The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-22
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

gratifying fact that we are homeward
bound.
Leaving New York on Monday of last
week, after regretful goodbye to dear
Mrs. DR.. Lozier, Mrs. S. R. Wells, and |
many other friends whom we shall al
ways delight to remember, and taking
an afternoon train for Jersey City, we
resigned ourself to rest, Tetros pection, |
and a railway car. 1t was night when |
we reached Philadelphia, and the bright
face of hospitable aud genial Miss NJ. A.
Thompson beamed upon US like beni-
son as she welcomed the wanderer, all
wearied out with toll and care, to her
cosy and beautiful home.
Spent Tuesday in visiting here and
there in the city, and in 'doing'' such
wonders thereof as do most delight the
staid inhabitants of the land of Broth
erly Love.
During former visit we had paid
what respects our outraged patriotism
would permit to "Carpenter's Hail."
where men met in anti-revolutionary
days to devise ways and means to de-
liver the man-child Liberty from the
agonized grasp of War, where, even
now, under the protracted labors of the
birth agony, the same anxious parent is
gestating Liherty's sister, Freedom, who
has never yet existed corporeally, ex.
cept in the mythology of nations. We
cannot tell how this simile may strike
you, readers, but you won't wonder at il
When we tell you that Carpenters Hall
in Philadelphia is called the birthplace
Of Liberty, while Boston claims to have
rocked the bantling in the cradle of the
old South Church.
The hall of the Carpenters was erected
III 1770, at the time when the attempt OF
Great Britain to legislate for men 'iu
all cases whatsoever" had resulted in "a
general demand for "union of the Col
Onies," just as now the persistent at
tempts of the Bradshaws and Freezing
huysens to do the same villainOus deed
for women are inspiring the mothers .ol
men to make q general demand for re-
dress.
Here, in Carpenters Hall, were held
the memorable sessions Of the Commit
Tee of the City and County of PhiladeI-
adelphia to initiate measures for calling
the first Continental Congress"
The hall is in excellent repair, having
been many times revolutionized, but the
chair in which Washington sat, aud the
others, wherein were seated Lee ant
t Randolph and Jay and Payne and JEFF
: tersOn, and many others whose names
1 history has rendered immortal, yet re
t main, as do the old banners and many
D autograph letters of departed statesmen
J., The place has ghostly look, and in
i spires the beholder with tears ant
II thrills anu holy memories of "auld LAM
= syne."
: Reverently we sat US down in tn
d chair that once was Washington
Il Twilight was coming, and the droopin
b banners that draped the windows, o
! spread their ghostly arms against th
: gloomy walls, took spectral shapes, an
= our ever interfering Muse inspired US a
J follows:
4 As I sat in the depth ofthe gathering gloom
,l or the twilight, chilly and gray,
!, Invoking the shades of the days agone,
Before me, like spectres, and one after one,
+ came the spirits of Seventy-Six, who are know
u 70 throng the shades OF the silent room
r Whenever the night holds sway.
l. But stay, good reader, we cannot il
70 dict the remainder of that rhapsod
It upon you now, for a friend has seize
lg the manuscript for a Chicago paper an
we are not able to recall another stanZ
This fact will save the typos at hon
some trouble with "NOnpareil," an
possibly spare the reader of these lin,
i some irksome effort. The rhyming FL
1t rshed, we engrossed our autograph upc
'h the Centennial book as follows: "Ab
y gail Scott Duniway, of Portland, Or
l" gon, editor of the New NORTHWEST
~ Then the Library Committee Of IL
" Carpenters Hall Association bougI
~ David and Anna Matson" to pla
ct IN the society's archives, and Mi
Ok Thompson and ourself took a wa
through a dirty alley to get peep
y the first house occupied by Villa
:" Penn, a quaint little brick arrangeme
) which is now an inn and doggery of Il
lowest order. AS we stood on the opp
site of the narrow lane-it could not
called a street-a woman in dirt al
rags, with hair disheveled and as mut
L slave as ever was a Georgia field u
eS gro, came out from Penn's dwelling al
emptied heavy tub of villainous slo
into the Shiny gutter. Again the
or truding Muse sought expression for b
laI fancies, but we turned away, sick a
Ib- saddened, and unequal to the tas
Ell Whittier ought to have been there.
es' Another time we visited Indepen
'hi ence Hall. How reverently we sto
before that cracked old bele that wou
un not tell lie! That grand old bell th
re- broke its heart when man was born in
lt- self-gOvernment leaving woman bOur
lei That honest old bell that hangs the
er, mute and motionless, while men {
th- making mockery of the grand Te De1
red 7 thnf IN ~ ho trnlHy