The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-05

the hOpetuness OF a generous nature would see
Maryland wheel into the column Of States eman-
cipated not only in her serts, but in her p:eiu-
d ces, her methods, and her industries. In aa-
bility these Senators are equal, both being re-
spected and popular with their adversaries on
the floor: but johnson belongs essentially to the
class Of jursts, and Creswen to that of leeisla.
tors. We look TO one for criticism and interpre-
taton, to the second for the PERCEPTION and
recognition of those latest and largest social
phenomena which are dsregarded by those
nations only which have ceased to grow. Cres
well is the inheritor of all the sympathies and
much of the power of Henry Winter Davis, his
political tutor ana brother, and his eulogy upon
the dead man was one of the most touching and
classical obituaries of our history
"For the Christian scholar, statesman, and orator
all good mon are mourners; but what shall say OF
shlpP
"Oh, my friend comforted by the belief that you,
while living, deemed me worthy 10 be your com
panion, and loaded me with the proofs Oh your
esteem, shall fondy treasure during my remain
ing years the recollection OF your smile ana coun,
so often leaned; but in that path Whlch IN time past
we tIod most joyiuy together snat continue, as
though, perhaps, with unskiliul steps, right onward
to the end"
The eye of the stranger will nsensibly wander
10 q large and rounded figure, standing in the
open space to the left, behlnd his chair, which
Is on the turthest row removed from the
Speaker. He IL was whose patient and elegant
scholarship made him the classical orator OF
freedom, and whom she chose as her elect to
shed his blood on the Senate floor, that he might
have the sympathies OF mankind.
OF Charles Sumner there is no better picture
extant than this, in De Cormonins Sketch of
st. just the great French orator of the RevO.
lution:-
"A Republican by conviction, austere by Temporal
ment, disinterested by character. His
capacity was not beneath his situation. gloomy
fire beamed IN his looks. He had u melancholy ex.
preston of COuntenance, certan inc inatiOn
solitude, deivery slow and solemn, soul of iron
intrppiditv dppTminpd will. object Ak and
distinct before his eyes. He elaborated his reports
with studied dogmatism. de seasoned them with
scraps OF metaphysics taken from HobOes and Rous-
seau and to the violent and expeditions realities of
his revolutionary practice he joined social philoso-
ply compounded Of humanitarian imagnations and
howcry revefies."
From Mr.. Sutton, the Head of the Congress
sional Photographers, have had a most inte-
resting revival Of the scene of the famous Brooks
assault.
With his legs beneath his desk his chair nailed
to the floor, so that he could move neither for
ward nor backward, the pale Senator sat writing;
the stealthy assassin came to the front of the
desk, cane in hand, and leaned forward with
his teet firmly planted; "Are you Mr. Sumner"
81 am.n "Then--." With his left hand he
grasped the Senator's throat and pulled him for
ward. His knees beneath the desk pinned him
down like vice. The black whalebone cut into
the scalp fast and deep, drawing blood till it
poured over forehead, and eyes, and white
inen and at last the rod splinered in its terrible
mission. Then, with great involuntary groan,
In6 large mans WrlJnlnS SCT6ngJQ DurSt t0e
screws of the desk it fell with a shock, and
Charles Sumner flung forward, gared moment
helplessly around him at the crowd of paralyzed
or unsympathizing witnesses, and then, with a
sort OF gurgling cry, tumbled all headlong and
heaped upon the floor.
For minutes not a man stopped to lift him.
the wounds eXuded fast and black, and the
people, grouped in a circle, looked curiously on,
as at butcherng a hanging, while Brooks
unscathed and with a free and lofty step, passed
away into the marble corridors Who can re-
read this scene, in the light of the great blazing
war since fought to the wreck Of the bloody
without associating with Charles Summers
gashes the frequent Dayonet at the throat of the
Rebel soldier. History bearing out its memora-
BILE teXt:-"His blood be upon us and our
children" Since that day the record will tell
how this pale, feeble man, silent upon his indi
vidual wrong, resolved, in his own words, to
call his assassin slavery" and, "God helping
| him to pursue the bloody monster TO his del y
| He rang this cry with the pertinacity of Cato's
| "Cd1th0go delendd est and not even the women
! working their hair into bOwstIlngs retarded its
desperate overthrow. There is no character IL
the Capitol so alone, and calm, and high, as this
| Senator, He is a bachelor; he wears much o
the time an absent poets look, past things into
| space. In personnel he is the beau ideal OF Re
! publican Senator; in habits perfect alumnu
| OF New England.
His colleague, Mr.. Wison-the most popula
man in Massachusetts in his associations thu
antipodes of Mr.. Sumner in temperament;
!
or smooth in debate, but imbued with the pro
gressive independence of his Commonwealth
and full of "hard sense" and devotion 10 public
duty. He has, probably, the most genial fac
| in the Senate.
There is one figure in the Senate in the mddl
row to the, right, almost boylsh, with straigh
| black careless hair, garbed in civil grey, ant
wearing glasses. He is just within the pre-
scribed extreme youth OF a Senator, and his SCI
vices, wealth, PROMISE social stature, make hin
one OF the extraordinary and precocious peopl
of the era, almost the only parallel in contem
| porary legislation of such youthful heroes a
Bayard, Fitzpatrick, Custer, and Chamberlain.
Riddle, of Delaware, is a stout, short, crouch
ing man, in grey curls Of medium position an
aspirations.
Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, is the successor i
yolubility of Henry 8. Foote, little, wizzen
faced, driedup blindish-eyed man, of enormou
wind and vitality, who is bitter as gall, and use
full to staye off a VOTE sometimes talking tour O
even five hours, as the wind bloweth where
listeth.
Chandler, of Michigan, is tall, sharpfet
tured, trowZy haired gentleman, OF mild expires
sion, and Northwestern in his ardor Tor
| square, fair era.
In JJnn Sherman we have the nearest approac
in tne Senate to Mr.. Gladstone, an indeatigabl
( business man, eXtravagantly TALL STOPPING, thiI
, whose small head Is covered with black hail
! and whose small black eyes are lightning cacl
lators. He Is one of the Youngest, most studiou
| most prudent men in the country, and ado
! power to the great galaxy Of splendid peop
which Ohio has OF late given to freedom and u
country.
Howard, of Michigan, is a man OF flushed cor
pleXiou, poring through glasses; and KIRK WOO
OF Iowa, is the easy, neqlge member, sittiI
without neck-tie, agricultural in method al
quietness.
Guthrie, of Kentucky, well back on the Dem
cratic right, is an aged, stald person, one OF Il
| mo- venerable among tlp Senators in service