Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-04
POLICY OF THE NEW ADMIN
ISTRATEON.
A Remarkable and CharaCtcris-
tic Article from George
Francis Train.
From the Washington National Republican
THE EAST ROOM
WMLARD's HOTEL,
W TIINNU , hui EIs1
ANNIyERs RY BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, Z

ANNINERS RY BATTLE EOFLEXlNGTON, %
81 am the resurrection aud the life.'
Dead silence reigned The services had
Eight hundred men, and, per
haps, dozen of the other sex, stood around
the coffin, no more, although perhaps there
were twenty thousand applicants for tickets.
Harrington was stern and sharp in manner,
but perfectin his arrangements. One hitch;
as in Europe, the Diplomatic Corps preceded |
the Chief Justices. As the Chief Justice,
on the death Of johnson and Foster, would
have been President, Mr.. Chase claimed for
the bench priority, and think he was right.
What an asscmblage There were at least
five hundred present who expect some time
to be President. | have seen many great
Pageants in my day. but none oppressed me
like this. Fifteen years have passed since
stood in the East Room, IT. seems an hun
dred have lived so fast. Most of the ma
tons have lost "A king since that day. Then
Davis was present, and the room was full Of
embryo rebel leaders. Clay was alive and
Webster.
What change between then and now
Ten thousand in our army; now a million.
Twenty not, war now six hundred. Our
debt fifty millions; now four thousand mil
lions. Then we were the audience--Europe
and Asia the actors; now thousand mil
lions in the dress-circlc and the pit, and we
the actors. Europe gave us six lines Of tel
egraphic news when the Cunarder arrived !;
now six columns. Then State rights meant
secession; now state rights signifies Amerl-
can nationality. The New World was then
defendant; now plaintiff The renue is
changed. Europe then patrionized us; we
shall now patronizc Europe. Then England
got up societies to liberate the blacks in
America; now America will do the same to
emancipatc the whites in England. Then
! the Democratic party were forcing down the
nations throat the polluted doctrines oi
Bright and Golden, (our natural cnomicsl,
free trade; now, thank God the national
debt, based on the national faith, guarantees
protection to American industry. The In
gcrsols, Woods, Clay Deans, McCunns, and
| Chancey Burrs, made another great mistake
in celebrating Jefferson sbrth-day byrecOn,-
meading the Democratic party 10 stand on
the basis Of repuiiation. That is infamy,
as State rights was disunon, and free trade
was destruction.
All nations had had the diseases of child.
hood mumps, chicken-pox, messels, and
whooping cough; yet they seem surprised
to see our slight attack Of varioloid. Eng
land paid eight hundred millions, sterling
at fifty discount to advertise her miserable
little island. We have paid no more, anC
yet are already better known and more re
spected.
The East Room contained more brain
than in any assembly that ever met on gre,a
! occasions. | am willing to measure tn,
heads of our statesmen with those of thu
| Europeans present. We have more twenty
four inch heads than all the world besid
Chase is model head but it took Gran
towhip Lee. Butthere isenOrmous individ
uality in that square head of johnson, Th
: brain to contrive, the will to execute, i
, there. Read that inaugural speech again
, The one great idea therein was too great +
be dwaried by style or taste. There wa
% nothing incoherent in the words he kept re
- peating-",0e the people,. " That was upper
D most in his thougsts, Don forget, SAID tn
; Prime Minister to me at the lnauguratio
5 Ball, that Andy johnson stood up alone
L the only one of thirty two slave State Sena
= tors-ior the old flag and remember how
r like hero, he fought fori through TenneS
I see. Taking his life in his hand, he stoo
+ at bay against the traitors of his State in th
I field as well as in the forum
l. We used to hear about Northern men wit
o Southern principles. Andy johnson will b
!, Southern man with national principles.
u think it is about time to have mother Ian
o of our own. America, on the lith Of Apri
y was twenty-one years Of age Down wit
l. the partisan and up with the statesman :
e That East Room tableaux should have bee
d photographed | have visited the tomb
n of the CAESARS, the Guelphs, the BourbonS
i the Hapsburgs, the Remanoffs, and the Be
d napartes. Mount Vernon was sacred to me
n so was Bethlehem. But there was some
II thing indescribably solemn about the Ea'