Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-25


ness of the House, the Legislative wants Q
the country, the issues before the people, an
maintain himself as we'll in all of them as an,
new member. He will, slowly, it may be
but surely, gain wide and permanent repu
tation. He has clear head, wide grasp, O
mind, the best Of business habits, and larg
experience in affairs of public nature. Hi
head is all right, and not an impulse of hi
heart but beats true to the cause Of freedom
Of humanity, and Of Heaven. ss. IA -: VIZ
| Mr.. Allison, of the Third District, is tn
youngest man on the delegation. He look
like man of train, energy, and backbone
If he be not clever fellow in the best ant
highest sense of that phrase, there is ~
sense in looks. He has so much of the mill
OF human kindness in his nature that if on,
had lost his reckoning in great city ant
should see Allison in crowd CT dozen mer
he would walk straight up to him and tel
him of his perplexity--so good natured is thu
| very phiz of the member from the Dubuque
District. He is almost always smoking, ant
evidently enjoys his Havana hugely? tn,
only unmarried man of the delegation he is
of course, the best dressed man. He is
good speaker, a fine lawyer, an entertaining
conversational, an indefatigable worker, and
an adroit politician. He will do honor to hi.
District, AID the State. -ae.;.ay -smFs7 goo
Mr.. Grlnnell, of our jerrymandered Fourth
District, is short, chubby man, with no very
digniied appearance Talkative about tn,
concerns of Others and those of the country
he is re icent enough on his own schemes
and plans of wire-working. By no means
remarkable as a public speaker, and withou
any brilliant intellectual powers generally, he
will nevertheless be one Of our most valuable
members not only, but one of the most valu
able members of Congress. He will soor
know everybody in Congress, everybody ir
Washington worth knowing, and will have 9
better understanding of what is gong on
and what will be likely to be going on here
after, than any of his colleagues. He is,
think, the most sklllful gatherer of intelli
gence, outside Of professional news-mongers
| ever knew. Impressing strangers favoraby
by his genial, easy manners, he is already
perhaps, on familiar terms with more mem
bers than any other Representatives Ever
lastngly having some good practical notion in
his head, he will undoubtedly do great service
to the country. swear by Grinnell.
Mr.. Kasson looks like the gentleman of cul.
ture and of brilliant mind. That is what he
is. Learned in the law, deeply read in the
classics, his m nd finely polished by acquain
tance with the literature of England and
America: reading and speaking some of the
languages of continental Europe like his own
vernacular, it is evident he would not be
likely to suffer by comparison with almost
any gentleman in any company. BY the
bril'iancy of his conversation, his terse and
Just criticisms on public men, his practical
knowledge Of public affairs, the. natural
suavity Of his manners, he is better calcula.
ted to fasc'nate ingenious youth and tc
secure the general admiration than any gen
tleman in our delegation-or any other, fol
that matter. In political strategy he is ar
accomplished adopt 'an adroit politica
gamester," as the old Washington Un;o,
said about Mr.. Grimes, in 1854. use the
phrase, however, in better sense, not mean
ing to say that Mr.. Kasson would resort te
trickery not fully justified by the rules and
practices of politics. Strategy is fair in poll
tics as we'll as war. Those complain of II
most who are beaten at their own game
therein. Mr.. Kasson is an admirable public
speaker confessedly the first of our delega
ton in the House. His mind is both clea,
and comprehensive, not annoyed by innumer
able details, not exhausted by the most thor
ough examination of an important subject, o,
a question of vast import to many interests
He will succeed, therefore, both in the House
and the Committee Room, and reflect grea
honor upon his State. -.......-.N'.
Judge Hubbard, of the Sixth District. will
be, think the most popular man, personally
OF any of them You only have to see hin
to like him. Rather tall, of wirv build
with fine Roman countenance and hair like
the driven snow, his very appearance is worth
fortune to him. Many Years ago he uset
to cut stone in the land of wooden nutrneg,
at six dollars month! Here he is an hon
ored representative of a large and intelligent
constituency, learned judge, fine impass
ioned orator and close reasoner, as plucky a.
old Benton himself and as genial as Henry
Clay. Nobody but an unmixed scoundre
could help liking him, and liking him WITH
his whole soul at that. confidently predic
for him very high degree Of success.
Such is very imperfect sketch in ink o
our delegation in the lower. house of Congress
l hazard nothing in saying that, in genera
ability, in capacity to confer beneficial legis
lation upon the country, in the strength ant
versatility of their powers, in their devotion
to principle, in the purity of character, pub
lie and private, there are no six men from
any State who are their superiors.
l have been more particular in giving my
views of the member from the Fifth District
in especial, because, on an important occasion
in Iowa, it was freely asserted had attacked
him in certain letters from this city to tn
Burlington Hawkeye-an assertion which wa
absolutely false, and which take this occa
sion, late as it is, thus pointedly to deny
My own sins are all 1 .sam called upon t,
answer for, and if can do that successfully
it will be as much as expect. Meantime
other folks must do the same.
+ L1NKENsALE.
Two young boys from Rushville, Ind, wh'
were put in the Shelbyville Jail, on the nigh
of the 10th inst, for a slight misdemeanor
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