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Presidential Ramblings

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Day
28
Month
September
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Fiom Iho New York Horuld. Tho pleasing roflention occurs to us as wo reoall tho wanderinga of the Administration about tho country, that it is not vory troublesome or ditlicult to govorn this country. Tho President and most of his Cabinot uiay journey trom Xüw Hampshire to Ohio, and from Ohio to Tcnnesseo, and froui Tennesseo, if tUoy wish, to Louisiana, aud still the country goos on. When wo reuieiubor witli what troublo and expense and aiuid what iutuuse oxcitomont we get together once in tour yeara to choose a a President ; how. Laving voted, we then, ainid still groater excitement, form an electoral couimissiou ; with what huzzabs and martial inusio we induct the now Prosidont iuto otiice, and then soo how being iustalled, he caluily wanders about the country - it soema to us that it might bo well to inake lesa fuss about tho preliiniuarios. Tliere ia a favorito oíd story among naval ofiicora of a sédate quartormastor of the Uongross frigato, lying in tho bay of Naples, on tho occasion of a viait to tho ship by a number of inagnifioently uniformed Noapolitan dignitaries. üno ot these, mistaking a windsail for the mainsail, leaned against it, and wlicn it collapHed feil to the lowordeck. "Whatwasthat noiso, quartermaster ( " deiuauded the oüicer of the deck. " Only one of tliciu kings tuuibled down the windsail hatuh, air," replied the unoonoered quartermaster, who probably believed all the gold-laced gentry kings, and fanoied that one moro or less could not much matter.

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