Evening star., 1936-11-01


Lovejoy pounded each other q while,
then closed and wrestled until one
of them slipped and they fell in the
mud together. Shipley proved too ac-
tive for his adversary and succeeded
in getting on top of him, when he
instantly felt for Lovejoy's eyes. which
he smeared full Of mud. The crowd
then parted them, raised Lovejoy up
and proceeded to wash the mud from
his eyes and face; but, alas! Lovejoy
was blind man for the remainder of
his days. Since then I have seen
him led about the streets Of George
town by a boy. With Shipley, who
was tailor and lived in Georgetown.
I was well acquainted"
THE population Of Georgetown at
this time included 1898 whites
and 731 slaves, and in Washington
there were 2.464 whites and 623
slaves and 1913 free colored people.
There were also in Washington at
this time 109 brick houses and 263
wooden houses in a habitable state
and 70 brick structures and 35 frame
buildings in an unfinished state.
These figures, of course, as we look
backward to the visit here Of Tom
Moore in 1904, seems to have justified
that poet in referring to the Capital
of our Nation as the city of magnifi-
cent distances"
1t has been said that the present
campaign, now almost at an end,
would be a dirty one-a statement
which would apply in a more or less
degree to all the campaigns we have
ever had, and many of us recall when
presidential candidates have been ac-
cused of most everything under the
sun, including immortality. Lincoln's
opponents accused him of having col.
ored blood, and poor Andrew Jackson
never forgave, to his dying day, the
traducers of his wife. whom he loved
dearly. Fortunately, nothing Of this
nature has cropped up in this CAM
paign and after it is all over there
will not be the same justification for
any personal grudges or everlasting
hatred.
Seemingly, both Adams and Jeffer-
son were accused, in the campaigns
of 1900, OF not being patriotic. Same
man in Frederick County. Md. even
wrote a letter-which was used for
political purpose by the opposite
party-in which he stated that he
heard Adams say that he expected to
see the day when the people Of
America would not be happy without
an hereditary Chief Magistrate and
Senate-or at least during lfe," and
Samuel Harrison Smith, editor Of the
National InteIligencer, in defending
the author of the Declaration OF 1nde-
pendence, or in order to call attention
to that great mans intense patriotism.
quotes jefferson in his "Notes on Viz
ginia," where, as indicated, he makes
these statements about the forming
of the Constitution Of his own State:
In enumerating the defects OF the
Constitution it would be wrong to
count among them what is only the
error of particular persons. In De-
cember, 1776, our circumstances being
much distressed. 1t was proposed In
the House of Delegates to create a
dictator, invested with every power
legislative, executive and judiciary,
civil and military, Of life and death.
over our persons and over our prop
critics; and in June, 1871, again under
calamity, the same proposition was
repeated, and wanted few votes only
Of being passed.
"ONE who entered into this con-
~ test from a pure love Of liberty,
and a sense Of injured rights, who
determined to make every sacrifice,
and to meet every danger, for the re-
establishment of these rights on a
firm basis, who did not mean to ex-
pend his blood and substance for the
wretched purpose Of changing this
master for that. but to place the pow
ers of governing him in a plurality
of hands of his own choice, so that
the corrupt will of no one man might
in future Cypress him, must stand
confounded and dismayed when he is
told that a considerable portion Of
that plurality had meditated the sur
render of them into single hand,
and, in lieu Of limited monarchy,
to deliver him over to despotic