Though some of his best friends urged him to stand for reelection, he firmly declined.

He felt that he had done enough for his country in sacrificing the last eight years to it.

He had seen it through its formative period, and had, he thought, steered it into clear, quiet water, so that there was no threatening danger to demand his continuance at the helm.

Many persons thought that he was more than glad to be relieved of the increasing abuse of the scurrilous editors.

No doubt he was, but we can hardly agree that merely for the sake of that relief he would abandon his Presidential post.