THE DAfti EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY, DECEMBER ! 8, 1808.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
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PPON CPBBBRT TOPICS COMPILKO EVBBT
PAT FOB TH BVE5IS0 TBLBUHA.PH.
Mr. Jonckos' Clrll horfico Bill.
from the N. T. Herald.
Mr. Jenclxcs lias tyvut a great deal of. time
unnecessarily ou Lis Civil EServioe bill. The
only feature of any value in It la that of put
ting candidates for oflk'o through an examina
tion to teat their fitness. But this can be done
now without any special aut of Congress.
Every secretary or head of a department has
the power now of establishing a system of
thorough examination, and the President could
order that to be djne at any time. It Is an
ad mini at rati re prrognivp, just an it is the
right and duty of the managing man of any
business house to ascertain the fitness of clerks
lrbre he employs them. A3 to removal from
ofiice, that ought to be left to the 1'resideut
and h's secretaiie, where the power always
existed until the Tenure of OUlce bill was
KMielcnt administration depends npon the
ret ponf ibiiity bAug placed in the heads of
the Government; but under the Tenure of
Ollioe bill or Mr. .louckes' Civil Service bill
the subordinates are in a measure indepandent.
The bill of Mr. .Teuckes is altogether nuneces
fary. All that is needed is the repeal of the
Tenure of flioe law. Thus untrammelled, tho
new administration under General Grant will
be as well disciplined and elective as the
recular army. The General will hold the
sn retaries retponsible, and they again their
chiefs of bureaus. There is no way of restoring
the pnblio service to anything like honesty
and efficiency but this. General Grant caa be
trusted, and is just the man to organize a
good administrative system if not hindered by
the intermeddling of Congress. The Tenure
of ( Mice bill should be repealed at once, then,
and the track cleared for the new Tresident.
Military Hammers.
From "Brick" 2'omeroy's N. Y. Democrat. '
There has been a gathering at Chicago
called an "Army Reunion," but really a mu
tual admiration society, the principal business
of which was to try to give themselves noto
riety, and keep up the illusion that they had
been of some service to the country, by that
kind of ' blowing" bo characteristic of army
bummers.
It is a poor time to attempt this kind of
thing, when the war is demonstrated to have
been an unmitigated evil, and ha3 left the
trail of its curse as distinctly marked upon
government, finances, society, industry, and
prosperity, as waa Sherman's ruthless march
npon homesteads and plantations iu Georgia.
Aside from the leading object of endeavoring
to impress upon the pnblio mind the idea that
they are persons of great merit, the memory
of whose deeds must not be permitted to die
out and to make sure of this with character
istic modesty, taking it upon themselves to
do their own 'blowing" they assume to in
struct the country upon the science of politics.
The master-spirit of this game is Teoumseh
the Second the Great Torch-bearer who,
with the cunning of insanity and the wicked
ness of the Arch-fiend, wantonly and gratui
tously, in violation of the rules of civilized
warfare, and without the excuse of military
neoesbity or advantage, destroyed the dwell
ings and food aud plundered the valuables of
the non-combatant inhabitants of two whole
btates, leaving old men, women, and children
to euiier from exposure and perish from want,
and refined and delicate females, in not a few
instances, experiencing an infinitely worse
fate at the hands of the licensed and brutal
ravishers whom he set on to teach the people
of the South what war meant, as dictated by
the hell-born spirit which he let loose in his
"march to the sea."
lie shows that he knew nothing of the char
acter of the contest when he engaged in it,
and that he has learned nothing since. He
still talks about having "fought for the Union"
a fallacy that events long since exploded as
conclusively as it can be demonstrated that the
war was brought on for the purpose of destroy
ing slavery, aud that with that object it was
prosecuted at every step after its commence
ment, and not to preserve the Union, which
would never have been endangered had not
slavery been unconstitutionally menaced.
lie displays equal intelligence and good
taste when he denounoes what he calls "the
pernicious doctrine of State power." This
"State power" is what the fathers who
founded our institutions regarded as the great
bulwark of free government. And yet this
chief of hummers attempts flippantly to sneer
it down as a ' pernicious doctrine." If his dis
honorable life be drawn out many years longer,
he will see how vain are such sneers from such
a eouroe.
