Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-22

CONGRESSIONAL CELEBRITIEs.-The Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston Transcript
in speaking of the Representative men in
Congress, has the following:
In the House of Representatives is present
ed the unusual spectacle of three brothers,
one representing the State that is mother of
them all, another Illinois, and another Wiscon-
sin. With the same principles, the same du-
ties, the same ideas of eternal justice and right
instilled into them by the parent, these brothers
meet at the bar of their country, there to do
battle for the oppressed-there to meet the
oppressor and his apologst face to face, and
there to afford a striking example of the rich
fruits of the training of their good old New
England father, and the sound political princi-
pies that naturally flow from a liberal religious
belief. These brothers are not elegant men.
But little versed in the flowers of eIoquence,
and little needing the transient value of rhe-
torical ornament, they deal only on hard clear
words, that enforce sound logic, and advocate
the immortal truths of the Declaration of In
dependence. They do not rob the parterre of
belles-ettres to trick out their speech in trope
and metaphor; they are plain men-talk plain
ly, and wish to be plainly understood. They
stand there, as firm in their principles as the
native granite of their New England Yankee
land need never feel ashamed of the three
Washburns
There are four or five gentlemen holding
seats in the House, who Immediately attract
the attention of the visitor as he enters the
galleries, more, as much, perhaps-from their
physical appearances as aught else. The first
OF these who comes TO my pennib, is tall,
portly individual of grave demeanor and i'm
posing presence. MuscuIarly viewed, he is
an effective" piece of humanity He rarely
is in his seat, (but ,ohen there sits grandly in
the chair and regards the galleries with most
regal air. spending most of his time stalking
slowly and ponderously about the floor, stop
ping occasionally to pass some weighty words
with brother legislator. l have never heard
him in debate, and do not know that he ever
mounts the rostrum; still he is a most ponder
GUS man, no doubt 1t is Buffinton of Massa-
chusetts.
Another man, quite as peripatetic as Mr..
Buthnton, but altogether Of a different style,
is one whose reputation is well known
throughout New England. His arms awk-
wardly akimbo, and his head slightly thrown
back, and with "teentering" half strut,
half shuttle, gazing,-with mouth elegantly
opened, upon the ladies' gallery, he roams
about the House, occasionally calculating in
a loud voice, to this or that member Stevens
don't let us adjournp "Sit down, Smith p'
"Mr. Speaker, l move this or chat or the
''other thing" very consequential, very con-
ceited and most ineegant,-he rarely fails to
attract the attention of strangers in the gale
ries. And yet he is an able fellow,-at least
he speaks very well,-very fuently, at times
stirringly and most APPLY; rather Electrically
withal, and not very profoundly. Brusque,
protane, cruel, overbearing,-yet educated,
talented, and often kindly,-one of the finest
classic scholars in the House, he is decidedly
strange fellow, this Keitt of South Carolina