Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-02
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speclai Correspondence of the gazet,s
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Kalora,,.
the portion of Georgetown heights -,
which Joel Barlow in lsO5.buIlt ~.
beautiful residence. surely very bean. |
tiful in those days, has undergone rsr
changes since his death in 1912 ri
have often thought that brief skatch
of Joel Barlow, the strange story 81
whose chequered life has been forgot.
ten by most men, would have interest
for readers of the Fort Worth a..
zET-rE. He was rare pen,us
A poet of no mean excellepcs
nn eloquent preacher, an sdroit
lawyer, a reformer of Watts
hymns, many of which owe their chief
beauties to the graceful pen of Incl
not Billy, Barlow. He was born in
connecticut in l755, and was thus
twenty-three years younger than
GEORGE Washington, whose stanchest
friend he became. He was the rival
as poet at Yale of the then tutor
Theodore Dwight, the author of the
patriotic hymn of our fathers:
columbia, Columbia, 10 glory arise.
Inc queen OF the world, the child of the
He studied law, but suddenly plunged
into divinity, and in six. Weeks was
licensed to preach. He-Spreached IA
verse and wrote patriotic songs for the
revolutionary soldiers. When peace
came Barlow, penniless, be-
came lawyer. Then lie was
transformed into an editor
and made the Hartford Mercury The
Fort Worth GAZETTEof New England.
1t was most vivacious newspaper, and
of course productive of much money.
Barlow deemed himself the poet.lal.
reate of his time, and the general asso
| cia ton OF Connecticut concurribg
adopted his version of Watts hymns.
One Oliver Arnold, a cousin of Bene.
dict of infamous memory, was NOTED
versiiier of the period. He and Barlow
met, when the latter asked Arnold t.
indite for him specimen verse. Ar
mold immediately wrote:
| You've proved yourselfa sinful cretur,
You've murdered Wait and split his meter;
You We tried the word Of q cd TO alter,
And for your pains deserve the halter.
History does not tell that Barlow
was charmed by the rude wit of bis ri
val.
In 1IS1 Barlow wrote his "Nision o
Columbus, nafterwards transformed in
to 1.-The Columbiad," poem read ant
quoted everywhere by the generation
which Barlow addressed. 1t deserves
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kings and loved the people. He as
sailed Edmund Burke in a viOlen
pamphlet, in which he urged English
men to overthrow the monarchy ant
substitute republican system. II
spent some years In France, an arden
supporter of the revolutionists in thei
conflict with European monarchs HI
addressed a pamphlet full of prophec!
when read to-day to the people o
Italy, urging the unity of Italian
states.
A JOLLY POEM.
Barlow 8 most popular poem, entitled
1.-THE Hasty Pudding" was dedicated
to Mrs. Martha Washington. Ever.
farmer cultivating corn will deriv
kee ner pleasure from his daily task
he will read 1.-THE Hasty Pudding
Singularly enough, it contains no
the remotest allusion to whlsk.
or the whisky-ring.
BARLow'S STRANGE FORTUNES.
Washington in 1895 sent Barlow
consul to Algiers, that he might II
deem captives held by the Baibar
mowers. He was successful, went I
Paris speculator and grew rich, an
here became the fast friend Of Fult0
the portrait painter and inventor, WIN
was the intimate associate OF bepy'
min West and Tom Paine.
A fter an absence of seventeen YEAR,
in 1905 Barlow returned to the uhlle
States and fixed his home at kaloram'
Here Fulton, assisted by Barlow al
Paine, experimental with steam as
; boat-propelling force on Rock Greer
and on this little stream Fuitoh
steamboat first made Roadway agalns
the current of living water, ana .
the heights of Kalorama an
!, not on the Palisades, sh9ui
be reared proper monument 10 fu
ton.
FULTON AND BARLOW.
: Fulton published a beautiful an
costly illustrated edition Of Barlow
"The Columbiad,p prefixing 70 y
: volume this dedication, having 81,
. gular significance for those wnu nsn
lessons taught by modern monu'isn'
!, art and taste in washington
5 "The warriors name, .,.s
l Tho oealed and clhimed ON all Inc tonhaN'
!. Sounds less harmonious to the s'a'''
Than his Who fashions and improves ma
| h Ind
Worlds peace societies migns leu
valuable lessons from Robert fulv,
the painter and inventor, ana i10li -
nhilosophy of "The Vision Of Cola.
bus.W Ia which Tennyson's di sss
:. "The parliament OF man, Wv az =.
> ton Of the woIld.n anu .,T cnd
the absurdity of selti isn .ala All
4 are reproduced. The w 4riu snossib
8 tration league" whose coming pnoht
# benificence SO absorbs inc .hik
9 visions and aspirations Oh .Ser,
J. Stanton, Nathan Appleton, Al
: tor Fowler, Bishop Newnnsticsl
n others like them, are Plop
: connected in Barlow's verse' ,,,,
|. each land shall initiate, earn n1 he .ieng
d The well-based brotnerho'''
!. EXTEND IT, en- pire with the Sircling r suni
!. And band the peopied giooc
n federal some 1850 nj
a When Mr.. Stewart OF Inc hv md n
g posed 10 send commercial ANN maric
il way commission to South a ns,.fe
!. CAPITALS with the purpose ., .o ia a
d ing interstate relations, OF I p,aine
70 Inducing peace, and when p mas =
d Gsriield's secretary of state WI Z
Is pairing for a congress Stew
s American peoples, p9.m mani
IF and Blaine unwtttingly drew " Psrlo