But the superlativeness of his ignorance appears-in
the remark, as he doubtless intends
to apply it, that "you may search history In
vain for a more flagrant violation of faith than
that which resulted in our civil war." This
charge is direoted against the South, but in that
application it is supremely false and unjust.
But turned in the opposite direction, and it is
true, most true, and would admit of much
greater severity of expression.
Does not this frantio ravagnr in war and
bold Unuderer in peace know that the people
of the South had, prior to the war, a property
eual in value to the public debt of the United
Statec, as doubled by overstatement to feed
the creed of the usurers to whom it was con
tracted, and to destroy whioh property the
war waa brought on and the debt created ?
That that property was held under State law,
aud that its security, 60 far as co-State and
Federal aotion was concerned, as well as
against domestic iu-urrectiou, was guaranteed
by the Constitution of the United States ?
And that by a series of acts of tligraut bad
faith, many of those co-States had instigated
that very douiesuo Insurrection which,
throuch their Federal agent, they were biund
to aid in suppressing; had refused to enforce
certain essential provisions of the Constitution.
resting in compact between all the States,
allectiug the safety and value of the specie)
Ot property reterred to; had passed laws
obstrncting the enforcement by the Federal
authorities of other provisions of the
Constitution having a similar bearing; aui
finally, that the people of those recusant
States had organized a political party whose
sole idea, object, and efforts were directed to
the destruction of that great property interest
iu the South, and of the system of labor and
order of society bated upon it, and that this
party bad gained an election which would
place in its hands the whole enginery of the
l't-deral Uovernment, to be wielded for Its ne
farious and destructive ends. Up to that
point, when all hope seemed to be lost of
peace or safety, me south had borne am for
borne, hoping at every stage of the mad
career of "these infernal fanatics" that
reason would resume its sway in the public
mind, and fraternal feeling be restored to the
Learts of the Northern people. But all in
Tain. Matters only grew worse and worse
Finally the case became desperate, as above
stated. Then, and not till then, did the
Southern peonle, seeing that the Constitution
cou'd no longer be depeided upon a a shield
against encroachment and violence, and tliat
the Federal Oovernmefit, the common agnnt I
of all the Slates, was about to be made the in-1
Htrnment of their destruction, Viae and protest
gainst this most "Hugraut violation of faith"
paralleled only by the base and perfidious
breaking of the treaty of Limerick by William
of Orange and bis fcuocessors on the British
throne, and take such measures as they
deemed necefsary for the preservation of their
property and the maintenance of their liber
ties. They failed, not from lack of Justloe in
their course, but because the brute force of a
subsidized world was too strong for the "few
but undismayed',' heroes, "who wore the
grey." But these facts, not one of which cau
be successfully controverted, will enter into
history, and compel a verdict for the right in
spite of all such "army reunions" as that
lately held at Chicngo, and of the rccklecs as
pertions of ignorant and crack-brained warrlor3
like this modern Teoumseh.
IniproTiiisr Condition of Hie Soiilli.
From the N. Y. Time$.
A more hopeful feeling is rapidly spreading
throughout several of the Southern States,
whose restoration to the Union has been com
pleted. The subsidence of political exoitement
has li en followed by a calm review of tho
situation; and this, again, by a conviction that
material prosperity is wilhiu the easy roach
of the people. They have found ont, too,
that a little ellort will pay, aud are addressing
thvmselves to practical measures with an
earnestness that promises the happiest results.
The generally improved oonditiou of the
cotton-growers is stated and explained by the
Mobile licyisUr. Now, for the first time in
their lives', they are really their own misters.
