Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

Typical American.

Ex-President Cleveland's Exhibition of Manly
Independence of Character.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.

President Cleveland has become Commissioner Cleveland, having been appointed
by Justice Patterson, of the supreme court
of New York, a member of the commission
on estimate and assessment in the matter
of High Bridge park. Mr. Cleveland, as
much as any public man, has demonstrated
the manliness, dignity and independence
of the American character. He rose from
one public place of trust and usefulness to
another until he reached the highest of
them all, that of chief magistrate of his
country.

From that position he retired
With as much dignity as he entered upon it.
He remained in the presidential mansion
long enough to hospitably welcome his
successor to it; then he went to the scene of
his future labors, in New York, taking up
the work of life, as a lawyer, as he laid it
down.

All
that he
did was done without ostentation, modestly
and
gracefully as he
came a citizen of the great Democracy. He
neither
asked nor desired to become a
public pensioner.

He was strong in mind
and
body, and he put his vigor to use, to
bread-winning.

That he will be as good a
commissioner as he was a president cannot
be
doubted by those who know the
character of the man. There is assurance
given by all that he has done that he will
take to the discharge of his duties as com-
missioner the same intelligence, integrity,
energy he devoted
to the
charge
of
his
duties as chief
magistrate. In the estimation of his
countrymen Mr. Cleveland will lose no
respect, no confidence, no dignity by
taking up any honorable, useful work;
rather will he gain by it, as Americans
esteem nothing more than that manly
independence of character which, in all
places to which he has been chosen, Mr.
Cleveland has so conspicuously exhibited.

Thackeray, in his mighty admiration for
Shakespeare, declared that no matter what
position he had filled in life he would have
filled it with dignity and honor. "Had he
blacked boots," said Thackeray, "he would
have blacked them well." There are certain
men who give the most gratifying assurance
to the world that no matter what they
do they will do it worthily and well. Of
these men is Grover Cleveland.