The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-15

3HKk0Puo1zoeesss~ A@-s-S
ing ths,pilitarJ IGovernor Of tTenHessee
To the second Office in the gift OF the poo
n,e wa would have such an officer as
never presided over the Senate before,
and we have. How gratifying it must
have been to hear him on the loyalty OF
Tennsssee; Just stwo minutes and hall
on that point" Chief Justice (hic)
CHASE is pie (hic)beian. just hear him
"two minutes on that point" and then
fancy the noble plebeian dropping his
voice into tone of inquiry as he tried
tbroueh his obfhsticated faculties to re-
member who was the Secretary OF the
Navy, and then beginning again You
Mr. WEL1Es, are secrary of Navy (hic).'
Then, too, the glorious, gratifying spec
tacle of hearing him blunder and STAN,
msr through the solemn ceremony OF
taking the oath to preside over what
onobt TO be the most grave and dignlhed
body in the world! His breath reeklng
9TH the fumes of intoxication,' his eyes
leering in drunken, confused way as
his thick tongue triedto catch the solemn
words, and haven't We a spectacle to
thank the Republican party fort LOOK
at il! Fancy it ''-'
A stumbling, stammering, drunken ola
nam with the froth of drunkenness on
his lips. Drunk in his legs, drunk in his
speech, drunk in his eyes, drunk in his
hair, drunk all over and through and
through, in the place dignifed by such
names as John ADAMS, Thomas JEFFER'
SON and John C. CALHOUN. What a
pity such character should be only
plebeian. The New York Herald thinks
that SEWARD ought to be an Earl, STAN
TON a Duke; and what's his name
Lord High Cockalorum. We don't know
exactly what that last is, but, II 1t re-
fers to JOHNSON, we agree he had better
be that than Vice President. The Adj
ministration organs say we ought 10
support the Administration through
thick and thin. We never understood
wby before, but it is clear that it takes
two OF three to support ono member Of
it, even at his Inauguration.
As it happened, there was striking
contrast between JOHNSON and the de-
fsated candidate of the Democratic par
ty-Mr. ,PENDLEToN. On the day pre-
eeding that on which JOHNSON dis
graced himself and the country MIR.
PESDLEToN made his final speech to
Congress. A letter from Agate, the
Washington correspondent OF the Gin
cinnati Gazette in his account of the II
nal proceedings of Congress, says
PENDLEToN's LAST
The unanimous vote of the House, &C
cording to Mr. Pendleton the privilege
of closing the debate on his proposition
to bring Cabinet officers on the floor, was
the most signal compliment this Con
press has paid to any Democrat.
He had the floor at two o'clock In the
morning. The House was still going tt
sit some hours, and it might much better
have heard him then than at any Other
time. But there was general feellns
that it would be pleasant to show Tine
ablest man on the Democratic side, Oh
the occasion of his retirement from long
aeryice in the House, some evidence OF
The regard his uniform courtesy ana 1alr
ness had inspired; and so the motion to
have the question postponed, and hls
speech set for the most favorable hour Ill
the afternoon, when he would be sure tC
have crowded galleries and the finest
audience of the season, came from his
most persistent political and even por
sonal opponent in the House, Mi. Ellht
r, Washburn. No such compliment ha'
been extended to a Democrat within my
recollection, since the Democrats have
been in the minority.
We would like to have these two
speeches, the one by he elected and the
other by the defeated candidate for Wee
President to publish side by side-John
sons speech to be reported just as 1t wal
delivered. What a contrast it woulo
make! The polished eloquence, the lin
ished argument, and the dignihed de
meanor of the state sman, and the slut
tering rawlings of weak, intoxicated
old demagogue.
Who.is there now who can rejoice that
Johnson was elected and Pendleton de
feated7 What a striking indication Of
the condition of parties in the country
is seen in the fact that Mr.. Pendleton re
tires from his place as member OF Con
gress, at the very time that johnson en-
tiers into the Vice-P Presidents CHI air