The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-04
OUR PRESIDENT.

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all Christian people pay for and expect
we are to have. among the multitude Of
excellent things, our particular Presi-
dent. When will it be? And what
will be his name? The time when car
hardly be foretold /; and it matters very
little by what name we may call him but
we can tell even now what sort of per-
son he will be, and it is comfort tc
think of the dignities and gracious
amenities that will accompany his manly
sway.
In the first place, he will be gentle
man, and will have the manners Of a gen
tleman. No vulgar peculiarities will
commend him to vulgar people. He will
humiliate himself by no appeals to low
taste for securing the popular approval
and support. The dirty brood of office
seekers and contractors and jobbing mer,
ceparies will stand abashed in his pure
presence. Nay, he will be hedged about
by dignity that will protect him from
the approach Of those upon whom he can
only look with loathing and contempt.
Petty politicians will find in him no
congenial society, and his councils willibe
those of craftsmanship. The representa-
tives of foreign governments will come
with all the high and gentle courtesles of
which they may be masters, to pay him
court, as the first gentleman in nation Of
many millions. The people who have
placed him in power will look up to him
with afectionate pride as their model
man and as the highest product of
American civilization.
Again, he will be wise man, and
wise particularly in statecraft, through
life of conscientious study and constant
and familiar practice in positions that
have naturally led to his final elevation.
He will live in an age when the present
low ideas of availability will have passed
away, and when pers nal fitness will be
the essential qualification for place. He
will have been brought into eompet.tio
with none but those of his own kind.
No Warrior burdened with lanrels for
great ACHIEVEMENTS in his awful profes
sion. no literary chieftain though crown
ed King in his own peculiar realm, no
demagogue lingering the strings of a
thousand intrigues, no boor dazzling the
populace with the shows of wealth and
polluting the ballot box with its gifts,
will have degraded the contest which re-
suited in his election. He will have
reached his seat because a wise nation
believed him to be it's wisest man.
He will be man of honor too, man
who will sooner die than permit any
good reason to exist for the suspicion
that he will use the privileges of his
place for the perpetuation of his power,
He will be zone term" man, who will
never for an instant permit his personal
prospects to influence him in the per
torrance of public duty and when that
term shall expire, he will retire to q still
higher elevation in the popular esteem
and reverence, and will not sink into the
humble and almost disgraceful ebscurity
to which so many of his unworthy prede-
cessors have been condemned.
He will represent in his faith and prac-
tce the religion on which his country's
purity and prosperity rest; for in that
grand day the cavils and questions and
infdelities that disgrace our shallow age
will have passed away, and the brain and
heart of Christendom will be christian
lied There will be a reverence for
worth la the popular heart, and o Chris
tian nation will have none but o Chris
tan ruler.
After ST. Paul returned from the Wis
ion Of those heavenly things which it
was not lawful for him to speak about,
the small affairs of the men around him,
and the mean and vulgar ways of those
with whom he associated and to whom he
preached, must have oeen somewhat dis
gushing. &c. after looking at the ideal
president in the good time coming" we
confess to a spasm of pain as we contem-
plate the political conflict so closely i'm
pending. Is it to be 8 conflict Of great
principles of government, earnestly held
by men equally wise Is it to be con.
fict between men equally pure and equal,
ly patriotic? L. it to be conflict be-
tween statesmen who are brought for
ward because of wisdom acquired by
long service of the State in other capac.
tiles? Is it to be conflict between gen
tlemen mutually respecting one another?
Is it to be conflict in which the domi-
nant desire shall be that the best man,
the most honorable man, the truest Chris
tian, the wisest man, the purest and
highest statesman may win? Or, are
considerations of personal and party ad-
vantage to be dominant? Is SANDER to
be let loose? Is dirt to be thrown? Are
the prophecies of society to be so out,
ragged by personalities, that all decent
men will learn to shun politics as they
would shun exposure to foul disease
There certainly is better way than the
one we walk in, and there are some at
least who would be glad to find it. Let
US try to find it.-Scr ibner'8 Monthly.
WASHING SHEEP Mr.. Moore declare
himself Opposed to the nractice of wash