The evening times., 1897-03-03

/ teFe Justice GrieT, Of Pennsylvania and
| Justice Nathan Clifford. Of Maine, were
all seated, expectant Of the ceremony, and
| in TaDey's hand was the Bible ready for its
service.
When fIOm amid a front group there
arises tail, lean, towering figure, and
| is IutI O1uced BY Senator Baker, Of Oregon,
as Line DIN, the frantic peaIs OF voices again
rise in a Chorus that must pierce the
! hills of Arlington. The saluting huzzahs
come from residents or every State which
had given 90 that now fun risen gaunt
man in black its Presidential vote Close
to Lincoln the immense crowd behOlds
standing Eis late competitor, Stephen Ar
rod Douglas WHO has taken Lincoln's
hat and is chivalIOHsly holding 10. which
acton being observed the crowd shout
alternative cheers for Douglas, because
! they recognize that Douglas intends 70
support the new administration in its
"Ork Il flaintaining ''the Union OF hearts
aud the In OF Or bands none may sever
Around Lincoln, as hushed listeners 10
the opening sentence Of the President
elect. are groups destined 20 become his
ORC. -Four men are there destined to be
come his successors Hayes, CART field.
Arthur and Harris on. Also four future
Vice Presdents-C Colfax, Wilson. Wheeler
dndMOrtOn, and two future Speakers-BIaine
and Reed. Lincoln is found at once 10
osSess a mellOwed, carrying voice, and
it reaches 10000 Of those in his font.
among when are staid Old QuakeIs. wei
coming their friend Abe,'' Hosiers. Buck
eyes, Wolverines, and even dandies from
the cultured East. He has often, On pre-
F.ous occasioHs, be gun public speech with
fellow -citizeEs;'' but this tin 2 il becomes
emphatic. because at other meetings the
phrase meant only citizens ~ one State.
but low the phrase isc'feICw-citizeas OF
tEe United States - with pathetic emphasis
on the adjective.
There came the the cIowning dramatic
incident Of the inaugural occasion when the
tire aged Chief Justice Roger b. Taney.
then ia his eighty-fOuT year. who had pre-
Ottsly administered the cath Cf cffice to
Presidents Van Buren, Harrison. Tyler
60 the latter ~ lis morning rooms at the
kiTkwOOd HOteb Polk Pierceand Buchanan.
advanced Then he and Lincoln gTaSDetI
together the sacred volume aud Tanpy adj
miuIsteTed the oath the which in finer
and deeper vO.ce than he had yet used.
Abraham Lincoln repeated as feelingIy as
the Chief Justice prompted its mOmeEtoug
words.
As the immense COnCOurse turned away,
much OF q 90 reform IN the procession that
was to escort the old and the newIv-5n-
stalled Presidents on the return to the
White House. every man and woman de-
Lshtedly observed how the atmosphere
had meI.Owed from its foI bidding texture
IN the early HOFninE into the genial sun
shine Or an attempeTed spring Gay The
people along tie Avenue, who had been as
.O5h 10 go as Lincoln had been to close.
were still lettering on the banks Of the
river, to once more CheerIngly greet the
new President, whose face they observed
had lost much Of its anxious expression
OF tine morning. Arrived at the White
House, ex-President Buchanan welcomed
his success or inside Il its PORTALS and Lin
coins official doruesticity began.
The Inauguration ball is destined to be
the only failure Of the day IL had been
pretty accurate gossip that Lincoln. IS
well as Gen. Scott. had attempted t. lis
suade the committee Of arrangements from
having a ball Lincoln assigned as rea-
sons the troubled condition OF the country.
that seemed to forbid neTrymaking. and
Scott appTehendcd COnspiraCies ana dis
order and was known 10 be a firm be-
lever in the danger Of assassination. One
or two committeeman mdOrsed their Ot-
jectiOns but maiuly on the ground that
the ball would lack its former prestige,
because Washington society, So favored
with secession views and preiudices, had
determined utterly to withhold its pres
ence. But others argued that il the bail
was held there ere ladies'. among visit
OrS and Congressional residents in sUffi-
Cient numbers to impart briliiancy to the
affair: and. moreover, men like Cows.
Morgan, Andrew, Morton and Curtin
all afterward named War GOvernOrs-fe-
lieyel in maintaining Northern and West
err pride against what they deemed South
eTn arrogance and hostility However
when at O'Clock the President and Mrs
Lincoln entered the grand roOu-the latter
on the arm Of the chivalric Senator Doug
las. as evidence that, in the exigencies or
d contest for the supremacy OF the Union
party lines must he effaCed-they looked
upon what, by comparison with past in
auGuTation balls. wasa meager attendance.
while an atmosphere Of strange per
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