The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-07

sssss VIZ. "A good many years ago--hoW
many we must be excused from writing
when we occupied q seat on the .chucke
side of the Speakers chair in the old State
House at Columbus, just behind us sat
gentleman u no figured on the rolls of the
House as the member from Guernsey" He
was fresh from academic halls--rot so much
of n politician as schoolmaster and preach
er-yet Wing in whom there was no guile.
During the winter he watched, ike all young
members of Legislative bodies, for an oppor-
tunity to make his "mark"-but the oppor-
tunity was slow in coming, and his eloquence
was in n fair way of spelling, when fortu-
natcly 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 abscntees or Tor 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
serio- comical style-serious in tone and man.
ner, but wonderfully mirfh moving in mat
ter-until the sides of every Wing grew sore
with laughter, and even the aisles of " Glib
raltar" resounded with mirth. Poor, little,
insignificant viz :" was viewed in more lights
that day than had ever been its fortune be
forc-but better than that. time was "kllled'
and the object of the Wings was gained
The "member from Guernsey" resumed his
seat, to be heard no more that session except
in the routine of legislation-and when the
soft airs of spring drove the law makers
from within the walls of the venerable State
N,,nr RI
ed to be seen no more in the legislative halls
of Ohio.
All who look upon saloons as vanity,
and their liquid contents veXation OF
spirit-(may the number of such forever in
crease 0-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 Contemporaries. Warm,
impulsivc earnest-whereVcr 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 to I've killed, alas by political brig
ands In the distribution of honors when
always follows the incoming of a new add
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 after
the finances The member from Guernsey"
was there, willing to do his share of this pa
triotc labor \ cierk-ship-that door
through which many Il bright young intellect
passes to be seen no more of men, or IT seen
to be recognized only as machine without
hope and without desire beyond the place
that holds him--was secured. and the - mem
Der from Guernsey became copyist for the
government There he Misunderstanding
as all new clerks do the whole bnrthen of
Observation-Disclosures on his shoulders and its
secrets in his heart-for years, when, fortu-
nately for him. a change of administration
jerked him from the pit in the mouth of
which his feet were set, and the member
from Guernsey" departed from the Federal
city. leaving Others to- bear the governmental
burthens which he was no longer permitted
to carry. And so. his mission at the capital
ended, he passed out of sight-the great
West swallowed him up.
The other day the Legislature of the in
choate State of Nebraska elected its first
United States Senators, and 10 the g men,
Der from Guernsey" is one of the fortunate
men-and now the Hon. Thomas W. Upton,
ex-Ohio Legislator. ex-temperance-lecturer,
ex-department- clerk, expreacher, ex-lawyer,
takes Il seat in the highest Legislative body
in the world, where wives" cease from
troubling and aspirations after lesser calings
are at rest Ohio Farmer