New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-23
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Following the Centennial at Concord and
Lexington there seems 10 bave CONE to some
New England folks n feeling of di>appoiut
, uent "a sort Of suspicion thai something has
been forgotten; something lett unsaid that
somebody was expected to say: hind OF
welI--"he never told bis love" -sort of feel
ing: and the setting Of the great occasion has
somehow a Tin Of dissatisfaction ; fringe az
it were Of ulIlapEiness; Is ragged edge i'll fact
which. though it hangs Oh Concord, does not
botoen Peace. The disappointed persons are
mostly Of tho Administration persuasion some
of them are little III the newspaper business;
and their disappointment is not entirely I'M
connected with the Presidents visit. Wojudge
that they were expecting the President TO say
something which be either had no intention OF
saying or forgot about entirely.
1t may perhaps be remembered that some
time last Summer there were circumstances
which Induced people to suspect that the
President was willing to sacrifice his own
wishes and, in order 10 save the patty and
the country, be candidate for Third Prcs
DENTAL term. Various uttoranccs Of some Of
the most fluent of the itnerant statesmen of
the South, taken in connection with remarks
dropped by some of the Presidents most init
mate and confidential newspapers, served to
increase the suspicion I'LL it amounted To
almost conviction in ilie popular mind The
People requirad no such sacrifice on The part
of tho President. That WAS not dejnltely
known, however tiI the Fall elections. Soolc
of tho Presidents friends who were candidates
for Office, ord to whom, in consequence, the
People were very dear, asked him to relieve
a. I,v IL
that he would not wear himself ont in
the public service. Tho President, being
Great Silent Man, made no answer
to their opportunities and SO tho People, re-
specting the motive. of his silence, said very
quietly but distinctly at the ballot-hox that so
far as they were concerned he should not be
called upon to make any such sacriiice. There
being stil some popular anxiety on the subject
in New Hampshire and Connecticut, bis
friends in the former State broke silence for
him, and said t.sy would not ask him TO
serve third term. The People expressed
THEN satisfaction with this announcement at
the polls. In Connecticut his friends rather
intmated that the country would demand the
sacrifice. The People got up and said in the
most positive terms that this was "crowdine
"thc moyners," aud that he was too GOOD q
,uan to have this thing forced upon hp aud
be compelled to put many similar burdens
upon his relations.
1t wa, accordingly hoped That on the occa-
sion of his visit to New England he would re-
Eeve the popular anxiety upon this subject.
Several influential Administration journals re-
marked in the most incidental aud ofl-band
manner that this was an uncommon opportn-
nifty. A great many people awaited him at
the railroad stations on tho route AL anxious
for his welfare, aud with the inquiry upper
most ia each mind, "Will be save his health
"ald comfort aud refuse 10 be sacrificed - At
each stoiion Postmaster General Jewell steDped
to the platform and with his white hair way
ing in the breeze proposed "Tlree cheers for
"thc President OF the United States This
took up SO much time that none was left the
President to answer the uppcrInost inquiry.
There was al opporIu1iy--in fact sv-
cral Of them--in Boston; and if lo could
only lave answered il there. il woald have
sent Joy into several newspaper olIicca, and
been a great day for Boston. lie W;.s 80 con-
tinually interrupted that he could not do it.
lilo might have done II ut Concord; but the