The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15

sonry of argument not its architectural details.
For thirty>tour years, a mans lifetime, he has
been legislator; and is at last the leader OF the
Senate.
10 the right of the hall, removed some half
dozen seats, you note a brown haired man, hale
and able bodied, and younger than most others,
wLo IS the foremost in point OF command and
cleverness, of the few Democratic members. This
is Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, Democrat
of strong party traditions, an eff ;ctive, collected
speaker, prudent in tone, decided in opinion, and
more jealous III the general affairs OF the country
than the mass Of his party colleagues, whose OPP
position is apt to be mere protest and bitterness.
He is of light complexion, severe of face, but
without particular character either in guise or
oratory. He has marred his native extempore
cUnfdence somewhat by the too frequent habit OF
reading his speeches from manuscript.
The State OF Maryland is represented by two
men of great but differing gifts. He who sits up
close to the speaker, writing all the time with an
attorneys industry. is Reverdy Johnson. A mass
lively Quakerly featured man, with bullying
contour, from the eyebrows down to the under lip
cast like prize fighter, and seeming by the one
eye he has lost to carry the scars Of his art Yet
the ampleness and symmetry of his head show
that it was framed for better internal than exter
nal uses-built like fort, but really an arsenal
while the keen, close angle of the chin gives
token of some delicacy Of taste and feeling. He
has short, gray hair, his eye is doggedly humor-
the floor.
Less significant, of triter and more average
humanity, yet perfect in his kind, and pleasing
rather than striking, is the hale merdanai face
Of John A. j. Creswel, a Senator beautiful ia his
friendship, sturdy Republican of progressive
integrit and one OF the new and more christian
regime Of Mary Land gentlemen. These colleagues,
of opposite politics, seem to NE to constitute one
of the best Senatorial delegations, and do not
know. indeed, that any State has sent to Wash
ington so much reason on the one side and feeling
on the other. The men compounded would make
one perfect statesman, and am able to see no
other single delegation of which the same could
be said CresWeil comes from the northern bor-
DER close to it in his little town of ElktOn that
he has Inhaled the breath of freedom across the
line. and in his ardent espousal of the newer and
purer code for his native State, ranks with the
most progressive Senators of his time. He lacks
the close acquaintance with constitutional law
possessed by his colleague, but also the narrow
and literal humanity derived from too great rev.
erence for charter and the authorities upon it.
H. is aware, as Mr.. johnson is not, OF the dawn
Of better dispensation, wherein we legislate for
civilization and not for compromises nor circunl-
stances, and with all the hopetuness nature would
see Maryland wheel into the column of States
emancipated, not only in her serts, but in her pre-
| jndIces, her methods and her Industries. In a1a.
! bility. these Senators are equal, both being re-
spected and popular with their adVersaries on the
| OF Jurists, and Creswell to that of legislators.
| We look to one for criticism and Interpretation
to the second for the perception and recognition
of those latest and largest social phenomena which
have ceased te grow. CresweH is the inheriter oil
all the sympathies and much of the power Of
Henry Winter Davis, his political tutor and broth
er, and his eulogy upon the dead man was one o.
the most touching and classical obituaries of oul
history.
.sFor the christian, scholar, statesman and or
ator, all good men are mourners but what shall
| l say of that grief which none can share-tht
grief of sincere friendship? @ ~
s'Oh, my friend comforted by the belief tina
you, while living, deemed me worthy to be you
companion, and loaded me with the proofs o
/ your esteem, | shall fondly treasure, during ny
remaining years, the recollection Of your smile
and counsel. Lost to meis the strong arm where
on / have so often leaned but in that path which
in4time past we trod so joyfullY together, shall
II continue as God shall give nae to see my duty
with unfalterlng, though, perhaps, with unSkilltu
steps right onward to the end."
TIE eye OF the stranger viii insensibly wande
to large and rounded figure, Standing in tn.
open liace to the left, behind his char which
On the fu thest row removed from the Speaker
| He 1t Was whose patient and elegant scholarship
2 made him the. classical orator OF freedom, at
! whom she chose as her elect to shed his blood OF
: the Senate floor, that he might have the sympa
t1ies of mankindl8 ,G
t Or Charles Sumner there is no better pietur
heXtdnt than this, i'll De Comedns sketch OF 81
Just, the great. French orator of the Revolution
:. A Republican by conviction, au, tere by ten
! permanent, dlsinterested by character.
His capacity was net beneath his Situation. !
, gloomy fire btamed in his looks He had a mel
pancholy expression of cOnntenance, certain ii
; fcHaatl0n tortsotude, adelyery slow and solemn
/ II soul OF iron lntreDdlty, determined will, a
f object ever fixed aud distinct before his eyes. Il
elaborated his reports with studied dogmatsn
He seasoned them with scraps of metaphysic
9 taken from Hobbies and Rousseau, and to the vic
/ lent andexpeditiOus realities of this reVolutonar
practice he joined a social philosophy eompounde
e OF humanitarian imaginations and foWery re'
VI eries.n
I His colleague, Mr.. Wilson-the most popula
man in Massachusetts in his assoriations-is til
/ antipedes OF Mr.. Sumner in temperament. a stou
1 horid, farner-iike gentleman not strong nc
smooth in debate. but imbued with the progressiy
: independence OF bis commonwealth, and full (
. hard sense and devotion to public duty. He ha
: probably the most genial face in the Senate,
# THERE'S one figure in the Senate, in the mldd
a row to the right, almost boyish, with straigh
black, careless hair, CARRIED in civil gray, m
d wearing glasses Heis just within the prescribe
IS extreme youth of a Senator, and his service
2 wealth, promise, social nature, make him one
# the extraordinary and pIecaucioGs people of ii
S era, almost the only parallel in contemporal
) legislation of such youthful heroes as Bayar
E. Fitzpatrick, Custer and Chamberlain. ~ y
is : Riddle of Delaware, is stout, short, crouchlr
j. man in gray curls Of medium position and aspir
d tons. ts2gf 1853 N5t&
s Carrot Davis of Kentucky, is the successor
e volubity of Henry S. Foote, little, wizzen-face
of tried up, blindish-eyed man, of enormous VIII
!; and vitality, who is bitter as gall, and useful
d staYe off vote, sometimes taking four or eve
lie five hours as the wind bloweth where it listeth.