Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-29
The Presiuent and his Rural Home.

he PreSluent ana HIS hHfal nome,
Mr. Z. V Smalley, one of the ab,est and
most trustworthy correspondents of the
New York Tribune, reports recent call
on the president ut his country home in
Ohio as follows:
l had only an hour between trains at
Fremont to-day in which to call upon The
president at his homestead. An invaided
hack, long since retired from service in
some city, transported me from the depot
through dusty streets to the southern edge
of the town, and through the oak and hick-
cry forest in the midst Of which is hidden
away the modest brick house built by
Sardis Burchard for his nephew. There
was no servant at the door. but scarcely
had l alighted from the piazza when Mrs.
| Hayes came through the hall, hearing the
sound Of wheels upon The gravel, and gave
me 4 cordial welcome. After Il successful .
search in the house for palmleaf fans, she .
returned to chat about the Kansas trip, .
which she had enjoyed greatly, the near
return Of the family TO Washington, and .
the visit they meant to make on their way .
| to an old aunt of the president living in .
| Delaware, his own birth place. Then she .
went to look for Mr.. Hayes, who was in .
The woods back of the house helping the
young folks gather hickory nuts. The want
of an intervention of servants and cards .
and Mrs. Hayes friendly, easy chat made .
the visit seem like call upon OLD village
friends OF no pretentions to wealth or STA
ton. Soon the president came upon the
piazza, wearing an old felt hat and Il suit
of black clothes, about which there was Il
comfortable absence of all appearance Of
newness. His hair has grown gray Il great
deal since | saw him year aTO, and his
face, always ofa ruddy hue, is sunburned
from his long journeys in the west. |
found him, rs always have in years past,
abounding in interesting talk. Now have
not come to Fremont meditating an inter-
view. 1t is the misfortune Of journalists
that all great men with whom they come
in contact think they are after their opin-
ions; and between the men who want to
be put in print and those who don't their
position is often uncomfortable. Mr.Ilaves
has no dislike to talking for the newspa-
: pers. "lf mistakes are made in reporting
: my Conversations he said " know lha.
! they will be corrected, perhaps by some
J other newspaper reporter, and the truth
= will come out in the end As for misrep-
reservations. they will defeat their own
! purpose, and the people are not long in
4 coming to correct conclusions This was
Y said in speaking of recent interview by
, " Cath, which The president had not seen,
) but which he said he had no doubt was sc.
t curate save for the coloring of the CORES
poudents mind, from which no conversa-
a tions reported from memory were entirely
{; free.
; The questions | wancd 10 ask were
h reached after a few minutes talk about
o the western Journey and the Ohio cam
d paign and the first was Do YOU think
the democrats will renew the fight over
he appropriation bills and the election
laws next winter
q" If it were not the year before the
8 presidential election should say no but
t. it is always impossible to predict what is
n LOing TO happen in season preceding the
q presidential contest. The friends Of rival
o candidates for the democratic nomination
d will be ready 10 bring up any issue that
V will give their lavories IN advantage in
d the struggle for nomination. Otherwise
d there would be little disposition to carry
Is on Il contest with the present administers
a ton. which has now become the setting
a SUM-
II THE old issue between state rights nnC
W national supremacy will survive in any
IN case. will it not?'
ic "Oh, YES that will always survive. /
a is not, however, so much an issue between
q the republicans and the democrats as be
V. tween the opposition and whatever party
at has possession of the government-th'
Is outs and the ms. The party in power has
it always favored vigorous assertion 0
u national authority, and has denied th'
Ii, rights of the states to place obstacles in it!
be way. Jefferson and Jackson maintained
be the paramount supremacy of the natioT
lust as surely as Lincoln did. When il
IN power the democrats have always been
TO national party. and before the republican
lst party came 10 power in 1861 1t stood b.
al the rights Of the states against the gov
n. ernment, and opposed the execution c
VS. the fugitive slave law. The progress o
he the world has, however, we should bear il
IL mind, been strongly in the direction o
as national unity Of late years Rlilroad
tic have done 4 great deal toward this wor
lot of consolidation"
,rs " Was not the issue the democrats raise
es last session new issue, quite distnc
". from the old state rights doctrine9'
Sc An entirely new issue. No party eve
n before set up the claim that the House Z
nv Representatives, because of its rights t
he originate money bills, could coerce the e1
.it eeutive, That WAS the democratic clair
to at first Alterward when they got tn
ey Senate, they took that body into partner
in. ship with the house. This theory, if cal
no red out would be utterly subversive of tn
be balance Of power between the three grei
TO- departments of the government establish
its ed by the constitution, and would max
lat congress supreme"
ost The president warmed up noticeabl
do while talking on this subject. and went o
his at some length, arguing with good DEF
nd of animation the revolutionary charactt
an of the democratic claim Of the right
ell congress to refuse appropriations unle'
the executive would sign its measure