The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-06-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May Goth, 1871

WASHINGTON, ID. C., May Goth, 1871
The President is the recipient of kilograms
and letters from people in the different parts
OF the country, congratulating him first on
the Washington treaty itself, and second, on
its ratification without any amendment.
The steamer Polaris, the vessel in which
Capt. Hall the great Arctic explorer is soon
to depart for the Arctic regions, is nearly
completed. President Greant and members
of the Cabinet, By invitation of Capt. Hall
will visit it next week.
The Assistant Treasurer of the /. S. has
just received letter from General Spinner
Treasurer. The letter is dated "B. 4 n. A
Steamship Packet, at sea, lat. 1928, long
2o.z5, Thursday, May II, 1871"
The General commences by saying "stick
pin on the nap az above and you will see
where We are at sea. After eight days OF
very rough weather We are now within about
four hundred and fifty miles of Queenstown
where re have made up our minds to end our
sea voyage, 1. F.. the ladies who constitute
three-tourths of the vote, have so decided
me. have been On deck the first passenger
every morning. All of US are anxious to
tread the boys and green soil OF Old Ireland
and TO kiss the 'blarney store. We intend
to visit Cork, Limerick, Dublin, and then by
the Lakes of Killarney to Belfast. From
there we shall probably visit Glasgow, Eden
burg, and the places of historic interest in
Scotland and England" The remainder OF
the letter is devoted to perso nal matter.
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONVENTION.
This influential organization held an eftc.
tive session in the Congregational church
last evening, the entering of the National
Flags tf England and the United States
called forth eloquent words and rousing
cheers. As the thought was most happily
expressed that those flags ought never again
be borne in conflict one against the ctheI'
Cheer after cheer burst fourth many rising
and vigorously waving their handkerchiefs
When another thought was Immediately add.
ed, namely the desire that the combined On.
ergies OF the two nations might continuously
aid in the glorious work of Christian civiliza-
ton. The endorsement of the thu ong was ap
proprlateiy expressed in a more subduea
Mariner, yet with no abatement of earnest
ness, bearing with it the fervent prayer 80,
Lord, mag i! thus be-
The Republican party is now established on
such firm basis, has taken such a strong
hold upon the prevailing sentiment of all
classes OF people, the justice of its principles
Is so apparent to the common understanding
and the application of its faith to the living
issues Of the day, has been attended with
such blessed results that it can withstand any
ordinary amount of speculation and honest
difference Of sentiment, without imminent
danger of disintegration and defeat.
There is a certain aptitude in its frame
work, and such moral magnetism in the his
tory of its life and the record of its actions,
that nothing less than some terrible political
CONFUSION could disturb the equilibrium OF
its organic forces, or limit the sphere of its
exalted influence for good.
The victories Of peace are hardly akin to
those of war; for the absence of heated blood,
and conseq uent want of revenge exalts them
over the bloody exegesis OF the sword, and
links them With the more important exigencies
of the higher sphere of life. The triumphs
Of reace are the very autithesis of war; for
we see through &C rdon of bayonets dark ly,
but in the light of peaceful diplomacy we
see face to face and, in both we may congrat-
ulate ourselves as party that we are sus-
tanned by the verdict of q com mon huma nifty,
and rewarded by the blessings of better Sc
cured and substantial Amercanism.
1t is said that war legislates, and in nothing
is the fact more apparent than in the visible
and actual decline of the Democratic party.
The boom of the first gun at Sumter de-
creed its downfall, and in the exultant day
at Appomatix, its old and honorable prestige
went down like Dagon before the Ark. 1t
had challenged the verdict of the American
people, and received its just condemna ton
And now, after it has survived the terrible
peradventures of four long years OF bloody
war-after it has withstcod the bullets of its
enemy in front, and the ballots OF its insidi-
Gus, cowardly and detestiole enemy in the
rear, what potential prophet OF evil shall
predict the enforcement of the Republican
party from the love and affection of the al
people Of the Union Shall it be said that
while war legislated our old and bitter an
tagoDis into dishoner, and turned all its
proud history into contempt and ridicnle, in
the piping times Of peace, We wasted our
strength and en- rgy in fruitless quarrels and
personal animosties until victory was impos-
sible, and defeat accepted with that passive
indifference with which the hardened convict
meets the righteous verdict of his peers in a
Court of impartial justice, God forbid, that
the day should ever come but upon tho well
tested principle thai"an ounce of prevention
is worth pound of cure" is it not better
that in this, our day of mercfnl visitation,
We overlook the little ills that somewhat dis
turb our harmony, then give encouragement
to those egregious national evils which would
be the sure follower of our downfall.
have said before that nothing but some
terrible political CONFUSION could effect our
dissolution /; but it is, perhaps more proper
to say that our worst enemy is our own pas
sive indifference; that while the opposition
life and energy is struggling to acquire its
lost ascendency-piling Ossa on Pelion to
reach the citadel of our strength, our only
safety is in united intelligent action, combat
ting with energy their evil schemes, and or
gauiZe our forces to maintain at all hazards,
"Liberty with laws. and government without
cppression.'
Several nice little Democratic
calculations have been upset by
the action OF Governor Baker. who
on Monday appointed r E. Heis-