The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-11-23
The DepOsed Dom Pedro.

The DepOsed Dom Pedro.
The sensation IN business circles par
ticularly in our Atlantic seaboard cities
this week has been the revolution in
Brazil and the establishment there OF a
Republic or at least provisional gov
eminent under the name of the United
States of Brazil. The government which
without violence or at least without
bloodshed has just been overthrown
was Constitutional Empire, the legis
latlve power having been vested in a
general legislative Assembly for the af-
fairs of the Empire, and in provincial
Assemblies for the affairs of the provln-
ces, of which there are twenty-one, and
which severally have enjoyed almost
absolute .'home rule" Outside of the
important commercial relations existing
between the United States and Brazil,
the deposed Emperor Dom PEDRO has
by his sympathy with the people, and
his wise and conservative course COM
mended himself to our own countrymen,
and Brazil under his energetic reign has
made great advances in all that relates
TO civilization. He has always been
prominent II. humane and philanthroplc
work, and his various emancipation
schemes which eliminated in 1888, in
his proclamation declaring that "slavery
in Brazil Is extinct" have endeared him
particularly to the American people.
He was very conspicuous figure at the
opening OF our Centennial Exhibition
at Philadelphia, and those who met him
have never forgotten his simple, kindly
manner, his high personal attainments,
and his thorough democratic ideas. On
his part he evidently has not forgotten
his American friends, for the Philadel-
phia Times recalls the fact that "only
a week ago George w. Childs, in whose
house he was entertained, received from
Dom Pedro most elegant cup and
saucer made of sort of golden china
out of which the Emperor has been in
the habit of slipping his morning coffee.
The kindly old man naturally thought
that as his days are but few something
| he had used and was fond Of would
have more interest as a present than an
article entirely new, however elegant"
The Ledger in well prepared article
on the recent political history of Brazil,
recalls among other incidents IN his his
tory two very pleasing events which in
dictate his character.
"Himself learned man, Dom Pedro
has broad deep sympathy with learning
of every sort, which was, probably never
more clearly expressed by him than du-
ring the late Professor Louis Agassiz's
visit to Brazil in 1865. The Professor,
having conducted friend through the
Museum at Cambridge, IN which is ex-
hiblted the great collection of marine
animals made by him in Brazil, was
asked how he had succeeded in so
short time in gathering SO many and
valuable specimens. He replied, at
was not J; 1t was the Emperor, Dom
Pedro, who did it." And, he added,
with noble enthusiasm as his recollec-
ton of his hosts hospitality was revived :
"From the moment l landed in his
country, he, the grand Emperor, abdi-
Gated in favor OF me, the poor ma uralist.
He made me feel as l were the bene-
factor; he the recipient. He placed
his balance, his ships, his men, every
thing at my disposal. He treated me
as if I, too, were an Emperor he was
so good, so great, so kind. If any one
should ask you, as you have asked me,
how Louis Agassiz collected these manv
fishes say to him, by the help of Dom
Pedro, Emperor Of Brazil, who, too, is
learned man and honors learning"
After these many years his friend now
tells this story for the first time in print
"a story honorable to both the great
men, whose hospitality on the one part
and whose gratitude on the other it
bears testimony to.
The International Exhibition held in
Philadelphia IN 1876, In commemora-
ton of the hundredth anniversary of
Americas Independence, was formally
opened on the platform of the great
engine in Machinery Hall. OF this
mighty machine George Henry Corhss
was the inventor and builder, and it
was he, standing between Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brazil, and General Grant,
President OF the United States, who
moved the lever that put it and all the
machinery of the great Exhibition in
motion. Dom Pedro was IN appear
ance one of the most imperial of men,
all kingly dignity and easy, graceful and
modest assurance of power nobly used,
being his. If throughout the worlds
long line of monarchs any of them has
borne without abuse the name of one.
he, on that occasion, did. Beside him
was the Tanner President, and the me-
chanic and inventor, not less kingly in
their respective representative charac
terS the fret aS chief pf this GREAT Re-
public, the other as the working man
whose genius and enterprise impaired
to work dignity not less than that Of
kings.
On that same evening these three
great representative men met together
at the table of private citizen Mr..
George w. Chllds.