of the Republic, the pure and elevating influences
radiating from such a home would pervade and purify the social life of
the National city, if not of the land. A severer simplicity would mark
the inner and the outer life of the president's household. Extravagance
in dress and living, wastefulness in vain displays and in ambitious
entertainments, would find no encouragement from the mistress of the
Nation's mansion. The lessons of truth and piety, of purity and virtue,
of charity and benevolence, of sincerity and self-forgetfulness, would
be taught by example. A whole people could here find in illustration the
sacredness of the family and the holiness of home.

A union of rare accomplishments, social and domestic, with beauty of
features, manners, and character, may yet be found in a successor of
Mrs. Madison.

A doctor of divinity and a doctor of laws, the president of the Ohio
Wesleyan University, bears this weighty testimony, in a public address,
to the correctness of what we have hereinbefore recorded:

"It is in no spirit of partisanship, nor with the slightest
reference to merely political ends, but simply in illustration of
our subject that we add, already there are hopeful signs of
reformation in our National life. It is a sign of progress that the
suspicion of sullied purity is beginning to be fatal to a public
man. It is an omen of good when in a large and representative
convention, with the names of many distinguished men before it, one
is borne above them all on the tide of popular enthusiasm and with
ringing peals of applause is presented to the American people,
without effort of his own, as a candidate for the highest office in
the Nation, not only because of his eminent ability, but largely
because of the transparent purity of his character and his high,
manly, moral worth.

"It is doubtless a cause of honest pride to the citizens of this
town, irrespective of political creeds and preferences, that the
man thus highly distinguished is a native of your classic city. By
reason of its youth this university can not claim him as a son, but
it regards with maternal pride his not less worthy companion, who,
after graduation at one of the best female colleges in the State,
indicated her rare good sense by passing through much of the
college curriculum of our university here.

"If, by the decree of t