The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-06-07

zens, and not as the architects Of anybody $
fortune.
Willis wont therc much FOR while, but
! yielded TO his old habit of gossiping about
| the wallpaper aud tho tca.pots. Emerson
went thcre once, aud was deferred to as if
he were anything bal philosopher. Yet
he so FAR graspcd the character of his host
as to inditc that noble humanitarian oulogy
upon him, delivered at Concord. 1t will
not do TO say definitely in this botice how
several occasional writer's visited the
/ White House, heard the Presidents views
and asscuted 20 them. and aGterwnrd abused
! him. But these attained no remembrance
nor tart reproach from that least rotaliatorv
of men, He harhorcd lao malice, aud ia
said to have often placed himself on the
| standpoint OF Davis and Leo and account
cd for thct detection wh,lo he could not
excuse il.
! llo was q good reader, and took all tho
| leading New York daiios every day His
secretaries pcrused thom and selected all
| the items which would interest tho Prre.
! dontj these were read to him and conoid.
ercd llo bought few new bppka; hut
seemed ever alive to works uf comic value,
| tho vein ul humor in him was not bolster
| uus in its manifestation, but touched the
/ gcniality OF lilo nature, and ho reproduced
/ all that he absorbed 30 clucidate some new
issue, on turn away argument by laugh.
Asa icstcr Mr.. hiuooms tendencies
welc caricaturcd by the prints, but not ex.
nygcratcd. lie probably told us many sto.
| rics as arc attributed to him, but not all
that arc attributed to him. Nor did he. as
| is avcrrcd, indulge in thcso tests on solemn
occasions. No man felt with such purson-
| al intensity tho extent of The casualties OF
| his time, aud he often gravcly reasoned
whether he conld I've in any way rosponsi
! bic for the bloQdshed and devastation over
which it was his duty 10 preside.
! An acquaintance of mine--n printer
once went TO him to plead for mans lfo.
| lie had never seen tho man for wi ON lie
! pleaded, and had no acquaintance with the
mau'S faulty. MIR. Lincoln was touched by
! his Observation-Disclosures, and said to him: az
| | were anything hut the President. would
| ho constantly working rs you have done.
| Whenever doubt uf ones guilt lay on his
mind, the man was spared 10y his direct IN.
! reference There was an cntiro absence
| in the Presidents character Of the heroic
element llo would do great deed in
diShdbiRe az promptly M in full dress. lie
never aimed to bo brilliant, unconsciousy
understanding that a great mans hrilltncy
is to be measured by tho "wholencss" and
| synthetic CaNt of his career rather than by
| any litlu cbullitions. For this reason we
look in vain through his messages for
'po,nts." His point was not 10 turn sen.
tonce ur an cpigram, but to win an eject,
! regardless of the route TO il.
Ito was commonplace in his talk, and
Chesterfield would nave had no patience
with him; his dignity of character lay in
his uprglltncSs, rather than in his formal
manner Members of his government often
reviewed him plairly in hls presence. Yet
he OWNED the true course, while they ouly
argued il out.
Ills good feeling was not only personal,
but national. He had no prejudice against
any race or potcntate. AuA his democracy
was of a practical rather llon of u demon
sttativo nature. lie was not Marat, but
Moreau--not Paino and Jefferson but
| Franklin.
His domestic life was like parlor OF
night timelit by tho equal crate of his
genial and uniform kindness. Young Thaddy
| played with him upon the carpet; Robert
came home FROM the war and talkod with
hs father as with schoolmatc. lie was
To Mrs. Lincoln as ChivalrouS ON tho last
'lay OF his lilo rs when he courtcd her.
have somewhere oe"n picture of Henry
", of France, riding his babies On his back /;
that was the President
So dwell the citizen who is Gonc--a model
in character, if not III ceremony. for good
men to como who will tako his place in this
samc White House, and find their genera.
ton comparing them to the man thought
worthy OF assassuation am glad to hit
here in his chair, where he has bent so Of
ten. in the atmosphere of the household he
pniiad, in the sight Of The grcon grass and
tho blue river he hallowed by gazing upon
in the very center of the nation ho preserved
lor the people. and close the LIST of bloody
deeds, of desperate flights, of swift cxpia-
tons, Of renowned obsequics which | have
written, by nd'ctug at his table tho good
ness Of his life and the eternity Of his
memory.