Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-09

makes them soon forget anv awkward bashful.
ness which they might at first feel. Happy. in.
| deed. will be the lot Of our highly favored
country if she can preserve the purity and SIM
plici.y of her political institutions and find such
men as Thomas Jefferson to conduct her adj
| nlnlstratiOn.
| ATEA PARTY At GEN. DEARBoRS's.
I'm the evening l vent to a tea party at Gen.
DeaIborn's, tie Secretary of War The party
was very large; there were present a great
| many ladies and as great display of beauty as
could be met with in Washington. Mrs. Madi-
| son asked me whether did not intend to bring
you here. After tea and coffee there
/ was a little ball in one room and
cards in another. / did not dance.
| / felt not the slightest inclination. looked
on for a few minutes, but felt no exhiara-
ton. / began to feel a little melan-
choly and sat down to dissipate it with the
speaker Mrs Nicholson. and the controller of
| the treasury, to play whist We played several
games and neither lost nor won About HIS
started home"
| COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
A little later read Of proceedings anala-
gous to some Of our own day and Congress
March 5, 1906. We are now engaged
In discussing resolution of Mr. Gregg to cut
off the importation of goods from Great Britain
and her dependencies. Mr.. Randolph is now
speaking. As / shall be good deal engaged
you must excuse my writing a longer letter"
Next day is this: March 6, 1896. We are
again engaged in the discussion of
Mr.. Gregg's resolution. which is to
prohibit all importation of Great Britain and
her dependencies. Yesterday we had a very elo-
quent and energetic speech from Mr.. Randolph.
Our friend --, who knows as much of the
sub ject as he does of what is going in the
moon, has takrn a great many notes and l am
told intends making a long speech on the
occasion. / am sorry to find that
the old mans vanity has run away with
his discretion. Some of his neighbors in the
House have, for their own amusement con-
tinued to persuade him that he is very Won
derful man. and he. poor man. has swallowed
it all without making a wry face. The coase-
quence Of this has been that he has been
Fostering US with speeches upon almost every
question But. peace be with him. he is honest
and means well. Five days later they were still
on the same matter.
sNsrch H. lsO6. . We are still en-
gagged on Mr.. Gregg's resolution, and in
deed there never was a subject so ham
mered and wire drawn as this. Our friend
has made one foolish speech and is pre-
pairing another. There are others who
have if possible less knowledge of the subject
who have attempted to elucidate il but have as
yet produced no light, but rather darkness
visible. Pity me. that am obliged to listen
to stuff for which schoolboy would deserve
to be whipped. hope, however. we shall soon
finish this discussion has already consumed
a week" They found matters to discuss
enough to keep them going some weeks longer,
but at last he was able to say: april 10, 1906.
i wrote to you yesterday and had the salts
fabtiOn of informing you that we shall adjourn
on Monday next. Many reasons of a
political nature also induce me to rejoice
at the termination Of the present
session. We have had SO many instances of
abject seryility, so many instances of personal
pique influencing the votes and conduct of a
mn her f atur hp hay 10
IN the present Congress, that 1 am confident
that nothing good can arise from our
stay here. The few proceedings which
are in their nature calculated to add
to the public welfare are opposed on personal
grounds, not became they are either not I'M
derstood or doubtful, but because they have
not originated with particular men. From such
a system OF politics and from such politicians
hope the good sense Of the people will ulti-
mately deliver US. If it does not We
must be contented with endeavoring to
do our duty, and if we cannot sue
coed must console ourselves with the con-
sclousnesS that II Is not our fault. / do not
pretend to be either wiser or better than the
generality OF other men, but judging by the
conduct of the motives of many persons here,
do not know whether to conclude that they
are knayes or fools, or n compound of
both. You will be apt to infer from
this strain of writing that / am not
at present in the best of tempers. must
COuAess tlldt IaDOr unuer considerable lrrlta-
ton when 1 find the time which
ought TO be employed in devising means
OF doing the important business of
the nation wasted in trif,ing, and projects OF
real and great national advantage treated with
as little, and even less respect than matters of
mere local nature. have little patience left
when see that these things are. 1 am sick of
being here, and when nv public duty will per-
init me to leave this place shall travel as rap
idly as possible"
TO PHILADELPHIA BIZ STAGE.
Here is how he proposed to rush to Phila-
del hia, not having any Pennsylvania railroad
fast train or Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue
line:
April II. 1861 have taken my seat in
the stage for Baltimore for Tuesday morning
and shall consequently leave Washington at
that time. Whether 1 shall be able to proceed
on immediately from Baltimore to Phiadel-
phla In the land stage or not is uncertain, from
the great number of passengers who will be
going on at that time. Should 1 not be able
to proceed by land l shall take my passage in
the water stage by the way of Frenchtown and
Newcastle. In this case / will write to you
from baltimore"
How delightful to travel by .'water stage"
at such a breathless rate that letter could be
sent by the ordinary land stage from Baltimore
ana announce our coming dear knows how long
before the actual arrival. CECIL CLAY.
NOTHING MUCH IN 1T.