Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-18
. TWO REMAgKABLE MEN

-Afprrcspon ent'of-thc Providence Journal
wabng from NatchfzmspeND ling mississippi
a1Hher Polilcs," gives the Glowing in,erest.
Is sketch of the history Ollie two Wing can.
ldstes lor Congress-. Theslessons it teaches
{ase valuable 81
HAmong the Wing candidates Tor Congress
oge two'vcry remarkable men, Mr.. Sarkc of
Columbus and Pat Tompkins of Nichsburg. =
Mr.. Starke isa gentleman of 80 or 3S wears OF
age, who has been nearly his whole lite stage
driver in Virginia ami this State. Six years
since ne drove his own stage from this place
10 Jackson. by prudence, enterprise aud in
dusty he has obtained a plantation. and is at
present large mail cont tor and. il appears
while looking out for the substantial interest
oil life, he Was laying up stores of intellectual
wealth, though engaged in a pursuituniavora-
bic to the development of his mental powers.
lie was little known in the State till The great
political contest OF 1910 bought him forward
when he took the stump as the chamnion of
the Wing cause, and asionished all by the
power, brilliaucy and beauty of his speeches.
lie was subsequently elected to the Leyis-
iaiure, and in 1911 was one of the Whig cam
didatcs for elector OF President He is now
candidate for Congress, and though he NAV
iail IN this canvass, the power ef rarity com
blnation and allegiance cannot long keep him
from the halls of the National Lcgislattre.-
lie IS man whose influence over the popular
feeling is Irresistible, and ere long YOU will
see him standing by the side Of your Simmons
MS equal IN strength with far higher accom-
J plishInents as an orator. There are no marks
OF his former humble calling in his manner or
style; there is a native nobilityand conscious
ness OF strength in all he docs aud saws. that
gives 1t the stamp of genius. lie has a noble
person, voice OF extraordinary power and
u no AL anil. .x( al.
ing with good nature and intelligence that ex-
press volume in look and which captivate
an audience before he has said word. He
| seldom rises but he Is at once greeted, even by
strangers, with burst of applause. His
speeches are strong in argument, we'll fortified
by iacts, and glowing with warm and generous
appeals to the nobler sentiments and elevated
convictions ofhis auditors; aud with good
deal oil the passionate and ferid manner of
Prcntiss, from whom he has evidently copied
his addresses abound with passages which
would do no discredit to that great orator him
self.
To the interrogatory, "who is Pat Tomp-
kinsF'-the subject oil the query often replies
himself on the stamp, by telling his auditors
mat he was born IN a log cabin, / Is bv Is feet
IN size, which at the time of his birth already
contained ten or twelve brothers and sisters.
and was situated somewhere up in the woods
near the line between Tennessee and Kcntuc
Ky; and that in his infancy he was fed on hog
anu hominy, bear meat, and the flesh OF such
wild. varmint as were caught in the woods.
AZ twelve years ofage, he was put out TO work
win nelShbor as a farm boy and drove oxen.
hoed corn, raised tobacco in summer. cured il
and priced II in winter, till he was II years
Old, when he took TO making brick; thence
rose To the trade OF a bricklayer; and BY These
successive steps in mechanical arts. he became
able, by his own unassistcd skill, TO rear a
house from the claypit, or from the stunp. and
complete II i'll all lis parts, and to-do it. too.
III manner that none oil his competitors could
surpass., His panel doors are 10 This ,lay the
wonder and admiration of all the country. in
which they continue 10 swing on their hinges.
He never saw.thc inside of a school house tll
after he was IS years old 5tt VI
by the assistance of an old man in Tie nei7
: etabpfhood. be learned during The winter even
ings, TO read and write, when farm boy
Having achieved these valuable acquisitions
by the aid OF another, all his education has been
the fruit OF hss own application and persevcr.
ance. Atthe age of %, he conceived the idea
OF fittiSg himselftcr the ,,ractit.e OF law He
at first procured an old copy of Blackstone.
and having, after the close OF his daiIy,lahors,
by nightly studies over pitchknot fire, in his
log CABIN, mustered the contents of that COM
pendulum OF common law, he pursued his re-
searches into other elementary works And
having thus, by great diligence, acquired the
rudiments of his profession, he met with an
old lawyer, who had quit Practice orwhosc
ipractice had quit him, with whom he made
bargain ior his soanty library, for which he was
10 pay nm lou III carpenters work; and the
chlet part OF the job TO be done in payment of
/ these old musty books, was dressing and Law
ing down an oak door, or floors, for three dol
lars per square of ten feet
The library paid for, Pat Tompkins dropped
the adzc, plane and trowel forever. He is now
one oil the most prominent members of the
Mississippi bar, and is yet not more than 40
years old. or his abilities as a statesman and
orator, you will before many years have evid-
ence IN the halls of Congress. | heard him.
one Gay, make two speeches in succession. of
Three hours IN length, each to the same audi
ence and not movement testified any weari-
ness on the part ola single auditor, and during
Their delivery the assembly seemed swayed by
the orator as reeds-by the wind. Unfortunate
~ the planters OF Mississippi, among whom
Is the inteiiigcDee of the State ara. governed
too much by the petty, aristocratic, exclusive
feelings which wealth engenders in rural dis
tricts and holding themselves aloof from the
poorer classes, whunre thereby rendered hostile
and enviotis, the latter are thrown into the
arms OF ambitious and reckless demaeoeues
v 80 ''h ptJuNiCeS tBilnst lne rich,
and MI them with the noxiOus doctrines Of
Locoiecosm.' Bit such men as Starkc and
Tompfibs, for whom the mass feel strong
sympathy, will remove these anipaihies of
classes, and instil sounder and more exalted
views OF public faith and national policy than
now prevail in the less fortunate classes in
this State. +. Y. e.
Mr.. c. Brinckerhofr's Health Restorative
is, in our opinion, the most ellcacious, mild,
and speedy remedy for the cure of Consump
ton, Liver Complaint, Coughs, Colds aud
Pain in the side and Chest, that we are ac-
quainted with. Without any extrseagant
pretensions, he asks only a fair trial of it,
But we consider tic support Of those eminent