The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-18

hands, with nothing in them,) saying:
'.Save usi patriots and kinsmen, from
the hands of the merciIess Jacobin !
Then viii we help thee and thine to
places ofpower, and once more restore
a national legislature worthy of Kul-
hoon and the galorious past!''
Stand out and strip, Mr. John Nor
risseyI - -
a neck and head very like those of
Howell Cobb, and Toombs, aud Hun
ter. the black, curling hair elaborately
dressed, falling upon the great trunk OF
a spine like handful of hay on a
bulls shoulders; shoulders themselves
able 10 block upa lobby and take toll;
arms out Of which you could make
twins, each of them the size of you and
me; a breast ethat looks like a blank
wall with one great bull's-eye diamond,
like window lighting 1t up; man OF
six feet, at least, besides his two ample
and fat pedals. Look up, as you must
do, into the face, and You remark low
forehead like barn roof, with two gray
eyes in the caves, very birdsnesty, and
betokening that the editice hasn't much
beyond fodder within II; broken nose
turned at the middle like drawbridge;
cheek bones that would hide the ears If
the ears had not had their share of
gouging and biting; altogether, low
type of face, capable of caricature but
not of extenuation. At some distance,
in the gilded and nebulous light OF the
House, the mans rich hair, and breadth
OF back give him regard; when you hear
him talk in bashful, or well affected
bashful, tones, you wonder what but
obsequiousness could have recommen-
ded him TO any man of capital, unless
il were to teach some gamesters's trick,
or be some desperate instrument.
L do not wish or mean To hold up this
TW WFzT0W wEr
South by the light OF his past dement's.
But 1 would ask, if there were no
Democratic party would John Morris
sey have a seat in Congress His life
has had but one political act in it.
When Heenan engaged in battle with
Sayres, and the novelty of the contest
made il in a sense international, and
digniied pugilism for the moment al
most to patriotism, this man, in his
plane of duty, had a right to be in
sympathy with the little knot of Amer
lean bruisers who stood by Heenan
when the ring went down. He was
observed, on the contrary, to hang on
to the foreign champion, bet his money
on him, and prefer, for a private grudge,
to see his country defeated. This is a
ludicrous political argument, but Nor
rissey can understand it better than
any other. Mr.. MorriSsey says that we
have licked our man in the South and
wear the belt; now let up on him.-It
IS very inconsistent in you, Mr.. Nor
rissey, to give such advice.
Those who have been painfully for
tunate enough to see a prize fight can
realize Mr.. Morrissey's feelings when
he took the oath.
81 TUX OFF my coat" he said, "many
time afOre now, to fight, and-give
you my wordl-I never shuk so as /
did then. Ii was orful, that was it :"
T nifNr NJ NnrrfESay--
shooting and knocking down in the
capital questionable; his allies denied
representation; the referee at the White
House Overruled; the stakes indiyisi-
ble-what eJtItiti awaits him! Congress
amt what it used to bel
Close before Mr.. Morrissey sits Mr..
Fernando Wood, whose brother is Mr..
Morrissey's business partner and re-
Gently sat in this same house; therefore
gaming and sporting do no more dis
qualify than general heresy to the re-
public and its gospel. Mr.. Wood is in
the fullest sense man of the old re-
gime, ghost of those excellent Con-
crosses that fit, bled and departed, and
were the Southern members back again,
his natural position would be in theif
boSoms. Some few commercial eccen-
tricities have affected the shop keeping
North against him; but in bright re-
buttal of these stands his message 10
the Governor of Georgia, that had he
the power it should be capital crime
to seize a rebels musket. His appear
ance may be described as the reformed
clergyman, who delivers moral lectures
on the little vices in which he once was
eminent. a tall Jeffersoniau figure,
spare and aristocratic, calm as winter,
and so cold; the 1.-the feet turned out,
the back straight as the skew
cred cells, the face bland and soft as il
YOU saw il behind glass: perfect Salf-aD-
probation and grace in the pose and
gait; tongue of candor and persua-
sion, and pleading for lofty principles,
like ChesEerfield's letters to his son
this man, barring the fact that he was
mulcted civilly, and not criminaIIy,
would now be an inhabitant of the
State Prison, rather than of the House
in great part, that of Capt. Hawksley,
in the play of Still Waters; the traveller
poet and moralist; yet in every saluta-
ton that he receives, looking quietly
up as for some long waited social vim
dicator. The reliance OF this man for
| political support, is not the turn oi
public sentiment, the truths victory,
his own stature's growth in his com
munity or the country, but in the power
society where nomination is success
where pure record is as ValueleSs as q
certificate of baptism, he bought the
nomination again this season, hopeful
| that the political dice might fall fortu.
nately; and so he waits, with a face like
Pilgrims fresh from the Holy Land
| But who would know what he know.
within, possess his intelligence and hi:
secrets in common, and feel that hi!
only hope of resurrection lies in this
/ end of progress and the return of this
Southern Democracy?