Before the war, they were deeply and per
petually in debt. Their expenditures were
always in advance of their crop, which were
pledged to their factors. From the bottomless
pit of debt they have been extricated by
adversity. Without credit, they were com
pelled to pinch and economize. The result is
a habit of thrift to which they weie previously
strangers, and the product of the last crop iu
their own pockets instead of those of the
middlemen. Notwithstanding all disadvan
tages, therefore, as the Register admits, the
plauters of Alabama are better oil thau for
j ears rast, while their industry rests upon a
sounder foundation than it has ever had before..
Our Georgii correspondent has shown that
in that State, also, a decided change has
occurred in the right direction. The planters
and farmers are satisfied with the returns of
theyer. They have discovered that depen
dence on the soil is more profitable than de
pendence on the Democratic party, and are
prudently inclined to make the best of advan
tages under their control. It is not clear that
they have fully learned how to render imme
diately available their unoccupied lands, or to
tempt into their midst the diversified iudustry
for which their State is admirably adapted.
But a good deal is gained when they confess
the want, and seriously consider in what man
ner it may be satisfied. This point gained, we
may hopefully look for a more correct under
standing of the circumstances which must
precede any large influx of Northern skill or
capital. With this capital they may, per
haps, dispense. Left to themselves in this
respect, their progress will be slower than
otherwise it might be; but still it is possible,
and may be sure. Additions to the popula
tion are, however, indispensable, and whether
these be had from the Northern States or from
abroad, the measures adopted to iuduc9 them
must be broad and just. If the good sense of
Georgia will assert itself so far as to cut the
knot tied by its Legislature on the negro ques
tion, ana to recognize as essential the condi
tions which have made the growth of the
West a marvel to the world, they may restore
to the btate its old preeminence iu the south
Quite as encouraging is the new aspeot
borne by south Carolina. There, it anywhere,
we might expeot to find depression. The pre
ponderance of the colored element, and the
unyielding attitude assumed by the whites,
were causes of difficulty not easily overesti
mated, lint even these are rapidly losing
their dangerous charaoter. The despondency
they originally occasioned has disappeared,
and plans are in operation which promise to
secure the development of resources that have
been too long neglected, and the extension of
railway facilities which will contribute greatly
to the commercial importance ot the btate
The recent judicious course of influential
planters has tended to improve the credit of
the btate, whose means are being made the
basis of material improvement. The climatic
advantages of the higher distriots, and the
evident disposition to make them the seat of
industries to which they have hitherto baen
strangeis, are further reasons for the increased
confidence which the white citizens now dis
Play.
The same self relianoe whioh leads South
Carolina to projeot great internal improve
ments, and which prompts Georgia to increased
attention to the resources at her command, Is
in some degree apparent in Eastern Tennessee
and parts of North Carolina. Both are States
rich in natural advantages, and needing only
the assuranoe of peaoe to grow rapidly in
population and wealth, bowhexe on the con
tinent are agricultural and mineral resources
more happily blended than in Tennessee;
nowhere is there a finer field for manufactur
ing industry, or one in which enterprise would
be more bountifully rewaided. It is satisfac
tory to know that the fact is beginning to be
appreciated by the people of the State, aud
tha, despite the drawbacks incident to a law
lees ppirit, its undeveloped wealth is gradually
attracting attention.
Keverdy on his Kites.
From the N. Y. 7'ribune.
If anything more were required to justify
Mr. Smallev's letttr upon our Minister to
England it would be found iu Mr. .lohusou's
last publication. The sententious cable tells
us:
''Mr. Johr son j.i llllvs liH fi leudlv Intercourse
vt lib I i ii ul 1:11.1 ot U r g'jui If men lileuilly to the
(Soul li tit) ii UK tlw ut6 civil wat' In A uiei lea, by
I lie : iiirile f (.iencriiH Grant iintl Slieriuan
in iboir tteainifrtilof ex Hi bel nlH.ieii 8. If be is
Ituilly t f t ' esiKon so h',m me (ir.int and Shur
luiiD. (J.Ti r.il Grant lies eiitei t lined at, his
own lr use a dlstlnnulH'ieil l!ontH''eiite leader.
