Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-29
Shall Murder Fay Dictate Our Del.
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the Lest Cause OF revolt against the work of
improvement entered upon b the District gov
eminent, propose TO send one OF themselves %
Congress. but the question is-wao" They all
want To 20, and are all eligible, according to
the Murder Bay standard. Brute ignorance
and style OF demagosiSm that stocPs to the
lowest depths are the requisites. ami il il hard
TO say who Of this ilUStT.Ous squad bears off the
palm. II is doubtful if orc OF them can spell
his own rsme OF hand. Reidy Welsh saves
himself AL yCNatOn OF spirit by writing his
name with cross. We all know how the Si-ox
Chief gets over difficulties in photography and
pronunciation. IL il sad that a fue, stately
looking man like Ordway, over six feet high,
and with magnificent pagnch calculated to
adOrn public life, can't spell any better. lie
Barnes. OTdway's man Friday, poor, weak
vessel, can spell better than his master. "Pro-
fessOT" a VI. Green does not shine as a speller.
Boswell, who, like Ordway, il rather a fine
looking fellow, we'll calculated to catch the
Speakers eye, spells very badly, and that was
how he came to grief in lSG9-'10, when
he wanted to be Mayor. The way OF it
was this: He wanted TO be MAYOR very
bad; he went to Cape May and New
Bedford, (by the way he has gone to New
Bedford nOw,) and while there he thought
it over, and concluded that the way for him to
he mayor was to have an ovation on his return
CarsOn-nOw Col. Perry Carson-to get him up
a spontaneous Outburst OF popular welcome
and in order to allow time TO prepare perfectly
irresistible ebIllitiOn OF public enthusiasm he
gave Perry a full month for the job. With the
same view 10 completeness, regardless of ex-
pense, Boswell notified Perry % privately en-
gage a hand 20 meet him at the depot, and he
also instructed the faithful Carson to have a
Transparency painted - weicOme Homer and
there were also fun instructions where torches
and the other adjuncts and paraphernalia of
popular OUtbursts were to be obtained. This
was August Sd, loG9. On the 25,h he wrote
again 10 Perry to say that he would reach Wash
ingtcn by the 10 p. N. train OF the following
Wednesday, and to have his spontaneous and
popular Outburst in readiness on that date.
These letters are unique and Interesting, and
they appear below, rsrjIiim, Ct sVsiiI:iR, e.
TUac'EEsl-
"CArE BAY, NEW JERSEY, August 3. $50
Dear friend, write yoI this knowing the aux-
igty - Won and my friends 90 know how 1 am.
/ Hil say t. yOu 30 You can inform others, that
/ an gTatSly improving in heath, and stronger
iTu.oyhg in Republican principles every day
CT r.y lie. seem 10 get more and more radical.
''PJUTy. yCG being friend Of mine, and |
Know how Euch tEe people will wish 20 see me
OF E-y return home, you viii take the proper
STEPS 90 make an arrange ru5Et to meet Iae o.,
ny return a. tie depot and march from there TO
my lone. Yen can privately get a band for
Which i viii pay for the next day, make that
aTIarGC nt1t. YOU may have q transparency
PAINTED tNGlcOne A0mo) upon il, il YOU want
C'l Ter torches. 20 To Mr.. NJ. Frank knllev at nv
once and tell him TO give YOU order. You
can consult with ". ii. Bro Sn, Ch4s. Peters,
and others, privately about this matter, 10 not
let them no said anything IL nv letter about
it, All be a. home en- or about September
Is and You wIli nov have plenty of time u pre-
Fare FOR Il.
Al vii. let you know before come the dav
VII Get 10 Washington. or Il, shI meant to cay.
ind - a
LET Know one see this but yourself.
''NOur friend
+. \. BOSWELL.
"TerTy Carson, Esq.
RLEzEE EoCss, BOSTOS, Mass, August p,
CH.-IF-ig3 CCrSDB. 1 will leave for home on to-
mcTI1w. Shall stop in New Bedford one ,lav.
Baltimore two. So 1t viii he at least we,lnes
day before ! &c; home. will telegraph 'kel-
" a. my Office from Philadelphia, when Will
he home. think, though, you may safely
look foE me in TIE ten O'Clock y. IN. train from
Baltimore On that Gay. / have enjoyed myself
very vel; and at the same time Kept run OF
thin 2 AZ home % far a. newspapers are concord.
lett NJ Chase ON Saturday last very we'll.
hoTe everything il moving sm0thly with you.
have not seen Jour appointment Yet. but sup
lose il has been Ide. You had better watch
;. ;. Baker, as lac has no good blood tor any Oh
ny find We now see that il wolld have been
much better that the good and true l.. G. Hine
had to have been elected, but il seems that
b!uEdtr along badly some way. but 1 hope
hereafter We will 10 better: don't let rs forget
TO nominate that good and true man. Henry II.
Knight Perry. the Board OF Police al prom
ised 10 make him Superintendent, but believe
II was done TO use him, 30 a. he is ours, let Us
send Lln back again by a united vote. Some
one told Knight THAT | had tried to defeat him
tor Chief OF Police. wish yOa could lind ont
from HIM who 1t was, for a CRATER lie WAS never
uttered. Perry, the torches In the ward 4 paid
thirty collars to get out Of johnson. store they
beiCIs g the ward AMI want You TO get them.
and Iut them away, 50 that they shall not he
used unless by my order President of the
Club how Is your guard getting along this YOU
Can tell me when &c; home L shah give you a
chance TO display them. and will go and visit
them when get home.
(Signedl F.A. BOSWELL.
Well, the ight set fer the ovation came and
with il came Boswell, and very much impressed
and overcome lie was, you may believe, TO find
thrOng OF his feliOw-citizens at the station
waiting for him, with torches and a band of
music, and a transparency bearing the touching
legend: Welcome HOme.7 The papers the
rext morning had full accounts OF the ovation,
II which they spoke of the visible emotion dis
aged by the recipient over this fIatteriny and
'-treiy unexpected greeting by his fellow
citizens.
Thus far all went well. Boswell was fairly
q fore the people for the highest Office in their
~. lie had paid for his band aad his process
s'.r and his torches and his " Welcome Home"
I'D everything Wa lovely, when suddenly his
y -oie political sky was clouied. Somebody
III To- vi DPctAlli5 very al Llseu,
&c made the mistake of sending his confidential
f.!sslyes TO person who couldn't spell at all.
ituy examined the letters, turned them upside
81 wn and upside up, could make nothing of the
markabie scrswls, and was obliged to get help
IA deciphering them. There was some mis-
FACED confidence, herea5outS; the letters came
cut, and they hurt Boswell outside Of Murder
Bay. TIE better class OF the community, white
ard eolored, thought Fred. couldn't spell well
enough to be mayor Of Washington; aud some
old-fashioned people, too procssSed to be shocked
at the naked demagogism OF the transaction,
but they were very old fashioned people, deed;
and II should be said in behalf of Boswell that
ne paid for his ovation out OF his own
rocket oTdway, too, to give the Si-ox hi.
due, paid for his votes in the convention lat a.
apiece on the nail, il isssid; and also stood a
wine luncheon just prior to the opening Of the
convention. lie Barnes, too 80 not behind in
IAsIne .0t his sches at IS each,-those