| Show I I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE i THE PRESIDENT THAT FILLMORE FASCINATED By E H J r Edwards This series of anecdotes nod crud Incidents I that Hint new and frequently n dramatic I on U events l mind O of time the past J nd r lly f have G been collected by Edwards rd during C I forty I years of or less leas l Inti Intimate uncle mate n eu with many an of time thc co leader lea since sluice the time Civil War aI Each anecdote dolc or 01 incident Inel Is flesh from Mr tr i E B notebook anti and In whole or om In part it constitutes New Mew ew of or Yesterday from time the men I ln who made mado the time news the history or from eq HIlly nut sources JOUIe As Im hn Important contributions of tho ho Human Interest sort soil to history thc theu o articles have hlo a distinctive value all ull their tho Ir own I r presume that there are me few feri persons now no living who know that William II Seward shortly after he ho took toole his seat scat in the time senate In 1849 was sorely tempted to resign said tho time venerable Judge Noah Davis Dals of or Whig Whip party part und and Tweed trial fame to me a year or two before eforo his death And Amid ho imo added I 1 bellevo I 1 am one of ot the thc very ery few per pel persons perSons sons who ever knew lene the real reason why Mr Mt So Seward ward thought of or leaving time the senate where his brilliant intellect shone hone for Cor so 50 many mummy years and helped to lo tomako make mako history his tor torAs As the tue Whig hiS senator from flom Now ow York state which had decided time the presidential l election of or time tho year oar before In favor faor of oC Gen Zachary Taylor Mr dm 11 Se Sc Seward Seward ward very vcr naturally expected to be con comm consulted suited by b tho time president with respect to Important federal appointments made In and from froni Now York But aft after er ci ho he had lund been In Washington a few weeks weel s he discovered that he lie find finel Thur Thor Thurlow Thurlow Thorlow low Weed New Yorks other othel great Whig leader were to bo be absolutely Ig Ignored nored by b tho time new nosy administration Try as ho lie could ho lie W was waa not able to learn the time In hit dilemma time the senator sent for Co I I II Mr I Weed oed whoso political tl strategy had brought tho time nomination of or Germ Gen Taylor for 01 president on out the time Whig ticket To ro him Mr Mi Seward explained the time situ situation Why Jl he lie said do you know that I Iwas Iwas was not even consulted about tho tIme ap appointment J o of oh time the new lIew collector of oC the time port of oC New York 1 did not know un until until til the time name was sent to the tIme senate that the pi pr evident WH y to con consider consider sider tho ho Ito nt Time The h entire at al atmosphere ls lay It is i becoming be o embar rassing ng ar d Have you OU u h good friend among time the cabinet asked Mr lr Weed Mr 11 gave time the name namo of at atthe the time postmaster general Jacob Collamer who wua Us one ono of our most distinguished Civil war hailing from Ver Vermont Vermont mont To 10 him Mr 11 Veed Weed went to get sonic some explanation of the time situation con confronting confronting fronting him and amid Senator Seward But no sooner had Mi Mr Weed Vec stated tIm tho 0 object o of o f his visit than Mr Mm Colla I mer became visibly embarrassed lie IIo hemmed and amid hawed hammed but hilt finally said sad I M L 1 am very CI sorry to have hae to toll toil you Mr h Weed that neither n your dation nor Senator In n any aimy matter mattei whatever is going to be of any with the administration I 1 will toll toil you further urthel what tho time reason is Vice President l Fill more has com cent completely 1 captivated time the president Wh tho time president at one time thought of taking Fillmore into his cabinet as cx ex officio cabinet officer and would surely sturdy surel have done clono so o only that certain senators said to him hint that this would not be tolerated by b the time senate for an aim instant I think continued the tIme postmaster general that has Imas great ambi ambitions ambitions and amid ho hu h looks upon Senator Sc ward wallI and you ou as M standing in iii the way wa of or them Ho ire expects through h thu the to command his party In New York stale state You is a It mot most fascinating man personally and amid President dent Taylor has imas 1 I think been more moie fascinated by him him than by any ammy an other othel man in tho time party purt Now Nots that is the time ex explanation exI pl and amid of or course courso it is I It n was a gloomy message menage that Mr Weed ced took back bade to Senator Seward who spoke seriously serious I of or resigning from the time senate and to his law practise It seemed to him that there was nothing else cle that in dignity ho lie could do Yet a few hours later Mr Weed reed through one ono of or those queer turin turna that have hao always made tho time gamo samo of ol politics poll lies a L most fascinating one to lo its players was able Jubilantly to report to tu tho time senator that ho lie hud hind seen tIme the president had hind won him over and nut that lint thereafter ho lie and amid Stward would be ho con consulted stilted as to time the dispensation of or patron pation patrona ago a e How Mr MI Weed eed unexpectedly by secured this victory over oer at tho the last moment I f have 1111 VO already allend told at length in iii this column Suffice It to say hero here lere that on going to the White House to toa pay a lila hilti hi respects to 10 tho tim president as a amcie amere mere mcie matter mattei of O form onn before returning to Now Nets York Mr III Weed discovered that years cars before he lie IC had laid secured time the appointment to West Nit Point of time the th man who was now the lie presidents mimic secretary and in deep grat glat Col ol Bliss Blis at once put iUt 1 ut Mr Mm II Weed 1011 in close chose touch with hubs hit and ammil Mr Iu Seward kept I ept his seat scat In the time senate |
