Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-02
from our Special Reporter.
THE PRESIDENTIAL PROGRESS.

from our Special Reporter,
THE PRESIDENTIAL PROGRESS.
1 write from Harrisburg, Pa, which, on last
Saturday, we reporters voted ought to have it's or
thcernphy changed TO Hardssburg; but | must not
commence my letter with the finale of my story.
A FORTUNATE MIsHAP.
The mis-chance by which l was left al Cleveland
was truly fortunate, for It appears that there was
such q crowd and a crush at Buffalo that personal
injury was received by several of the Presidents
attendants; SO my long sleep in Cleveland was a
blessing in more ways than one.
HOW ORDER MIGHT HAVE BEEN NAINTAINED.
NV friend, Of the Cleveland Leader, in commen'
ting upon the outrageous disorder which prevail
ed a, Buffalo, intimated that had the Cleveland
Grays been on duty there, Heavens first law"
would have been better observed. Now without
In the least impeaching the bravery or the gen
oral efficiency of the Grays, must be permitted
70 ex press a doubt whether they would have help
ed the matter although they had tried until they
were black and blue. 1t would have been com
paratiyely easy for them to have escorted the fu-
gitive Lucy to her masters home in Wheeling
a service which / understand they volunteered to
perform; but bringing a herd Of Bufaloes into
subsection, is a much more difficult task than car
<ying a slave woman back to bondage.
REJoIN THE COMPANY.
Having reached Buffalo before the President
left, | took my accustomed place and proceeded
with the rest. Our progress through New York
State was one continued ovation, and the friends
of Senator Seward appeared to forget the fact that
abraham Lincoln was not their first choice for the
Presidency.
AN INCIDENT MORE EXCITING THAN AFFECTING.
You may remember that l told you how on one
occasion 10 Cincinnati the hearts of all beholders
were touched, and :heir eyes filled with tears in
consequence of the President graciOusly kissing a
child. He continues to manifest the same DISPOSE
4ioa to kiss; and on his way from Cleveland to
Buffalo, as | learn from one of my fellow repor-
tiers, he called out from the crowd, and fotce kiss
ed a girl, because she wrote him some tint since
that the cultivation Of whiskers would improve
his looks. The young lady-a Mics Bartley-was
Sweet seventeen" an age, which, while IT FORBADE
any touchingness being attached to the incident,
rendered it vastly more exciting; and should not
wonder il the s%criptural injunction, "G0 thou and
do likewise presented itsel: to the minds OF oil
beholder,. Whether the double salute was well
come to the young lady, deponent saith not
Though Bob Lincoln cannot make speeches., he
could certainly somewhat relieve his father oi THIS
light and pleasant duty, and like a good son would
doubtless be willing to do so.
rAGoED OUT.
When we reached Albany the President looked
uare-worn, exhausted, and i'll. And what wonderf
lie has had no rest since | Q left Springfield; and
has made, on an average, from ten to twenty
speeches a day, which, to be sure, were not very
long, aud some may intimate that they were cot
very strong. This, however, matters but littIei 1t
was words, not ideas, that the people wanted lie
is kent up late every night receiving calls, and
has averaged at leest ten thousand shakes OF the
hand per day. What wonder, then, that The man
is exhausted, and a total failure of his strength is
unprecedented prior to the 4th of March.
at Albany he visited the Legislature, shook
hands with Gov. Morgan, gave q glance at all 'hat
was presumed to be worthy Of Presidential notice.
and then passed on to
NEW YORK CITY.
There the secession Mayor Wood welcomed the
Union President in a speech which some pro-
nounce reasonable. But before the speech was
reached, q ~triumphal march had to be mace
through the streets of the city under arches aud
between rows Of banners, some bearing appro-
pirate inscriptions, and some not 80 appropriate
On one 1 noticed this, FEAR not. Abraham,
for | am thy exceeding great reward Genesis.
Not having been in New York at the reception OF
the Prince of W ales, 1 cannot say how much truth
tbere is in the allegation that the arrangements
made for the reception Of The President were not
on 80 grand a scale as those for England's heir.
But if the Prince had 20 endure more fatigue,
make more bows, and see more men in a oonglom-
Grated mass of genteels and roughs than have
fallen to the lot of the President, / think the
Prince deserved commissera.ion.
CITY OF BRoraERLY LOVE.
Perhaps il would be we'll to borrow ARENAS
Ward, and say in parenthesis, (This heading Is
irouakal.) Philadelphia was the next principal
stopping place. There, you know, stands lnde-
pendence Hall, and also tho Hall in which the
first Congress sat. There too, is the old BELL
which on a July morning in '76 shouted its JOY
through its brazen throat when the American
Congress and people declared that all men had an
iualienable right to liberty, and fels throughout iss
metallic frame the justice of the command inscrib-
ed upon its fo~rm-"PEoclaim liberty throughout
the land, unto oil the inhabitants thereof" But
the old bell is useless now. like the doctrine il hail
ed with gladnese more than three SCORE and ten
years ago. II is cracked; and all are considered
cracked who insist upon the duty and possibility
Of giving practical voice to its inscription.
TIE PRESIDENT TAKES OFF HIS ovKRcoAr.
The President helped raise what is called q ma
iional flag over Independence Hall, but it contain
ed one star more than has any right to be there
before the next 4th of July. Ishall not describe
the minutia Of the operation, though OtierO have
done so, even to the extent Of the following item.
which quote from one Of the reporters.
M Lincoln then threw Off his overooat in an
oh-hand, easy manner, the baok-woOdian style of