The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-22
DEPARTS WITH HEAVY HEART.

When the day for his departure came.
his diary spoke the same heaviness OF
heart. About 10 O'clock" he wrote. 'I
badc adieu TO Mount Vernon, to private
life. and to domestic felicity; and, with
mind oppressed with more anxious and
painful sensations than I have words to
express. set out for New York -
He did not doubt that he was doing
right, he doubted his capacity IN civil af
fairs, and loved the sweet retirement and
the free life he was leaving behind him.
Grief and forebodfng did not In the least
relax his proud energy and promptness
in action. He was not whit the less
resolute to attempt this new role. and
stretch his powers TO the uttermost to
play IL In Inasterful fashion He was
only wistful and full OF a sort OF manly
sadness: lacking not resolution. but only
alacrity.
OBLIGED TO BORROW MONEY.
He had hoped to the last that he would
be suffered to spend the rest of bis days
must lack efficient keeping. and fall once
more out OF repair under hired over
seers: he feared his strength would be
spent and his last years come ere he
himself again. tIe had but just now
been obliged TO borrow a round sum of
money 10 meet pressing obligations; and
the expenses OF this very journey had
made II necessary TO add full hundred
pounds TO the new debt.
If the estate brought money so slowly
non IN Shs ts Gen Se fsr%sd It. , he h must count
away. and yet he had determined to ac-
cept no salary as president, but only his
necessary expenses while in the dis
old days OF the war II had brought dig
tressng perplexities upon him TO he thus
drawn from his private business to serve
the nation.
WASHINGTON PERPLExED.
Private casbs passed off, no doubt. and
/
should succeed In this large business Of
statesmanship. to which he had been
ad not pass S on d6y thS
heIghten IT. When he had ridden to
Cambridge that anxious summer OF ITS
he had been hailed by cheering crowds
upon the way, who admired the fine tig-
ure he made. and shouted for the cause
he was destined to lcad but he knew
himself a, soldier then. was but 50. and
did not fear To find his duty uncon-
The people had loved him and had
thronged about him with looks and words
II had quickencd his heart to see and
to Annapolis to resign his commission
but six years ago; but that was upon
the morrow Of a task accomplished. and
the plaudits he heard upon the way were
but greetings to speed him the more
happily homeward. Things stood very
differently now. Though he felt himself
grown Oll. lie INu come Oul 10 meet a
hope ne could not share, and II struck
a subtle pain to his heart that the peo-
pie should so trust him-should give him
| so royal a progress as ne Jared on his
way TO attempt an untried task.
A ROYAL WELCOME.
No king In days OF kings divinity
could have looked for so heartfelt well
come TO his throne as this modest gem
tIeman got -$he office no feared to
will Ifu1~y r,upanp et2Pn
| Journey, there WAS everywhere, besides.
| a running together from all the country
| roundabout OF people who bore them
selves not as mere slghtseers. but as II
| they had come out OF love for the man
| they were to see pass by Ii was not
| their numbers but their manner that
| struck their hero with a new sense OF
esponslbility-thelr earnest gaze, their
upJ:rerneditated cries OF welcome their
| simple Joy TO SEQ the new government
put into tho hands Of man they per-