-26
Letter from "0ccasioIial."

lesson than any theory. no matter how lOgi-
cally drawn, viz {: That trhererer Republican
prineip'es hare been bo'dly applied, there tie
people are happisst. | do not remember
even the exception that is said to prove the
rule.
\ year ago saw the Great West for the
first time. Its marvellous growth, its splcn-
did cities, its magnificent railroads, its I'M
equalled schools its atfiucnt trade. manu-
features, and agriculture, We're not less pal
pablo than its devotion to what are called
Radical principles.
Last week saw New England for the
third time. 1t is seventeen years since my
first visit to Boston. Then Maine, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut were Demo-
cratic Strongholds. and Massachusetts was
divided between contending factions. But
now New England is as solidly Republican
as Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; and
the States have named. like Illinois, In
diana. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, (all
Democratic twenty short years ago are
the leaders of the Republican column.
Their change in politics has been as mark
ed as the Improvement in the intelligence
and comfort of their population
No traveller, American or foreigner. ever
sojourns in New England without being
overwhelmed by the manifold proofs of this
statement The surprise of Jefferson Da-
Wis in 1858. and the admiration of Lord
and Lady Amberly i'll 1868, as they studied
the wonderful spectacle for themselves. are
echoed daily by witnesses as impartial and
| disinterested.
| And mark, O Democrat these results
are wrought by a race that discards all po
litical conservatism. They take Republic
caniSm "straight.' They carry out con-
victions. Fond of discussion and addicted
to '.ideas," they practicable all their theo
ries and test every invention severely.
New England is the schoolmastcr, and
she begins at home. She does her work
we'll first at her own hearhstone and then
she sends her pul lis ''abroad.' They con-
vince and conquer always.
And thus it is that every community
where they live and labor becomes at last,
(and not tardily) copy and an echo Of the
mother that sends them forth.
As you ponder the picture, my Demo-
cratic friend you may feel disposed to in
sist that all these benefits have come In
spite of Radical Republicansm, and not in
consequence of it.
Very well, just try the same remedies on
yourself; and if you do not insist that they
ought to be at once applied to the South.
and that the sooner the Democracy cease
rejecting them the better for themselves,
you will he incorrigible.
1t is tllirty-cight years since De Tocque-
Vile visited our country and gathered the
material for that mastery work. Demo,-
racy in America which so entranced the
philosophers and reformers of the civilized
world. He found the West a wilderness
! Detroit Il village, Chicago an Indian TRAIL
| Pontiac a wooden hamlet-and yet he saw
that from the germ of liberty an empire
without parallel i'll human progress would
arise. What would he write to-day if he
could revisit the scenes which even in their
primitive youth SO stirred his soul. But
nothing after the happy realization of his
own proud dreams would so astonish and
pain him as the fact that any part Of the
| American people should be blind to the value
of genuine equality.-Press.
THE OLD FOUNTAIN IIoTEL-Anot.er
/ l.,
baugh, the proprietor Of the Fountain lIo-
tel, closed it some days since, having been
compelled to do in consequence of the
ground on which it stands for Use for bust
ness purposes. The ground upon which
the present range of buildings stand has
been secured by McsSrS. George Small and
| VIM. cClcllan. and the work of dcmolisli-
ing the old building is to commence at once,
the design of these gentlemen being to erect
a row of tirst-class warehouses on the site.
The late proprietor, Mr.. Clabaugh, has
| conducted the Fountain for many wears.
and although on account of its peculiar
construction it never made great show,
yet the accommodations always compared
favorably with those of amy similar cstal,-
liShmcnt in the country. Previo"s to Mr..
Clabaugh's occupancy, it was conducted by
the late Geo. Beltzhoover, and during his
proprietorship, before the days of railroads
and steamboats,, was the headquarters fol
all the old-faShioned mail stages then run
ming out of the city. 1t was the head,luar-
tcrs of the ilustrious Washington, w.2n-
ever he stopped in Baltimore. The origin
al proprietor was Il Scotchman named Dry-
don, who was opposed to the McthodistS.
who then, and up to the present time,
maintained an establishment on the oppo-
site side of the street.
1t is asserted that an assembly room had
been erected near the site of the old church
whose object was to furnish amusement fnl
the sons ana daughters of fashion. and thu.
tiddling and dancing We're going on in one
house, singing and praying hard by. Some
men one night undertook to break up a
meeting, but the belligerents were beaten
off. and next day taken before Il magistrate
and fined one hundred dollars each Bly.
and finally his boarders are said to hav,
taken up the matter and agreed to leave
his house in body. His occupation being
gone. he left the place. and the assembly
room was vacated, when the Methodist
purchased it for an academy in 10. but ii
December of the following year it was
burned to the ground.-BaH. Sun.
THE TOME OF JAMES BUCHANAN.-Majol
Charles NJ. Howell has completed the mi
ordered to be placed over the remains OF
ex-President Buchanan. The tomb wa,
designed by Major Howell, and in accord
ance with the wishes of Mr.. Buchanan. as
expressed a short time previous to his death
it has been made in plain but beautiful
and substantial manner. The design and
workmanship reflect great credit upon all