The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

here"
"D'Marse Major amt so mighty bad"
observed Jim, with the face of one
who considers deeply. Course he has
his spells. Thars times when he's
sort o. amiable, d'Marse Major is; an
then Jim nacherally takes to him like
honeysuckle to a front porch. Then
thar's other days when Jim quits him
an goes streakin' it for d'tall grass.
Thems d'times when d'Marse Major
takes to t'arin' about loose, an carryin'
all befo' him like bar in hawg-
pen"
Having disposed of the letter which
had given the loquacious Jim that de-
lay required for these important dis
closures, 1 put an end to them by
carrying Noah away to the General
room. He would expostulate and hold
back; but 1 made him come with me
on the plea of how the General had
ask to talk with him of that coming
Modification banquet to be held at the
Indian Queen. =.
"True, he has heard it from me"
said 1, but what then? You know how
folk are He would hear it from you
first hand"
While 1 was running over the Cen
erals mails from Tennessee, that en-
inent person and Noah waded forth
into deep and animated converse.
IT am rather glad than otherwise,
said the General, lighting the while the
usual friendly pipe, "for that treason
dinner out Calhoun clique would plan
1 shall go; should they ask it, III
even give them.a toast. Will ngnt
a torch for them; I would be the last
to have it said let folk go blundering
I to a gibbet in the dark"
"You recall" remarked Noah, how
jealous were certain influences for
that Florida post, and how they would
have it go to one Westfall?"
'eThe man WestfaI," retorted the
I General ''was an utter weakling. He
never would have done for such
place. The Florida governorship is or
consequence; its duties call for one OF
force. I have thought on a man Tor
it, but the time has not come. me
present incumbent does fairly well for
an Adams selection"
THAT weakness of Westfall to which
you refer" said Noah, was, take 1t,
no slight merit in the minds of those
who stood by the elbow of his hope. II
was a part of the Notification scheme,
| the putting forward of Westfall."
! I'm what sort?" asked the General.
{ at know how Calhoun desired him, for
Duff Green told US so much when we
were not a week in town."
"Westfalrs success for the place
would have linked to the Vice Presi-
dent the richest, strongest elements
in Pennsylvania. Then there Is tloTl-
da third Spanish and by
no means in love with the balance OF
this country. With weak governor
( in St. Augustine, and one who owed
his crown to our Vice President. what
should be simpler, in the event OF
secession in South Carolina, than to
count on Floridian men and money Tor
the venture?"
''They will do as well without their
Westfall," commented the General.
| "Mayhap they will do better, since had
they succeeded for him, it might here
after have given their rashneSs IN
spiration, and turned them gallows-
ripe. One thing sure, let them once
rebel against the law-let them but
rise in Calhoun's state to the laws de-
fiance-and l will burn them from the
earth. They shall be destroyed root
and stalk and standing grass, with the
reptiles that crawl between. Their
leaders shall swing for it so surely as
my name is Jackson or there's such
a word as President in the land
Here l come near to the first true
! social test to be put upon our Peg,
ception which she would give as a
| cabinet lady at her own home on the
! Georgetown side of the President s
| Square. And now when 1 am driven
| by stress of this tale to furnish you
with handful of hints or little twigs
| of description concerning the business,
write as though with letters on my
wrists. 1t is because / have no salon
! learning, and was never taught your
! 1f alon IfrxI4 &C.
| and orchestras and tables spread with
! elegance and palms and flowers and
! folk brilliant on evening parade, for
midably engaged, each with part
| like people in a play in bringing off
| one of those encounters where we'll
| dressed men and women meet to crowd
each other and call the trial a function.
If it were to be battle or even some
| quiet-lying landscape with it's stretch
| of river, and a forest to fringe the
| banks, and mayhap a mountain chain
with its plushy dress of pines to the
/ background, 1 might not come on so
/ haltingly. But this as it were, is to
Law a fence of stone-and that, you
are to witness, means a journey full
of backaches-to be here piling one
word upon another for the story Of a
| drawing room three hours.
Van Buren, was himself Pegs part
| ner for this reception-his own doors
closed, as Peg explains in rearward
pages when she talks with the General.
| It would 3e then, a double reception,
and both the State and the War De-
partments to stand thereof the social
! sponsors.
Word had crept abroad how the Gen
eral himself planned place among the
callers, and at the grave tidings Duff
Green, in his paper, was driven to ex-
| tremes of frantic ink over the pro-
posed lowering of the presidency to
cabinet levels, which latter the dis
turbed Duff would seem to think were
common, even If they were not bad.
THE White House." cried Duff, in
his shocked columns, should not be
| elevation in which our late president
was pleased to leave it,"
Truly, an excellent thought" OBJ
! served the General. ito set Adams be-
| fore me for a model! Why, mani from
his purchase of the rougue Clay down
| to the last measure to meet the flourish
of his pen and he made law there
| by, 1 call it patriotism to turn my
| back on every position Adams occu-
pied, and the very essence of right to
undo all he did. Me to follow Ad-
ans! l should as soon think of EMU
! lating Billy Weatherford and his
! Creeks"
But why stand over me-" said I,
with all this arm tossing and threat
ening defamation? 1t is your Dun
Green and not I who would thus drive
you to an Adams example"
well" said the General. somewhat
subdued by this thought, you at least