, 1865-09-04

| Is tho general reception room. It Is next west
frctn the office. The barhaIinns used SO to
beset Mr.. Lincoln in his passage through this
| room from the Office to the private chambers
across The further side. OF ii. The wall Is SO
high that no one can now trouble th e passer
through, though ujyou arc tall you may
stand in chair md look over it.
To the cast Of the Office, and In the corner ,oi
the ltoufe, Is the otloe Of the private sccrcta-
ries and aeross the hall, IN the opposite
corner, Is the room of half dozen clerks.
The doer Of the Presidents room Is not gen:
erallY eet open hu about noon-though he re:
| ccaves persons on business for three or -four
hours previously. In these days the hall and
reception room are generally crowded, and
though the entrance 10 the house Is closed at =
| O'CLOCK. the President is not unftq qucnt1y kept
/ busT till three orevcn So o'clock, with thoss
Inside when the house Is shut. He makes it
point to eeeall who are in when q o'clock
arrives, unless he is unusually tired or unweu.
There onght to be some way for keeping
out tarce Of every four persons who press ID
Presidcnt.,. He is the veriest slave
\ In the: country. scrvant Of the people rs
he is theirs Is nelther reason nor good
sense In bringing before him such a
multitude Of questions Us each day presents.
Yesterday afternoon Judge he gave audience
to not less than one hundred and twenty-five
the mental exhaustion consequent upon hear
Ing and considering such a number OF cases In
such timel Of the number probably half
bad business that any clerk could have told
them must he done at, one of the Depart:
mcnts. Yet each man wonld hard been tori:
bly, nggriered II he had been deniei the priv.
lego OF boring the President! A dozen Or 10
OF the Applicants We're men without any
recommendations, and for of1ico-quite AZ
likely office IN The New York Custom. House,
With which the President. hss no more to do
than have. Two or thrco off1cers wanted
post office; one individual wanted thc Presf-
dent 70 get an hour When he would examine 8 !
patent chufu; one fellow Was boiling over with
HEafh Mt some Official IN Ohio one came TO
recommend the removal Of Mr. Seward =; Que
to urge The opening Of post routes in West
Virginia and smother to urge tho enforce
ment Of the Monroe doctrine in Bfexico In
mcdlate}y. These arc just specimen bricks Of
IN hours obsoryation. Democratic as We all
are, protest thst there is no right on the
part OF the public to worry and wear and har-
ass the President With oil these matters and
s1, shall heartily welcome any regulation which
this mass Of humanity thFonging daily at the
White House.. :.
The great majority Of tho visitors of these
latter days are pa1don.seekers. It Is easy
enough 10 pick them out In the crowd. They
belong 10 another nationality, bne might
stand in double file from the door to to
They scowl at old jackson On tie
wall, roll Immense guilds Of tobacco In their
mouths, and spit ut random on the mating
and in The scEap-paper basket. MIDST OF thcm
are very obsequions IN manner when they
man Of them insists that there iase special
reasons for taking up his case for;immediatc
action. These reasons tho President asks
each to state ns briefly Us possible: 70 by far
thc larger number he simply says. In concl1- |
sion, - Tour case will be taken up In Its regu-
M eh it, nppIeans pic b. says ee goup
name with the clerk, and wen try to get up !
your case between this and tomorrow noon,
and yon may call In the afternoon for MI an !
swcrh To tcw lie says, Eyes, these are |
good reasons, and Wc'll take up your case 70:
have yous pd1don made out tomorrow morn
Ing" l notice that The plain, simple,
direct elderly men are more likely |
tliau Others 10 receive these last two answers. |
Your men who insist that they haven't done
anything, arc the ones most likely to receive
der aent tadS to square, upright, hearty white
ueea par1op s1ye ., beea M rspel9 ey qo was sea
sood as the best Of thcrn-I did all an old
man coul0 In IN open aud frank way, but I've
got enough frcbelllon-it's cost me one boy,
all my nfggcrs, and twenty Or thirty thousand
dollars worth Of property. Tn glad the war
Is over; I'm glad We nre going 10 have free
county; I'm getting to be IN old mnn
cau't expect to Last a great while, and want
10 die IN American citizcn.'' $50 you shall,
III, you don't die before this TIME to-mor.
EoW, y answered the President
60 hence TO South Carolina. want to
zee the Ecpcntaht and unrepentant rebel in 4
Ills own home In some tomorrow we shall
Va very proud Of their sunny south. Want
10 sec what foundation Of manhood and
womanhood there Is for that coming day.
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