The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-04-06
From the n. Y. K-niekerbOeker.
hon. MichaaI Walsh.


Among the new Representatives Of the
people who viii enter the House for the
first time at the next term Of cur National
Congress, will be Hon. s.ssiehael Walsh, Of
this city. That be viii s'rise with the oe-
casion" is the opinion and tie hope Of those
who are acquainted with his talents and his
fearless honesty Of purpose. Ardent and
impulsive though he may be, he will seldom
be found to offend against the courtesies of
debate; while as a speaker he will prove
imprisoned and entirely original. Some
idea OF his impressive manner may be gath
cred from the following passage, taken from
an Impromptu speech delivered some ten
years ago at Tsmmany Hall. 1t is an H.
hlstrstloh Of the speakers argument for
dowh-lroddrn Man, who lacks not the merit
but Ne the opportunity 10 rise:
"When a man is placed in 4 false posi-
ton tie very traits of his character that
would be virtuous in a true one are looked
u ON as faults. or denounced as vices, by
those who attempt to form an estimate OF
his character without possessing Instruments
to take the altitude OF his mind. When the
temple ot'Mlherya was finished, at Athens,
TWO rival seulpto:s OF that city were employ
ed to decorate its summit with IA statue Of
The goddess. Each labored in secret, and
followed the conceptions of his mind,
with a view TO the production ola MASTER
piece Of art. On the day hat the merits Of
The statues were to be decided upon, and
The hour Tor 50 doing had arrived, a few of
the self-constituted judges gathered in front,
while thousands remained bel ind who
could see nothing. Those in front passed
judgment upon the production, like leaders
Ut our panty; and the thousands who could
see meaning hurrsh'd and responded to the
decision. One statue was OF the size Of
life, finely sculplured and Of most exquisite
workmanship; the TEXTURES beautifully CHS
elled, until life seemeG tarting from the
marble. The other of colossal size, with
huge and apparently unshapely limbs, and
features hat looked to the immediate OBJ
server more like unmeaning protuberances
than anything else. When the Judges gave
d decision in favor Of the small but beauti-
full statue, it was gradually raised amid the
shouts OF the multitude, and become DIM
mer and fainter as it receded from Their
viC8; and when it finally reached the pedes.-
tai, it resembled nothing human or divine,
but seemed tc have dwindled toamere point.
The applause gave way to mumurs and dis
APPRECIATION, and it was then lowered, to
make room for its rejected rival, which was
very reluctantly holsted in It's stead. AS it
reccdei from the earth its deIormities les.
sened, and gave way to an appearance of
symmery and beauty, which increased with
its distance from the earth; and when IL
finally reached the pinnacle from which the
sculptor, from his knowledge Of perspective
and proportion, designed it should be view
ed, then it looked as if the Divinity herself,
so beautiful was its aspect, had decended 10
receive the homage OF her worshipers. So
it is with men. God Almighty moulded
the character Of men according tc the station
which he intended they should ultimately
ill; and when a mar is placed by circum-
stances in a position lower than that in
which he was created to move, his virtues
become vices in the eyes of those mhose
, vision is too short to view him as a whole.
and who Therefore reject him as unfit fer
elevation" ~ -
We know not how this may strike others,
but to our poor sense it IS one of the most
beautiful and truly classical SMILES we ever
encountered, expressed in Language of TIE
utmost purity and simplicity. Apropos of
MIR. Walsh: his keen sense Of the ridiculous
ssa,gifiNe @ tt-=sho Preparation OF
legislative Jokes, which would perhaps hard
" do in So dignifed a body as the American
>. CONGRESS. When in our State legislature,
!, last winter, he suddenly 'rose to a point OF
: order in the midst Of an exciting debate
: When requested by the speaker to estate
+ his point OF order" he replied, without the
change Of "a muscle: Il wish to know
whether the members of this House Of AS
sembly, elected and sent here by the people
are to be ousted from their seats, during
a our deliberations, by outsiders and strang
e ers? Now, Sir / see such q person IN tn
S gentleman from--, who has not aske'
leave of.absence and whom | have good rea
9 son to believe to be az this moment IN tn
It civ. I mnv4, Sir, that he re taken int
; custody by til sergeant-at-arms, ande1PeIi
e ed from the seat he has usurped! Al
I eyes were turned to the intrudlng ''outslde,
who was none other than the righttul oc
cupant Of the seat, yet scarcely recogniza
bic by his friends, the reason that very
morning he had for the first time covered
IL head, which until then had been as bald
and shining rs an oStrich-egg, with full
howing wig; and it was to this transformation
that Mr.. Walsh was DESTROYS to direct the
especia! attention of the House.