He tthcnles the ulucks upon lilm, iu the
Auoei icnu uewt pa pun ami elsewhere, to a secret
ctiblikn for the pi-enervation of peaceful rela
Hold between the two countries."
The charge whioh Mr. Smalley brings against
Mr. Keverdy Johnson is tha', as the repre
sentative of the American Government, he
has ostentatiously sought to do honor to men
who have been conspicuous for their enmity
to America. Mr. Johnson confesses this, but
nukes a plea in bar of judgment, lie has
done nothing that General Grant would not
do, and he is attacked by the newspapers here
because we have a "secret dislike" to peaoe
with England t
Mr. Johnson went to England under circum
stances of more than ordinary distinction. lie
had been many years in public life. During
the war he was as much of a Union man as
could be expected from a Maryland politician.
A Demoorat, and the nominee of a Demooratio
l'resident, he had been unanimously confirmed
by a Republican Senate. lie wa3 preemi
nently the ambassador of the people. We dii
not send him to the British Co art as a party
man, but as an American, charged to defend
the honor of his country, and preserve, as far
as possible, peacelul relations with Euglaui.
Above all things, it was hoped that his wis
dom, his experience, . and his conservative
tern perament would do much to wards removing
every traoe of ill-will between the two coun
tries, and settling all questions at issue,
especially the questions arising oat of the
depredations of the mulsh vessel Alabama.
We presumed he would - meet many English
men who did not sympathize with ua during
the war. He would most probably be brought
into relations with Lsrd Rnesell, who made
such swift haste to give rebellion belligerent
rights, and to humiliate us after the accidental
capture of Mason and Slldell. We felt sure
he would have conferences with Mr. Glad
stone, whose imagination om e soared into a
rhetorical recognition or the Southern Con
federacy and the exaltation of Mr. Davis to
the rulership of a sovereigu people. We did
not require him to make any distinctions in
his treatment of the buglish people basea
upon their feelings towards the North and
bonth. 'Jliere were two classes of i.og-
lishmeu those like Mr. Gladstone, whose
fancy, or perhaps whose prejudice,
had swept theru in'.o an iudiscreet
fondneES for Hue Southern people, especially
for types of men like "Stonewall" Jackson.
With them wo had merely au intellectual dif
ference of opinion, which events have deter
mined. There were those who not only sym
pathized with the South, but even went so fur
as to trangresa the laws of hugland to give the
South a'd. T Ley did not even have the pior
merit which belongs to Jeffersou Davit, of be
lieving that they were au oppressed people
struggling for freedom. But for money, for
hatied because they saw in the downfall of
the American Republfo another arumnut
against progress and liberty thym vi'jtheui-
stlves the tints of an armed Kbeinou aut
the enemies ef the Uuited Stas !
Mr. Laird was a conrpicuou-i example. Iu
dtiianceof the orders ot theUietu he biik
vessels to destroy the oommerce of America.
Many a good ship went down uuder thsir
guns. Lord Wliarnclille was prominently a
leader of the English auti-American senti
ment, and accepted the chairmanship of a so
ciety avowedly established to aid the Rebel
lion. Mr. Roebuck, in his violent, coarse way,
was the lusty champion of Rebellion la the
House of Commons, liis enmity took him all
the way to Paris to coax the French Emperor
to interfeie in behalf of tho South. Here were
three Englishmen who were as much in the
Rebel interest a3 though they had taken up
arms under General Lee. Mr. Johnson's mis
sion might bring him into relations with them
No one expeoted that he would exhibit the
least discourtesy. What the duty of hts omoe
required waVproper, aud nothing more. But
the duty of his office certainly did not re
quire him to meet them in friendship, to
make them speeches of adulation; to single
out Lord harnchlla as a mm dear to
America, to publicly welcome Mr. Roebuck
as his friend, eveu while he assailed
America with a disgusting criticism.
