Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-02-07

The yicksbury True Southron tells the following
good story 10 illustration Of the practice Of certain
| Members of Congress in employing outsiders TO
write speeches for them:
A Representative from Pennsylvania had died.
and one Of his colleagues. who WAS more blessed
with faculties for 'krout' than knowledge. desired
to deliver a eulogy on the deceased the following
dny He repaired, therefore, to one OF the pro-
fessional speech writers. who happened to be also
u reporter for n washington paper. and gave orders
for the euogv. Morning came. and the do 'ulncni.
done brown" was despatched 10 the NJ. g.. who
happening TO be sick. unable 10 attend the
House that day and participate in the ties tnon'als
Of respect to his late colleague. or this, however,
the speech writer knew nothing. as he did not WIS.,
il the Capital that day. but having kept copy
for publication. furnished il to the paper prcsum-
ing il had been delivered. matter of course
When the House met the next morning our VI.
C's friends TO his serious embarrassment, being
already appraised Of the lnnr pas. began compli-
menting him on tho magnificent eulogy, which he
didn't deliver. lie couldn't stand it. and rose to
say to the House that the publication was totally
unauthorized hv him-getting out OF IT Is well IA
be could, by adding that il was a true copyof the
remarks he had intended making, II in his scat.
and that they had fallen into tie hands Of the re
porter, for publication. by some inad gertanec.-
And SO the matter dropped
The Memphis Eagle and Enq uirer publishes
the article from the Washington States denying
the existence Of a Democratic party. and accompa-'
MES it with the following commcnts
Reader, how often have you been soll by the
lesser organs oftbe party. that the Democrat OF
Maine md the Democrat If LousiD ma stood upon
u common Platform and were bonrd together by
principles which were icarlcssly prociamedat the
North, and in the South hat the Fast aud in the
b,ast that the Democracy alone are nat'onai IN
their aims, and recognize no locality in thcrnsso-
CITATIONS? For years it has furnished the capital
stock of every little six by ten pretandcr to the
title If newspaper. md has supplied theme to
the pcus of crndio Editors whose vast learning
may possibly enable them tc decide that the Carh
bean Sea does not wash the Norhe IN coast ct Ire
land. nor the Mediterranean beat upon the shores
Of Ecuador The song is caught up and repeated
by roads speakers, aud ncig hborh"od orarlcs
with ~ litIc understanding oi its meaning rs the
philosophy Of Bacon. but as urquestioning hath
in its truth ~ the child of five wears reposes in The
story Old Mother Hubbard And now this
charming d,lnsion is dashed IL the ground with
mercilcss cruelty by the Editor II the States, and
his wondering hearers told hat all they have
heretofore learned Of political reasoning is cxplo-
ded- that their uhiailing arg, mcut is humhug--
that new lesson must be ,orncd--a new song
taken up. and hereafter the ''lniy Of the great
Democratic party is TO be regarded onl with that
sort Of Evolutionary reverence with which We read
If the llarp Of nasi'bin the cave Of Adullam,
the mulberry llets in the cave OF Rephnm