Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-11-09

Is implements Of war. oyerShadow all the
field: when. 10. the leader Of the host APP
proaches,
Par off his coming shines:
Ills plume white, after the fashion of the
great Bourbon. IS Of awful length, and
reads is doletul history in the b-reaFed
Hcchs and bosoms of forty ncignhoring
heu-roosis.
Like the great Suuarof. IL seems some-
what careless in forms or points OF dress:
hence his epauletts may be on his shout
ders. back or sides. but still cleaning.
eloriou>ly cleaning in the SUM- Noun
ted he is. TOO. let it not be forGotten.-
Need describe to the colonies and gene
rails Of this honorable House. the staed
which heroes bcstridc on these occasions
No, sec the memory of other days IN
with YOU. You see before YOU the gen
tlcnan from Michigan mounted on his
crop cared, bushv-tailcd mare. the singu-
lar obliquity Of whose hinder limbs is best
described by that most expressive phrase.
sickle hams'-for height just fourteen
hands, .all told; yes sir: there YOU see
bis 'steed that laughs at the shaking OF
the spear; that is his warehouse whose
neck is clothed with thunder Mr.. Speak
er we have glorious descriptions in history
of Alexander the Great and his war horse
BuccphaluS. at the head of the inylncible
Macedonian phalanay; but. Sir, such are
the improvements of modern times that
every one must see thai our militia gcncr-
al, with his crop cared mare. with btIShv
tail and sickle ham. would totally frighten
oil a battlefield hundred AeXanders.-
But sir; to the history Of the parade-day.
The general thus mounted and equipped;
is in the field, and ready fer action.
On the eve Of some desperate cntcr-
prise, such as giving order to shoulder
arms. ii may be. there occurs a crisis. one
of those accidents Of war. which no sa-
@acity could torcscc nor prevent. \ cloud
rises and passes over the sun! Here is
an occasion for the dispalyo that greatest
IF ali traits in the history of a command
critic tact which enables him "a seize
upon and turn to good account unlocked
for events as they arise. Nov. for the
caution vherewith the Roman l3abiuS io.l-
cd the skill and courage Of Hannibal! 4
retire at is ordered and troops and general.
in a twinkling. are found safely bivouack-
ed in IA neighborng grocery. But even
here the general still has room for the cX-
hibition of heroic deeds. Hot from the
field. and chated with the heroic events Of
the day. YOUR general unshcaths his trcn-
chant blade. eighteen inches ia length, as
YOU will we'll remember. and with energy
and rcmorscIess fury he slices the water
melons that lie in heaps around him, and
shares them with his surviving fricnds.-
Other Of the Sncws Of war are not want
ing here. Nhiskcy Mr.. Speaker, that
great levcller Of mordern times. is here al
81. and the shells of the water melons are
filled to the brim. Here again, Mr.. Speak
or. is shown how the extremes of i'arba-
rsm and CiyiliZatin: meet. As TIE Sean
dinavian heroes of old after The tatigues Of
W ar drank VINE from the skulls of their sla-
n@htercd enemies. in Odin'S halls. so now
our militia general and his forces. from the
skulls Of melons thus vanquiShed. Ill copl-
Gus drauLhts Of whlSkcy. aS>uage the he
roic fire of their souls. after parade day
But alas for this short lived race of ours!
all things Will have an end, and so IS It
even with the glorious achievements OF our
Time is on the wing. and will
not STAY his flight: the sun. as If trlghten-
ID at the mighty events of the day. rides
Town the sky, and at the close of the day.
when the hamlet is still. the curtain of
light drops upon the scene.
'And Glory, like the phoenix in its fires.
Exhaes its odors, blazes, and expires
1t need hardly be added that the Michigan
eneral. who was alluded to in debate a
w days after, by J. G. Adams. as the late
If. Crary. retired from Congress at the
e 10.
i public life. Not even in its painless
avs has his party ventured on the perilous
Experiment. of attempting to lift him out Of
le abyss Of ridicule into which he had
rcsumptously hurled himself.
The question is often asked. why man
+ 50 much power in debate should 50
eldom eNerciseit 1t is believed that the
rue reason for this is most highly credita-
Ne TO his character. He is diffidcnt of his
powers, and exerts them in debate rather
rom compulslon than from Will. Those
Hho Know him. know that he abominates
III speaking that is merely for display
The dread of incurrino an imputation of
nat sort has. doubtless. had much to DO
III ming hlln IN the silence which has
hitherto toe strongly marked his course in
congress 1t certainly is to be hoped that
me CONSCIOUS WY IN he has a-ri ge54 ITO
,eee., that he is u Il ab-5ve the danger
Of any such imputatior. new. will in future
make INN more active and prominent in
the current debates of the Senate.
Mr.. Corwin's career as Governor Of
Ohio was limited 10 single term of two
years His position. under the cons,itu-
ton which makes the Executive Office
nearly nominal. was one rather Of dignity
than Of power: and afforded him but little
for the exhibition OF those
talents for which his course in other posi-
tons has shown him 5, remarkable.
His election to the Senate OF the United