Tarry at home travels . theSenate at Washington. Here was one man whounderstood the Indian problem, and while heheld the reins nobody talked of dishonor in ourdealings with the Indians. The story is told ofCharles Sumner that he said of supposed corrup-tion in Washington that nobody had ever ap-proached him with a dishonorable Massachusetts people boast that from hisday to our day that story could be applied toeither of our Senators. Just before he died had delivered a few lectures at DartmouthCollege, and perhaps Williams College, on mattersconnected with government. What
Tarry at home travels . theSenate at Washington. Here was one man whounderstood the Indian problem, and while heheld the reins nobody talked of dishonor in ourdealings with the Indians. The story is told ofCharles Sumner that he said of supposed corrup-tion in Washington that nobody had ever ap-proached him with a dishonorable Massachusetts people boast that from hisday to our day that story could be applied toeither of our Senators. Just before he died had delivered a few lectures at DartmouthCollege, and perhaps Williams College, on mattersconnected with government. What a pity thathe could not have lived for a generation more,if it were only to give us such results of hisexperience! I will not send this sheet away till I have saidto any young traveller that I have found it a goodpractice wherever I journey to see the peoplewho make the laws of a country. I never go 194 TARKY AT HOME TRAVELS to London but I ask them at our Legation to giveme what passes they can into the gallery of the. (HAKLKS SUMNEK. From a photograph in possession of F. J. Garrison, Esq. House of Commons, and I sit there night afternight to see how England is governed. In the MASSACHUSETTS 195 same way I have sat hours in the gallery of theChambers at Paris and in the elegant gallery ofthe Parliament of Spain. In travelling in AmericaI always try to go into the state Capitol, whereverit is, and see their methods. You get a greatdeal more than mere information as to legis-lative customs and laws; you see a great dealof the character of the people. So this I say tothe intelligent traveller, that in either of thesestates of which I have been speaking he mayget good lessons for himself, be he President,Judge, Senator, or sixteenth assistant in an Audi-tors office at Washington, if he will go into thegallery of either state legislature and see withwhat dignity and promptness these legislatorsaddress themselves to their duties. Just now Iam reading Gladstone, to see with amazemen
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