White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25
Jenkins on Old Buck at Home and at
Church,

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an the columns of the New York Observ
er with an account of a visit he paid Il
the said MIR. Buchanan at Wheatland
That such stuff as it contains should flint
place in journal making more thar
ordinary pretensions to gravity, is of it
self sufficient to suggest an inquiry as tC
what we are coming to. The letter itsel
is piece of dull absurdity, and is only
worthy of notice for the light in which
the writer, and we dare say, many of his
readers no doubt regard the President Of
the United States. He is throughout
treated as an exact counterpart of Euro
pean sovereigns, and the broadest sur
prise is expressed in every line at his
not initiating them. The dullard who
favors US with his experience, finding him
self in Lancaster, and finding that Mr..
Buchanan was frustrating" at Wheat
land, felt himself bound, as billiards gen.
orally do, to hunt up the notoriety, and
inhict visit on him-an operation which
these disgusting bores always signify with
the term-''paying their respects" Hav-
ing brought the gentleman to bay, we are
told in tone of profound establishment,
that he came out of his parlor, received
his pursuers in the hall, invited them to
sit down, and chatted with them in his
own house, with as much ease and good
humor as any other gentleman would dis
play under Ike circumstances. The next
incident is an emetic Of the most power
full kind /:
Nothing about this truly great man is
more wonderful than the ease and sim
plicity of his manners in private life. He
throws off all reserve and makes his WIS.,
itor feel quite at home in his presence.
While we sat there, rough, laboring
man walked in without a coat, and salu-
ted the President, "Good morning, Sir"
and handel him some newspapers. The
rich brogue' betrayal the mans nation
atty. Mr.. B. replied with calm smile,
Thank yOu," took the papers and the
man left''
Think of an Irish laborer in his shirt
sleeves, approaching the President in his
country house, handing him bundle of
newspapers, and saying "Good morning,
Sir :" and more wonderful still, think Of
the President sayi1g THANK you" and
Smiling calmly"
We next learn that the Sunday follow
ing the above astounding circumstance,
the same great man walked two miles to
to church. ellis feet" when he got there,
says the veracious chronicler, "were COW
cred with dust, and the perspiration stood
on his forehead" Think of the audacity
of the dust in covering the feet of our
Chief Magistrate, and of the perspiration
in standing on his forehead Moreover,
when he entered the church, "the congre-
cation made no STIR" they neither rose
from their knees, nor bowed to him, nor
cheered him, nor in any other way made
fools of themselves, nor desecrated the
our traveller is astounded.
CATER church the President walked de-
voutly," he adds, "and entirely unattend-
ed through the streets of Lancaster" We
do not pretend to know what sort of a
gait ga devout walk" is, or what sort of
a train is expected to follow the President
of the United States through the streets
of a country town on Sunday, but we
10 know that the publication of such rub
bish as we have quoted above is calcula-
ted to make both the President and the
writers of it laughing stocks of the pub
lie. There is Just as much hunkeyism,
and folly displayed in such
gossip as this. as in the most arrant non
sense that ever appeared in any Court
Circular. Will these rowing blOckheads
who make a practice of cooking up de-
of peoples houses and report
ing what great men have for dinner, ever
be got to remember, that it is almost in
sxcusable, in foreigner even, not to know
that royalty confers, in monsrchical coun-
tries, not only official. but social, superb
"; whilst the Presidency of the United
States confers official superiority alone
hat in the exercise Of his functions the
President is the first man. in the Union,
put that as James Buchanan, at Wheat
and, he is, in the eye of the law, the equal
IF the coatless Irishman-aye, even the
EQUAL of the Observers correspondent
md in the church a worthless, depraved
sinner, whose best works are dirty rags
" Y Times.