The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-08


when We occupied a seat on the :. chuckery"
side of the Speakers chair in the old State
House at Columbus, just behind us sat
gentleman " no figured on the rolls of the
House as tie member from Guernsey" He
was fresh from academic halls-not SO much
of politician as a schoolmaster and preach
er-yer Wing in whom there was no guile.
During the winter he. watched, like all Young
members OF legislative bodies, for an oppor-
tunity to make his mark but the oppor-
tunity was slow in coming, and his eloqnence
was in fair way of spoiling when fortu-
nately in mid-session came the Hour. and
with it the Man-this very "member from
Guernsey A bill was on Its third-read-
ing-it was important that the Wings should
gain time for securing absentees or for an
adjournment. The burthen of this duty was
thrown upon the member from Guernsey
and he accepted it with alacrity. Securing
the floor with copy of the bill under dis
cussion in his hand, the gentleman opened
his discourse by calling the attention of the
chair to the "poor, little insignificant viz :"
which linked the preamble to the body of
the bill, and to this he notified the House he
intended to give his special care From this
text he expounded for an hour or more in a
serlo-comical style-serious in tone and man.
ner, but wonderfully mirth moving in mat
ter-until the sides of every Wing grew sore
with laughter, and even the aisles of s'Gib-
raltar" resounded with mirth. "Poor, little,
insignificant WIZ was viewed inmore lights
that day than had ever been its fortune be-
fore-but better than that, time was okilled''
and the object of the Wings was gained
hot
seat, to be heard no more that session except
| in the routine of legislation when the
soft airs of spring drove the law makers
from within the walls of the venerable State
| House, the "member from Guernsey" depart
ed to be seen no more in the legislative halls
of Ohio.
All who look upon saloons as vanity,
and their liquid contents as vexation of
spirit (may the number of such forever in
crease )-will remember that just before the
century entered into its last half, the temper
ance men of Ohio made vigorous effort to
popularize the Maine Law" among the
Buckeyes. Among those who took the
stump in this cause was the member from
Guernsey" and many an audience was
thrilled by the eloquence with which he
portrayed the evils Of intemperance Warm,
lmpulsive, earnest-wherever he spoke the
cause was advanced; but like other reform
ers the temperance men asked too much and
they got-nothing> The battle over the
member. from Guernsey" again disappeared,
and the rostroms that had known him in the
good cause knew him no more.
In the course of time Gen. Taylor was
taken from his tent and placed in the White
House g. to be killed, alas! by political brig
ands. In the distribution of honors which
always follows the incoming of new adj
ministration, Ohio was not forgotten. To
the care of Mr.. Corwin-whose last days
were embittered with the thought that his
life had been failure-was submitted the
Treasury Department; and young Ohio
rushed to Washington to help him look aftel
the finances The " member from Guernsey
was there, willing to do his share of this pa
triotic labor. A clerk ship-that dool
through which many bright young intellec
passes to be seen no more of men, or if seer
to be recognized only as a machine withou
hope and without desire beyond the plac,
that holds him-was secured and the "mem
Der from Guernsey" became a copyist for TIL
government. There he remained bearing
as all new clerks do, the whole burthen o
the administration on his shoulders and it
secrets in his heart-for years, when, fortu
nately for him, change of administration
jerked him from the pit in the mouth o
which his feet we're set, and the ..membe
from Guernsey departed from the Fedora
city, leaving others 70 bear the governments
burthens which lie was no longer permitted
TO carry. And so, his mission at the capita
ended, he passed out of sight-the grea
West swallowed him I'D.
The other day the Legislature of the in
choate State of Nebraska elected its frs
United States Senators, and 10 the g mem
Der from Guernsey" is one of the fortunat,
pen-and now the Hon. Thomas W. Upton
ex-Ohio Legislator, ex-temperance-lecturer
ex-department-clerk, ex-preacher, ex-lawyer
takes a seat in the highest legislative body
in the world, where wives" cease from
troubling, and aspirations after lesser calling
are at rest.-Ohio Farmer
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