Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-04-17


pen than as debater. Waggaman is a new MEM
ber have no. heard him speak in the Senate.
but in private he has good colloquia powers and
displays much talent aud tact, and extensive
knowledge of his whole country. He IS law
yer in New Orleans. Dallas is the son OF dis
tinyuisbed father, who was once Secretary OF the
Treasury. He has abilities, but they are not so
great AS his friends claim for him. He is deli
Gent in taste: But vet he often strikes of beau
tiful thought. H. reasons with considerable
force. He is a Lawyer in Philadelphia. Will
kins was a Judge. He would now appear
better on the Bench than in the Senate. lie is
unskiled in rules and orders, and is ever running
agains, post. Mangum is a man of talents, ar
dent. and bordering upon notification. Brown,
his colleague, will never make sensation. Troup
is an il-favnred man with very fDrbidding look.
He never speaks. and is, am told, misanthro-
pcal. Affection has preyed heavily upon him.
Forsyth is the Ajax of the Administration. lie
is fine speaker, and has great command OF
elegant language. He is called By some, " the
fiery Georgian" but is in truth one OF the calm
est, coolest speakers in the Senate. Bibb has re-
putation for ability He is called an able Law.
yer. Grundy talks huently, and makes shrewd
remarks His experience gains him attention IN
the Senate, and he does not weary his audience
by two frequently Obtrudlng himself upon pub
lie notice. White, his colleague, Is prosy
Speaker If he has ability have never been
able to discern where it lies. Ellis OF Missis-
sippl is tall. stoutly. built man, who never ad-
dresses the Senate. Poindexter is an able man
NOT an elegant, but an effective debater, and IN
personal appearances strikingly resembles Judge
Preble OF Kane and Robinson, the Illinois Sc
majors, am unable to speak, not being with Ell
ther in private or IN public Kane is young
looking man and wears spectaces R"binsonis
tall mi,lde-aged man, and takes an active lnte-
rest in what is going on without publicly partici.
pat,ng in debate Benton is the Magiabech of
the Senate-the book -Ievourer-the compiler of
words to fit his side Of the case. You will al.
ways find him about sunset strolling over the
walks around the Capitol. aud thinking hard
Buckner is his keeper and guardian. They are
both rather odd specimens from the State Of Mis-
souri,. King of Alabama is a man of moderate
powers, SOME shrewdness. and would well come
under the Virgnian and English definition of the
word clever. Moore, his colleague is not a won
der Miller of = Carolina, as have told you
before, is in every sense of the word, curiosity.
He has talent but II is the oldest talent magma
bic. He has learning, but he puts 1t TO queer
uses. He has imagination, but 1t is the magma
ton of Fauns and Satyrs who frisk about in the
widest costumes. Pat him into a New England
caucus and the multitude would laugh prodisious-
ly to hear him talk And he would influence
item also, and be very likely to carry of their
good opinions Tyler of Virginia, is pleasant.
polite and generous man. HIS style Of speaking
is metaphorlca. little Irish-llke, and rather at
tractive He thinks Mr. Tazewell the greatest
man in the world .perhaps,) and Mr. Tazewell
thinks him the best perhaps They always vote
and think together, are III duty bound the sons
of Vrsi Dudley of New York Is an anna
Bile, gentle man-lkr man who neyeI says any thing.
Marcy, his colleague. is MIR Van Buren's Sena.
toridl Sentinel. He is man ut some talents,
and industry. What he learns is obtained by an
effort. Beng just from the Bench, he does not
make a happy appearance in the Senate, but will
improve. Hendricks is good business man, but
nothing remarkable for talent. He is on both
sides Of the two political parties. Upton. his
colleague, is "a new member and has not yet open
ed his mouth further than to Say "yea OR nay"
Now take this assembly all in all-and you
will find not only very great men. but very little
men. Some persons get into Public Office, one
can never reckon how. Blu, its aggregate talent,
its diversified power, every American may punt
out with pride and exultation. would with plea
sure take any foreigner there, and ask him to com
pare our American Senate with the House OF
Lords or House of Commons, of England. l
have talked with those who have heard Broush-
am speak. and they tell me that for playful and
spurtive sales, Clay more than equals him; for
stern, severe and unassailable logic, Webster is
his superior; for fiery and tremendous bursts of
feeling, starting fresh from generous heart,
Hayne yields to nobody; and for p1ovoking' la,
Grating, and crooked argument. would put
raze"ell against the world. Iverily believe the
crafty Senator can prove that one and one make
three.
WAsHINeToN, March so
The House of Representatives Is a collection
Of all sorts of people, of all sorts of characters,
and all sorts of talent There Is much poor ma
teral there; some that is good; ofhersindifferent
There is. among some Of its members, grea, at
tachment to principle; among Others perfect
recklessness of principle. There is no great par
liamen,ary orator. who. like Burke. OF Sheridan,
or Fox. or Pitt. or Brougaam. leads off IN debate,