Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-10-28
From The N. Y. Times
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jenkins has recently been regaling us in
the columns Of the New York Observer
with an account of visit he paid to the
said Mr.. Buchanan at Wheasland. That
such stuff as it contains should find a
place in a journal making more than ordi-
nary pretensions to gravity. is of itself suf-
ficient to suggest an inquiry as to what we
are coming to. The Litter itself is piece
of dull absurdity, and is only worthy Of no
tiee 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 coun-
terpart of European sovereigns, and broad
est surprise is expressed in every line at his
not initiating them. The dullard who IA
vors us with his experience, finding him.
self in Lancaster, and finding Mr.. Buchan-
an was frustrating" at Wheatland, felt
himself bound, as dullards generally do, to
hunt the notoriety, and infiict visit on
him-an operation which these disgusting
bores always dignity with the term-"pay-
ing their respects" Having brought the
gentleman to bay we are told in tone OF
profound astonishment, that he came out
of his parlor, received his pursuers in the
ball, invited them to sit down and chatted
with them in his own house, with as much
ease and good humor as any other gentle
man would display under ike cHcumstan-
ces. The next incident is an emetic of the
most powerful kind zgeQ 5i7
"Nothing about this truly great man is
more wonderful than the ease and simplici-
ty of his manners in private life. He throws
off all reserve and makes his visitor feel
quite at home in his presence. While we
sat there, rough, laboring man walked in
without coat, and saluted the President,
Good morning, Sir and handed him bun
die of newspapers, and more wonderful still,
think of the President saying "Thank you,'
and ''smiling calmly" st 5GsJo l'orra
Wenext learn that the Sunday follow
ing the above astounding circumstances,
the same great man walked two miles to
church. sHis feet,"f when he got there,
says the yeracious chronicler, '.we.e cover
ed 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 3, in
standing on his forehead! Moreover, when
he entered the church 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 desc
Grated the building-so our traveller is as
founded. "After church the. President
walked devoutly," he adds, "and entirely
unattended through the streets of Lancas-
ter" We do not pretend to know what
sort of 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 do know that the publication of
such rubbish as we have quoted is calcula-
ted to make both the President and the
writers of laughing stocks Of the public
There is just as much iunkyism, snobbish-
ness and folly displayed in such gossip as
this, as in the most arrant nonsense that
ever appeared in any Court Circular. Will
these rowing bloekheads, who make prac-
tiee of cooking up descriptions Of peoples
houses and reporting what great men have
for dinner, ever be got to remember that it
is almost inexcusabte, in a foreigner even,
not to know that royalty confers, in mon
archical countries, not only official, but So
cial, superiority; whilst the Presidency of
The United States confers official superiori-
ty alone; that in the exercise Of his func-
tions the President is the first man in the
Union, but that as James Buchanan at
Wheatland he is, in the eye of the law, the
equal of the coatless Irisbman-aye, even
the equal Of the Observers correspondent
and in the Church a worthless, deprav-
ed sinner, whose best works are dirty
rags2 So. LII ;.-s.1 .;l'