Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-12-16
NUMBER 40.
From the Washington Cronic,sl
The Past and Present Mt the White IIor

those OF US who remember the stormy scenes
of the session of 1S6o-Gl, will recall the picture
of a middlc-aged, noble-loohing man. strong and
compacily built, with brown hair cut close and
smooth, shaved face sitting in his sea: in the
Senate chamber to make speech upon the all
absorbing QUESTION of secession. That Senator
was from Southern State and had supported
John c. Breckenridge for the Presidency during
the canvass just then passed A lifelong Dem
ocrat OF the school of Andrew Jockson, he had
always hitherto supported the policy of that
powerful party organization as enuncated by its
popular conventions.
But how different his course at this critical
ijuncture of our affairs ! Instead of giving up to
party what was meant for mankind, he seemed to
behold the far future mapped out before his eyes
Servering himself from the false ties of Il corrupt
partizanship, he took noble stand for his
Try only, regardless of all consequences, personal
or political.
Andrew johnson alone then q Southerner
and statesman-the Abdie of the Senate faith
| full among the fathless. The PRESENCE Of his
! fate exalted and inspired him. and he made one
of the grandest speeches of his long and laborious
| life. The sneers of the spitefu Mason and the
insoent interruptions of the crafty Slidell, the
vulgar jests of Wigfall and the sly sophisries of
Benjamin, the threats of the proud Lucifer of the
rebellion, frettng now and chatting behind the
prison bars of Fortress Monroe--al had no affect
upon the Senator from Tennessee. Like the
- Ancient Mariner" he holds them with his
glitterng eye" and they cannot - choose but
hear his indignant denunciations and naughty,
scornful exposure of their contemplated treason
and perfdy. Thus stood the Senator in 1860,
amid threats and bravado.
To-day the President-the angry conflict past
and the storm of civil tumut hushed TO n calm
receives delegations Of his former friends who
would not listen to the warning voice of the
Senator. What proud moment in the life Of
any man Whose head would not almost be
turned by the change which time, the ayenger,
has brought about i'll four years? The contrast
/ between now and then does not seem to have
exhibited any weakness of the kind, however,
/ on the part Of Mr.. Johnson. Receiving the
Southern auditors in the historic wall; of "that
famous old White House," Thackeray styled
it, he shows none of the citation Of sudden
/ power; none of the vengeful hate Of those who
treasure up long remembered wrongs.
Andrew johnson stood in that hall where the
princely young heir Of England's royalty gave
audience to the Democratic notablcs and masses
Of five years ago: where royal ambassadors
from far Japan, il quaint silk robes, had bent
erotesquely attired heads, and brought strange
products of half Darbaric civilization pres
sents to the President of the American Republic;
where the most Democratic of the Napoleon
family shook hands with the lamented Lincoln;
where many state pageant Of other days, and
funeral ceremonies OF the past years of the civil
had taken place. and where a long line of
dead Presidents had given audience and held
gay receptions in the earlier times of the Re-
public. Surrounded by such historic memories
and recolections President johnson listened to
the delegation from the South and talked to
them of the dead past and the living present.
The President seems to have forgotten all the
hard things said to, and Of, Mr. Johnson, Senator
and Military Governor, i'll the past few years.
The " Vigorous prosecution of peace, not less
tiat the vigorous prosecution Of war, will ulti-
mately conquer the Scut h; and though the rem
nant of disappointed flctionists yet left there,
stranded by the ebb tide of rebellion, may snarl
and inpotently gnash their teeth, the people
the great body whence the President sprang-
Will understand, and properly interpreting his
utterances, respond with magnanimity to such
language as he has addressed to them through
this delegation. If they do not, then the boosted
magnanimity of the South will become by
word and mocher in the mouths OF men.
How Deacon WuIrE CouRrED THE WIDOW
The Deacon S wagon stopped one morning before
the widow Jones door, and he gave the usual
country sign that he wanted somebody in the
house, by dropping the reins and sitting double
with his elbows on his knees. Ont trippcd the
widow as lively as cricket, with Il tremendous
blacl. ribbon on her snow-whte cap. ''Good
morning" was said on both sides, and the widow
waited for what further to be said.
Well, ma am Jones, perhaps you don't want
to sell one Of your cows, now, for nothing any
way, do you?"
Well there, Nj. White, you couldn't have
spoken my mind better. A poor lone woman
like me does not know what to do with so many
creatures, and l shall be glad TO trade if we can
fix it,
So they adjourned to the meadow. Deacon
White looked at Iioan--thcn at the widow-at .
Brndle-:hen ut the wlow-at the Downing
cow-thcn at the widow again, and through
the whole forty.
The call was made every day for week.
but the deacon could not decide which COW he
wanted. 1t length, on Saturday when the
widow Jones was in a hurry to get through her
baking for Sunday, and lad - ever so much to
do in the house, as all farmers wives and
widows have Saturday; she was a little
impatient. Deacon White was as irresolute as
ever.
q That ere Downing cow is a pretty fair crea-
ture" said he but he stopped to glance at
the widows face, and then walked around her
not the widow-but the cow.
"The Downing COW knew before the late Mr.
Jones bought her Here he signed al the al
fusion to the late Mr.. j.. she sighed and both
looked at each other 1t was highiy interesting
ola Roam is a faithful old milch, and so is
RriadIe. but have known better A long
pouse succeeded his speech the pause was
Getting awkward and at last Mrs. Jones broke
out:
q Lord Mr. " hite, II m the COW you want,
DO say SO! y
The intentions Of the Deacon and the widow
were published the next day.
TELLING PHILosoPuY-Thc following para
graph appears in a late address by the eccentric
George Francis Train -. England comes here,
takes our cotton carries it from our seabord on
English ship across the ocean, over Eng
fish railway thirty miles to Manchester, manufac-