The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-17
The Presidents Late Omclal vislt-secrcta-
Fies Guthrie, Davis and Gushing.

lne TreslueHt cane-tne lrcsluent mas
gone long live the President! He has had a
good time of il, although he has been led upon
wild goose chase day and night since last
Monday morning
He has passed through the terrible ordeal Of
the offce-seeker's carnival apparently unhurt
He looks better than he did on the 18th of March,
and none the worse for wear on the day Of his
departure than on the day of his arrival. Long
professions in the rain and in the sun. and in
the dust-immense crowds in Crystal Palace,
on board steamboats,, in railroad cars and rail
way stations. at dinners and suppers, and oper-
as and serenades-the incessant pulling and
hauling Of the sovereign people and the devo-
ted attentions Of over-ohicious political friends.
appear neither to ruffle his temper nor to weak
en- the elasticity of his mind or body. He has
proved himself good holiday speaker digni-
fed chief magistrate in fatigue dress, and
genial and agreeable felow-citizen.
And as for New York we are satisfied that
General Pierce, and the members of the
cabinet accompanying him, have not left
it without an enlarged idea of this great
bustling settling house Of our American conti-
venture to believe, will be useful to them in
the enlightened discharge of their official duties,
and advantageous to New York and the country
at large, from the evidences which they have
seen for themselves Of the magnitude of our
commercial operations, and OF the common COM
mercal interests which bind us to all parts OF
this glorious Union and which bind all parts of
th. Iry.sn 20 oh aud 4nt ha
gregation Of the States. That's good Then,
again their visit has legitimatized the Crystal
Palace. and made it a national coneern-and
that's good. Aud last, though not least, several
millions we venture to say, of the people, be-
tween Washington and New York, have been
given opportunity to see the President and
his accompanying secretaries-and that's good.
There is nothing lost to an administration
from occasional familiar reunion with the
people. The people are the sovereigns,
and are naturally DESTROYS of knowing who
their public servants are-and that's the best
of all.
Again, the thousands who have seen and heard
Messrs Guthrie, Davis, and Gushing. from
Washington to Gotham and back, will doubtless
good State Rights men. and decided believers
in the Baltimore platform. Jefferson Davis has
been painted in the glazing colors of the most
flaming fre-eater-a perfect salamander Of
secessionist, living On live Goals, and bent upon
disunion, blood and carnage, at all hazards and
to the last extremity. His appearance and
manners, on the contrary. are those OF bland
mi n has
this trip have been about as strong for the
Union as anything that could have been said
by Gov. Dickinson himself Gen. Gushing, too.
has shown himselfa man Of mark-the scholar
the orator and the statesman; and his speech |
at Wilmington establishes the fact that this
New Highlander is as good champion of State
rights as the most exacting Virginia expounder
Of the resolutions of '96 and 90. So much for
John Tyler.
Secretary Guthrie is, perhaps, the plainest.
Kentucky farmer-looking man. that was ever at
the head of the Treasury Department. He looks
as if he had lived in the Western backwoods all
his life, and had just come over the Ale
ghanies to see something of the wonders Of
civilization on the seaboard. He might
pass for Davy Crockett rcdioiUus. His lit
tie eye, his strongly marked agricultural
countenance, his muscular, raw-boned Hercu-
Ian figure, his heavy ungainly gait and
drowsy somnolescent style of conversation,
would hardly warrant the presumption that he
is one of the most distinguished lawyers of
Kentucky where law is the general study of
ambitious young men and the readiest passport
to political preferment. But he is singed cat.
He speaks familiarity upon subjects OF which
one might think he had never heard and here
in New York was not whit more Disconnected
by the splendid things around him than Ca
manche Indian. Not whit
Upon the whole, while the visit of the Presi-
dent and his secretaries was god-send to New
York and the, Crystal Palace, in these dull times
of protracted peace. we are rather inclined to
think that the impression left behind them will be
good for the administra ton and for the country;
and we do sincerely trust and pray that it may
turn out to be good for the distracted Demo-
cratic party. THUS wags the world away"