Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-12-18
REMARKs OF E. 7. WALLACE.


tunity to testify my personal regard for our
distinguished fellow citizen, and to partici-
pate with his personal friends and neigh
bors in the festivities which are here and
now celebrated in his honor.
1t ever has been an impulse of my nature,
when the asperities Of political campaign,
peculiar to our institutions, have ended, as
with me they ever do, alike with defeat or
with success, to rejoice in the personal ed
vsncement and honorable career of political
opponents, and especially those who are of
my immediate neighbors and personal
friends.
I had much more of pleasure than ever
had opportunity to express, when two years
ago the gentleman who presides here
tonight, Colonel Parsons) was called
by the President to serve his Government
and care for the commercial interests Of his
countrymen, as their Consul, away beyond
the equator, in that great Spanish-Ameri-
can empire of Brazil, which looks out upon
the Southern Cross and rejoices in the en-
lightened reign of Don Pedro.
shared the general satisfaction of all our
people when the Hon. D. K. Cartier was made
Minister to Bolivia, and subsequently,
when after honorable and valuable service to
the country abroad, he was made judge Of
the Federal Court in the District of Co.
lumbia.
felt exceedingly kind towards the Presi-
dent when at a later period he called for the
services of another of our citizens Mr..
Slade) and sent him, also Consul, to
France, to the pleasant city ofNice, in a cory
corner of that Empire, where he can look out
upon the dark but genial and classic waters
Of the Mediterranean, and where soft Sieilian
winds may bring repose to a saddened and
afflicted heart.
And now, when Clsveland's Third Con-
sui" in the person of him whom we, this
evening, delight to honor, is about to be or
dered to service in the great Spanish Prov
ines Of Cuba, though not to command armies
like the ConsuIs of Rome, take much more
than ordinary pride-I am gratifsd that's po-
sitlon 90 honorable has been conferred upon
the first advocate Of the Cleveland Bar
TCheers upon one who bore himself mOdestly,
sustained himself not only we'll, but hand
somsly, upon the floor of Congress, and,
more than all, who " did the State some SER
vice." And whatever of diversity Of opin-
ion there may be among men arising from the
diversity of political aspects in which opin-
ions are formed, l take upon myself to say,
that, in my judgment, the brief Congressional
career of our friend had the merit Of
enliveniug the halls of legislation, and Of
bringing to the knowledge Of the country the
fact, that Ohio had Nineteonth Oongrsssion-
al District, and that it was ably represented
facts which for ten years before had been
consigned to the oblivion Of the lost arts. 3"
And now, gentlemen, rs am, as always
have been, out in the cold, intend to COM
plain little to the President. can afford to
expose myself better than you can as the
President expects many Of the gentlemen
present to take and subscribe to his new
oath" I am not quite satisfied with this
last appointment, although 1 am here to do
it honor 1t does not come up to that rare
standard indicated by that very novel ex-
preston, " the right man in the right place.
| 1 concsds our friend to be the right man, but
Cuba is not quite, humbly submit, the right
place. The President should have appoint
ed him Minister to Spain 1t was due to
his talents and public services,-and how in
fniteIy more appropriate than the appoint
ment Of the unhappy and errstio Carl Schurz
/ Who Of rs would not prefer our Government
/ to be represented at the Court of St. Peters
burg BY our honorable fellow citizen, rather
than By q Simon Cemeron or restless, va
| ciiIating and discontsnted Cassius N. Clay
With but few exceptions Ohio has always
been ably represented in the Senate Of the
| United States, and no State in the Union has
had more able and distinguished representa-
tions on the Aoor of the House, through al
administrations; yet for some singular rea-
SON, or Zone st all, the highest positions il
the representation Of the country abroad
have been assumed aud secured by OtheI
States.
There is not within my personal or his
torioAl recollection single instance where
Ohio has had first or even second elasi
Mission to European Court. The best evel
done for Ohio in former times was to give
her the Brazilian Mission, and later, Mr.
Corwln in his old age has been consigned tC
the itiperant Court Of Mexico. But general
ly Ohio men are turned out to grass in South
America, getting only the Missions to thu
little mountain Republics Of Bolivia, Chill
VeneEusls and Ecuador, while Massachusetts
IN her modesty only takes the Court Of 81
James, and about one quarter Of the globe
| in the Mission to China.
While may be personally satisfied will
this state Of things, have only reminded
you thsrsof, SO that yoa may, II yog desire
call the attention of the next Administration
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