Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
Our Washington Letter.

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Sperfat Correspondence Of The 0nsERvnR
w ASIliNGToN, DC, June %, III
The President, though ready
IN conversation, and able to
make q good enough speech af-
ter preparation, is awkward as
an elephant when he tries 10
make the "licw impromptu re-
marks" that are expected on
small ceremonial occasions.
President Buchanan and Presi-
dent Pierce were the rcadiest
and most delightful Of all our
modern Chief Magistrates in
this line, and President Lincoln
put every one al ease as soon as
he began to speak. Grant is
Tor was, for he seemed TO have
suffered sea change into
something rich and strangely no
speaker at all. 1t is odd that a
man so ready in other respects
as President Hayes should fail
in this. But others have failed
before him. Ex-Speaker Banks,
not a man who often suffers
from lack of self-possession, mix
es things strangely sometimes.
When he was called upon at a
New England dinner TO speak
10 the toast" The father of
his Country"-he said that
Washington was
"0ne of the few the immortal names
That flesh toas heir to-
And in a farewell address de-
livered by him as Governor Of
Massachusetts, he informed his
hearers that ga fellow feeling
makes the world kim The
President must improve himself
i'm this respect, or the orphans,
The deaf and dumb, the delega-
lions of preachers and the 9TH
er bodies who occasionally call
at the White House will find
their best happiness in staying
away.
For a matter entirely outside
Of current politics, the late re-
fnsal of the principal Saratoga
hotel to admit any Jew to its
table or rooms, excites immense
discussion here. AS long as the
proprietors Of the hotel violate
no law they can, of course, con-
duct their house as they choose,
and it may be said that most of
recent legislation on this sub
iect has been crude and in a
high degree distasteful to the
average white American. But
looking at this case not as the
law leaves it, nor as the usual
American watering place, hotel
keeper looks at it, but as an I'M
preiudiced and financially dis
intcresterested citizen must, |
think Mr.. Hilton has done an
unwise and unchristian thing.
This, too, is undoubtedly gen
cral intelligent opinion here.
That the particular Jew rebuffed
in this case is making BOBBY
of himself about it does not al
feet the principle involved.
When Fred Douglass visited
his old slave home in Maryland
last Sunday, he addressed the
colored men Of the neighbor-
hood, giving them much good
advice. / fear most OF it was
thrown away on them, and if it
is Fred has himself to thank
for it, for he injudiciously
touched on the money ques-
ton, and they don't believe in
BIN financially. One would
think a negro would be exas-
perated to be told by the Presi-
dent of the late Freedmen
Bank that "to be respected the
negro must get money-must
get money and keep it." The
Institution over which Douglass
presided swindled the negroes
of the South out Of millions,
and did more to discourage hab-
it's of prudence and economy a
nong them than anything else
could have done.
Though it is semi-officially
denied that the President "has
made arrangements to visit the
south, or has rented a cottage
at the White Sulphur Springs,
Va, the SIMMER home of the
politicians and the fashion OF
the South, no one here
doubts that the Southern trip
will be taken or that the Presl-
dent viii make the other visit.
Mr.. Corcoran, our great bank
er. may not be one of the new
Presidential party, but he e, GER :
tainly expects to meet the Chef si.
MAGISTRATE while at the Springs
which he visits every summer
mnS | believe, q