Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-05
CoRRY o,LANUs, EPIsrLE.

Topics of the Day-CODgress and Pat.
ma1Ioy-The Constitutional Conven-
tion and Female Suffrage-About
Our Dog. Hira -
DEAR EAGLE: Between the church folks,
the Nicholson paxement, Congress and the
Constitutional Convention, the public mind
is kept in a helathy state. of activity.
Our mutual friend from the Third, the
Hon. Pat. Malloy, is entertaining Congress
with the flowers of rhetoric, the gems OF
poetry and flashes of wit. .--.s-, d.
There is striking difference between
his speeches and Thad. Stevens.
AT the same time Stevens speeches diff
fer from his. -le 4;a0 laalt
2 The great difference is that you can un-
derstand what Thad., is talking about.
.bWhich you can't always do in the other
case. 90 Gas 59H His =
ss But perhaps it is just as WELL. M e 50 S..2
s Only it leaves it an open question wheth1
er our friend p. M. went to Congress to
1iberate Ireland or reconstruct the South.
Andersonville and the battle ofthe Boyne
are so mixed-poetically and otherwise
The speeches may be intended to be read
on both sides of the water, and give the
British Lion the ague. y 5 ~ Il ,iasss s91ss
Perhaps they will understand them bet
ter on the other side. 10 q l.fi ~
: Especially the poetry. a- - 5'.---,5
After reading p. MS speeches think
it was lucky on the whole that / wasn't
elected from the Second District last fall.
Congress couldn't have stood two such
funny fellows.
T ey would have laughed themselves
out of their boots.
Even Tbad. Stevens might have been
overcome by the prevailing jollity and
have let Upson the South.
Besides, between ourselves, / think that
out of two Congressman it is as well to
have one sensible one to attend to business.
lam also inclined to rejoice that didn't
go to the Constitutional Convention.
!, i might have signed Greeley's report
on female suffrage, and, then, Imagine
my feelings when petition subsequently
came in from the ladies, signed by Mrs.
O'Iauus.E4IAzQ IrAEs1 ctA IAs--5f y
Mrs. O'Lanus has on more than one oc-
casion, when we have discussed the subject,
expressed an absence of all desire to exer-
cisefhe privilege of voting; but were Il to
commit myself publicly against the ladies
she might possibly change her mind.
So far as / can understand the prevalent
dpinion of the ladies on the qustion of fe-
male franchise, it is this:
If you say they should have the ballot,
they will declare that they don't want it. If
yod5say thegishan' have it, they will give
you no peace until they get it.
When she will. she will.
- - You may depend ont, -
-, When khe won't, she wont,
And there's an end ont.
Excuse the poetry-it's owing to the
reading of p. Malloy's speeches.
Poetry, like the measles, is sometimes
catching IT. :
can write ANYTHING like about the la
dies now. as Mrs. O,Ianus has gone in the
country and I am luxuriating in single
bIessedness.
am monarch of all survey on the
nremises-mv RIGHTS there is not even the
rat 70 Iflispute! = 7sTTffl RI IFETF FrT,1
tTSe cat and doc are boarding at neioh-
hor,s
I mentioned that dog to Won some time
400.
1s0. Sors .ra ;,,torest;no animals In anv shane
hnE holoonas' ---''- - =
This doc a5opted. as I NAV saw. from
his cradle
He was born in a rather questionable
nlaceEthe Penitentiarv:
His mother was a member of the family
of the commander of that institution.
Itook Nero-(classic names run in our
family)-when he was quite young-before
his morals could have been corrupted, and
brought him up with all the advantages of
moral surroundings.
For six months have studied the deyel-
opment of his mental and bodily faculties.
dom, Nero is adog OF fsuper1or atta1nments.
esHe has been source of much anxiety to
Mrs. O'Lanus, and has interfered q good
deal with the success of her horticultural
efforts, but it was in the pursuit of knowl-
edge.