Springfield Republican

[It is not yet ascertained, as we are aware, whether the President will stop in Springfield or not, during the journey to the North, which he has just commenced. He will probably go through the town, both going East and returning, and it is not unlikely that he may stop over one train. If he should do so, we suppose the town authorities will follow the example of those of other places, and extend to him such civilities as are due to the exalted station which he occupies.—We would not have him invited to stop, but if he should do so through his own choice, or by private solicitation, we would have him treated with respect and attention by the civil authorities of the town. There need be no great parade or expense about the matter; a simple offering of respect is all that should be given and all he has a right to expect from a people, nine-tenths of whom have little or nothing of sympathy with his course as President, or of regard for his character as a public man. No one need throw up his cap and huzza without he really desires to; neither on the other hand would we have shown to him the slightest mark of disrespect by any person. As a people we do not care to see him, beyond perhaps what would be the gratification of an idle curiosity; but if he chooses to come among us he ought to be civilly treated and nothing more. We would have him see us as we are; an industrious, peaceable people; with no sympathy with him or his measures, whose legitimate effect, if they could be carried out without impediment, would be to paralyze our industrial arm and blight the prosperity, which our own efforts and the circumstances of the times are securing to us. We would have him see that we prosper in spite of him and his influences; and possibly he may carry back to Washington a beneficial lesson, derived from beholding in their true glory, the arts of peace and the results of their assiduous cultivation.]