Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18

bOStOn. Inc e4clIeInent IN the city was
intense. The streets from the Court
House down Court and State streets. and
on to the ship, were densely packed with
crowd-not noisy, but whose faces
gathered blackness as the fatal process
sion drew near Attentive observers were
very apprehensive of a bloody collision
between the soldiers and the people.
A posse Of many hundred constables
and policemen, the marines from Charles
town, cavalry, infantry, and light bat
terry with shotted guns, were thought nee
essary TO get this one poor fugitive
through the streets. The escort was hiss
ed, the soldiers greeted with shouts of
''kidnappers! kidnappersP' and various
emblems were hung from the windows.
John Andrews Office, at the corner of
Court and Washington streets, was the
center OF the excitement, and filled with
people. Some Of his friends were drap
ing it in front with black cloth. On the
opposite corner swung coffin, under
which the escort must pass. But Andrew
sat quietly at his desk, writing, the only
calm man in the room. He had done all
he could to prevent the rendition before
now he could do no more, and sat at his
desk as serene as if no such event were TAX
ing place around him. His perfect good
sense revolted from the folly of wasting
strength and time in mourning or raging
about the inevitable.
In like manner he had an instructive
aversion to worry or anxiety about evils
which might never arrive. I recollect
once being present with him at the grad
uatlng exercisesof State Normal School.
When called upon, as Governor o, the
State, to address the class, he referred to
the frequent occurrence in their essays
and addresses of tone of anxiety in re-
gard to their great coming responsibility
as teachers. "That is all wrong" said he.
"You have no occasion TO be anxious at
all. You have been we'll prepared here
and ii you try to do your best, trusting in
God, your responsibilities will be not
bit greater than you can meet. You are
too solemn about it. Look forward cheer
fully to your work. You will find it, I
have no doubt, a very happy one. Do not
trouble yourselves beforehand about any
difficulties, but wait till they come. Re-
member what Abraham Lincoln said
when he was asked what he would do, if
such or such perils interviewed, I never
cross a river till / come to it," AS the
Governor thus spoke, his own face beam
ing with cheer and good-nature, I OBJ
served the light come back to the faces of
the pupils, and have no doubt they long
remembered this kind and judicious adj
vice which Governor Andrew always fol-
lowed himself, thus avoiding much I'M
necessary trouble.
Another secret of his executive ability
was the rare faculty he possessed of ap-
plying his mind at once to each question
as it arose, and deciding it on the spot.
He did not say, II will think about it,
and let you know tomorrow" He knew
that tomorrow would have to take
thought for the things of itself, and that
at once is the easiest way. Thus
| have seen him in the State House, when
question after question was submitted to
him, looking at EACH man in turn, making
ing some shrewd inquiry, giving his de-
clsion, and turning to the next subject.
Moreover, and especially, his eye was
single, and that filled his whole BODY full
of ight. There was no prejudice to
blind, no vanity to mislead, no private
aims to be gratifed, no passions to weaken
and betray. He took no time in asking,
before he made his decision, what would
be its effect on his own popularity or his
own fortunes. There never was man
who had less IF the politicians habit of
watching public opinion and it's tenden-
cies, in order to see if if will be profitable
to be just. Here again recollect story
he was fond of telling Of Andrew Jackson,
who was asked whether some course he
proposed would be thought Democratic
by his Democratic supporters. "What do
| care what they think?" shouted the
old general. eff want to know what is
Democratic, I do not ask Tom, Dick, and
Harry. [ ask old Andrew Jackson. lie
(slapping his breast), he is a Democrat;
and if he thinks it Democratic, that is
enough"
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