The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
| Especial Correspondence to The Republicah .
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Sep. 3, 1878.
The beginning of another autuD'1
finds Washington in a moro thar Or
dinarily good sanitary conditions and
our exemption thus far from ssingle
case of yellow fever is a source of
great felicitatiOn. The terror with
which its march up the Mississippi
has inspired thousands IS lifted little
/ by little as we near me cool nights
that will bring with them a certain
antidote against the extension here
of the infection. But the terrible de-
tails sent up every hour from the
South have moved the great heart of
this community as the tales of burn
ing cities never did. No great calam-
ity has ever called out such, almost
uniform manifestations of sympathy
and few are found unwilling to con-
tribute generously in proportion to
their means. TIL bitterness engen-
dered by political strife is forgotten
in the dread presence of this relent-
less destroyer at whose touch whole
towns melt away. The noble re-
spouse of the North and West and
of Southern communities not inclu-
ded in the area of this terrible WISH
tation, prove that sectional prejudices
and feuds based on partisan differ
enceS are little more than skin deep
among the great mass of intelligent
American citizens; that the law of
humanity-Of a common brotherhood
is as high above such petty consid-
erationS as the heavens are above the
earth and it sweeps away the accu-
mulated hatredS and resentments OF
decades like chaff, when its current
is stimulated by such appeals as those
coming up from decimated cities OF
the lower Mississippi.
The feeling here is that the Inter-
national Silver Congress was a fail
ure so far as the adoption Of the
double standard is concerned. AL
though our representatives are said
to have iabOred assiduously to that
end, weight of opinion seems to have
been against the practicability of
any such contamination at present ;
and the prospect of any return from
the money spent in giving several
gentlemen a pleasant trip to Paris
seems rather remote. But reports
that American exhibitors at the EX-
position there are taking more than
their share of awards and diplomas
may prove partial compensation to
those disappointed at the outcome
of the Silver Congress.
Buffers denial of any knowledge
of the Sherman-Anderson letter has
served to dispirit sanguine Demo-
Gratis who had been so much elated
by previous reports to the effect that
he had seen it and that it would be
sprung on the public just before the
November elections, insuring Re-
publican stampede and Democratic
coup d'etat.
Kearney has come and gone. His
coming excited no rejoicing, his go.
ing no grief. Excepting the call of
Cohen and a few of his vagabond
gang, he was left undisturbed at his
hotel, and he and his "private sec.
rotary" found no impeachment TO To-
comotion by the crowds attending
him on the streets. 1t was, in short,
anything but the triumphal entry
into the city of the deliverer Of its
toiling masses. Reputable people of
all classes appeared intent on letting
him severely alone. The various la
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ignore him, and he gained only such
distinction in this way as Cohen and
a few of his rag-mutfin disciples
could confer. He went early to call
at the White House and on such
members Of the Cabinet as were in
town and was civilly entertained for
a few moments at each place, then
withdrew. lie took advantage of the
opportunity offered while looking
over the stacks of currency Uncle
Sam has stored away in the Treasury
vaults for rainy day, to inculcate
some of his peculiar financial views
to the clerks detailed to pilot him
about, But they had no difficulty in
controverting them with good sound