Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-03

gather around her hearthstone, she COM
menced that course of Preside education
and training which has proved so en-
inently successful all the world over
that system Of material culture and
care to which some of even the greatest
minds of the age have freely confessed
their Indebtedness. Nor was she help
meet to her noble partner in one or two
relations only; for, from time to time, if
report speaks truly, it was his habit in
any circumstances of difficulty to draw
upon her intellectual resources and I'D
failing clear-sightedness. Obviously,
therefore, they were as one in all that
was essential to human happiness; and
hence the ever-deepening love and affec-
tiOn which has characterized their lives
up to the presenu hour.
It will not, then, be difficult to con-
ceive of her dismay and anguish when,
on Saturday the second day of July last,
the intelligence reached her at ElberOn,
New Jersey, that the President, her hus-
band, was wounded, but mot danger
Ously," by an assassin, while entering
the depot of the Baltimore & Potomac
railroad at Washington. A few moments
previously, delicate as was her health,
her face had been radiant with joy; for
on that day she was to have Joined the
President with their children in New
York, and proceed thence with him and
some gentlemen of high official position,
to pay visit to several points of interest
East, and make voyage along the coast
of Maine as far as Mount Deseret Island.
In an instant the cup was dashed from
her lips, and Notwithstanding that the
telegram conveying the dire intelligence
was cOuched in language the most eau
tiOus and cOnsiderate, yet with an in
stinct not to be baffled by the guarded
expressions of friends, she felt that some
frightful calamity had befallen her and
her family; and instantly flew on the
wings of affection to the bedside of the
illustriOus sufferer. The journey, al
though performed with almost the speed
of the wind, was to her all but intermin-
able; yet it came to close, and at last
she found herself bending in agony fill
ed with despair over the sharer of her
early joys and sorrows, now the Chief
on earth. From that hour the subtle
influence of her voice and presence seems
to have supplemented the wOndrOus al
chemy of the physicians in attendance
| which had already wrought miracles.
There is no denying it, there are anO-
dynes beyond the scope of mere physics,
and which transcend all the critical
acumen of the most profound medical
skill. And although no metaphysical
power can perform "a physical impossi-
bility," or "set to leg or an ARM" as
Falstaff has it, yet there is, as alleged,
that about it which sometimes enables
us to bear the loss of the one or the
other, and which possibly prevents any
fatal results from the deprivation we
have suffered.
Let us hope then, that, in the case of
the President, the undoubted medical
and surgical skill of the distinguished
gentlemen who now watch so faithfully
and ably over his life, may be supple
mented to the happiest cOnsummatiOn by
the mysterious magnetic influences born
of the love and affection Of his tender
and loyal wife, as we'll as of the prayers
and sympathy of all civilized peoples.
Surely such truth and loyalty as hers
should be crowned by the restoration to
health and strength of him who is so
worthy of her, and who has struggled so
long and so bravely in the very jaws of
death, For now, after all this frightful
alienation between bitter agony and
trembling hope, it would be terrible in
the last degree, if the star of her life was
extinguished forever, and the present
meritOriOus efforts to cheer this hour of
her darkness with whatever luster gold
may afford. be rendered less effective
than we had all so ardently anticipated.
-SprinqfeId o. Republic.