Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-09-21
Larrabee In Watertown.
''Take him up tenderly lift him with care.
Fashioned so slenderly, young, and so fair =

Congress the past session, and now going
about on exhibition, is due at this time
The said abbreviated statesman to wit
Charley Larrabee, as he with a familiar
ity that breeds contempt addresses himself,
stood forth on the rostrun and ''aired his
vocabulary" in Coles Hall on Friday eve
ming to the amusement of Republicans and
chagrin of Democrats.
The Brass Band played at one end, and
Larrabee lifted up his jaw at the other and
the meeting dragged its slow length along,
like sick serpent, music in its rattle, ard
poison under it's tongue. One truth by
an oversight crept into bis exordium 1t
came forth lonely in these words Il ap-
pear before you differently than on a for
mer occasion. An undoubted fact--he
stood firmly on his short rins, not seeming
quite so tired as we remember to have
seen him, but still sufficiently SO, to allow
| himself to remember the first, and to for
|
get the latter clause of the old maxim,
"who knows the world will not be bashful.
Who knows himself will not be impu-
dent" He proceeded to pronounce an eu-
logy on his sincerity and manliness, sad
tribute of respect to the dead, and sitting
his emotions, laid off his harness, slipped
his halter, snuffed the air like the wild
ass of the desert, " and plunged crafty in
to the bowels of his argument. The ap.
pearance of the little squatter sovereign
at this juncture was picturesque. His
"great principle" seemed to he in the pit
Of his stomach, and his efforts to raise it
wrought deeply on the sympathy. Like a
dromedary trayersing her ways he wall
dered, lost in the mazes Of his winding
speech. Instinct led him finally in fami-
liar path. The Republican had charged
him with voting for Know Nothing can
didate for the office of Speaker Of the
House of Representatives which fact is
part of history known and read of all men.
He reused himself, rolled up his sleeves,
struck an attitude, and met the tact with
stiff and stunning argument vouchsafed
In the characteristic words, at is lie,
Smith asserted that he was not a Know
Nothing He proceeded a half of an hour,
after making this logical triumph, to quail
ify, defend, excuse and apologize for doing
the said act charged upon him. which on
his own authority he did not do, present.
ing the novel spectacle Of a fugitive uaas-
sisted, surrounding and capturing himself.
He finished his achievements by asking
few questions, which being answered,
there was great press of the faith
full, in which President Rothc distinguish
ed himself as usual and again getting into
a position, the late eulogist of James Bu-
chanan, who last winter felt bound to
"yield great respect to the Chief Magis-
trate,'" proved his sincerity, by styling the
!" President of bis choice" old Fine e.
His next point was to charge Gov, RAN
dali with being Know Nothing, and offer
ed to furnish the names upon request, of
five men of Milwaukee, that had stated to
himself, that he, Alex. Randall had been
in K. n. Lodge-room with themselves
The said names were immediately request
ed, and refused, for sufficient motives, no
doubt. At this stage Of the proceedings,
he lost the threads of his discourse, and
was again an object of sympathy. The
loud conversati ton, the tread Of boots of
his Democratic friends, and the reproach-
ful cheer with which they saluted him
Whenever he took water seemed to fall un-
pleasantly on his ear. Waking out of his
bewildered state, he urged Democrats to
be quiet, complimented his Republican
friends for their good department, and
proceeded to read extracts from the speech
es of Wade and Lincoln, amid great ap-
plause. He reasserted his sentiment that
| if be lived at the South " be would hold
slaves" and undertook to demonstrate the
agreement between himself and the most
of Republicans in Congress. Having en-
lightened the public mind on this topic,
and illustrated it by saying that Eli .Tbay-
er came over to him, and voted with him,
on bills for the formation of s.Land Dis
tricts, when tie fact was and is apparent
that he went over to Thayer, he omitted
to state that Eli Thayer no longer repre-
sented, or misrepresented his district, haV-
ing been dropped, as many another has
been, and will be. He gayeit as his opin-
ion that 'our Fathers were great men,
that an African was black, white man white,
and thereupon paid bis respects to Sloan,
describing him as having read BLACK
stone and the Statutes" and longing for a
wider sphere, pictured his attitude towards
the Constitution and the rights of the
State in dull colors, and scared into an
exhortation. +" An eagle quivering his
tail IN air. is an apt image of the pocket
edition of Douglas, at this stage of the