Daily national Democrat., 1859-06-29
What is said of the Gwin-Buc hanan cam
didate for Governor.

The 5. +. News thus speaks Of Latham, the
Gwin.Buchanan candidate for Governor:
| MILToN SHAKESPEARE LATHAM AS LTERA.
Rv "oUss Our friend. Milton Shakespeare
Latham, the Lecomplon nominee for Cover
/ nor, deserves as wide celebrity for his Lite
| rdry requirements rs for his skill in political
manGuvers over the sinister. All the speech
| es he has delivered. and all the compositions
lac has put before the public are wonderfully
| remarkable, las well for their forid character
as for their iinpenetrable obscnrity. lis
! true, that, on-occasion. he has dwelt upon the
statistics Of the country but the Information
| he has thus made public, has been drawn from
| the speeches of other men and the books of
other authors. One composition has usually
served hi@: an entire canvass, SO little need
be said on this point
1t is when Milton Shakespeare Latham
closes the volumes written by inferior men,
and gives ne the thoughts which are the pure
creation of his own uhapprecinted genius,
| that he shines the brightest. Then he re-
minds us of the sophomore. His thoughts
become so great that they cannot find utter
anee in plain saxon, and so obscure that they
are positively sublime
For exitmplc:; On the 18th of September,
1857, Latham delivered an Grafton on the oc.
Ii
fayettes hirthdly. From this remarkable
production, which was printed in letters of
gold on black satin. we clip the following ex-
tracts lie commences thus:
"rhe morning Of this day, q hundred years
ago, discovered to The hopefM future, II brill
liant star in the chuin Of events which wus
to bind with such sptendor the calm brow Of
the Goddess of Liberty"
In this sentence there is quite q pleasing
| incongruity- of ideas We will lei the hope.
/ fnl future p s.; but would suggest that
link in the chain" would have preserved the
unities of he sentences more completely -
/ with such splendor' is good, because if not
very dehuitc, it Is at least, pretty Milton
Shnkspeare knew that
TIE honored libation which the present
assembly met to offer to the genius and mem.
ofy of Single man, testties that he was
friend and Iwrtyr to our race History tea
ches by Single Hyes and biography forms the
history Of different eras "
We suggest shat Milton Shakpeare should
publish an appendix to the italicised portion
of the foregoing sentence. in order tnat the
world may understand what it means. AS
stands, What the deuce does it mean?
The student who pondtrs over the pages
of the orators, statesmen, and chiettaias Of
country, discovers the hidden causes of liz
characteristics, prevailing tastes and reIatioe
po,osr"
What "reative power? ?" Oh Milton Mil
ton What a splendid Governor thou wouldst
make
The orator proceeds:
Original genius single minds one idea
men, are distinct miiestones along the path Of
empire, and society has no progress unmark-
ed 10y The genius and intellect of the great,
who novel in it. The philosophg Of individ-
ual greatness is also the philosophy of nation
al greatness"
The italics are ours-not Milton Shak- |
spenres His Grafton was made up of these
absurlities, and was printed on black satin,
in letters Of gold. Our deliberate opinion is
that Milton Shakespeare Latham is a h,taibug