The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-28
j. BIsHoP, Jr., Secretary.
fem. Corwin.

This great Republican leader, who is the
owner and We arer Of one of the Janus faces
of his party, is to make a speech at Wooster
the present week. 1t was only the day subse-
quent to the last Republican State Convention
at Columbus, where he participated as a mem
Der of the Committee on resolutions in patching
UP a platform for the party, that he declared
to a friend of ours hat he wished>he was en-
dowed with omnipotent power for about twenty
FIVE minutes, he would sink this Republican
party so deep that it would never Lave power
again to disturb the peace of the country. He
intimated to this gentleman that his only OBJ
ject in continuing on board the leaky and.
sinking Republican craft during the present
can1raign, W. S for the purpose of seuttling the
concern. +ls bfr t.5i f4
The New Orleans Delta has a very faithful
daguerreotype of this political harlequin in the
article which we copy below:
Thomas Corwin.
1t is predicted by the New Orleans Delta
hat the Speaker of the next House of Repre-.
sentatives will be either Thomas Corwin or En-
erson Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Delta says Of Mr.. Cerwin
1t tray be that each of the coalitionists may
try to cheat the other by proposing Tom Cor
win fer the Speakership. 1t would be difficult
to say which would be the greater loser by
such a selection for Corwin is really and tru-
ly of neither party. He has been struggling
for years past to define his position-in Amer
lean phraze to "locate HIMSELF" but, though
one of the clearest and most gifted elocution-
lists and natural orators of the Union, and with
al a good hearted man, he has not yet succeed
ed In enlightening a single person as to his
true attitude towards existing parties. One
day he is a Black Republican, or rather a full
blooded Abolitionist, on the same platform,
hand in glove with the man he more thorough
ly hates than any other in the world-Salmon
P. Chase; the next, he is addressing Sans
boys upon the glories of Fillmore's administra-
ton and CONFUSING immense audiences with
uncomfortable laughter, by his humorous pic
lures of the Abelitionists, setting themselves
up against the authority of the United St ties,
and overt1rning the old gentlemanly Wing
party. The next day he is defending, as vol
unteer and unpaid counsel, some slave-stealer,
and shedding tears over the wrongs aud outra-
ges of the Southern tyrant.
The truth is, Tom is the peculiar institution
OF Ohio. Everybody turns out to see and hear
him, but nobody follows him, or alta ;hes the
least weight to his opinions or his political
PiOuS~' LIZ Il III SFedIeSG living uramaC1SG
"a natural lmprovisator-who can speak on
any subject or on any side, with equal humor,
pathos, eloquence. The most striking ~illustra-
ton of his versatility was afforded during the
last Presidential campaign, when the whole
country turned QUIT hear him, about two weeks
before the election, make a most eloquent and
effective speech in favor of Fillmore, and a bit
ter and vigorous denunciation of the candidate,
whose claims rested upon his catching a but
teriy on the top of the Alleghenies, and salts
flying his hunger upon mule-steaks with grass
hopper sauce. p. 55ad
In a week afterward, in the city of -Cincin-
natl, he followed Governor Chase, at, a Black
Republican meeting, in an able appeal to the
people to vote for John G.. Fremont = =
Such is Tom Corwin. His election to the
Speakership would, in one view, be agreat loss
to the people. 1t would deprive them of the
best entertainment in the dramatic line-of
the richest specimen of witty, racy oratory that
were ever offered to a humor loving people.