Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-24
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He dinsd with Captain Lawrence the night
before his battle with the Shannon, and every
body on the chesapeake was drunk. He
Mis- Murray OF Annapolis, and in 1877, en-
bsrked at Annapolis on the seventy-four gun
ship Franklin, to be Rush's private secretary in
the English mission. Amongst his Companions
in London were Washington Aston and Wash
ington Irving. In 1918, Mr.. Tsyloe was pre-
~, at Carlton House, while George III was
still alive but imbecile, and subsequently he en-
tertained the three beautiful grand daughters
of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who after
wards became respectively Marchioness of
WELLESLEY, Marchioness CRrmarthen and Ouch
ess Of Leeds, and Lady Stafford all daughters
OF Richard Cation of Baltimore. Tayloe dined
with the Duke of Cumberland, after wards King
OF Hanover, where he George " dead
drunk, az well as Loro Erskine, who had rep
utatlon a. liar, and he attended the Congress
At AK Ia Chapelle, where he saw the Emperor
OF Russia, King of Prussia, Wellington, Met
ternich, and so forth. He made the tour of
southern Europe with Mr.. Robert G. Harper
and his wife, smother daughter of Charles Car
ROLAND was presented to Pope Plus VII, took
dinner with Lucien and Louis Bonaparte, Wis
tied Pauline and saw Henry Brougham handing
her pins st her toilette, and was befriended by
Albert Gallatin. who presented him to Louis
XVIiI, and told him Talleyrand, who stood by
the throne, was humbug.
In 1919 Mr.. TsylOe returned to America and
in 1872 called on John Adams at Quincy, whom
he burlesques. In lS23 he saw and reported the
race between Eclipse" and " Henry" both
descended from his fathers thoroughbreds;
from this time forward until he died, February
%, 1S, at the age Of seyenty-one, in the citv of
Rome, Ii. o. Tayloe was a voluminous member
OF the lower guild of letters, and one of the most
ardent sporting writer's in America. His coun-
try residence was on the Virginia side of the
Potomac. nearly opposite Nanjemoy, and was
called windsor" there he took his first wife
Miss Julia NJ. Dicxenson, of Troy, n. Y. In
ls4, became vestryman of st. Paul's church
In the neighborhOOd, and by the death of his
brother John, he became the host of the Octa-
gon House. In 1928 he finished the present
nVrlu hon Iafa
by his widow, the executor of this memorial.
THE TAYLoE HOUSE, LAFAYETTE SQUARE.
The first occupant of the house was Thomas
Swami, who had meantime leased his own
house, now COrcoran's mansion, to the Russian
Minister, Krudener. Here, for nearly forty
years, behind the vine-coyered verandahs, in
modest afiuence, a milder hospitality, suitable
10 the altered times, was dispensed and in the
vicinity some OF the most notable incidents in
cur history happened.
Tayloe was always whig, and as an amateur
agr1culturallst, loved Mr.. Clay. He was the
guardian OF Miss Rebecca Dulany of AIexan-
dria, whose relative, the wife of MARYLAND
tory OF London, left her million of dollars. In
le3o ne established cotton plantation in Ala
bama, near Selma. General Harrison paid his
last visit before his fatal illness, at Mr. Tavloes
house he enlarged and improved WIZARDS
Hotel In 1874. In 1876 his wife died, on the
9Th of July, leaving five children, and in 1919
he welded a friend of the deceased LADY, who
was, like her, a resident of Troy. He believed
be the golden era OF Washington society and
increased his hospitality with his sympathy for
At, and he also supported General Scott earnest
ly. His mother died in 1856 at the Oetagon, at
the age OF eighty-three, where she had spent
tvs nty seven years of widowhoOd, and remem-
pred Nellie Gusts well The society OF the
oldest Inhabitants was formed in 1S55 and II
u Tayloe was elected president. His inf uence
sWeryed the National I7teligeHcer in 1856 to sun
port Fillmore a. the American candidate. In
February, 1859, Philip Barton Key. q relative
OF Tayloe, was shot on Lafayette Square and
died next door to his kinsman. on this event
tne murdered mans sister, Mrs. Pendleton,
wrote TO his Cousin Ogle:
al. who know his heart. believe that God,
who knows eth all things, saw that he was more /
slnned against than SHINING. Either here /
or hereafter, time will solve the mystery and /
Y1ndicate his name"
In 1851 Tayloe hat nearly succeeded in get
tng Reverend Morgan Dix, son of his old rOOm- /
mate, az rector Of st. Johns church.
