The public press may ridicule and joke upon
certain acts of individuals; but whatever side is taken, there is
nothing that can bring the laws, or those who administer them, into
disrespect. This produces order to an extent unknown elsewhere. No one
seems to question the law or the commands of its officers excepting
Europeans, who bring their turbulent habits with them.
Leaving this imposing scene, I turned to the route of the procession,
which had been advertised to pass through certain streets. In some
degree to account for the masses of human beings that filled them, the
three railways had kept pouring people in for three days, and the
trains, immediately on arrival, turned back to fetch the thousands
they had left waiting at the stations. It was said that there never
was such a gathering in one place since the independence of the
States. The arrangements of the pageant were made by the committee of
the city; but the audience, or public, arranged themselves, and never
was there anything better done. Along the whole line of streets, about
three miles in length, the goods had been removed from the
shop-windows, and their places filled with ladies.
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