The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-22

Booth, Harold, and Atzerodt district, Benjamin
q. Harris of Deonardstown, whose seven coun-
ties constitute what was the largest slaveholdiug
section OF Maryland. Hie head is partly bald;
he has a vigorous manner, as, indeed, he is q
bold and bitter enemy of the conquering free
dom that prevails, and as when the Rebellion
sins fed so there slavery viii keep its last drop
of venom, until the remainder of the State is in
the vigorous enjoyment OF truthland industry.
THE JOHNSON INTEREST.
At the head Of the little body of Congressman
representing President johnson on the floor is
Mr.. Raymond, OF New York, gentleman of
whose Congressional career too much was ex.
pected and too much promised. 1t was to his
misfortune that the announcement was made
by his friends, or himself, that he would not
contest the seat OF MIR. Schuyler OoltaX This
led to invidious comparisons of his ability to fill
this place, or undue anticpatiors OF his power.
Congress has been called "the most rigorous
forum in the world" and it gave Mr.. Raymond
a respectful bearing. He was listened 10 as the
representative of the editorial profession and as
the intimate acquaintance Of the President He
was feared TO be- at least, equal to leading the
johnson element of the House, and possibly the
diyider of the Union party, When he had been
heard, he ceased to be formidable. Opinion re-
mains unanimous that he is failure. The
House demands either ability or conviction to
to take eminence in it, Mr.. Raymond's ability
| is in tinesSe, and the questions agtating this
Congress are of a character to require more
| solid abilities.
He has been able to talk adroitly without in
| dicating at all mis- convictions, IL he has them
| and, had he been capable OF vigilant leadership
| the recent chance to bear down the third clause
| Of the Reconstruction measures would have
| demonstrated it. Fortuitous Republican and
Democratic cooperation defeated this, and Mr..
| Raymond seems to have lost heart In the Presi-
| dents fortunes. He is a small man, OF large
| forehead, and dissatisfied expression He has
| spoken often, each time with lessening atten-
| ton; but in intercourse he courtly and in per-
| sonality guarded. As a power, he existed be-
| fore he took his seat; scarcely subsequently.
Close before Mr.. A. j. Rogers and well down
| towards the speaker, sits Charles Z. Phelps, OF
| Maryland, elected Unionist, but an advocate
| of my Policy" He was one of the early
There are fewer supporters of Mr.. Johnson in
| the House than OF the Rebellion. Neither ndi-
vidually nor by fusion have they made mark.
THE PATRIARCH OF THE HOUSE.
On the extreme right of the Speaker, sepa-
rated by an empty desk only from the Sergeant
atArms, rests placid face, crowned with
| snow-white hair-the veteran OF Congress in his
| past political observation-disclosures Thomas, of
| Mary land. He was the acquaintance and COM
| peer OF Webster Hayne, Clay. Calhoun, and
| Quincy Adams, Governor of Maryland, and a
| member OF this House score of years ago. In
| the midst of his public labOIs, some sadness,
| or treachery, or falsehood fell upon his domes.
| tic hearth, and he withdrew, silently and sad,
from the notice OF the world; For many and
| busy years the haunts of man knew him not. He
made himself a literal hermitage on the noun.
tains of Western Maryland, and neither by
| visit nor correspondence did a new generation
| OF people discover him. At last the war burst
upon the border, aud Maryland halted between
| two opinions, the Union or slavery.
Then, as the reglclde Cote is said to have
| mybterlously come to the rescue OF the Connec-
| tlcut people when the savages surrounded
| them, Francis Thomas, who had departed in
the sable and stalwart meridian of life, appeared
like an apparitlon in Baltimore. His locks were
bleached. His frame was bent He spoke, so
| rnIllr Rh nn or fhn Hr-f TT,,fA
meeting, with splendid and electriiying eo.
| quence. He declared again for the Union OF his
| youth, and taught by the thoughtfulness oil
solitude and the chastening OF his broken
household idols a philanthropy washed of all
prejudice, declared also Tor freedom in Mary.
land. He sits in Congress to-day, voting with
the majority; his iace is benignant. though he
sits quietly apart in the sanctlty of his private
remembrances, yet full of holy enthusiasm, aud
with the gentleness OF his life there is also that
beautiful gentemanliness of manner which we
are accustomed to asctibe to the ''old school o
statesmen" His district is the most loyal and
progressive in Maryland. With such statures
OF former time to work so earnestly in the
great causes OF the present, we feel that the
Fathers of the Constitution are with us in per
tecting IL.
DEEPLY DYED RADICAL.
There sits a man down that AISLE directly
opposite the Speaker who is perhaps nearer the
standard of Thaddeus Stevens in ervor o.
opinion at least, than any other Congressman
tall and very spare figure, capped with knotty
head, which is covered with snort, swart hair
and is at the forehead low and positive. Hi
voice is the grandest and most effective Ia thu
House, being Forrestonian in its depth, and hi
movements are courtly like his dress. Kelley il
OF Irish extraction, and was a hammerine
mechanic twenty years ago. The Democracy
elected him to the bench OF the Common Pleas
and he acted diligently with that party till tn,
repeal OF the Missouri Compromise in 1854. HI
was one OF the first to declare for the desuuctloI
OF slavery, but until 1867 held out for tree trade
until convinced by the logic of that years panic
| that protection was essential. He suffered muct
animadversion, but steadily gained credit anC
popularity, till, in the extra session OF 1851 hC
took his seat in the House. and almost imme
dately met Vallandlgham in argument.
His effort referred to the Trent imbroglio, anC
he proved so stern and collected that he wal
thencetorward listened to with attention. Pro
to this time he had taken an advanced position
upon the question of negro suffrage, and for the
| last five years he has made this the main cause
of his career. His dictlon is always correct
while his successive speeches upon the Enamel
patton Proclamation, the recognition OF Hayt
| and Liberia and the Extension OF Suffrage il
the District OF Columbia, are marvels OF patien
| collaboration. Or the last measure he is th
author. In six sessions OF Congress he has beel
absent only one business day-a record OF faith
| tulness matched, probably, by no other Con
gresham. To the better make himself useful il
! public business, Judge Kelley has aDandone
entirely the large and lucrative practice he en
| ioyed, and may now be said TO subsist enuirel
upon his pay as Congressman.
No circuit riding preacher works more dill
| gently, his private quarters being an arsena
| whence are forwarded tons of speeches an
! | public documents to every nook OF the South
, | He has CLASSIFIED the addresses OF all Lleadln
| people OF the disaiected section, and Is toreye
! | getting them within the range OF debate so tha
| with him, indeed the franklng privilege is a
: | evangelizer. Kelley is bordering upon nifty year
OF age; he has the reputation OF ncorrupuplhty