The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-09-14

virtute, o parens libertatis. You may
well say that There never yet was
one of our line that could condOne a
crime or palliate fraud, and / hope
to heaven there never will he such 10
| dishonOr the name of Adams"
al came into this mansion" con-
tinued the old gentleman, 'in theyear
| 1900. / was the first President of the
| United States to occupy it. Nearly
every four years since | have revisited
the home of the Chief Magistrates,
either i'm the flesh or as / now come,
and always with generous confidence
in the honesty of purpose of its Occu-
| pant, hOwsOever ! might question the
! wisdom of his administrative meas
ures. Nearly every four years, / say,
for | must except the unfortunate
period during which / was on terms OF
non-intercOurse with Jefferson here
the old quarrel happily long since re-
conciled, is it not so, your Excel
lency?"
"Long since forgotten, John Ad-
ams,n replied he who was addressed;
"but veX me not with your EXcellen-
cies.' / am plain Tom Jefferson, and
/ hold that in a true democracy a Hlan
though he he President, fine phra-
ses and obsequious address can add
nothing to the dignity of the Office.
Let him borrow titles who lacks the
sole title President should claim
the title conferred by the honest vote
of the several COmmOnwealths."
al am rough fellow, " said another,
stout gentleman with an awkward
manner, but gOOd-humered face and
keen eyes, that snapped fire as he
NOT handy i'm ~
sentences or speechifying; but d-n
me if it isn't an outrage that a knave
should find shelter under the roof that
has covered good soldiers and honest
gentlemen for nigh a century,"
Gave old Rough and Ready" said
simple, blue-eyed James Monroe, ga
knave, there's no denying it. Forgery,
fraud, and the robbery of priceless
rights, to get to this White House; this
cannot be forgiven, and must not be
fOrgotten-that's the Monroe doc
trine.u
"And the hands that take the prize
are as black as the hands that do the
crimes" put in venerable figure
dressed in sable, with thin gray hair
carefully powdered; "eh, John
Quincy?"
''Qui facit per alum, facit per se,"
promptly suggested the erudite Presi-
dent to whom Madison had appealed.
"But what can he done about il ~
inquired Buchanan, coming forward
to the table and pOking his pear-shap-
ed head over the shoulders of James
Polk and Andy Johnson. at seems
to me that we are in a position to re-
mOnstrate, but not to coerce."
''Do about it ," shouted an irascible
old gentleman jumping from his chair
and running his bOny fingers through
a head of bTistling hair. 1--WE can cut
off this false-hearted knavc's ears.
BY the Eternal, it ought to be done,
and Pm the man to do it,"
Mr.. Hayes had never trembled as he
trembled now before the honest indig-
nation of this stern old chieftain. FOT
a moment he quite forgot his forehead
in anxiety about his ears. = He rushed
for the door, his two hands pressed
close over the appendages which An
drew jackson had threatened. NOOne
him; no one needed him.
The first Fraudulent President of the
United States passed at a towards
pace from out tile presence of his sew
enteen hOnestly-elected predecessors.
In the faces of all he had read con-
tempt. In the faces of some he had
seen anger. In the grave faces of
Washington and Abeaham Lincoln he
saw no anger, but deep sorrow and
profound apprehension for the future
of the Government which one had es-
tablishcd and the other saved.
When Mr.. Hayes, haggard and still
trembling, found himself in the cor
ridor, the sunlight was pouring in from
the east. This gave him courage to
look back into the room from which
he had fled, but the room was empty.