The Prince’s ball next week’s the chief topic of the town.
The King of Naples has run away and Garibaldi triumphs. The House of Bourbon is
on its last legs. John Jay has been making a row in the diocesan convention
with a speech on the slave trade, which Mr. Ruggles says was very able. George
Anthon suggests an alteration in the prayerbook for the benefit of the “Church
South,” namely, in the prayer for persons I going to sea.1 Instead
of "these Thy servants,” add “These our servants,” and instead of “conduct
him in safety to the haven where they would be,” read “. . . the haven where
they wouldn’t be” (if they could help it, that is). . . .
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1 That is, for the slaves now being run in from Africa.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3, pp. 42-3
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