The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-18

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And all the joys of war!
From the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF PRO-
MINENF MEN IN THE CONvEN-
TON.
The Chairman, John E. Ward, of
Georgia, is a tall gentleman whose fig
ure would by an artist be pronounced
good. He is dressed in dark clothes, and
his complexion is swarthy, his voice
shrill and usually very distinct; but it
gives ont, cracks, at a high pitch. His
manner is ordinarily very decisive, and
he inclines to be rigid in the enforcement
of the rules. Many knotty Parliamen-
tary points are tied and tangled for his
solution, and he occasionally defers much
to members of Congress On the floor
but is a very efficient presiding officer.
Harry Hubbard, of New Hampshire,
seems to be his preliminary adviser.
Hubbard has a seat near the stage, on
the Speakers left, and gives the votes of
New Hampshire. He is tall and slen-
der, years glasses, and is decidedly in
tellectual in appearance, his forehead
being high and fair, his cheeks lean and
and his lips, though not thin, tightly
compressed. His voice is strong and
full of emphasis. He has served eight
years in the House of Representatives,
and lost his seat in consequence of his
vote for the Nebraska bill. He is a fast
friend. of Frank Pierce, and is the organ
of his oorner of the Hall.
Under the gallery next the eastern
aisle, Ito the left of the Chairman is B..
+. Butler, of Massachusetts, a short,
nervous man, with a bald head, and
light.sandy moustache. About the back
of his head and above his ears are a few
dry looking foxy hairs, which seem to
have been parched by the excessive heat
of his brain. He is intense and inham-
mable as u Chinese cracker, and makes
his points with a sharp ferocity of utter
anoe almost startling. His voice is not
strong, but keen and piercing, and yet
occasionally is husky with the vehemence
of passion, which seems ready to blaze
from him in dire combustion.
Close to this peculiar parsonage is B.
3. Hallet. who reported the Platform
the distinguished gentleman who also re-
ported a famous set of resolutions to a
Democratic Massachusetts, Convention,
two or three years ago, in which he said
that the Democracy of that State were
in favor of FREEDOM ALL OVER COPS
HERrrAGE," which phrase is now the
motto Of the Massachusetts Republicans,
and is emblazoned on their big banner
In Boston. He is a short, heavy, rather
peacable looking gentleman, whose gen.
eral appearance suggests many good din
ners and considerable intellectual zig
or. He read the Platform exceedingly
well.
Near the Eastern aisle, and within a
few seats of the front-on the Western
side of the aisle-sits John G. Brecken-
ridge, the impersonation of Democratic
Kentucky chivalry, who won a high rep
utation in the last Congress, and de-
eIined to be a candidate for re- election.
He is q tall and gracefully formed young
man, with delicate features, and would
be ~singularly handsome if his profile line
was more prominent. Looking at him
sideways, and his forehead, nose and
chin are nearly in q straight line. But
his eyes beam with Intelligence, his nose
is handsome in outline, and the habitual
compression of his lips indicates a reso-
lutte will. On the whole, there is a po-
etic glimmer about him. And that
there is something of this in his charac-
ter, the fact that he has purchased an
island in Lake Superior for a summer
home, would indicate. His manner in
speaking is proud, defiant and full of
tempered BY educated discre-
ion.
In the Kentucky Delegation, near the
ront, is C. L. Wicklife. Esq, who looks
% perfection the old Kentucky aristo-
rat. The only thing democratic that
AN be seer about him is the handker-
ihief with which he wipes the perspira-
ion from bis brow, and which appears to
70 a red and white cotton article. His
is rich, and has the cut and fit char
cteristic of q fine old Kentucky gentle
nan. His c~ountenanee is stern, and his
that which should be anticipated
f grave old gentlemen of high character /;
the q. 8. Senate or British House of /
lords. It would not require any shrewd- s
ess Of observation to discover that be Is .
be autocrat Of . plantation, He is /
in frame ahd.aeshy, his face much {
Tidkled, and his hair nearly all gone.