Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-11
Our washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. July 6.

IT'S true some of its outward features
remain unchanged; the old Capitol still
looms up, unflinching alike to winter
blasts and summer sun; firm as the ''eter-
nal hills" in its majestic whiteness it
looks down, a mute yet eloquent rebuke |
upon a changeable, contending and tickle
humanity. If l tell you that it no long |
er rejOices and eXults in the conferred in
terest of the greatest country; in the
scenes of life, activity and real great
died away, nay, are yet heard in echoes
throughout the land, | must also add
that it no longer hath need to blush over
perverseness, folly, and dishonesty, the
unworthiest of which ought to Danish
it from its halls, still too often is made
to do violence to it's semblance Of purity
and to confding people. Yes, the old
Capitol is silent, almost sepulchural.
To make the tone of this mass of mar
bic hollOwncss is, we imagine-inaa95ne,
mind you, something like visit to the
Tombs. or perhaps like exploring the
mysterious ways Of Pompeii. However
may be the latter, we speak with GER
taintv of the former, and whether we
wander in the Engineers department,
deep down in the bowels of the earth,
or in the upper walks of the galleries
the Electricians office, or the dome, the
impressions are one in essence. Silent d,
| A silence more OverpOwering than a.
the sounds of thunder. May be You
will allow us to justify our imprcSsi'"S
and call it laundering silence, The
! footballs echo and die away through all.
corridor, passage, and stairway. ana
| sounds great and small seem to playhide
and seek and chase each otherab"ut cor
ner, column, pillar plaster, and finally
to scatter and lose themselves in thou
sand imperceptible recesSes. Like
Tam preparatory to his beautiful
ride
"WhiIc glOwering round wi prudent care
! Lest Bogle's catch him unawarcS.'
the visitor is apt to tread easily, almost
| rryprcntly. and each sound in dying
away takes on its own peculiar charac-
ter The slam of n door is emblematl-
through a succession of rcvCrbpratiOns
the whole structure seems to trcmblc
from base to thole. The gentle zephyr
from a window, in its apparent agony
over it's fate, screams and grOans until
lost in walls and sghs terribly su@Ers-
tive of the unknown tongue Of the in
carnat" hosts. When we let alone the
eDtcu!ati0ns. theories dugmaS and issues
4 hat yHrp "a
raj and sl1pernatural always seems slight
the difference between knowledge and
Ignorance, and at times waves from each
shore seem to roll in and break upon the
other. In this pristine Quictudc what Is
more natural than waves from the dead
past: what is easier than for a lost
breeze. In it's mad antics for liberty, tC
sinh and groan as might the spirit OF
Washington over the degradation ot
popuIar liberty. and his reservation de-
filed hY depot Or than that eloquent
orator, who thought it "hcttcr to ht
RIGHT than to be- Presidents. should haunt
this place with oratOric1i walls over the
l,.grncracy of American statesman
SHIN Or to come to a later date, "u
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