Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-04
6Iances at she General Assembly.
VIII

VIII.
In the outer row Of seats on the north
side Of the Hall, where the Radicals do CON
gregate, you will be impressed by the APP
pearance Of comparatively young man,
neatly and carefully clad In black, whose
ringing sentences anon startle the House
and command its attention. 1t needs not
second look to enable you to recognize In
him the eloquent Representative from
Hamilton county-MAxwELL p. GADDIs.
He was well-known as leading and in
fluential friend of Senator SHERMAN during
the late contest which resulted in his re-
election; and he is now, and has been all
through the session, ably sustaining Pres
ident JOHNSON and his Restoration policy
In supporting SHERMAN, Mr.. GADDIs was
one of the spokesmen for the majority oi
his party IN, the General Assembly; but In
supporting the. e.Presdent and his Admins
tration, he leads but small wing of Re-
publican members. He, however, adheres
to his. Conservative course, Notwithstanding
the fact that large majority of the
party which elected him follow SUMNER,
STEVENS and PHILLIPS. In Caucus, last
Monday night, he is understood to have
made a thrilling and effective speech in re-
ply to the malignant assaults upon Presi-
dent JOHNSON by the Radicals, who had an
overwhelming majority in that body. Mr..
GADDls has delivered several speeches
during the session that contained passages
of uncommon elegance and beauty, which
were pronounced with a fervor and elo-
quence that electrified the House. We are
wholly unable to understand how he can
continue to act with the Republican party,
with its Radical views and tendencies; and
we predict that he will not be found within
that dangerous and revolutionary organi
zation much longer. 1t is certain that he
cannot give an effectivesuppor to the Adj
ministration of ANDREW JOHNSON, and re-
main in the Republican party.
On the east side of the Hall, not far from
the Speakers right, you will observe the
leader OF the Radical majority In the House.
He has just returned to his seat after a Sc
we're illness Of ten days, and has not yet re-
gained his full vigor and strength. Pend
ing the Senatorial fight, in the early part of
the Session, he was in command of the
SCHENcK forces, who became more and
more demoralized as the time for the final
Caucus drew near. Alter SHERMAN's re-
and reelection, circumstances
conspired to place the Representative from
Logan in a leading pooition on the floor of
the House, and enable him to crack the par
ty lash over all Republicans who manifest
ed symptoms of approving the Presidents
policy, which he bitterly and persistently
denounces. We have heard DoN PnTT
as fine passages of sarcastic elo-
quence as can be found in the language
His speech on Legislative Benders," just
before the General Assembly went to Gin
cinnati, contained some elegant specimens
of his peculiar style. He is an excellent
party tactician-a bold, bitter and effective
politician; and has become an adeptinleg-
islation. After party questions are disposed
Of, he is far oftener right than wrong.
Col. BEN LIE FEvRE, the Representative
from Shelby, was in the army all through
the Rebellion, and has a firstrate record as
a soldier and an officer; and it affords us
great pleasure to say, that no official or
military despotism could make him yield
his political convictions, or sell his prlnci-
pies for promotion. He voted the un-
scratched Democratic ticket all the time;
and was sent to the Legislature by the |
Democracy Of his county. He is the young |
,st member of the House, and is making as |
,reditable record here as he made in the |
military service. His seat is not far from |
he southwest corner of the Hall, where |
lis friends may generally find him when
he House is in session.
Mr.. FERNEAU, the Representative lfrom
Pike, claims that his absence from his seat
vas on account of sickness at home, and |
kinks we did him injustice in our notice
II him in the preceding number Of these
CHANCES" We cheerfully make the |
umende. Had we known that illness in his |
amily kept him away, we should not have
poken Of his absence.