aud to proudly salute Mr. Laird before a ooin-
pany ol i.nglieh gentlemen. All this Reverly
Johnson did, aud when the cable flashed to us
the story of his deeds every Americans blushed
with shame. It is no excuse to quote the ex
ample ot General Wrant There is a vast dif
ference between the attentions ehowu to Gaue
ral Lorgstreet by the Presidentelect and those
showered upon Mr. Laird. General Lougstreet
is a soidier who fought in a mistaken cause,
who was beaten, and who aocepted defeat like
a soldier and a gentleman, lie used his in Ha
ence to restore peace. He had risked his life
for what he believed to be his duty. Mr,
Laird risked his money for what his Queen
told him was a crime, and in a contest in
which he had neither part nor lot. He sent
out ships to destroy the commercs of a nation
with which he was at peace. He was a mere
pirate cowering under the Kuslish naff. Nay,
if he had even been a pirate, he might at least
have courageously accepted the risks which
the Alabama encountered Oil' the coast of
France, and enforced the respect which is ever
due to courage.
We would do no harm to these gentlemen
All we expected from our minister was that
he should cross over to the other side, and
permit them to go their way. We regard him
as a man unmindful of the dignity and self-
respect of an American Minister. He is no
ambassador of ours. He is a mere salaried
adventurer, who has forfeited his position.
and is in no sense the representative of the
United States. And when Mr. Johnson
ascribes this sentiment to "a secret dislike for
the preservation of peaceful relations between
the two countries," She makes his position
forlorn and pitiful. We honor the great Eag
lish nation. So far as our poor influence has
gone, we have labored for harmony aud peace
and unity. The l-.ugland of 13 right and Cob
den is a glorious nationality, and its flag has
long been the emblem of civilization and jus
tice.
We have criticized her policy, and especially
the policy which has oppressed Ireland; but in
this we have only joined with her most
trusted statesmen. The England of Laird and
Wharnolllie and Roebuck deserves no respect,
no conslderatian, no friendship. For Mr
Johnson to seek out and oovor it with his
eulogies and adulation, and publicly em
brace it, is as much an insult to America as it
would be in the eyes of Englishmen for Sir
Edward Thornton to do honor to Mr. John
Savage or Mr. George Francis Train.
Mr. Johnson evidently feels this. His
humility is touching. There are some sins
1 hut cannot be forgiven, aud these he has
committed. His uselulre-s as a Minister is at
au end. Wheu ambassadors find it necessary
to go down upon their knees they had better
ci me home.
II. 11. at Ottawa.
From the N. Y. World.
Who taida"Biiton dearly loves a lord '
lie was a narrow minded noodle whoever he
was. F'or it is not the Briton as Briton, but
the Union as a mau and a brother who loves
a lord. II. G. is no Biiton. II. G. is a mau
and a brother. Yet see how II. G. loves a
lord; nay, not only a lord, but even a baronet;
nor a baronet only, but even a xntght baa
neiet, who is of no nearer kin to a lord than
this, that the wives of both shall be called "my
lady"!
Here has one Sir John Young, doubtless a
most estimable person as Britons and knights
banneret and K. C. B.'s iu this poor world go,
yet simply Sir John Youug, come all the way
from Australia to be "inauiiurated'as Gover
nor-General and Vioeroy iu and over her Bri
tannio Majesty's Dominion of Canada. The
ceremonies celebrated upon the occasion in the
brand-new Canadian capital of Ottawa were pro
bably quite as pretty aud as pompous as the
resources of Ottawa, of the Dominion of
Canada, of Sir John Young, and the northern
temperate zone Wwuld allow them to be. The
interest taken in thoee ceremonies by the rest
of mankind could hardly have been expected,
either by the Dominion of Canada, or Sir John
Young, or by the British empire, to be of a
positively feverish kind. But U. G., whether
moved by his innate passion for pomps and
ceremonies or by the stirrings or that new di
plomatio ambition which now boils iu hit
bucolio bosom, could not be happy unless he
beheld with his own eyes and with his own
pen described the august scene. Bo we have
it all set forth in the Tribune. Aud in what
maetillcent style I
"If ever the good people of Ottawa," be
gins the exalted theme, "were supremely
happy, It was yesterday, when they turned
out with loyal heartiness to welcome, en
max?, the new Governor-General of the Ca
nadian Dominion." Observe the adrott con
ciliation in this opening sentence of the proper
radical civility to the multitude, with a side
suggestion to the upper classes that "this sort
of thing, you know," is the "regular thing,
you know," and "doesn't mean anything, you
know." it was not the "People of Ottawa,
with a large i', who were "supremely happy."
