The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-07
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Some people may not be aware that
Hon. VIM. Sprague, United States SEN
ator from Rhode Island, made speech
in Wheeling in the Presidential cam
paign of 1854, but, nevertheless, such
is the fact. The following STEW re-
marksu concerning the Senator Will
interest those who heard him on the
occasion referred to, and we suspect,
too: TINT they viii generally concur in
the views set forth. We quote from
the Washington correspondence of the
Cincinnati Commercial:
That Overriding Providence without
whose yolition even sparrow cannot
fall TO the ground, may have had a be-
niieent and wise purpose in view in
sending the Hon. William Sprague
Little Spraguey,n they call him, in
the reporters gallery, and when he
little pieeeynl to the Senate. 1t is more
easy, however, to account by natural
causes for the fall of a sparrow than for
the election of Sprague. A brick or a
shotgun will produce the former result,
by the operation of the laws of gravi-
tation, and Providence doesn't SO much
will the decease of the poor bird, as
i
response to which the feathered tribe
yield to the pressure OF a brick or the
force of buckshot. In the case OF
Sprague's election, the object so far
must be matter of filth, which Is,
we are reliably informed, the evidence
of things not seen and the substance OF
things hoped for.
Mr.. Spfague is the youngest man in
the Senate, and the smallestin physical
as well as mental stature. There is a
boyish look and air about him, and he
Is Withal ahandsome man, the cynosure
Of female eyes, and the focus object of
innumerable opera-glaSSes. BE looks
good at the world through
a pair of glasses which give him the
appearance ola college student, or an
aspiring curate in the penultimate
stage OF his divinity course. He sell
| dom addresses the Senate, and then in
variably from carefully prepared man
| nscript, and not unfreq uently ia such a
| stumbling and hesitating manner as to
cause his auditors to wonder that he is
not more familiar with Chief Justice
Chase's handwriting, which, 1t is proper
to remark, Is very hard to discipher,
The distinguished Senator from
Rhode Island made an announcement
the other day that may be said to have
put the polical world on tip-toe expec-
fancy. BE proclaimed himself in favor
OF manhood suffrage" in the District
i of Columbia, and said that, when a bill
1 having this purpose in view was intro
duced, he would demonstrate that, by
comforting the right OF suffrage upon
the colored popu lation here, Congress
would go far toward solving the
problem of reconstruction.
/ So, after all, perhaps the mission OF
| Sprague will not be much longer in
1 volved In that obscurity which befogs
il now, 1t may be that he is the mod
ern Qsdipus, 70 whom is intrusted the
1 solution of the worse than Sphinx rid
die which has so long perplexed the
COMMITTEES of Fifteen. He has promised
to tdemonstrater the whole problem.
Let him doit, by all means, and that
l speedily, and a grateful and recon-
structed nation will rise with one ac-
cord, and from the rock-ribbed coast OF
Maine tothe golden sands OF California,
and from the frozen lakes of the North
to the snake-infested swamps of the
South, the welkin Will ring with sAll
hail to the Spraguey, the great demon
strator.,