The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-02
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Concerning the Presldsnt.

Concerning the President. fa
BfOn he Tribune.
The air is full of Presidential rumors, every
on9of whichlverges to point, and that point
ihelPresident's s intended departure from Wash.
mgton. Viewed by a too sanguine class of oul
ielloW-Citizens, the bare announcement of such
an Intention willwea an Elusive cheerfulness.
Thousands Of his well-wishing countrymen
win rejoice in the Presidents purpose ia
retire, if but for time, from the fatigues Of
office. Thousands will be willing to rest CON
tent with the simple assurance that he is
about to quit Washington. But rumor does
not stop here. 1t plots out a ubiquitous jour-
ney for Mr.. Johnson. He is not only going.to
make tour through the South, but threatens
New England radicalism with visit East, TO
assist in a Masonic or Temperance celebration
which Of them we are not exactly informed.
There is still another story that he will come
to New York on private business only; Dut
there is none whatever that the President will
again venture out West, even II the late
lamented Mr.. Douglas has to be disinterred
for the purpose.
The anxiety to know where the President is
Going is only natural. 1t is not only ques-
tioH which is to be left indefinitely to the
solution of Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens or of Mr..
Johnson's religious advisers. He is not going
the way of all Presidents; and the American
public may, as it pleases, take pleasure or
regret from the fact. For ourselves, we have
neither one nor the other, but are yelling to
accept the situation, if the incumbent of the
Executive Office decides to leave it for any
personal or public good. We think it more
difficult to understand where the President
really is than where he is going; but let that
pass. The truth of the case appears to be
that, in few weeks, Mr.. Johnson will start
on tour through the South, accompanied by
Mr.. Seward.
Why not with Mr.. Sharkey3 and why not
to the American Siberia just negotiated for by
our terrible State Department? We forget
that Mr.. Sharkey is managing the Presidents
cause before the Supreme Court, and that, if
Postmaster Nasby's surmiseS be true, the
dreary relic of diplomacy to the south of the
North Pole is land reservation for the benefit
of the Blair family. To dwell upon the poeti-
cal prOpriety of tour by the President and
Secretary to the lately acquired regions of
valuable snow and merchantable ice would be
needless. 1t is endlessly suggestive. If the
Secretary should stay there for year to warm
himself with the work of organizing the terri
tories-if the Blairs should indeed become
CONCEALED and dumbfounded in Governorships
thereabout-if the President should decide to
visit this 81, 10000 worth of worthlessness
with anything like Executive sympathy or
political fellow-feeling-if the Hon. Sharkey
should form portion of the ce-bound train,
and Justice or two of the Supreme Court
were to wrap himself up in the judicial
ermine, and there undergo political torpor-
the great nation which has been made the
appanage of sterile, secondhand idea con-
genial only to Siberia, and south of the Polar
nowhere, would at least be amused. The
President, however, is resolved to travel
South.
Presidential journey through the South
at this time will not be wanting in political
purpose or significance. Reckoning the OBJ
viOus intentof such Journey is it not strange
that one of his supporters should hope that he
will feel it his duty not to make any political
speeches, because, "though a very eloquent
and effective popular orator, Mr.. Johnson does
not happily combine that character with the
dignity and sense of propriety essential to his
Office" We make no criticism of the conduct
of our Chief Magistrate, having to do only with
his going and notwith his bygones. But if Mr..
Johnson speaks at all, he will speak politi-
cally; and the South has every right to expect,
if it so pleases, an unburdening of the Execu-
tive mind as frank and outspoken as the blunt
elOquence displayed all along the great pic
turesque tour made by the Administration to
the West. The President will talk, at least,
to friends, if not admirers; and, should he talk
at all, will do so to purpose. But the Execu-
tive party will do well to bear in mind that no
journey of theirs to the South will be complete
without visit to Fortress Monroe and to
Mayor Monroe. 1t will be very much like
taking Goals to Newcastle; but it will be in
order.