The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-06
BROTHERLY LOVE.
From the N. Y. Tribune.

ETOIf TIC Ns Il LTtOlfe-
A goodly and pleasant city is that of Bro
therly Love. An excellent place to live in,
the absence of superfuous enterprise would
make it the most comfortable of towns to
die in. 1t is an elderly city, with the musti-
ness and rust and flavor of old-time inde-
pendence, yet retaining all the verdure of
its Quaker tradition of "a greene countrie
towne." Travellers speak of it's brick gen.
tility and cobbled respectability and it's col
leges, hospitals, and asylums are known
beyond the State of Pennsylvania People
wonder that the public life of such q multi
tudinous, rectangular city should be, we will
not say stupid, but dull. Why is it that
Independence Hall is so far in the rear Of
Faneuil Hall? A city boasting the cracked
bell which rang out ''liberty to the land and
to the inhabitants thereof" ought to be, in
this day of the fifteenth amendment, the
very headquarters of IDEAS
Just here, however, is the difficulty Phila-
delphia-and we say it with subdued vene-
rahon-is not, not to put too fine point on
1t, city of ideas. Never was so extensive a
collection of admirable homes, of charming
middle-class intelligence, of neat aristocracy,
of honest artisans with so poor and dull
public life. Honest Mr.. Pumblechook sits in
her chair of state and presides at her dinners
No men SO genial at a repast as her City
Fathers Her great men about town are par
ticularly fond of terrapin. Her speakers are
post-prandial; her journalists-well, her Jour
nalists are a noble band of brethren,
who wonder in their hearts what
it is that keeps this goodliest
of cities from being the true Athens of Ame-
rica, the home of painters, sculptors, book
writers, poets, and leaders of all kinds De-
licacy forbids that we should answer so alb
struse question. Can we forget, however,
that Philadelphia was the home of Brockden
Brown?-of suoh painters as Sully and
Neagle?-of such lawyers as Binney and
Sergeant? Does not Hamilton still point for
it sunrise and sunset? Is not Carey its phi
losopher and Boxer its bard? Is it not the
city of the Union League? ALI the more
shame for it, then, since it also boasts an
Academy of Music, which is at discord with
the ideas of the nineteenth century, and
which teaches that the music of the Union
still needs the clang of chains to give effect
to it's orchestra.
The Directors of the Philadelphia Academy
of Music will spare us any further trouble of
illustrating how the public life of that noble
city is stupid. Will it be believed that in this
year of grace the twelve gentlemen having
charge of that favorite institution of the city
of benevolence, independence, religion, the
Union League, and Brotherly Love, refused
to allow Senator of the United States to
Capitol might be accorded him, but not this
academy. The nations Senators might hear
him, but not the conscript stockholders of
Philadelphia. Doors that have opened to the
admirers of the nude ballet and the obscene
opera bouffe have been shut against Senator
Revels. Another academy of Philadel-
| phia gave from its professors a United
States Minister to Hayti; but this academy
turns away Senator from Mississippi All
that these Republican (not Democratic,
| directors care to say for themselves is that to
do otherwise would be ''inexpedient' Thus
| is the fifteenth amendment celebrated in the
city of independence, among the men who
urged to the war the heroes of Olustee and
Wagner, and in the community which sent
Ebenezer Bassett to Hayti. Will somebody
have the goodness to pinch its Rip Van Win
| kles Are we quite sure now that a negro
can ride in Philadelphia car ? Who knows
but that, one of these fine days, wandering
colored man may be suddenly arrested anc
sent South by some venerable Philadelphia
who has forgotten all about the proclamation
of freedom? Who can tell? The thin-mindeG
people who gave their verdict against Senator
Revels, and then sank back to inanity, really
forgot the fifteenth amend nent, or, if they
knew it, they forgot themselves. limo large
sense have they managed to exclude Mr.
Revels, for their act has given him a broader
stage and greater audience; but they have
shut out themselves effectually from the re
| spect of men of common sense. Here arr
the names Of them!
President-James c. Hand.
Treasurer and Secretary-James Farquhar
Ferdinand j. Dreer Thomas Sparks
John j. Steiner, James T.. ClaghOrn
George 5. Pepper Daniel Haddock DR.,
Frederick Gran, William Camac M. D.,
| EoiTman ROGERS