The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-09-26

unuef Ho luutCtlOH u SUCH ditlClSS uS w WI
lowing, calculate, in tho memorable words Of
a lamentation which the Union may remember,
sour sufFering' is intolerable.'
"THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES
left this city this morning, in the steamer Gee
ola, on a short ex excursion, being the first he has
taken since he .entered upon the arduous and
responsible duties of his high office. Itisnow
near eighteen months since he was indicted
into the P esjdential office, and during every
day Of that period he has been found in his
Office assiduously engaged inthe discharge Of
the laborious duties which have devolved upon
him. He has been but once, we believe, be-
yond the limits of the ten miles square since
he reached Washington, in February, 1916, and
that was when, during the last'ytar, he visited
great and good Washington-going and return
ing the sa m day. He is literally a Working
President. AS our country and its population
have enlarged, the public business requiring
the personal attention Of the Chief Magistrate
has greatly increased. The President has neg
lected no part Of his duty, but has been con-
stantly at his post, giving his attention even TO
the minute details Of the duties Of the Execu-
tive, usually confded to subordinate officers,
TO n greater extent than, perhsps, any Of his
predecessors has done. His friends have often
urged him to take scme recreation. tle has
constantly replied that his first duty was to the
public, and has never until now found an oc-
casion when he thought he could with p%roprie-
~ be absent from the seat of Government
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"The close application Of TIE President dur
ing his whole life 70 the performance of all his
duties, whatever they may have been, is verv
remarkable. II lie said, and we believe upon
reliable authority, tina, when at college he new
er failed to attend a single recitation, or to per-
form any other duty required Of him; and that
during his service as q member Of Inc Legisla-
ture Of Tennessee, and in the Congress Of the
United States, during the long period Of fonr-
teen years, he never failed for a single day 10
he present. His name, we are informed, is to
be fonnd recorded on the Journals Of the House
Of Representatives upon every vote taken, inn
pOrtant or unimportant, for Ten ye7rp, during
which time he held a seat on tn floor; and
that during the fourlatter years Of his service,
when he was Speaker, he was present every
day, presiding over the House Of Representa-
tives,
"In appearance the President is not a man Of
robust constitution, and his good health and
great ability to endure confinement and intense
labor are to be attributed to his regular and
temperate manner Of life, and to the fact that
the Sabbath is with him a day of resi-. On
that day his doors are closed, and he refuses to
see company, however distinguished may be.
the %yisiter, lie always attends church. He
has been often heard to remark, since he has
been President, that all the institutions Of Pro-
violence were wise, but none Of them more so
than the institution of a Sabbath; and that on
every Monday morning he entered upon the
duties Of the week refres,ed and ~invigorated
from the rest Of the preceding day.
swell may the country say Of him, so far
az unremltting at ention to his public duties is
concerned, "well done thou good and faithful
servant.''
Now, wishing the President health, ! can't
help saying, in sincerity, that the health Of the
country would have been decidedly better, il
he had sooner consulted his own. OF the brave
men who, under his illegal orders, have fallen
in a needless and ungener US war, certainly
the bodily condition might have been a fer
ent; and 80 might that Of muItitudes Of the
poor, whom the Presidents free-trads labors
will reduce to starvation. Had he taken his
ease more, the Treasury might have been in
vastly better health. As to his %"toils,'' every
body knows that the main part Of them has
been incurred in filling new Offices created un-
der his administration, and in the voluntary
task Of removing firm Office, to the great dei-
riment Of the public service, multitudes Of de-
serving men, in order to satisfy the greedy pack
that yell round him for places, and to give
"every dog his homes Of the s~spOils.n Certain.
ly Mn Polk had a world Of trouble about 50
40; but that, too, was trouble of his own max
ing, and for his own ends, and BY which he is
far less a sufferer than multitudes Of others.
We say, then, without hesitation, that, work.
ing upon such objects, the President has work.
ed entirely too hard; and that, for the future,
il is to be hOpedhe will take better care Of his
precious health. "a working President he is,'
quOth the Union yea, he works us, sure enough,
like physic!
Asto the schOol-boy days Of the Sovereign,
to which the Union is now travelling back for
magniftation, | confess myself alarmed for
tie next retrospection will probably be Of his
infantine days. Now, though Of these the
Union would make the fttest possible historian,
l have only to say that | think the publication,
the mere printing, (not the authorship can be
better "gotten up,'' with proper colored decora
tions, BY MunrOe & Francis, of Boston, who
staed C,rar,nat - tLn l;ra &c G.Mt,raaFv puhli.I