The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-11-25

any or no preteLt, being pretty well I
over, I was lucky this afternoon in
finding the newly elected President |
of these United States at home and
at leisure.
A long drive from Painesville in
the teeth of a desiccating west wind,
brought me at two o'clock in the
afternoon to Gen. Garfelds house.
The lady who answered the bella
pleasant-faeed person, with the least
possible touch Of an Irish brogue-
said he was at home, but busy.
"Sit down by the stove," " said she,
sand I'll see if I can find him"
I sat down by the stOve-a large
one, with a roaring fire in it-while
she went upon her search, with my
card in her hand. She was hardly
out of sight when the door at the
rear end of the hall opened, and
the General himself walked in,
pulling at the butt Of a thick cigar,
| looking for all thewOrld like aprOsper-
GUS farmer, Just from his hayrieks. He
took off the soft old hat that had
kept the wind from his crown, and,
having mopped it down on the table,
took the butt of the aforesaid cigar
from his mouth, and held Out bis
hand, Evidently his
MEMORY OF MEN
is good, for 1 had never met him
more than three or four times. His
greeting was pleasant not to say
cordial.
SIS it anything special this time?
he asked, after we had thawed a mo-
ment by the fire.
It was special, as well as general
and I said so.
''Then take off your O7ereoat and
walk in here by the CRATE fire, . said
be, leading the way into a pleasant
room, with windows looking out up
on the lawn, where a hard wood fire
blazsd in a large old fashioned CRATE
under a heavy mantel of cherry
sort of parlOr or lOunging room
finished and furnished in light woods
/ and decorated with a few pictures.
I mentioned in form concise al
possible the prevalent curiosity tC
know something about his views a
to the policy the new administration
should follow, and about Cabine
probabilities. I fatter myself ia
: nerve required to put this, excite'
. his admiration, for he smiled again
and blew a gust Of smoke high owe
!, his head.
"That is something" said he, ''w
all will know more about thre
3 months from now. I have made ul
t my mind to be for three months
. irst-elass listener
He added that he had made it
I rule not to be interviewed, and be
J fore I left the house, he placed m
f under q taeit pledge not to write
3 line in that form. The talk driftet
along for the better part of an hOul
and out of it I feel myself at hbert
to extract so much Of essence or IN
/ ference as viii convey some forecast
= of the next four years.
Gen. Garfield seems, to begl
with,
e A BROAD-NINDED MAN,
!, devoid of any petty feelings Of lik
' or dislike. He has no piqUes t
Z equaize, nor any preiudioes to 70
low. He is ready to listen to sus
gestions from all parts Of the coul
trv, and will be glad to get then
- No man was ever elected to tE
= Presidency with less personal efol
IS in his own behalf He told me, whe
z I called upon him in September las
-e that the nomination having fallen
II him without his seeking, he trouble
: himself personally little about th
? result, further than that be desire
% his party to win. His present III
r. worn appearance and buoyaDt healt
y tell plainly enough how lightly tE
70 campaign has lain upon his min'
. He had a pleasant career before hi
n in the Senate; his tastes lay IN IL
/ direction of Legislative work; ha
ID he never been nominated, his pos
.g ton and his duties, though less hig
le and consequential than they will
y now, would have been much more
Al his personal liking, Feeling, und'
:" the circumstances of the case, LEI
re bound to any faction than to Il
IS whole country, he viii be much mol
u free to follow his conscience and b
! Judgment for the good of the who
d than though he had, through a cour
d of intriguing before the con7entlo
es been tied to any set Of men who
10 labors secured his success. III
Sc issues of the campaign impose upt
" him a subservience to the will Of &
" majority in certain leading question
G. but in nothing is he an extremli
It is not to be expected that he W
re. temporize, for example, with
ey THE SOUTH,
as but so far as his influence IN t
to government may go, that part Of t
nation may look to be fairly treat'
Up to the time of my visit Or
49, Garfield had not been informed
NJ N. the effort that was organized in @
est cago last week by Joseph Medill'
he B. Washburne, and others, to hi
nd Allison, of Iowa, appointed Sec
am 2 tarv of the Treasury. But the ia
N ~ that under the new cOngressio
me apportionment the great Northw
will take almost if not quite a f
place among the sectional divisi.
Sst sEt of the nation, and that the lead
ltIv issues Of the near future will be
me most wholly economic, and OF
,Or- ticular importance as affecting t
Or. raoion are no less plain to him {