The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
WHAT THE COUNTRY LOST.
4 SKETCH or TIE NAN WHO SHOULD
UA w BEEN PRESIDENT.

True Attributes Of Royalty--The Tri-
umphs Of Tilden--What he Would
Have Boon in the White House.
Correspondence Portland argus.
He is little dried up old man ;
no will weigh perhaps 115 pounds ;
he has little round head, q little
round face with no board thereon a
little round nose, but entirely largo
enough for the face q little round
bald spot on the back Of his head.
His hair is brown, and has way of
dropping down over tho little round
faco; his eyes arc blue and rather
soft than otherwise the lid of tho
loft eyo drops at times, caused by q
a nervous affection, but tho express
sion is to give one tho impression of
cunning. He stoops little, as little
dried up old mon will do, and his
walk is something of q creep rs
though stepping on eggs. He has
no distinguished look one would
never select him from a crowd as
man born to command oh no, he
looks more Ikea hard working coun-
try shoemaker with his good clothes
on than u king, and yet in somo
respects no king, nor emperor, nor
priest, nor other man of any age, or
country, has been his equal.
He has no friends he never had
blood enough in his veins either to
feel the warmth Of friendship or to
inspire it. AS the few ounces Of
blood which he is supposed to have
are much too cold to be quickened by
the presence of lovely women, he is
unmarried. He never made great
speech, never wrote q great book, in
short, never did anything to call
out the admiration of mankind. He
is not magnetic o wooden Indian
in front of tobacco shop will Gre
ate as much enthusiasm as he.
At the American Institute Fair,
when open, is to be seen great
number of curious and most atlmira-
bic machines of all kinds, doing all
kinds of work. One may spend days
examining and admiring these various
machines. Away off at one side,
unseen, unnoticed, unthought of, is
the engine that moves them oil.
Nobody secs it, nobody thinks of it.
All notice and admire tho effect,
none notice nor admire the cause.
This little old man is like that
engine, unseen, unknown, unthought
of, but the cause of great events
True, for the last few months his
nume has been upon every tongue,
but this was but an episode in his
life, and although his power will be
greater than ever, his name will no
moro be heard. He is an honest
and an exact man if he owes a
penny it will be paid, and if a
penny is due him he wants it. He
was once made q chief magistrate of
great State, and after election the
event was celebrated by supper.
When the bill came in, he dis
covered an error of 38 cents, and
sent it back for correction. This
was called meanness by the free and
easy politicians, and added to his
unpopularity, for these political
gentry like only "whole~souled"
fellows-a whole-souled fellow be-
ing ono who robs tho public crib
and scatters good share of the
plumber among his friends. No,
this little old man was not whole
souled fellow, and was hated by all
politicians.
In the year 1874 tho Republicans
had entire control of this State.
General Dix had madeIa % wonderfully
popular governor, and as he was a
candidate for reelection, it was
deemed impossible for the Demo.
Gratis to carry the State. They made
great efforts to induce one of their
popular mon like Judge Church to
accept the nomination for governor
in opposition to Dix, but tho case
was so hopeless that all declined.
In this emergency for the Demo.
Gratis, my little dried up old man
offered himself, and as defoat was
considered certain, he was accept
ed. Judge of tho blank as
tonishmont of the politicians when
thoy found that he was not merely
elected, but elected by tremendous