Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-08-06

" HO4- CACNCu NOAullCc VI Ills tISAElIL IA
cannot count as many negroes, BY halt, a
live in my own county"
q" | am not particularly proud of repre-
sentIng greater number OF Africans thar
my colleagues. ! think. so far as tn
chatterIng goes about their inalienlbl
rights and everlasting wrongs, am en-
II ely unsuited 70 represent them"
! Upon the principle by which his pOlit
cal action is controlled, my colleague
Mr.. Cox cannot understand why it i
that Representative should strive to dt
an act of common justice or an office o
common humanity to class of human
beings who do not happen to be his imme
dlate constituents. The whole secret o
his abuse of the negroes is, that hey can
not vote. Had they the right of suffrage
have no doubt he would sit up nights L
compose peans to their praise.
My colleague at the extra session tool
occasion to unjustly reproach the Western
Reserve for not raisiug it's proportion O
troops for this war Statistics from au
thentic sources show that Ashtabula coun
ty, with 4 population of 3l,8l4, has sem
over fourteen hundred men. Trumbul
county, with a population of 30.656, ha.
sent nearly, if not quite the same number
! and this does not embrace some compan
les made up, and now in the service, un,
der the recent call Of the Governor, in re-
sponse to the Government at Washington
have not seen the statistics from Mahon.
ing county, but bellows she has sent al
many men in proportion to her population
as either Trumbull or Ashtabula counties.
The same is true of other counties of the
Reserve. Franklin county, in which nv
colleague Mr.. Cox resides, and in which
IS situated Columbus. the capital of the
State, with population of SO, ,56l. accord
ing TO d recent statement, has only sent
between nine hundred and thousand
men. This may be accounted for, in par I,
from fact stated in my colleagues speech,
that there are in his county many more
mulattoes and negroes than IN the coun-
ties Of the Reserve, and when theGoyeru-
ment Is willing TO receive such aid, very
likely his county will furnish her quota.
My colleague has been some time before
the public as politician, and he has fig-
ured somewhat IN other departments of
human enterprise. He has travelled, and
added 70 the contributions of literature
by making note of his travels. In 9TH
er words, he has written a book. There
was wisdom in Jobs desire that his "ad-
versary had written a book" l quote
from the title-psge of my adversarv's
book "A Buckeye Abroad. or Wander
ings in Europe and in the Orient by Sam
uel 5. Cox" This is grsndiloqnent and
euphonious. l make no criticisms upon
the book or the subject-matter Of it. In
tits average, and in literary ex-
ecution it is respectable. The first chap
ter shows turn of sea-sickness, but this
is said to be good for the stomach. A
turn just before my colleague composed
his speech, might have relieved it of much
foul matter. To show the House and the
country the difference between "a Buck
eye Abroad" and a Buckeye at home, 1
will ask the Clerk to read passage from
my colleagues book, in which he describ-
ed the Pope at service, in the Sistine
chapel.
The Clerk read the following:
while waiting the entrance of his Ho-
liness, the mind can find delight in exam
ming the last judgment of Angelo fres-
coed upon the wall Of the chapel Every
variety of hope, doubt, despair and beati-
tude, beam upon US from the figures up
On the wall. Within q sacred inclosure,
0ver which tip-toed curiosity can barely
peep, Is green carpeted floor and tapest-
~ hangings, with an altar and a throne.
Seats are arranged for the cardinals, who
soon begin to pour in, dressed in great red
gowns and seull-caps, attended By ser
wants in purple. After bows and crosses
the servants proceed to unroll the trains
and seat the cardinals. A very hearty ar
ray of old Romans they seem, with their
trn1ar fhafr. IL Eo1 -
ing, their lofty brows and intelligent faces
good living as well ss study
and reflection. Most Of them kept up an
naudible prayer. One fine, old, trem-
bling fat gentleman seemed to be beyond
the age Of piety, but his habitual prayer
fulness still played upon his lips. He re-
minded me of CHANGERS monk. who re-
peated all his terms,
That he had learned out of some decree,
No wonder was he heard it ali the day
Directly, buff soldiers, with gilt he'll
NETS and drawn swords rush in to guard
The door. thought at first there was
sudden insurrection, knowing that in
matters of power, as poor Pins has learn
ID, there is but one step from the Cap
tol to the Tarpean Rock But no; the |
,hoir strike the high notes, the doors be-
yond open, and Viola the vicegerent of
5od appears in his tiara and cloth of gold. |
Around him swarm ministers of every de- |
gree and shade of color He kneels, the |
'ustle of red cardinals shivers in the hal |
owed air, and all kneels. Then he
lscends to the throne, fine looking, full /
aced man, graceful and dignifed in his !
bearing. Power he seems to wear as ia |
niliar garment. How graciously he ex-
ends TO the cardinals, who seVerally leave |
heir seats, attended by their attendants
n purple, carrying their trains They !
,owing, kiss the hand, or, as was inform
ID, the diamond brilliant upon the Pope's
ing, as a token of reverence. An Infer |
or order PROSTATE themselves and tip
heir labia at the feet of his Holiness, up
IN which is a cross of silver. In the !
seraphic music from the Pope's
elect choir ravishes the ear, while the in
,ense titilate the nose. Soon their arises
n this chamber of theatrical glitter a
,lain, unquestioned African, and utters
he sermon IN facile latinity with grace |
ul manner. His dark hands gestured |
larmoniously with the rotund periods and
lis swarthy visage beamed with high Or
Ter of intelligence. He was an Abyssin-
an.
What commentary was here upon |
,ur American prejudices The head of |
he great Catholic Church, surrounded by |
he ipest scholars of the age, listening to !
he eloquence of the despised negro, and
hereby illustrating 70 the world the COM
non bond Of brotherhood which binds
he human race"
The sermon of the Abyssinian, in beauti-
III print, was distributed at the door.
,riug one home as a trophy and as
ouvenir of great truth which Ameri-
ans are prone to deny or condemn"
Mr.. Hutchins This Abyssinian admir-
.tion of my colleague, which he has SO
described, may have suggested
o him the propriety Of having his speech
Mostly in type, ready for distribution as
oon as delivered. .--r
The quotations from my colleagues
peech which l have read, show "the
Suckeye' at home The extracts just
cad BY the Clerk show "the Buckeye
broad" This Buckeye shrub hourishes
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