it was me "good people," whioh is a patroni
zing, condescending kind of phrase, like "my
good woman," and "reauy now, my good
man," aud implies, we fear, the same sort of
aristooratio conviction that "goodness."
in and of itself, is a poor vulgar quality,
which luika in the use in the Mid lie Ages
of the word "innocents" for "idiota," and iu
the modern Continential corruption of "ClirS-
inn," or "Christian, " into "Ortm." as a
designation for those whom Heaven, by de
priving tnem of their wits, hta condemned to
be harmless. But last Sir John Young might
be angered by seeing it stated that his fortu
nate ad vent to power had pleased the populace
only, tie Trihunt makes haste to add that the
'snpreme happiness of the occasion wa par
ticularly felt by the "arir.tooraey, with their
high-sounding titles." We did not knoiv that
the "Dominion of Cauada" possessed a peer
age. But perhaps a few Canadian barons,
aud here aud there among the British officers
a lord, a baronet, or a lord's son, may have
gractd the auiiciou3 hour, aud eveu for
these comparatively small favors II. G. is
tlianklul, awaiting that more glorious mo
ment when a tide of titles, titles of dukes aai
of eailj, of marchionesses and of countesses
a truly "hiBh-souudiug" tide shall be rolled
in waves of musio upon the thrilled au I en
raptured ear of the fust radical envoy to tho
Court of bt. James.
For he shows himself to huve a delicate ap
preciation of the great charm whichlies in the
cnsceiKio of sensations. lie is not merely a
lover, he is a posi'ive voluptuary of pomp3
and vanities. Thus, in the first mention which
he makes of the hero of the great event at Ot
tawa, he contents himself with styling Sir
John Young "the distinguished Viceroy." A
tew lines further on he strikes a higher key,
and quivers with incipient ecstasy as he
epefck- of the "Royal Representative," height
ening the delicious emotion by a side-dig at
the "forces of nature" for their insensibility
to the glories of the occasion. "Nature," he
observes, "did noi hesitate to turn to the Royal
Representative her most rugged aud cheerless
side." Suoh oonduct on the part of "Nature"
was certainly most reprehensible, if not posi
tively indecent. But then nature, as Mr.
Stiueers has wisely remarked Nature "is a
rum th ns." One never knows what nature
may or may not do, even in the presenoe of a
"lioyal Representative." iNature, through
the Duke of Yendume, played queer tricks,
St. S mon tells us, even.in the presence of the
Papal Nuncio.
But Nature's disrespeot only deepened the
hoiripgo of U. G. W hen Sir John Young next
moves upon the glowing canvas, it is not
merely as "a distinguished Viceroy," nor yet
only as a "Royal Representative." Ho towers
full statured and sublime,
"An Illustrious Chief!"
But let us not mar the picture by a partial
presentation. The "illustrious Chief" comes
in, like the King Uambrinua at the Lieder-
kranz balls, preceded by a wild glory of flags
and musio, of scarlet faces and flashing
weapons of snow aud ice, of sunshine and
small beer, of gas and gaiters ! All the bells
in Ottawa ring out welcome, all the church
spires "contain a full supply of streamers,"
wLich, we may remark, was doubtless an
oversight of the sextons, who, instead of
hanging out their banners on the outer walls
to be seen of men, ran out themselves to see
the passing pageant, and so forgot the duty
imposed upon them, aud left the flags "con
tained" in the belfries. This was happily not
the case with the "Grand Cathedral." From
that imposing ediiioe, "far above the highest
decoration, the red and white banner of St.