Here and there, in this otherwise pleasant |
memorial, are small thrusts which show social /
or party prejudice; as, for example, a dig at the
more recent mayors OF Washington; the intro |
ductiOn of letter defending General Scott |
from the faint of "Sewardism," and a rather /
unlnteresting episode about ssthe conviction
and sentence to death of a member OF the |
Sumner family Of Boston who had assumed the |
name OF Plummer." b. o Tayloe also writes 1
OF Van Buren,: " He was less hospitable than /
any person / have known in the White House
preceding the present incumbent Lincoln?)n |
He says OF his neigh bors, the Blairs probably |
with more provincialsm than knowledge for /
his mind was better at social details than broad
and stronghold Lincoln was old Frank Blair's
man, disc lvered by him for consanguinity, |
etc. We had rather take MIR. Tayloe's word on |
aquestion OF heraldry or TURTLES.
LATTER DAYS.
In 1850 b. q. Tayloe supported Bell and |
Everett, both his personal friends, and he |
wrote letter to John q. Breckenridge, which |
was unanswered, asking him to retire in Doug
las favor, so as to prevent Mr.. Lincoln's cleo
\ fr,N
November, 1sGO, he sent messages to Mr.. Lin
coin, through friend at Springfield, asking
him to reassure the slave states of his conserya
tism. Through TaylOe, Samuel F. Vinton, of
ment TO command in West Virginia. Governor
Seward took
THE HOUSE MKT DOOR
TO the Tayloe's, which had been built by Com
modore Rogers about 1890, and had been occu-
pied by Roger b. fancy while Secretary of the
Treasury, James X. Padding while Secretary
Of the Navy, and John e. Spencer, at the time
his son was executed on board the So1aers.
When Seward was stabbed in this house Mr.
and Mrs. Tayl Toe sat up with him all the rest of
the night, and Fanny Seward wrote a tender
letter OF thanks.
In 1866 Mr.. Tsyloe sent donation to Robert
T. Lee, for suffering Nirginians." In 1856 he
embarked with his wife and son on the steam
ship Scotia, saw the Derby, rested at Leaning
ton, made the tour of the continent, and ar
rlylDg al Rome in January, the subject of this
mehOIiAl Was eelZeC with paralysis, and died
February l6, 1s6e, aged seventy-one. He had
lost considerable money by the Civil War, and
appears to have died on bad terms with the
change of things in his native country. This
part of the book is not written with much per-
spiculty, or perhaps We are little Obtuse. Here
il what IL saws:
'He bore his losses without a murmur But
what he could not bear with cOmpIacencv, a.
which saddened the last days of his life was the
cruel and malignant effort OF the party in
power to carry its resentment eyond the grave;
to proclaim peace when there was no peace,
and to ALLEVIATE from the federal government
the support OF those who would, under other
circumstances, have been its warmest friends"
RBenjamin Ogle rayloe left two sons and two
married daughters. His daughter Estelle, wife
OF Capt. Roger Perry, U. s. N, died before her
father.
There are fifty pages of anecdotes and remin-
tscs noes I'm this book. written by Mr.. Tayoe
himself, which have been In the main repub-
hshed in the daily prints. We have not seen
any reproduction OF the agreeable reminiscent
ces OF the cid houses around Lafayette Square.
LAFAYETrK sQCARE IN 1900.
When Mr.. Tayloe came to Washington in
1901, General Washington had a town house on
CaultOl at Ilgfa