The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-15

Hawthoruo's sketch is SO life like and
true to nature, it cannot fail to prove in
tel nesting to our readers. We therefore
give it in full, beginning with the en-
trance of tho President:
"There was a stir on the stair case and
in the passage way, ard in lounged a
tall, loose join ed figure of an exagger
ated Yankee port and demeanor, wLom
(as being the honeliest man l ever saw,
yet by no means Iepulsive or disagreea-
ble,) it was impossible not to recognize
as Uncle Abe. Unquestionably Western
man though he be, and Kentuekian by
birth, President Lincoln is the essential
representative of all Yankees, and the
veritable specimen, physically, of what
the world seems to regard as our charac,
teristic qualities. 1t is the strangest yet
the fittest thing in all the tumble of hu
man vicissitudes, that he, out of so many
millions, unlocked for, unsolicited by
any ineligible process, that could be
based on his genuing qualities, uknow1
TO those who chose him, and unsuspect-
ed of what ehdowments may adapt him
for histremendous responsibility should
have found the way open for him to fling
his lank personality into the chair of
State, where I presume it was his first
impulse to throw his legs on the council
table and tell the Cabinet Ministers a
story. There is no describing his
lengthy awkwardness, nor the uncouth-
ness of his movements, and yet it seem
ed as if had been in the habit of seeing
him daily and had shaken hands with
him thousand times in some village
street, so true was he to the pattern
American, though with certain extrav
agance which possibly 1 exaggerated
still further by the delighted eagerness
with which took it in. If put to guess
his calling and livelihood should have
taken him for country schoolmaster as
anything else. He was dressed in a
rusty black frock coat and pantaloons,
unbrushed, and worn so faithfully that
the suit had adapted itself to the curves
and angularities of his figure, end had
giown to be am outer skin of the man.
He had shabby slippers on his feet, his
hair was black, still unmixed with gray
stiff, and had apparently been acquaint
ed with neither brush nor comb that
morning since the disarrangement of the
pillow; and as to night cap, Uncle Abe
probably knows nothing of such effemi-
nacies; his complexion is dark and sal
low, betokening, I fear, an ilsalu brious
around the white House; he
has thick black eyebrows, and an i'm
pending brow; his nose is large, and the |
lines around his mouth arc strongly de-
fined. The whole physiognomy is as
coarse a one as you would meet any
where in the length and breadth of the
States, but withal is redeemed, illumi-
mated, softened and frightened by a
kindly though serious look through the
eyes, and an expression of homely sa-
sacity that seems weighted with rich re-
suits of village experience, a great deal
If native sense, no bookish cultivation,
an honest heart and thor
'ughly so, with sort of tact and wis
iom that are akin to craft, and would
mpel him, think, to take an adversary
n flank, rather than to take bull run
It him.
Now, cannot the American pc ople Sc
ect gentleman and statesman as
ION each sidel for the coming
We need not add man of
ceiling and an honest man. The former
word ifnnifas botb tbasa oual;t;ae o.d | s
he latter the Knowledge and ability to
pply them to thApublic good; and sure
y such capacities were never more !
eeded than at the present time, wien :
fraudulent bankruptcies are so nuiher-
us and common that they are becoming 6
morally contagious, and sapping the :
of honor and honesty in the |
ommunity at large. What merchant or '
caller now feels safe, having parted I
nth his goods on the plighted word or y
'riiten obligation of a supposed gentle
lan9 And how can these things be
therwise, when from the President to
is lowest official breach of faith and of
romise is the rule, truth and honor the /
xception. And grinding extortion, op- b
ression, and excessive taxation to sup il
ort every scheme, no matter how Il
himsical it may be, or detrimental to S
le people, the order of the day. il
The Ku Klux Investigations, by thef "
yn showing, prove that those illegal t,
I'D violent acts Of this organization fl
ere forced upon the Southern people by III.
e interf renee, oppression, and plum W
,ring of the Northern adventurors sent r,
ither by the u. S. Government, and %
ey are but some of the many marks CT
lowing the incapacity and unwilling Il
'ss of those in power to deal success cl
lily and fairly with the existing state bl
affairs'in that section of the country. Ill
II is said that the success attending t
g Prussian arms during the late war, o,
as owing to the superior education of g,
at people. rather than to their superi. vi
bravery in the fight; this probably is
part true, but when the stoi IN of war
Irst forth, there was deep underly- n,
g feeling of required retribution AMI st
ating the bosom of every German SOL to
or, and forming a bond of uuion be- "
cen and among them; that powerful w,
nd called hate, for they had never ms
gotten the cruel exactions and brutal On
pressions of the French troops when
sy occupied the "Fatherland'' in the
Us the old hero Blucher, when they sti
ight and retreated, retreated to fight tn
Concluded on second poOc.1 wi