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Borneo (search for this): chapter 27
professing to be such, believe more and do less. The only other banquet at which Mr. Greeley was a guest in London during his first visit, was the dinner of the Fishmonger's Company. There he heard a harangue from Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Borneo. From reading, he had formed the opinion that the Rajah was doing a good work for civilization and humanity in Borneo, but this impression was not confirmed by the ornate and fluent speech delivered by him on this occasion. During Mr. GreeleBorneo, but this impression was not confirmed by the ornate and fluent speech delivered by him on this occasion. During Mr. Greeley's stay in London, the repeal of the taxes on knowledge was agitated in and out of parliament. Those taxes were a duty on advertisements, and a stamp-duty of one penny per copy on every periodical containing news. A parliamentary committee, consisting of eight members of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. T. Milnor Gibson, Messrs. Tufnell, Ewart, Cobden, Rich, Adair, Hamilton, and Sir J. Walmsey, had the subject under consideration, and Mr. Greeley, as the representative of the only untrammel
Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 27
eous, obliging, generous and humane, eager to enjoy, but willing that all the world should enjoy with them; but at the same time, they are impulsive, fickle, sensual and irreverent. Paris, the paradise of the senses, contained tens of thousands who could die fighting for liberty, but no class who could even comprehend the idea of the temperance pledge!! The poor of Paris seemed to suffer less than the poor of London; but in London there were ten philanthropic enterprises for one in Paris. In Paris he saw none of that abject servility in the bearing of the poor to the rich which had excited his disgust and commiseration in London. A hundred princes and dukes attract less attention in Paris than one in London; for Democracy triumphed in the drawing-rooms of Paris before it had erected its first barricade in the streets; and once more the traveler marvels at the obliquity of vision, whereby any one is enabled, standing in this metropolis, to anticipate the subversion of the Republic.
Piedmont (Italy) (search for this): chapter 27
hen perhaps you washed your face and hands. Well, it would be just like me. O, then, that's it! The half franc was for the basin and towel. Ah, oui, oui. So the milk in that cocoanut was accounted for. Anecdotes are precious for biographical purposes. This is a little story, but the reader may infer from it something respecting Horace Greeley's manners, habits, and character. The morning of June the twentieth found the diligence rumbling over the beautiful plain of Piedmont towards Turin. Horace Greeley was in Italy. One of the first observations which he made in that enchanting country was, that he had never seen a region where a few sub-soil plows, with men qualified to use and explain them, were so much wanted! Refreshing remark! The sky of Italy had been overdone. At length, a traveler crossed the Alps who had an eye for the necessities of the soil. Mr. Greeley spent twenty-one days in Italy, paying flying visits to Turin, Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Pa
Devonshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 27
empts the virtue of a poor author. In the afterpiece, however, in which the novelist personated in rapid succession a lawyer, a servant, a gentleman and an invalid, the acting seemed perfect, and the play was heartily enjoyed throughout. Mr. Greeley thought, that the raw material of a capital comedian was put to a better use when Charles Dickens took to authorship. It was half-past 12 when the curtain fell, and the audience repaired to a supper room, where the munificence of the Duke of Devonshire had provided a superb and profuse entertainment. I did not venture, at that hour, says the traveler, to partake; but those who did would be quite unlikely to repent of it —till morning. He left the ducal mansion at one, just as the violins began to give note of coming melody, to which nimble feet were eager to respond. The eightieth birthday of Robert Owen was celebrated on the fourteenth of May, by a dinner at the Colbourne hotel, attended by a few of Mr. Owen's personal friends, amo
Notre Dame (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
elilahcraft he had never before encountered. To comprehend an Englishman, he says, follow him to the fireside; a Frenchman, join him at the opera, and contemplate him during the performance of the ballet, of which France is the cradle and the home. Though no practitioner, he adds, I am yet a lover of the dance; but the attitudes and contortions of the ballet are disagreeable and tasteless, and the tendency of such a performance as he that night beheld, was earthy, sensual, and develish. Notre Dame he thought not only the finest church, but the most imposing edifice in Paris, infinitely superior, as a place of worship, to the damp, gloomy, dungeon-like Westminster Abbey. The Hotel de Ville, like the New York City Hall, lacks another story. In the Palace of Versailles, he saw fresh proofs of the selfishness of king-craft, the long-suffering patience of nations, and the necessary servility of Art when patronized by royalty. He wandered for hours through its innumerable halls, encrus
