The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-05-05
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

WAsHlNuToN, ID. c., April Both, 1877.
DEAR WHIG:-The end has been reached,
the bloody chasm " is covered up, with
Louisiana the last in the ditch and poor
Horace Greeley's sentimental wish of shak-
ing hands across it realized at last. The
24th of April will ever be memorable as
the end of the long sectional strife that
commenced in April, 1861. President Hayes
has accomplished in a few weeks what his
predecessors labored to bring about for
years, and to reason that the people will
not sustain the policy that has done all this
is an insult to their intelligence, and if the
press of the country is an index to public
sentiment, ex-senator Wade's recent letter
will fall us far short of the mark as his
manifesto against President Lincoln, which
his personal friends depored as much at
the time as they now do his letter critics.
ing President Hayes. A few more APP
pointments like
EN- GOVERNOR NJ CORMICK AND HON. f.
MPHEsoN
to important official positions will destroy
the capital of sore heads that President
Hays is deserving the hard working men of
the Republican party.
THE EASTERN WAR.
Next to the anticipated extra session of
Congress, and the wholesale discharges at
the Treasury Department, the subject mat
ter of conversation here at the Capital for
the past week has been the war between
the Turks and Russians, which seems to
start off with the advantages on the side
of the latter, SO far as military readiness
and prearrangement of programme are con
cerned. But no appearances are more de-
ceptIve than military appearances and there
is no good reason to suppose that the COLI
sion of actual battle will find the Turks in
the state of imperfect preparation in which
the declaration of war surprised them. |
have been dipping into history to some ex,
tent during the past week. aud fluid that
the Turks and Russians have fought regu-
larly every quarter of century ever since
the Russians and Swedes quit fighting in
the North, and afforded the former an OPP
porrunity to turn their stold faces to South
ern fields Of strife. This is the eighth in
the regular series of Russo Turkish wars
since the time of Peter the Great. The
Russians, during this protracted period of
intermittent war; have been uniformly the
invaders, aud, with almost equal uniform
ity, they have come out of every struggle
with their territory extended and their
power increased. Still they have almort
invariably been defeated by the Turks in
battle upon strictly Turkish soil.
THE TURK
is unquestionably the military superior of
the Russian man for man. But GO, 000 900
against 1i,000,000 is too vast a disparity,
particularly when the II, 600, 600 are COM
PEELED to hold in subsection about an equal
number of other and alien races, who hate
them and sympathlZe with their ovPrwhelm
ing foes. The Turk should receive the
sympathy usually accorded to the small or
the under dog. Aud he should also receive
that sad administration which is always
bestowed upon the brilliant desperate tight
ing magnitcently in bad cause.
THE SOLDIERS HOME.
The President, approaching the exqui
site lovelness of the spot, has decided to
spend the Summer mouths with his family
at the Soldiers Home. He will be the
guest of the old soldiers-the men worn
out in serving their country. Nome have
a better right to entertain SO distingu ished
a guest as the President of the United
States, and no men could afford more agree
/ able entertainment to a Summer guest in
search of peace. The sun loves to shine
on the Soldiers Home When a wearied
veteran, to whom for a score of years only
the scenes Of battle, and rough camp life
have been familiar, grows griZzled and old,
| it is but poor return for his services to be
! permitted to drag his enfeebled frame to
! that haven of rest-the Soldiers Home
! 1t is a peaceful simmer land of quiet and
! of J,rn
rugged Winter and torrid suns, years of
| hardship and danger fall to the lot of the
| soldier, but at the " Home y he makes his
! last halt amid lovely scenes of nature, where
| the birds delight to sing. The Home crowns
the highest of the low hills on the north
ern outskirts of the city, and it's domains
spread out over knoll and glade, encom-
passing grove and lake and meadow and
! every beauty Of nature with which an art
! list loves TO adorn landscape.
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN
was the first to spend his Summers at the
"IIome." President Lincoln followed the
/ example of his predecessor in this respect,
and the Summers during his adminlstra-
| tion were spent in the old mansion. Neither
/ President Johnson nor President Grant re-
sided at any time at the Home, but during
! Ihelf ADMINISTRATORS extensive improve
ments We're made and the grounds were
enlarged and beautiied. Now it is sur
rounded by one of the most attractive parks
in the country. 1t is not yet definitely de-
cded when President Hayes will take pos
session of the mansion. but probably he
will do SO about the middle of May.
DECORATION DAY.
The executive committees of the Grand
Army Of the Republic are making extern
| Sive preparations here for the annual deco
ration of the graves of the heroes who fell
in the late war. J. II. p.
Mr.. Foutz, Baltimore, Md.-PIease
send us a supply of Shriner's Balsam ic