Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-14
CORRESPONDENCE.


correspondence OF the Baltimore Daily Commercial
WASHINGTON, October 18th 1865.
Among the numerous petitions that have been laid
before the President of late, there is one very Mi
merousy signed by ladies of all parts of the United
States praying that Jefferson Davis may he allowed
the company of his wife. It is not understood th8.
Mrs Davis has asked permission to visit her husband
and perhaps would be well for the sympathzing
to wait until the lady shall take the initiative in this
matter.
The President has won golden opinions from all
sorts Of people" by his wise and steady course The
success which has attended his policy thus far and
the popularity it has conciliated afford abundant
guarantees for the future of his administration: and
the zealots in favor of our errng brethren" can
surely afford to be little patient and little con-
slderae OF what is due to the public tranquility and
torbear from gratutous appeals to an Executive who
has shown so much moderation and mercy.
The last British mail brings tdings of the sudden
death in Normandy of Mr.. John 7. Gordon, Sheriff of
Midlothian, sonin-law of Professor Wilson (Christo-
pher North). His wife wrote the biography of her
llustrlous father published three years ago. Sheriff
1ofdon last public act to preside at the great
public meeting in Edinburgh for the purpose of send
ing to the American people an address of coincidence
on the death Of President Lincoln On that occasion
ne made most powerful and eloquent speech 1t is
remarkable that he and his brother-in law Professor
Aytoun. should have died within a few months-both
suddenly.
The political world here seems rather quiet inst
now, We are amused with the struggles of partizans
to appropriate our worthy Chief Magistrate TO their
own respective divisions, while he is in reality the
President of the people,
Mr.. John Van Buren made Il 6u,lde1 in his classi-
ication Of Presidents under the heads of Federasts
and Democrats which rather unworthy oso clever
a Politician and he must have counted largely on
the dense ignorance which usually characterizes the
large majority Of any popular assemblage when he
ventured, even at Albany, to talk so glibly about
General Harrison, General Taylor, and Mr. Lincoln
as Federlist" Presidents who for the good of their
country, under special dispensatious of Divine Prov
idencc, died in Office, as to make ROOM in each
case, for Nice-Presdents. who were. respectiveIy
Democrats
Has Prince John actually forgotten hotp it was that
Odd Iippecanoe' came to beat his revcred pafa the
Little Magician, of kinderhook. Why-if he does
not remember, we all here at Washington know very
well ii was by the Wing party, thoroughly sick of re-
naming in the shades Of opposition, determined Mt
Harrisburg. in 1870 to make bold push for The sun
shine OF success, by outdcmocratizing the regular
Democracy. Hence they dropped their really great
and glorious men, Clay and Webster and royr dcy,,
cratic, took up soldier military chcftain 1.-The
Hero of IippecanOe.' What time that was in 1910
with its eternal Log Cabins, its barrels of hard cider
its professions, and its songs about