Florence (Italy) (search for this): chapter 27
ins sixty thousand priests, but not five thousand teachers of elementary knowledge; and that, while the churches of Genoa are worth four millions of dollars, the school-houses would not bring fifty thousand. The black-coated gentry fairly overshadow the land with their shovel-hats, so that corn has no chance of sunshine. Pisa, too, could afford to spend a hundred thousand dollars in fireworks to celebrate the anniversary of its patron saint; but can spare nothing for popular education. At Florence, the traveler passed some agreeable hours with Hiram Powers, felt that his Greek Slave and Fisher Boy were not the loftiest achievements of that artist, defied antiquity to surpass his Proserpine and Psyche, and predicted that Powers, unlike Alexander, has realms still to conquer, and will fulfil his destiny. At Bologna the most notable thing he saw was an awning spread over the centre of the main street for a distance of half a mile, and he thought the idea might be worth borrowing. On e
France (France) (search for this): chapter 27
ours of deadly sea-sickness, and he stood on the shores of France. At Calais, which he styles a queer old town, he was detaemplate him during the performance of the ballet, of which France is the cradle and the home. Though no practitioner, he ad, the purpose being to exhibit War as always glorious, and France as uniformly triumphant. It is by means like these that tn country, venture on prophecy with regard to its future. France, at the time of Horace Greeley's brief visit, went by theons made upon the mind of the traveler were more correct. France, which the English press was daily representing as a national overthrow of Universal Suffrage. Thus he thought that France, fickle, glory-loving France, would do in 1852, what he onFrance, would do in 1852, what he only hoped America would be capable of some time before the year 1900; that is, elect something else than Generals to the presurney through Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and North Eastern France brought him once more to England. In Switzerland, he
Ferrara (Italy) (search for this): chapter 27
; then I was in a rude scuffle, and came out third or fourth best, with my clothes badly torn; anon I had lost my hat in a strange place, and could not begin to find it; and at last my clothes were full of grasshoppers and spiders, who were beguiling their leisure by biting and stinging me. The misery at last became unbearable and I awoke. But where? I was plainly in a tight, dark box that needed more air; I soon recollected that it was a stage-coach, wherein I had been making my way from Ferrara to Padua. I threw open the door and looked out. Horses, postilions, and guard were all gone; the moon, the fields, the road were gone: I was in a close court-yard, alone with Night and Silence; but where? A church clock struck three; but it was only promised that we should reach Padua by four, and I, making the usual discount on such promises, had set down five as the probable hour of our arrival. I got out to take a more deliberate survey, and the tall form and bright bayonet of an Aust
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 27
he opera and ballet a false Prophet his opinion of the French journey to Italy-anecdote a nap in the diligence arrival at Rome in the galleries scene in the Coliseum to England again triumph of the American Reaper a week in Ireland and Scotland his opinion of the English homeward bound his arrival the extra Tribune. The thing called Crystal Palace! This was the language which the intense and spiritual Carlyle thought proper to employ on the only occasion when he alluded to the was a moment, and but a moment of suspense; human prejudice could hold out no longer; and burst after burst of involuntary cheers from the whole crowd proclaimed the triumph of the Yankee treadmill. A rapid tour through the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland absorbed the last week of Mr. Greeley's stay in Europe. The grand old town of Edinburgh surpassed his expectations, and he was amused at the passion of the Edinburghers for erecting public monuments to eminent men. Glasgow looked t
Versailles (France) (search for this): chapter 27
e adds, I am yet a lover of the dance; but the attitudes and contortions of the ballet are disagreeable and tasteless, and the tendency of such a performance as he that night beheld, was earthy, sensual, and develish. Notre Dame he thought not only the finest church, but the most imposing edifice in Paris, infinitely superior, as a place of worship, to the damp, gloomy, dungeon-like Westminster Abbey. The Hotel de Ville, like the New York City Hall, lacks another story. In the Palace of Versailles, he saw fresh proofs of the selfishness of king-craft, the long-suffering patience of nations, and the necessary servility of Art when patronized by royalty. He wandered for hours through its innumerable halls, encrusted with splendor, till the intervention of a naked ante-room was a relief to the eye; and the ruling idea in picture and statue and carving was military glory. Carriages shattered and overturned, animals transfixed by spear-thrusts and writhing in speechless agony, men ridd
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