George, with its fierce dragon, fluttered madly
in the wintry wind." This must have been an
attempt to oombine the Chinese standard with
the standard of Great Britain, and as suoh will,
we hope, be made a note of and duly honored
by Mr. Burlingame and his comrades.
JNo wonder that, in response to suoh in
spiring appeals to all that Is noblest in the
human heart, "everybody" the "good peo
ple" and the "high-sounding aristocracy,"
and II. G. and the "illustrious Chief" soon
became "as happy as fairies." The soul of
a. G. even relented towards "Nature," and
Nature, ashamed of herself, faced about
towards the "illustrious Chief" and tried to
make amends for her previous gross conduot
by turning upholsterer and putting down a
snowy Aubusson for the company to move
upon. Her penitent efforts H. G. thus hand
somely acknowledges:-
"For the beauty and brilliancy of the pageant
the good people of Ottawa were a thousand
Hints more Indebted to nature than art, for she
had laid ber wblte carpet on which all could
tread noiselessly. The road by wdloh his Ex
cellency waa to arrive was lined with pine trees,
the brunches of whlcli almost touched each
oiher. Hir John was eeooried from bltr-own
lodge. The numerous order aud societies that
occupied mom of the spnee it would be tiresome
to ii ur rule. It Is enough to state that every
KHint was lully rerreeeuied. Tbere were ICag-
lien, lrisn. anu hcoicu sainis, ana not a row
Kiencb ones. I'lirtly aldermen with their
btftves looked und behaved very important. At
nut nib excellency's mcgn came iu eigni oi tne
firm, triumphal nrou, which was handsomely
ft. Honed wl'h evergreens und pines, and sur
mounted wltli the lojul arms. Tills was the
welcoming arch, and hh the proud aud baud
no me face of I lie Illustrious chief was upturned
to selute the standaid I he vnst innlllliide uu
cov red, and cheer alter cheer made the very
eariu, irtinu.e."
Alter this II. G. becomes a mere kaleido
scope. Mats' vibiou, which caused him to
exclaim,
"Io ! I ruuat tell a tale of chivalry,
for large wune plumes are uunciuRin my eyo,"
was stupid and commonplace in comparison
with the things which 11. G. saw and heard in
Ottawa. "Lovely and accomplished women,"
"brave and polished ojurtiers," "gilded
armies," "veteran soldiers," "petite blondes,
with heavenly blue eyes and charming angelic
elightness," "majestic and stately brunettes,
with long and sweeping lashes aud lustrous
black eyes," "ravishing strains and vibrations
of rich musio," "bewildering Bweetness,"
love-whispers from a vine-clad grotto," all
these in rapid succession rushed upon his
dazed and dancing soul in the Parliament
Halls of Ottawa.
'i he gorgeous (sic) star aud collar of the
Bath Cross" (Sir John Young, being only a
Knight Commander, wore the ' Grand Cross,"
we piesnine, iu consideration of his being "au
illustrious Chief) was the last thing which
flashed upon the expiring eyes of our great
radical leader. That fiulshed him: (and so,
like the vision of Mrs. Hominy, his "vision
faded."
It must have been lovely while it lasted. It
is a bleeBed privilege even to read about it iu
the 'Jrilume at this distance from this "su
premely happy" scene. But if all this ner
vous force of feeling was consumed over the
imagination of "au illustrious' chief" at
Ottawa, where, oh where is II. G., who dis
believes iu all stimulants to reouperate his
faculties of admiration and his stores of adjeo
tives for the "inauguration" of auother "illus
trious chief " at Washington I
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