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  • Madison

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 1-18
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “For, neither by Reason, nor by her experience, is it impossible that a Commonwealth should be immortal; seeing the people, being the materials, never dies; and the form, which is motion, must, without opposition, be endless. The bowl which is thrown from your hand, if there be no rub, no impediment, shall never cease; for which cause the glorious luminaries, that are the bowls of God, were once thrown for ever.”

    —Harrington's Oceana.

    While I was at Washington, I received a kind invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Madison, to visit them at their seat, Montpelier, Virginia. I was happy to avail myself of it, and paid the visit on my way down to Richmond. At six o'clock, in the morning of the 18th of February, my party arrived at Orange Court House, five miles from Montpelier; and while two proceeded to Charlottesville, where we were to join them in three or four days, a friend and I stopped, first to rest for a few hours, and then to proceed to Mr. Madison's. After some sleep, and breakfast at noon, we took a carriage for the five miles of extremely bad road we had to travel. The people at the inn overcharged us for this carriage, and did not mention that Mr. Madison had desired that a messenger should be sent over for his carriage, as soon as we should arrive.

  • The Voyage

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 1-41
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “When the sun dawned, gay and glad,

    We set the sail and plied the oar;

    But when the night-wind blew like breath,

    For joy of one day's voyage more,

    We sang together on the wide sea,

    Like men at peace on a peaceful shore;

    Each sail was loosed to the wind so free,

    The helm made sure by the twilight star,

    And in a sleep as calm as death

    We the voyagers from afar

    Lay stretched …‥”

    Paracelsus, Part iv.

    The packet-ship in which my passage was taken, the United States, Captain Nathan Holdrege, was to have sailed from Liverpool on Friday the 8th of August, 1834, at eleven o'clock. At half-past ten, my fellow-traveller and I, with our friends, were on the way to the dock, in some doubt about our departure, from the wind being directly against us, when we met a gentleman interested in the sailing of the vessel, who told us that we might turn back, as the Captain had given up all hope of getting out of port that day. This was uncomfortable news enough. We had bidden farewell to many friends, half the pain of parting was over, and there was little pleasure in having it all to go through again.

    We resolved to proceed to the dock, to put our luggage on board, and see for ourselves the true state of affairs. It was not very agreeable.

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