The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

gether another story. The man is
mean beyond expression. He would be
perilous, but he wants in courage. He
has appetites, but no principles; he can
attain to a conclusion, but not to
conviction. He owns no depth of
mind; he is brilliant in a sheeny,
shimmery way, and, being of no in
tegrity, is no more to be laid hold on,
mind you! and held to anything, than
so much water"
And would you say" cried I, that
Clay has no convictions?"
mo more than has a mirror! Sir,
the man will acquiesce, and show you
whatever is set before him like a look
ing glass. There is his conviction for
you! 1t is each time some other mans
| conviction and wholly outside of Clay
Remove it from before him; look then
into your FURNISHED statesman, and
! where is his conviction? Why, sir
when Clay sold himself to Adams, did
| it not prove what l say?"
| The General reeled off these views
with, for him, a mighty conservatism
| that was a surprise to me; for know
! ing his headlong, not to say trenchant,
! sort, l looked to have him go about his
| carvings of the portraits of ones in
! imical to him with a knife. He would
| have obliged me, too; but he observed
my thought, and turned cautious to dis
/
! ed up these gentry fairly well-he
squarely hit them off or I'm the more
| mistaken. He was too lenient with Cal
houn; Calhoun might have called off
those ISLANDERS against Peg which found
voice for his advancement; when he
failed of that he became their sponsor.
When 1 went again to my own lair of
| labor, 1 found Noah waiting. 1 had
grown to delight in our cool gentleman
of the red hair, the jet eyes and the
sharp Spanish swords.
And now said l. and greeting my
visitor, how runs the world away?"
"There are things talked about our
taverns," said Noah, land the corridors
| of Congress, whereof it might be prop
er the President should hear. The more,
since the conversations have him for
their motive
Let us journey down the hall and
tell him." said I.
NO" returned Noah you may en-
tighten him later, since there comes no
call for hurry. l dislike to dodge in
and out or play hide and seek with
the President, it is not seemly. And
the fact that our friend would toler-
ate, and might even encourage the IA
miliarity on my personal part, offer
best reasons why 1 should avoid it,"
You make yourself too modest"
said l.
None the less 1 was touched to adj
| InlTdllOH WIFI lIllS QeOeHI SellSe OIL the
proprieties on Noahs part 1t stood a
| pity it found imitation by so few
| What is it to be, them" l asked.
"You need not be told" said Noah,
''how the Presidents note to the Vice
President, added to Rhetzs report of
| the White House views on Notification,
| Secession and kindred hangman topics,
has made a flutter. Your Palmetto
| folk who plot for Notification fear
the President Being so far right, they
| then step aside for error; they fall to
| fond imaginings that, for all his vio-
| lence of phrase to Rhetz, the Presi-
! dent, in return, fears them. They be-
! lieve, We're he to count their power,
| he would not dare them to any last
| ditch opposition. Then, too, the lead
| ers are not wholly satisfied with the
Rhetz returns. Thus a situation is
| framed where some stronger light on
the Presidents intentions, together
with the true news of those lengths
| to which he stands ready to go, and
whether an ultimate resort would call
for rifles and then the gallows, is
| deeply to be desired. And these tavern
conversations and talks of the corri-
| doris have for their object the Presi-
dents development along the lines ex-
| hibited."
And this is highly the natural
| thing" said 1. Have our anxious ones
invented any trap wherewith to catch
| LndL worn lney seek
| "They will search for it in this wise"
said Noah; thus canters the plan: They
look to a day far ahead, but it will be
| with them in time. They have settled
on Jefferson's birthday to make a test
| of the President and discover what he
would do should South Carolina. with
/ Calhoun, abrogate q tariff and defy
| government in the port of Charleston.
The occasion will be in honor of the
| Man of Monticello Jefferson's memory
| and it's graceful illustration will serve
| as the cause, ostensible, of that ban
| quet: really, the affair is to be twisted
| for Notification. There will come a
score of toasts; and each to exalt the
| state at the cost of the nation, and
argue treason holy. The speeches will
| follow of a piece with the toasts CAL
| houn and his cohorts will crowd the
| tables; applause will be extant for ev-
| cry sentiment of disunion: in short,
they devise a States Rights gathering
where Notification and the rebellious
spawn of it shall gain broad indorse-
ment'
And where does the General come
| into their Vaccinations?
THE President will be invited to at
tend. Should he come. he will be given
| the chairs right hand. The Calhoun folk
! will read his face while their toasts
! of treason are Haunted. They will ask
/ him for IL sentiment. They believe
/ that mis- courses TO come as he de-
| signs them. cannot fail to find disclos-
ure. They hope to gain the measure
! of his apprehensions When they once
| have the pattern of the Presidents
hopes and fears, and learn his timid
| limits, they think those boundaries of
safety beyond which Notification must
not push Will be determined"
Now, if these schemers,' 1 cried,
Gown no capital save the Generals
| timidity. they are indeed in bankrupt
/ case"
They build on sand" said Noah
but that fact of sand is precisely
what they do not know However, the
| President may teach them with what
| light he sees fit Should he decide to
prolong their night of doubt, he has but
| TO stay away"
and how would our black gentry
| construe his ABSENCE"
"Assuredly they would incline TO be-
/ lieve he was afraid"
why, then" cried I, ut might be
] difficult to say that the General viii or