The Columbus journal., 1880-11-17

worthy of Western President; and
Mentor, made comfortable during
the summer, has had mere callers
than probably any house in Ohio
ever had, and everybody has gone
away grstified to see that the COM
ing President was q gentleman, aud
not q mere tenant.
One of the qualities which have
brought Garfield along has been bis
enthusiasm. A certain class OF
Americans in public life hate en-
thusiasts. They prefer common
place people, or cynics. One reason
Garfield never has been popular In
Congress has been his hearty EN-
brace OF the novel or marvellous
people and Ideas. He Is a believer,
an inquirer, and a novice, yet with
good, costly common sense at bot
tom; aud be is not given to de-
nouncing anything, even when ne
has tested it aud found it hollow.
He simply turns away from i to De
interested. in something else. Hence,
his mind is as sound as -his body
The world has plenty of new occu-
pstions, and he takes it all with
boyish glow, and beyond the pres
ent life his convictions are just as
healthy of the good intentions OF
Nature and God toward us all. He
does not hate though he can be
wounded, and then q monastery
melancholy is seen In his face, till
directly another Invitation comes to
60 out and do something, and you
see under this love of occupation
this happiness restored.
IL he is to have trouble in the
Presidency, it may come from de-
pending too much on his patience
and too little on his judgment; but
il can be said of his honest convic-
tions, which are more generally
right than most mems, and his fidel-
ity to q few general points carries
out in the result the old Scriptural
term, Thou hast been faithful over
few things, and l will make thee
ruler over many" These few things
are a belief in his country, in free.
dom, in overruling Providence, in
eternal justice, in humanity. in labor
and frugslity, and in education
These are the few things; but they
are the skeleton of all things. He ID
too much surprised at his promotion
to the Presidency for q single term
TO enter the White House thinking
about the second term.
We shall have pure White House
under Garfield's Administration
His wife, though apparently diff
dent, has faculties both strong anC
genial and, without any desire FOL
general society, will perform bel
part with a cheerfulness In which
the sense of duty will be the guild
ing principle. Every duty of bel
life has been performed without hes
itstion, and she takes an interest il
events and in interesting people
Gsrfeld's boys will be off to schoo
moat Of the time he is President
They are perfect apples of health
and look as if they were going to b
strong, healthy men, like himself
He is one of the youngest men VIII
ever became President, and on tn
10th OF the present month will onl,
be - years old. He is also one o
the few men who ever became Pres
ident and brought his mother to tn
White House. She WAS 79 years oil
lust about the time she heard of tn
defeat Of the Republicans in Main
lsst September, and If che could sur
vive that she may go through hi
whole term.
Garfield stands In the Republica
party without an enemy, having
respectable right to do so. Tb
Conkling school of politicians can
not refer to any word of his speak
ing with reprosch or with envy o
Gen. Grant, or of any other lesde
on that side. He has been equal
faithful TO Hayes, and got himse
considerable criticism for stsndin
by Hayes in Louisians. Ii is q pref
ty good test of man's moral char
acter, who has been in Congress wit
Garfield to hear his opinion of Gal
field. People who think the worl
, ought 10 be governed indecent
, dislike Garfield. Those who thin
il ought to be governed withou
, moderation say he has no courage
, But he ought to come pretty mes
, the feelings of the present age. II
! said to me, just after Grant was RI
} elected, that he was In favor
, building q railroad from the South
! ern States to the Pacific as q matte
of equitable treatment, so as to Civ
} the Southerners line Of emigratio
} and an equal chance. "Their los
es," he said, shave been very grea
and we were partly responsible fe
] the proportions slavery assumed
and it will be no loss to the Trea
= ury If we help them to educstio
and development" Think nothin
4 has since hannened to change thOi