The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-19
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seems to be attended with looseneSs
of style. Democracy being at the best
| but a looseness of principle, we inVari-
ably find its speeches loose, wild and
scattering, and especially are they re-
markable for the mixing of metaphors.
| A Democratic orator who starts simile
| in any form of nature, Will in the course
of sentence, put it through all the
| forms of animate and lnanlmate mat
| ter, and through all the movements OF
! the elements. Thus Mr.. voorhees,, in
sounding his own trumpet recently on
| the OCCASION of the presentation of q
| cane, described the aspect of the civil
war with a mingling of metaphors and
| the elements.
| entered Congress five years ago in the
| midst of GRIEF and of gloom. civil war was
/ upon US like a baleful simeon OF the desert,
| darkening the very. sun and quenching the
\ in the darkness and confusion for firm polit-
! ical footings. Some left their old and solid
| positions 10 take their places on the Shitting
| There was q vast political mirage just before
| US all. deluding us away from the ancient
! landmarks OF safety. Many plunged forward
| into its deceitful embrace and thus increased
First, ii was baleful simeon which
| darkened the very sun and quenched
! the light of the stars. Both at once,
and in such an anti-climax, must have
made the place very dark; but not so
! dark but that there was n vast mirage,
deluding all with its reflected light. It
i is like Falstaff1s story of his exploits at
Gad's Hill, and of the exact color ofthe
clothes of his multiplying men in buck
ram, all of which was when sit was so
dark, Hal, thou cOuld'st not see thy
| hand before thy face"
And this mirage has arms and claws
to hold people in its deceitful embrace.
Most admirable mirage!
Mr.. VOORHEES, says that although all
| mankind were carried away by this
sandy mirage of invisible darkness, he
| held fast to his Democratic integrity:
Thev acted as II the Constitution had al
| ready perished in the storm, and society was
| remftted to its original elements wherein
| each man is law unto himself. On the con-
| trary l recalled the sublime origin OF that in
! strument, the wisdom that famed 1t, the
| startling magnifcence and glory which II had
given our country IN the midst OF the nations
| of the earth, its sufficiency in times past for
| all the purposes OF war and peace, and de-
| termined that, whatever oLherSmight do, on
| It. and on IL alone, would Duild the mouse
| OF my political falth.
| Yet Mr.. Voorhees, gave no voice or
! vote to save the Constitution and all
this accumulation of glories, from des-
truction by rebellion. .....
! We observe a still finer performance
of variations nn the metaphor in the
| eloquent peroration of Mr.. Pendleton's
speech at the Democratic State Conven-
| ton in which he proposed a way to Sc
cure the Constitution from the clutches
| of the Radicals, as the people of Con-
| necticut thrust their Charter into a hol-
| low tree.
In these days OF danger to our liberties,
| when in its frenzy the central power Is seiz-
! ins upon all theguarantees OF popular rights,
! where shall we hnd a place of safe deposition
! our Constitution, till this uarkneSS be over
| passt and the sunlight OF REASON again ap.
| pears? Two centuries ago, IN crisis ol
| deadly peril, the true men OF connecticut, IN
/ the haze of the twilight, Snatched their char
| ter from the council table, and placed 1t in the
| charter oak, within whose noble trunk, and
| under the protection OF whose spreading
/ branches, IL was hidden from the search oil
| the tyrant. That sturdy tree had for centuries
| escaped thelightntns OF the tempest and the
/ violence of the tornado. BY this event II ac-
/ quired an Immortality of fame-two centu-
Ties longer 1t Stood unscslthed, tut II exists nc
| more 1t bowed its head 10 the storm during
our terrible civil war; and the hiding place
was exposed 10 public gaze. we have an ark
| OF safety for our Constitution more edectlNe
! than this oak. 1t is the ballot box 1t IN.
| vites US to use it We need not approach II
| in darkness, as the men of COnnecticutwete
compelled to do; but in the bright sunlight,
| solid columns anu with measured tread, as
performing sacred duty, to approach itS
Spsp SPsp Ipoin It's Inm,St recess echoei in thnn-
| der tones, the commands OF the stlli small
voice OF the silent vote even as ,I Of Old IRON from
The ballot box is our charter oak. II
is hollow, but here the similitude scat
ters. We need not approach it in dark,
ness, but "under the canopy of full
| day.n And we ought to approach the
small oritice ofits open portals 'in solid
columns and with measured tread, as
we always move to the performance ol
"sacred duty" with an unscratched
l Democratic ticket. Yet if the Demo-
cratic votes can be had, they mad better
not stand on the order of their coming,
but rather mind the stated Democratic
i'exhortation to vote early and often.
And if we do it rightly, that is, If the
party can stick in votes enough, the
still small voice of the silent vote will
be heard in thunder tones, (Which IS the
way still small voices of silent things
1 are always heard, y Just as Israel of old
heard the still small voice of God in the
laundering from SiDai.
| 1t is very fine, but metaphorically
! mixed. And yet the simile is good, II
| its parts were sorted and arranged.
The voice of the ballot did save the
| Constitution from destruction by re-
! beIIion IN which Mr.. Pendleton had not
SO far as his speeches have shown, been
| able to discover anything in violation
| of the Constitution. This voice suS-
| tanned the patriotic volunteers while
\ they were marching In solid columns
and with measured tread against the
| traitors who were in arms 10 destroy
! the Constitution What would the
conntrv be now if Mr.. Pendleton,s pol
lev had prevailed? The "still small
voice OF tie ballot box" will continue
to be heard in thunder tones" against
the Confederate Democracy, and that
party will continue to enjoy that hostil-
| ity to the ballot box which it always
feels for it when condemned by its
| itstill small,' thunder tones"
REFREsHMENT CAR.-Mr. A. NJ.
Smith, of the Chicago and Rock Island
Railway, has constructed u model of a